It's Almost Time

Yesterday I woke up and our wedding is officially next week! I feel so overwhelmed among other things. Most of all I'm excited although it might be hard to tell from the outside :) I've been trying really hard not to let the little details overcome what our wedding is all about.

Everything always seems to come together some how. I've just never planned for something for so long and worried about something so much. I just can't wait to see everything come together. Until then it's all about finishing our wedding projects, working on the final details, and packing for a vacation at the beach with our family and friends :)

Our Own Firefly Lights

A couple of summers ago when we were on vacation in Duck, North Carolina my sister bought these really cool firefly lights in a jar. I loved them! During our wedding planning I thought it would be really pretty to have them outside at our wedding but after some research it would have been really expensive :(

This morning two mysterious packages were delivered at around eight o'clock. Later on I woke up to a engineering lab set up in the living room. My fiance is an electrical engineer so I didn't think anything of it just yet :) I was working on some wedding projects in the kitchen and Eric comes to show me that he created his own firefly lights for the wedding. I couldn't believe it!

He wired them together and placed them in a mason jar. They are going to look so pretty outside at our wedding. The video I took of them doesn't do them justice :) He is the best and has definitely taken do it yourself wedding projects to a whole new level :) Our wedding is only two weeks from today!

Only Three Weeks Away

I can't believe our wedding is only three weeks from today!

Letter Decorations

At our location, the Saltaire, there are these pretty light posts on either side of the driveway and I just thought of a simple way to decorate them!

I think I am going to place these letters in front of the light posts or maybe tie them to the light posts with ribbon :)

Wedding Brunch

We are going to have a simple brunch for our guests the day after the wedding. We were surprised that with the exception of a few guests everyone responded yes to our brunch. It's going to be so nice to see people once more before they leave to go home. Especially since for most of our family and friends it's a destination wedding.

My fiance and I have a bunch of these yellow and blue seashell napkins. They inspired the decorations for the brunch and I was happy to discover we had enough for all of our guests. I washed and ironed all of the napkins. (looking back now the ironing seems a little crazy:) Then I rolled and tied each one with some inexpensive pretty ribbon I found at Michael's.

I created a crossword puzzle too for our guests with all sorts of questions about us. Things like where was the first place we went to dinner and what school did we attend together. Now I just need to print them :)

Our Wedding Scrapbook

A little while after we got engaged I bought this wedding scrapbook by Darcy Miller from Amazon. I haven't started to fill it out yet, but I've been saving everything from fabric swatches from my dress to scraps of ribbon. It's such a great book, it covers everything from how we met to our wedding anniversaries including all of our wedding planning details, our wedding day, and our honeymoon.

It's filled with questions, places to put photographs, fabric swatches, and even a family tree to fill in. I received Martha Stewart's keepsake wedding planner as an engagement gift from a friend. So far I have only used pencil to write in the planner, hopefully I won't be afraid to use a pen to fill in our wedding scrapbook :)

Our Rehearsal Dinner Invitation

In the mail today we received the invitation to our rehearsal BBQ that my fiance's parents are going to host the evening before our wedding. My fiance's mom made the invitation and it's perfect for the southern BBQ we are going to have for our rehearsal dinner :)