Weather

Average weather for April 10th:

Average low of 42 degrees and average high of 57 degrees.
Average precipitation of 0.09 inches.

Not too shabby...

Invites OUT!

Just wanted to say.... invites finally went out!!
If you didn't get one, please let me know. Or take a hint...

Also, if you are planning on staying in the Ramada in Lacey that weekend, please make sure you book your hotel room pronto. There are only a certain number of rooms reserved under our name. Check out our website for more info: http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/ColePeters&ElissaBackholm

Centerpieces

So.

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck to do for centerpieces. I have cylinder vases that could be either used to put flower (tulips) in, which would have to be done the day before/day of the wedding... but I've also been trying to figure out a way to incorporate origami into it. Currently I have some wire, fishing line (thanks Michal!) and cranes made to fiddle around with. Think: suspending cranes from fishing line in vase or use wire to depict cranes flying out of the vase (see pic below). Let's see how far my creativity will get me.
















I also found a cool idea on-line - this pic shows a bunch of little cranes in a vase. Not sure if it would be too busy, and it would be very labor intensive!

Favors.

Cole's friend from college, Ali, has a business making and designing cookies in Portland (Frosted Custom Cookies). We asked her to put together our wedding favors for us and she said yes!!

I may need some help the week before to package these up... any ideas on what would be an efficient way to get the job done? (i.e. plastic bags tied with ribbon, boxes with stickers, etc) There will be around 200 of them...

Here are some cookies for her past clients:
The 'H' cookies were done for a previous wedding and yes, those are Beaver cookies...

Yummy cakes!

My cousin Abby has a friend (Cindy) who is going through pastry chef school and has recently started doing wedding cakes. I recently became friends with Cindy on Facebook and checked out her AWESOME cakes. I got in touch with her and she may be moving away from the area pending her husband's job situation, so we will find out at the end of the year what the outcome of that is.

But I wanted to post some of her beautiful work. We would be so lucky to have these at our wedding!

Menzwear.

I'm thinking the girls finding their dresses sparked Cole's interest in searching for what he's going to be wearing! We went over to Macy's and found this pin stripe suit that we both liked. He opted out of the jacket and is going to be wearing the suit pants with a vest. Yes, there will also be a white dress shirt underneath...
I forgot to snag a pic of him when he tried it on, but here's a pic of the suit from online. He looks so great in it! :) He said he'd have the groomsmen all wear the same vest and pants too... That's one more thing to check off the list!! Yes!!

Bridesmaid dresses? Check!

The girls were all able to arrange their super busy schedules to do a little brunching, mini-fashion show and shopping on Saturday! Michal put together a wonderful brunch at her place to start the morning off (Thanks Michal!), then some of the ladies tried on the dresses that had come in the mail. They looked fabulous! Then we were off to David's Bridal and Nordstrom to check out their dresses.
We found the dress everyone liked the best at Nordstrom - one of the dresses Michal had ordered to try on for us (see below). Dark purple color with flower embroidery on the neckline and hem. I am going to have one HOTT bridal party :)

Now what the heck are the boys going to wear?!