Justin and I will be posting updates about our DIY wedding projects and wedding planning on this site. I do plan to make a regular wedding site to go with this one that has information about our wedding and updates.
Our wedding is to be a nature inspired outdoor wedding. Our ceremony and reception will be at the same location. At the gun club my family has run since long before I was born. It has beautiful fields in the middle of the forest on the side of the mountain, and not many people get married there, so it will be perfect for Justin and I since we did not want to get married inside, or at a location that is commonly used and we can make our ceremony and reception completely our own.
We are doing our decorations and many other aspects of our wedding DIY. My father is making homemade wine and will be cooking for the rehearsal dinner. We are also making the drinks, appetizers, fruit trays, and salads for the cocktail hour and reception ourselves. Originally our wedding was to be completely self catered since my father is an experienced cook. However, with a guest list of over 130 people, it would not have allowed much time for him to enjoy the wedding. So we opted for getting a caterer instead. We will be having almost the same meal that my father would have prepared, so it works out well in the end with him being able to enjoy the day and still being able to make some type of contribution to the food for our big day.
The things we will not be doing our selves are the following:
- The Wedding Cake
- Photography (Not something we wanted to risk skimping on)
- Disc Jockey
- Catering for the main course
Today we spent the entire day working on our wedding arch. I will post in a post after this one about how it is coming along. We are making it completely from scratch. Justin is a welder and is welding the arch from steel. Rather than buying a flimsy one made from tubing that will pose a risk of falling over. The arch will be covered in grape vines which with the help from some friends, we are picking ourselves at his grandmother's homestead. We will probably spend half of the day tomorrow trying to get further along in that project.
I hope to keep up to date with this blog. I will be posting various posts including pictures and how to instructions to create many of the decorations we are creating.
But I thought you were doing the invitations??? The Blog is great. very informative and detailed.
ReplyDeleteYes we are, this is an old post, I fixed it thanks.
Delete