Posted on November 4th, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 5 Comments
Now that you have seen how the wedding turned out, I thought I would include some specific details about money and timing.
Budget
Reception Venue- 11,000
Food and Service- 1,900
Beverages- 1,900
Cake- 200
Amusement Rentals- 4,000
Other Rentals- 1,450
Dresses, Alterations, and Shoes- 1,000
Officiant- 100
Photographer- 2,200
Wedding Rings- 65
Popcorn- 65
Decorations (an estimate of all my DIY projects)~1,800
Posted on October 29th, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 8 Comments
I had so many compliments on the crafts during the wedding that I felt really good about having spent a year preparing for one weekend.
Tent Decorations
The infamous Martha Stewart Pom Poms
The 300 feet of flags that went around the outside of the tent
The tent all empty and set up before the reception
Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 3 Comments
We woke up at 9:30 on Sunday morning and drove in to town to pick up brunch and coffee. I had place an order on Friday afternoon at Pricechopper for bagel, pastry, and fruit platters. Across the street we picked up 9 boxes of Joe at Dunkin Donuts. At first, I tried to do it in the drive through, but they laughed at me. It ended up taking half an hour to get all of the coffee! I estimated 2 cups for every person, but we only ended up used 4 out of 9 boxes. Brunch was really relaxing. It was sad to say good bye to everyone, but it was nice to have the chance to hang out with people without a wedding going on.
Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 2 Comments
After the cake cutting, all of the previous festivities continued, but now including sparklers,
Posted on October 19th, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 6 Comments
J’s friend made our cake and cupcakes. I had previously posted about the desert she made for her sister’s wedding here. We traded some emails back and forth about general ideas, but the design was up to her. We were so happy with how it turned out. She used the font from our invitation as a template for our initials and made cake flags. I was amazed by how it looked.
Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Ms. Sparrow. 2 Comments
For the carnival part of our wedding, we hired game booths, mini golf, and a chair swing ride from North American Amusement.
The chair swing ride was so much fun. My only real regret of the wedding is that I only got to ride on it twice. J managed 5 rides!
Somehow by complete accident,we managed to get a ride in our wedding colors.
