and finally the wedding....

There was a cake..















And there was rain.. but they said I do anyway...
















It was a happy day.. and a beautiful union....
















The end...

so.. last .. minute..!!!

Down to the wire .. last minute wedding decorations and preparations..you are seeing them as we finish.. omy... we just finished decorating the wedding arch with garlands and the same flowers we used in the bouquets..
















The leafy garlands go with our fall theme...
















Now we are trying out different looks for the table with what we have...they will look... something.. like that.. we are going to place the forks, spoons and knives in different positions and we still need to run out for more glasses...besides that we are practicing make up looks and getting everything cleaned up and all set for tomorrow..

more....

So many last minute things... today I finished the guest card container.. We will have red, yellow and green cards for the guests to sign and then drop in the glass container as they walk in.


















I finally finished the garter today.. I threaded elastic and ribbon through the top and then sewed a little bow to the front and secured it with some little pearl beads... I still have to decorate the arch and a few other things.. shew.. now I'm about to run off to work.. I don't want to even think about next week yet.. I will be starting my new job..!!!

mOre WeDdinG stuFf...!!

Well.. we finished the favors.. just about finished the place cards and the guest bowl..(we are having pretty colored cards for the guest to sign and drop in a pretty glass container in stead of a book)
















More and more wedding stuff piling up on the dinning room table..
















Wooo.. the wedding arch is all put together.. I haven't decorated it yet.. that will have to wait for tomorrow.. I'm going to drape pretty fall color leaf garlands around it and top it off with more of the bridal flowers and some thick white satin ribbon..
Yesterday we picked up the dress.. we were a little disappointed when she first tried on the dress.. It hadn't been cleaned and there was a hole where the zipper is (which wasn't there before) but all was speedily fixed.. it took about a hour to steam clean the dress and the hole was expertly stitched.. unfortunately the dress was hemmed a hair too long.. so the pretty ribbon at the hem pulled under the dress when she walk.. this was also speedily fixedalso.. with the addition of a slip with multiple layers ... all is beautiful now expertly packed in its thick vinyl bag... just waiting for Sunday.... I can't believe how beautiful she looks walking in that dress.. I guess I'll have to hold a box of tissues during the ceremony... (^-^)

RuNniNg..and runNinG some moRe..

So many things are going on at the same time this week.. as you can see my knitting time has been cut back a bit.. so this is my progress on the hemlock ring blanket as of today.. Right now I'm on row58 of the pattern.. it doesn't look like it in the picture probably because it's all bunched up on the needles.. I think I need to pick up another needle or two very soon.. I'm not sure how many rows I want to do... You can do as many as 151 rows which would give you a total of 792 sts...!!! Good thing I have until January to finish this...
















Wedding preperations... the progress is slow and the Wedding is this Sunday..which seems to be coming faster than usual....We have all the table decor finished and the bouquets and boutonniers... today we are going to work on all favors today.. and finding the right color ribbon has been causing a problem... I have to run out today again and see if I can find them.. During all this activity I applied for a new job and was hired... I have to finish working the posted schedule at Michaels.. but in the mean time.. I've been running to interviews and orientation on my days off.. tommorrow will be my first real day off and... we will be cleaning and getting everything ready for this Sunday.. omy.. so much running around..!! (+_+)

and the flowErs..

Here are the bridal bouquets.. these took me all day yesterday to make.. for some reason the pictures didn't come out that nice.. all that shiny white ribbon and an over cast day.. the smaller is for the brides maid and the larger one to the right is for the bride...her theme for this wedding is autumn and I think the flowers are perfect. I used a 2" wide white satin ribbon with a thinner sheer ribbon layered on top.. and right under the flowers is a puff of tulle... the middle of each bow is tacked down with pearl head pins..(that was the hardest part too.. they had to be perfect..)

mOre wEddiNg on a budgEt..

Today is my day off.. and this is what I've been working all day... not having done this before... it's way harder than it looks.. well for me it is at least. I wanted to have nice finished ends where the ribbons join.. so I actually sewed them but hand... this is the brides maid bouquet and the boutonnieres...
I have been knitting a little on my Hemlock Ring Blanket too.. I need to get a longer needle because right now it's all bunched up and doesn't look like much.. maybe I'll have time to to do that tomorrow and take a new picture of the progress.. well back to wrapping ribbon....