Engagement Pics!

we only got a preview of the set... i'll just post 2 for now. :-) Our photographer is Ryan Brenizer!


isn't our dog super cute?


this photo makes me want to gobble her up! :-)

groom attire

There's been a lot of talk in my household lately about what Joe should wear. This, of course, affects the Best Man and Joe's dad. I asked all the women to wear chocolate brown (one of our colors), so naturally, I asked the guys to wear brown too.

Joe thinks he looks bad in brown, ugh. He's crazy...he actually looks quite nice in it.

In addition to color, there was all the talk about whether or not to wear a suit or a tuxedo. Joe's fairly traditional and wanted the tux, but I referenced some photo of Brad Pitt where he looked really cool. I don't even like Brad Pitt, but nobody can deny that he is a good dresser.

Anyhoo, Joe was impressed by the suit on Brad. This pic convinced him to wear a 3-piece brown suit. Thanks, Brad!

Final touches on invites

So, now that we got the calligraphy back and the direction cards from the venue, we had to really glue those invites to the brown card...something we should have done over the weekend but didn't do.

i glued. joe placed it on the brown card because i kept messing that part up.


and yes, he's in his boxers. :-)

he smashed those cards down pretty hard to make sure they wouldn't unglue...


so hard, in fact, that he kept scaring our poor doggie. here's a blurry pic of her running away from the loud sound of joe's banging.


isn't she beautiful, even blurry? :-) yeah...we love her lots.

Calligraphy!

i'm SO excited because i just got word from our amazing calligraphy artist (Sarah Darcy) that our calligraphy is done! here's a pic...isn't it amazing? i smudged out some of the addresses for privacy, but you get the idea. :-)


that's the "chelsea" style and i totally fell in love with it one day when i saw a contest posted about her services. you can check out her web site here: http://www.webng.com/sarahdarcy/. tell her i sent you! :-)

now we have to finish glueing our invites together and then stuff, stuff, stuff. we gotta get these babies out 'cause we're seriously behind schedule now!

Updates!

yesterday, joe and i had our engagement photo shoot. i sure hope we got some good pics! snapshots coming soon...will keep you posted.

still have so much to do! must find comfortable shoes...
make memory board...
work on favors...
oh yeah, and send out the invitations already!

more soon!

birdies!

ok...so it was MUCH harder placing the birds than i thought it would be. some goccos come with registration plates so you can place your cardstock in the exact correct place each and every time to ensure proper placement. not the case with mine. so of course, i messed a lot more cards up, ugh!

anyway...here are the birdies. tomorrow we glue!

now we have text!

so once again, this project was mine and mine alone. joe was pooped so he headed for bed while i conquered our text. i made a few mistakes, but luckily we've been printing enough that it'll be okay.

i decided to do our names in green and the rest of the text in brown. so first, i inked up the master screen (a new one)!


again, i used the ink blocking material that came with my gocco.



here they are drying all over my apt!



here's a close up...you can see some errors, of course. tomorrow i print the birdies! anyway, the pink worked out A LOT better than the green!! :-)