Hi all – sorry for the late posting today but I’ve been en route to Atlanta for my big venue walk-through tomorrow! I’ve been perusing for some cute easy ideas for my vendors. I started in my favorite spot – MS!
For the caterer:
LOVE the shaped butter. Who thinks of this?
For the planner:
For the florist:
I’ll let you know how it turns out!
One year ago, the hubby and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. It was one of the best days of my life.
Out of everything that went into the preparation for our vow renewal, I probably had the most fun and least stress planning the day after brunch. It was held at South City Kitchen in Midtown, just steps from our hotel blocks and our venue from the vow renewal the night before.
Out of all of the undertakings for the vow renewal, there was one that I spent by far the most time on and was undeniably the most nervous about….
I have collected shot glasses for our entire marriage, so it was only obvious that shot glasses should be our favors for the vow renewal. After doing lots of research, I came across a tutorial on Weddingbee for goccoing on glass and set off to create my own custom etched shot glasses. Here they are, encased in their custom handmade boxes, at each place setting.
Scattered about our tables we had stacks of song request cards. I loved the little premise that I ended up with of having song names that are actions for the headings on our cards. Here are the headings we used:
FINALLY… the reception! You read awhile ago about the process of choosing my floor plan, and saw the layout of my reception. As you may recall, we chose two 24′ estate tables, and here is how the centerpieces shaped up! I was pretty much in love with them, so excuse the gratuitous amount of photos…
Two small details from the vow renewal that you haven’t yet seen are the reserved signs for the ceremony chairs and the embroidered hemstitch cocktail napkins.
You’ve already seen lots of details of the Welcome Party, but there were just a few photos that I couldn’t resist posting before I move on…
First up, comes a HUGE apology from me to you for the lack of continuity in my vow renewal recaps. I have a single goal this weekend: write. them. all. So, second up comes a promise from me to you – starting Monday you will have recaps. For those of you who have been emailing/twittering/etc, thank you! I promise I won’t let you down this time.
Sorry for the absence in the recaps everyone! I’m really hoping to have my full disc of pictures soon to show you but until then, some logistics!
Mollie asked today if I would post the excerpts we used for our two ceremony readings. Here they are!
During our cocktail hour, we not only had the time capsule room open, but we also brought in two blackjack tables and dealers from to entertain the guests. If I had to pick one thing that our guests overwhelmingly loved, this would be it.
You guys, I have been so excited to show you one of my favorite DIY projects from the whole vow renewal – our time capsule guest book. When A. and I were brainstorming and this idea came up, it was like “yes, that’s perfect!”. We were celebrating ten years together and many years of friendship with our guests, and what better way to do that than by creating a treasure box of memories that we will have for the rest of our lives?
During our cocktail hour, we honored Georgia by serving bellinis. Because the drinks would look identical, the idea of glass charms sounded like an easy and fun DIY project. And it was!
All in, I probably put more thought and time into the cocktail hour than I did any other aspect of our event. While the ballroom downstairs was being flipped from ceremony to reception we moved into the main level of the Atlanta Woman’s Club, which is just stunning and fit perfectly into our vintage slightly-French theme.
After we had finished up taking [intlink id=”6419″ type=”post”]portraits[/intlink], everyone, including Charlie, got ready to walk down the aisle! The Atlanta Woman’s Club had an upstairs room for dressing, which was very useful. Charlie, our best man, our officiant, our honor attendant, the hubby and I all waited there while our guests arrived. I’m very much in love with this photo of Charlie in his bow tie!
It was beautiful in Atlanta on New Years Eve – we really lucked out with the weather. A bit chilly, for sure, but not unbearable for portraits! Here are some of the portraits I’ve gotten so far – I cannot wait to get the full set of photos to see the rest.
Today’s post is all about getting pretty! After spending the morning of the vow renewal at Vis-a-Vis Salon in Buckhead getting our hair done, it was back to the hotel to get ready.
