So we went home with the intension of getting the marriage license all taken care of as well as meet up with the ministry and coordinator.  Well the last two items happened but the main object didn’t.  When we booked the tickets to go home it was 3months exactly to the wedding which according to Access PEI was the earliest we could go get it.  Well when we went to make the appointment they said it was 90 days not 3 months and we were 2 days early!!!!  No I am not kidding!!!  So we have an appointment on the Tuesday before the wedding to get the license.  The lady said as long as you have all the necessary information/documentation it will only take 20ish minutes to obtain.

The girls dresses are in, Tena is going to pick them up in a couple of weeks in Delueth, MN.  I really hope these dresses are going to work for they are non refundable.   The girls didn’t get a chance to try them on and are working form the website.  We don’t even know if they will look good on them.  We can only hope!!

I go in for my first fitting here on the 22nd.  In order to do so I need to have all my undergarments and shoes ready.  My dress is a corset back with gives some wiggle room should my weight fluctuate.  Since I bought the dress last year the dress is a bit loose on me regardless how tight I tie it, so hopefully they can bring it in correctly so I have the nice looking back!!!

Kevin and the boys still have to go in and pick out they tuxes.  This isn’t a big issues since they are only renting from Moores.

We have finalized our wedding ceremony and it has been mother approved. We didn’t want a long wedding so looking at it how all done we believe it will be around 30-40mins which isn’t too bad.

While we were home we stopped in at the photographers to do our test shots.  I must say I REALLY had my smile but we managed to get a nice one of the two of us for the engagement announcement for the paper.  We have been dragging our feet on this matter.  That is on the list of items to be done this coming week.

We have been slowly picking up items, cake cutter, jewelry, some of the gifts.  Hopefully get all the gifts purchase and in so we do not need to worry about that part any longer.

We have just finalized the mandatory dance songs.   It took us a long time for the cake cutting one. We just could fine the right one, but after a couple nights sitting playing youtube videos they are all done.

With time fastly approaching we wanted to ensure all our out of town guest has their accommodation.  On the invites we mentioned Stanley Bridge, however when it came time to book they only had 3 rooms.  Well that is not going to work when there is 5 families come from Toronto alone.  So started looking around and found two places in the area of the wedding.  Since most of the people just need a place to lay their heads they decided to go with the cheapest and closest.  They decided on the New London Motel.   I first called to see if they had any rooms and they didn’t believe they had any books so that was great.  I explained the wedding and needing out of town housing.  So within a 3 day span all the Toronto crew and my family were all booked into the motel.  The motel has 10 units in total…well was have booked 9 of them.  Either way,  that was great in getting everyone set except we didn’t find a place for ourselves.  After talking to a couple people we managed to rent a summer home for 3 nights a couple minutes from the wedding.  It is a three bedroom house which is great so that provides accommodations for us as well as Mike and Karla’s family.

So that is how things are going here.  It won’t be long and we will be on the island for this big event.

We have also been looking at save the date cards, we decided we will do a post card.  This way it doesn’t require an envelope.  We have it all designed however haven’t finalized on the printer.  If the placed would only enable a sample to be printed before we order the bulk order.

Wedding favors have been put on the back burner.  I have come up with a couple of ideas of jars/cans but I can’t decide so Tena and I have talked about getting together some long weekend.  So may wait until that happens so I can get her option.

The cake maker has been tested and provided the deposit.  Now I have to decide on the design and the type of cakes to be used.

We decided to use sandpiperstudios.com.  This is the same company Kev’s friend Angela used for her wedding and really liked his prints.

At some point Kev and I have to create our wedding ceremony, determine what is been sung/played.

So things are coming together.  Everything that needs to be booked are booked, now just need to finalize on the details.

We really liked the Brown Pocket Fold one and looking at the price for the preprinted one we decided to see what it would cost to make it ourselves.  Well, that was a great idea until it came down to getting the actually pocketfold part of the invitation.  Apparently only a couple of companies make it so there is no competition so the cheapest we found as $33.00 for 25 in USD.  Well if we consider this does not include the cards that contain the details of the affair we calculate it would cost about $450 for about 75 invites.

Then we came across the Red Fold. This one is not in the color we are looking to have but the idea itself since we are thinking of creating the invites ourself.   This one appears to be quite simple to make, basically one long sheet of paper is the base and 3 short cards for the little cards.

In making these from construction paper we found that if we combine the two, take the red fold design however fold the top part down over the little cards we create a nice like folded card.  We just need to shorten the invitation section a bit so it doesn’t go the full length of the card instead stops where little cards start.

Now that the design has been decided it was off to colors.  We are going with chocolate brown as our main colors.  Since it is kinda a fall wedding was thinking the fall colors would go really nicely with the brown.  So I have been picking up variety of different red, orange, yellow construction paper to see if could find the color scheme that I was looking for.   In doing so I picked up a couple shades for browns should I not find the fall colors that I liked.  So I made up some demos of a couple different colors and sent it to the girls(sisters) to see what they though.  Of course they picked opposite color schemes.   On one of my last attempts to find the colors I was looking for I found them by accident.  I was heading to the paper place and missed my stop and when I realized it I was at the art supply place.  It was here that I found the colors.  It was really color because the paper was two tones.  The base color on one side and the rich version on the opposite.  I was happy with both colors.  So the fall colors won the color scheme.

With the red and the brown was thinking it would look very clean if we printed right on the colors instead of printing on white then attaching the white.  Then came the idea of printing with white ink on the colored papers.  Great idea by not possible.  The way you get white lettering is to start with the white paper and print around the letters.  After scouting a couple of places it appears Staples is the cheapest.  It is based on clicks not the amount of ink required.

Kev started creating the template for the invites and obtain the colors directly off the manufacturer of that paper I like so the colors should match.  After some measurements the templates with the colors are all done.  Kev managed to get the map created as well however he did the lines in black with the cities names in white.  I am not sure if the black will show up since it is going to the red card.  So we are going to finish the verbage the best we can give the information we have so far and get a test print done.  From there we can see what needs to be modified before actually ordering all the prints.  So we should be done of the demo printing early this week.  Once we have everything on the cards and the way we want them done we can order then at any point in time.  Since it is hand made I sence spending a bunch of time at staples with the paper cutter.

So the date of September 11, 2010 is reserved for us at the Park Corner location.  We not going to use their minister, we initially wanted Grammy Millman Minister to do the service since we already met him and he was really cool.  We don’t want a stuffy ceremony more a relaxed one.   Unfortunatly, he will be out of the country so he gave us the contact information for his replacement.  We are going to see what Aunt Viv thinks of him.

I inquired with PeiWeddings about their caterer referrals.  She referred me to Sizzler’s which I already was in communications with.   I was glad to hear that that means PeiWeddings must have worked with them before.  Sizzler’s has more of the food we want.   We want a more casual wedding and don’t really want the three course meal.

While out taking pictures yesterday for us,  mom and dad came across another location in Stan Hope.  It was just a really pretty location so checked out there site and sent them an email.    One of their managers forwarded it on to their Director of Sales.  I sent this on Saturday so will like get something back beginning of next week.

Also inquired into the Argyle Shore Twin Cottages rentargyle.com. Their site says Saturday to Saturday however since we getting married after labour day they are willing to do a Wednesday to Wednesday or Saturday. Now we are just waiting on if they will permit the wedding on the lot.

A quick wedding recommendation: for some really fantastic, non-cheesy photographic memories of your guests, look for a local distributor of good old fashioned photo booths. None of this fancy-pants digital stuff — we’re talking a green, incandescent bulb that says “smile”, little strips of paper sent by an ancient motor into various vats of chemicals, dropped into your hands still wet, a cool little honeycomb texture running through the paper and an ever-so-slight sepia tone. These are the real memories, four classic frames at a time.

http://www.cabel.name/2008/10/on-wedding-design.html

I really like the pixel art on the save the date email as well, not sure if the bride will be as big on it though

When we look ahead we realize how much work is really left, guestlists, locations, photographers, music, food, and countless other things – this blog is where we hope to bounce idea’s off everyone involved.

We are still looking for a good wordpress theme, if you have suggestions please let us know.  Over the next few days we’ll add more to the site and have it a  bit more functional.

So there we go, our wedding blog is officially open for viewing – let us know what you think