twinkybel81
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- Jun 29, 2014
Hooray for finals being completed! Things are coming up so quick now, it's so exciting!
Yay an update! Oh my god all the delicious food!! That sampler package sounds like a really good idea. Your trip report makes me so excited for our trip this October.
You are getting so close to your wedding! I hope all the planning is wrapping up nicely and it is smooth sailing until your wedding.
Dawww you got an anniversary pic for me!! It looks so cute, even with the photo bomb by the CM finger!
You're making me miss food & wine with all these delicious looking pictures! So much yummy-ness all around. Hope you're feel better!
I just finished getting all caught up. First of all - wow! Those engagement pictures are awesome! I love the ones of you guys dancing. Your wedding dress is beautiful, I can't wait to see how it looks in the end! Your wedding is actually getting really close, I'm sure you must be getting excited.
When we went to WDW this past January, I was so excited about the German pavilion, I spent so much money on Haribo's. I've actually been to Germany before, and the entire time we were in Bonn all I seemed to eat were Haribo gummies...
Hooray for finals being completed! Things are coming up so quick now, it's so exciting!
I can't wait to see how it looks! I have an obsession with lanterns
I can't believe there had to be a work order to remove the bench and you had to ask them to run the waterfall? I looked at Canada Terrace for an escape wedding and feel the same - isn't that part of having it there??
ETA: I love your cake topper! I love when people include their pets - I wish I could do the same, but we probably won't be able to get a pet of our own until after the wedding.
That is absolutely insane that the bench is not automatically moved for a wedding ceremony! I'm glad they approved that and the waterfall for your ceremony.
I'm dying over your cake topper. It is way too cute. The rug your mom made is perfect!
There are people out there who think it is wrong to eat cake first thing in the morning??
As well as having our 2 tier cake to share between the 5 of us hubby's birthday was 3 days after the wedding and I got him a chocolate monorail and tuxedo strawberries for when we had dinner that night....
He'd wander into the fridge and be munching on a white chocolate monorail for breakfast
We did finish the amazing cake (at whatever time of day we wanted)
As for Decor...this is partly why we picked the Wedding Pavilion which we thought was stunning on its own. We only added a $95 vase of flowers on the altar and then we had 4 pink mickey balloons to have fun with the photography after the ceremony. Those balloons were the BEST decision we ever made....they made great photos.
This one's for Lauren!
Tutorial: how to make a Kusudama paper/park map bouquet
As all of you who follow my Instagram know, I’m making the bouquets myself. And just a little disclaimer - this won't be a full step by step tutorial, because there are plenty of them. This is my way to do it, although it might not be the best, I'm happy with the result and I love it!
I did this for two reasons:
1) There was no way, I was spending over 110$ to have a bouquet for my MOH (or anybody else that might have come along).
2) I really wanted to match my bouquet tot he bridesmaids.
3) I knew I wanted to have a bouquet for my at-home-reception.
I searched Etsy for years (no exaggeration here, I started right after we got engaged), until I found paper flower bouquets made from books. Still, the prices (although they were fair for the work involved) seemed a little to high for me, but I was hesitant to do them myself, because I suck at origami.
But then I found Mindy Marzec’s tutorial for a park map bouquet on her blog (thisfairytalelife.com) and I tried them with some origami paper we had left over from DF’s 30th (we made little Super Mario Stars). It worked!
I found out that you’ll find tons of tutorials on blogs and YouTube once you search for „Kusudama flowers“.
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And this is what they should look like when all petals are glued together. Putting five together make them seem the most flower like in my opinion. It is also a good to invest in white plastic paper clips. They don't stain and are easier to remove. Mine were also v-shaped.
After you found a tutorial that works best for you, but here’s some advice on things I didn’t read anywhere:
1) Don’t use wooden sticks as you won’t be able to bent them the way you like! I used florist wire and could bent them anywhere I wanted.
Before glueing them into the already assembled (!) flowers, take one piece of florist wire, a piece of adhesive tape and a toothpick and glue them together – that way the flowers get sturdier. I even went ahead and painted the toothpicks black for my bouquet on one half, so that you can’t see them as much shining through.
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Here you can see the wire, the tape and the toothpicks.
After you prepared the florist wire, go ahead and dip them in some good old Mod Podge (at least so that the tape part is covered). Mod Podge is also gold when it comes to glue the petals together!
2) It took me months to think of a handle – I thought of a wooden stick, wrapping the ends, etc, until my mom suggested a bamboo stick. Bamboo is very sturdy and almost completely hollow. You can just stick the ends of the florist wire in it (after filling it with a decent amount of hot glue) and you’ve got yourself a beautiful looking handle.
3) Grab tape and hold every other flower together when assembling them or this will lead to a lot of unnecessary cursing...
4) Don’t worry about the holes in the middle to much – just use something to cover them! After seeing the amazing pic from Jensey of another Disbride’s park map bouquet, I went ahead and looked for Mickey rhinestones on Etsy. I can tell you – these are expensive! Still, there was no way I would spent days trying to assemble 3 rhinestones in a Mickey shape.
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A bouquet without bling.
Moreover the whole plan was to save money and not throw it into expensive DIY. After long searching hours, I finally found the QianKraftKit Shop on Etsy – 80 mickey rhinestones were only 4$ and they even (as most Etsy shops) gave a discount in their discription. Shipping was 7$, but I still have some left and they shipped fast and are good quality. Of course, I had glue all over my hands when putting them on the flowers, but as the park maps were free for me, I didn’t care – that was something I had to have.
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Me trying to not glue any Mickeys on my hands!
The ones from the park maps maybe cost me about 10€ each and I love them.
Mine was a little bit more expensive – but I’m the bride! Some of the origami paper I used I bought at Mitsukoshi at Japan, Epcot, what made it even more special for me! I especially love the Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbour Totoro paper they got, because these are my favorite two Studio Ghibli movies!!! And one flower is even supposed to glow in the dark! Moreover I wanted a more sophisticated look, that’s why I went with pearls instead of Mickeys.
My mom and I realized that when putting the thick Origami paper flowers together that these wouldn’t tie together as good as the park map ones. Well, good thing I have so many fabric left from my dress! We stuffed the holes you could see through with tulle and soft tulle and my mom sew a collar from the satin that we tied with ribbons in our wedding colors.
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My bouquet!!!
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On the ribbon you see some frames with family pictures that I assembled myself (the kit from ILovePaperkits was so much cheaper than the ones you can order already assembled and really easy to make with their instructions). DF is also going to have two oft hem inside his jacket at his heart.
If you have any other questions, let me know! I’d love to help!
I've missed so much!! Ok first, LOVE DF's wedding attire! He looks smashing, in both outfits!! I'm sorry about the officiant drama, but I'm glad it seems to have worked out for the best.
LOOOOOOOVE your cake topper!!! I seriously want a VR just because we didn't have cats when we got married and I wish they had been involved in our wedding. So cute!
And finally, the bouquets - can you say perfect?! They look amazing, well done!
I can't believe you're almost there!!! I feel like I've been waiting for your day to come forever!
I love all your hair pieces - IMO no such thing as too many!
ONE WEEK!!!!!!!! ONE WEEK!!!!!!! I'll be furiously stalking the internets for photos of you guys!