Oh Daisy!

How does this sound? We are thinking about changing the pork to some kind of beef and one of the side dishes to fruit.

Dry Rubbed Barbecue Chicken with Housemade BBQ Sauce
Pulled Pork with Potato Buns
Smoke and Spice Beans
Red Pepper Coleslaw Green Salad with Buttermilk Herb Dressing, Roast Carrots and Herbed Croutons Roast Red Potato Salad with Basil
Fresh Rosemary Onion Bread and Butter

If for some reason you are interested, we are probably going to go through Helena Darling Catering.

The number one choice for favors is sugar cookies (homemade :) ) but the question is.... which packaging looks better?


Option #1: The original idea was to create these simple little bags with a monogrammed L on them and probably something that said thank you for joining us. These would be very simple and only require a few minutes of work on the morning of to put them all in bags. Then they would all just be sitting in a basket for people to take on their way out.










Option #2: I just found these cute easy to make boxes in a magazine this weekend. The boxes are very easy to make but are somewhat time consuming. All of the folding of the paper could be done months in advance but the sugar cookies wouldn't be able to go into them until day before/ day of the wedding and so it would take a lot of time to tie all of the ribbons. (yes, that means help from all of you :) ) Depending on the color of the table cloth the white paper might turn into a cool green printed paper and the ribbon turn into an ivory ribbon. These would be sitting at each place setting. The second picture is how they look opened up.




















Which one do you like better???? p.s. I know this is a very small detail that doesn't really need to be worked on for a while BUT I do want to be on the look out for the either the bags or the paper and ribbon so the materials can be gotten early.

Just an update for those of you in the Rogue Valley or who may be in the Rogue Valley the week that I am home (August 18th through the 24th). The plan is to take a drive out to the Riverhouse on Tuesday evening just to get another look at it and show it to mom. We will probably leave the house once mom gets rid of all the kids. Anyone who wants to come check it out is more than welcome. Then on Saturday the 23rd we are going to go look at dresses at Shirley's Bridal. Probably sometime in the morningish (10-11-12). Once again anyone who wants to join us just let me know! Other wedding plans for that week are to meet with the caterer, florist, and look into rental companies :)

The wedding this weekend was beautiful!! Absolutely amazing and the most lavish wedding I think anyone (besides the girls on platinum weddings) could ever dream of. Andy was excited because they had three different open bars running all night! Because there were to many pictures to e-mail out I have just created a page that has them all on it. Check it out: http://twallac3.googlepages.com/pictures Other than the wedding the weekend was very relaxing. I managed to spend 2 1/2 full days not thinking about school or trying to plan my own wedding! Now back to the realities of class :(

It's been a week since I've posted anything on here!! So sorry! I started a very reading intensive class this week and will probably not be doing much wedding related stuff until this class is done in two more weeks! This weekend is Duane and Joannas wedding in San Fran so I will make sure to tell everyone how it goes when we get back. Another non-wedding related update, I just found out my placements for student teaching. I will be in a 5th grade classroom at Heiton Elementary and a Kindergarten classroom in the private (brand new!) Pacific Early Learning Center! Very exciting!

I had lunch in town with Kaitlin today and on my way out decided to kill a little bit more time and stop by the Craft Warehouse. Turns out they were having a huge sale! I got this wonderful frame that is going to be our guest book for only $15!!! I had my heart set on one from Target but it was much smaller and over double the price. I love this one and it was much more budget friendly! We will need to buy a mat for it but then it's ready to store for a year!

We met with our photographer this weekend! She was really nice and takes really amazing photographs. We have scheduled to do our engagement pictures sometime in October. Here is the link to her website if you want to check it out. http://www.impressionsphotograph.com/index.html
I also updated our website a bit so check it out if you have time! The next big tasks are to find food (!) and a DJ. Any recommendations??