Ill.

Q: What's more stressful than the wedding week?

A: The wedding week whilst sick!

That's right, folks. Not only am I sick, but so is Josiah. Currently I sound like a choking man -- it's going to make for some fun dramatic readings of vows. Eff me.

I have been totally swamped lately, so I know I've been slacking with the blog posts. I'll try to make it up to you with some crappy iPhone pictures.

All in all, I am totally excited. I just now came to the realization that everyone I love will be in the same place at the same time. (Well, almost everyone -- I'll be missing Mia Mitchell, a dear friend who's becoming Argentinian hah.) How amazing is that?

Plus, I guess it'll be pretty nice to be married. I guess.

Here's to three more days of hellish, crazy times. And let's hope that my illness vanishes in the next 30 seconds.

RSVP decor

For awhile now, I have been trying to come up with a way to display the RSVPs. I think I finally found something. I love this concrete wall in TCA -- it's the first thing you see walking up to the reception room. Also, the brunch buffet will be located on this landing, just to the right of the wall. I'm planning on draping four or five rows of RSVPs across, giving guests something to giggle at while waiting in the dreadful food line. Aren't I a nice hostess?

RSVPs

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Twine and clips

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Concrete wall

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Pure joy, as exhibited by Noah

Almost there

The chalkboard project is almost complete! Now I just need to paint the easel the reddish orange of our wedding colors.

My final (hopefully) dress fitting is tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Writing while sitting on the ground is hard

A taste of the reception

Today we received 16 pounds of candy. Get ready for Sugar Rush 2010. Who doesn't like candy at 10 a.m.?

Finally!

Holy crap Amanda is amazing.

We just had a 30-minute brainstorming session on Gchat and came up some seriously amazing ideas for decorations!!!

I am legitimately excited.

More explanation to follow sometime ... as for now, wait in anticipation for our crafty genius.

Decorations

I am about to decorate my foot up TCA's butt. This is such a pain! I thought it'd be easy to think of some fun touches full of personality. Not true. I can't come up with anything good!

I spent most of Sunday afternoon crying because I have no idea what I'm doing with this wedding nonsense. Surprise surprise.

However, in the past couple of days I have:

1. Finalized the bridal shower invite list/addresses
2. Addressed 49/80 envelopes
3. Received the wedding photographer contract
4. Contacted the caterer to set up a testing
5. Contacted the coordinator at TCA to set up a meeting/viewing of the reception room
6. Forced Josiah to contact the officiant to set up a meeting

Other than addressing invitations, it's not much to write home about. But at least I am trying to do something. Anything!

Sizing up the reception room

I need to scope out the inside of the Tempe Center for the Arts. I'm coming up with ideas, but not sure how to implement them in our space. Here's what I know about the reception area:

1. Approximately three walls are glass.
2. It has very tall ceilings.
3. It overlooks the negative edge pool/Tempe Town Lake.

As you can see, I don't know very much. Here's an architect's rendition of the room, found on AIArchitect.

I've been scouring Flickr for more TCA wedding pictures, and I'm happy to have found another set by David Maddox. Additional wedding pictures at TCA can be found here.

The ceremony area.

Inside the reception.

I mentioned a long time ago that I was originally very anti the indoors. This reception room is different though. I think the windows really give it an amazing feel. Plus, I think it'll go well with this idea I came up with (aka stole) yesterday while looking at CB2 for my registry.

I've been looking at these hanging bud vases/candleholders for probably a year now. For whatever reason, I've refrained from buying 30 of them and suspending them from every surface possible.

BUT. I was reading comments on one of the vases, and a gal said that she collected a bunch and hung them at her reception. This would be absolutely perfect for TCA. Here are some pictures from CB2, showing you you can mix/match the vases.

I could either hang these with fishing wire or with colored ribbon or yarn. Either way it would be super cute.

The only problem is I'm not quite sure where to hang them from. That's why I need to scout out the room and see how I can dress it up. Maybe I can do that this weekend.