Sunday, September 26, 2010

Dzwilewski Wedding Projects

The wedding has been over for a week. I am still recovering from all those evenings and weekends planning and making wedding stuff. I actually had a dream that we forgot something... it's never good when you have dreams about whatever it is (especially someone else's wedding and work).

The first of many projects and the most complicated was the wedding program. There was so much design work that went into matching fonts, creating the anchor and leaning everything up just right. Also the religious/church related practices that I have no clue about but learned quite a bit about and what order they



Then the seating cards which were so easy once I set up a merge between an excel guest list with the table name. (I love technology!)

Then the bride had some backorder issues with a guest book she wanted but found one at Hallmark but we both felt it was too plain. So add some ribbon and a hot glue gun... presto chango!

I also made, as a gift to the bride, a money bag to collect all her wedding cards. I had kept the details to this a secret because I had wanted some design freedom (a.k.a. no wedding pressure). I made this out of barely off white satin, it's lined in the lightest pink with navy blue ribbon ties and embroidered in navy with Bride and Groom's last and first initials. Needless to say, she LOVED it! I was a little sad to give it up because it's one of the nicer things I made.


There's a whole bunch of other stuff I did but seriously can't remember (or I am blocking it out). I am just thrilled they're married and honeymooning in Italy while I regain some order in my life. 

Congratulations Chris & Amanda!


Sunday, September 12, 2010

One more week!

Chris and Amanda's wedding is less than one week away and I have a busy, busy bee helping them out. I've done and will be doing quite a bit that I can't even keep track of it myself anymore.

I've made...
  • wedding programs
  • seating cards
  • table names (instead of numbers - see picture below)
  • embroidered bridal party gifts
  • stickers for wedding favors
  • guest bag notes from the bride and groom


As much as I enjoyed helping, I can't wait to have my free time back and for this wedding to be done. More pictures of the finished projects when I take pictures at the wedding.