124 Days

124 days.  That's it.  In 124 days I will be marrying my best friend in the entire world.  Which once I type it, it seems like great news.  In 124 days my last name will go from eleven letters to six. In 124 days I am going to dance the night away with the people that I love most in the world.  In 124 days we will be throwing a gigantic celebration in honor of the love we share.  In 124 days I am going to be his wife...HIS WIFE...that is awesome.  Until you convert the 124 days that are left into what it really is...four months.  Four months to officially book the church that we have been having trouble nailing down.  Four months to get the menu exactly right.  Four months to plan every little detail of the reception from the centerpieces to pace settings to table skirts.  We ONLY have four months to pull together all the loose ends of our DIY wedding.  Let's just say...

I'm starting to freak.

Here is a little secret about me: I don't do very well asking for help or handing over control.  It's not that I don't necessarily trust my family/friends/bridal party--I absolutely do.  I am very blessed to be surrounding by a great group of crafty and talented women.  I just don't want to hand over that responsibility.  I mean seriously, why would I want to put someone I obviously like out by asking them to take the time out of their equally busy lives so I can dump some of my own stress onto them.  That doesn't seem very nice.  These are people that I am trying not to run off. 

Now all of this isn't to say that I only have four months to put together an entire wedding start to finish.  We have most of the big important things planned and in place, I just wish we had more than four months to do all the rest of it!

Now that I have done a sufficient amount of whining I can share some pictures of some of the fun things I have ready!  But first, here is a little background on the wedding colors, theme, etc.  Due to the before mentioned control issues, much of the wedding is DIY, centerpieces, favors, table numbers, food, pretty much as much as I can possibly do for as inexpensive as I can possibly do it.  Our wedding colors are navy and nude (or I guess champagne for all those people who keep giving me funny looks when I say nude--they just don't get it) with a lot of burlap and twine incorporated throughout the whole decor to create a feminine country chic theme.  I am 100 percent in love with the whole idea of dainty feminine neutrals of nude/champagne with the natural textures of burlap and twine with sharp pops of navy.  In order to follow through with our color scheme and concept we created the prettiest little centerpieces.

::Centerpieces::

Our tables will be covered with a very plain white cloth with a burlap runner going down the middle of each round. And when I say burlap, I don't mean that close knit craft burlap, I mean that natural loose knit burlap that you lay in your flower beds to kep weeds out or wrap your bushes in when it starts getting cold. 

In order to create the centerpieces we found these great 4 packs of glass milk bottles on clearance at Pat Catan's, wrapped the necks of the bottles with natural jute twine, tied a bow and filled them with three different fillers: natural dried brush, cream dried brush, and dried wheat.  Then to finish the very simple look we are just collecting old jars--spaghetti sauce, salsa, jelly jars, you name it--filling them with the left over wheat that was too long for the bottles, and a flameless candle.  My fiance even helped me wrap the bottles.  I think they turned our pretty darn good.  Let me know what you think!  Any advice or feedback would be world of helpful.

--Stina

The bottles my fiance and I wrapped, bowed, and glued

Natural broom brush

Cream brush

Goldenrod wheat