Happy Easter & Happy Spring! These spring pictures make me want to get married right now!

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As my wedding is getting closer & closer (less than 5 months now!), I need less & less inspiration. I used to get up, look at Google Reader, check out my favorite blogs, & save my favorites. But now, as my wedding day is actually coming together, I find that wedding blogs are just overwhelming! If I find an idea that I love, I wish I would have seem it sooner. If I see an idea that I am already incorporating, I feel like it is overdone. Purging my blog reel down to my very favorites has really helped! My ideas are what I will be using, I don’t need anymore inspiration. And how many of my guests are actually going to be reading wedding blogs to even know if an element of the wedding has been done before?!? Not too many.

So, on to the concrete! Most of my girls have picked out there dresses! Here are a few:

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Next weekend I am moving (yay! Can’t wait to have our first home : ) ) & then I will begin ordering the rest of the things we need for the wedding! Five months sounds like a lot of time, but I know it will go by so quickly! Has anyone else stopped looking at wedding inspiration? Do you feel like you are in a good place with your wedding planning?

We only have about 5 months until the wedding, and I finally feel like I have crossed off most of the “big” things on my list. There are a few big things, and a lot of little things still left to do.

1. Find a hair & make up person

2. Order and get out the invites

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3. Figure out my accessories

4. Details! Cupcakes, programs, signs, card box, corn hole, photo booth, out of town bags, lanterns, lights…

Is there anything big that I am missing? I am going to try to get a lot of things ordered and completed before the big day, but there are just some things that have to be done day of. What was the last thing you put together? What was something you forgot? Please leave suggestions in the comments!

I have talked before about how my wedding is a little modern with a little rustic. One of my “rustic” elements is wooden table runners. I saw a tutorial, on Pinterest of course, on how to age wood using apple cider vinegar and steel wool. I was thinking that I was going to stain the wood, but thought I would try this out. So I started with this:

Just a regular board and some steel wool and apple cider vinegar. And ended with this:

When you see the before and after, it is definitely different. However, to me, it is just more brown, not necessarily aged. The tutorial said that it ended like this:

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This is aged and grey and nice. Mine… not so much. However, I did learn a lot!

1. I am having long tables, so I wasn’t sure how many vases I would need on each table. I decided on four, with candles. There are also going to be table numbers, so I don’t want it too crowded.

2. How many vases I need! My floor plan is below, so if I have 4 vases per table, I need 80 vases (plus or minus a few in case they break or want to be used else where!) Like the vases? They are $0.79 cents from Ikea! Can’t beat that! I also like them all the same- I was thinking of having different heights, but I like the simplicity of them all the same.

3. I wasn’t really sure how long 8 feet was. Nice to know. Also, being able to visualize it, I have decided I need about 2 paper lanterns over each table. They are going to be linear over the long tables, and then a big conglomeration over the dance floor.

4. Carnations are under rated! I bought these because they were cheap and to see the vases with flowers in them, and I really like them! The texture is awesome, they are hardy, and they are inexpensive. I will most likely supplement with some garden roses and ranunculus as well, but I really like the carnations! On that note, I need about 3 blooms per vase, so now I know how many flowers I need as well!

Overall, it was a great learning experience. If anyone is thinking of doing anything with tables themselves, you should definitely do a mock up!