StephenWolfs' Wishes Wedding Planning Journal!

[goodmorningirl]

Since coming home and talking with Cory, we have decided on our venues. Hopefully, our guest count stays in line and allows us our venues. We have invited 150 people and hoping for around a 100. Though it seems now that people I didn’t think were really excited about it are now saying they’d like to come. Oh well. This is why I tried to communicate to my parents that you don’t have to invite everyone who has invited you to their weddings, especially it being a destination wedding.

So here are the details we hope will be set in stone come August at a year out:

August 3, 2013
Desert/Welcome Party: Italy (whichever the bigger/nicer one is. I forget which one Kristi said.)

August 4, 2013
Ceremony: Japan
Brunch: Living Seas Salon (if our numbers and budget allow.)
Reception: Atlantic Dance Hall

August 5, 2013
Drinking Around the World with Bridal Party and others who’d like to join. Kind of our send off from everyone.

For colors, I’m torn between a few things, but they are very similar. I’m changing a bit to a deep purple and gray with touches of bright blue. I have some examples on my Pinterest which is at http://pinterest.com/goodmorningirl/

But here are the photos from there. I think I like the one with the blue to brighten it up and also the blue will work well with Japan. I like the gray because Cory may choose a gray suit so I think it would be a great way to have everything flow.




Cory really doesn’t want to wear a tux, especially with being outside in Aug., but I know my Mom would like him to considering my dress is so fancy. I keep trying to reassure her that it will look fine. I guess we’ll see.

What do you guys think?

[CinderALLIE]

Welcome back, glad you are feeling better.

Your locations look great.

[goodmorningirl]

CinderAllie: Thank you! I'm just crossing my fingers we get what we want. It's so hard to wait! lol

Sorry there aren't many pictures in this post.

So after choosing our venues, we were able to decide on the inspiration for our day. I have to call it inspiration because when I called it a theme at first Cory said it sounds like a kid's birthday party lol So I'm not allowed to call it that. So, our inspiration is Up. I know it's one that is being done a lot now, but I just want it to be subtle I think.

We chose Up because it's obviously an amazing love story, but also because like Carl and Ellie, we absolutely love to travel, it is probably our number one thing. With the ceremony in Japan we thought this would fit well and also with the reception at ADH it has the swing dance thing going and goes with the time period of when Carl and Ellie got married.

So, we started by getting our Save the Dates which are definitely Up and can be found here, designed by the amazing Wendy at Ever After Printables.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/80501433...-book-save-the

We sent these out a few weeks ago, soon I know, but our families aren't great at planning ahead and with the wedding we really need them too. Also, I wanted to get our wedding website out there and on there I also have a place for them to pre-RSVP. Here's our site. I'm really happy with it and I've been getting great feedback on it.
www.weddingwire.com/StephensonWolfsandle