More Brooch Bouquets! For the Bridesmaids This Time

So here is my progress on three of the four brooch bouquets. I am almost finished with the pink and red ones, and about halfway finished with the yellow. I haven't started the orange bouquet yet because, well, there are very few orange brooches/earrings etc. out there! Luckily I still have a long time to collect.







These are only the top halves, obviously. When they're all filled up I will add stems and ribbon and fabric and all that good stuff to cover up the edges of the styrofoam. I love the idea of brooch bouquets because they last forever!

Room Dividers

So it may sound like a bit of a weird idea, but since the ceremony is in a wide open field and there is another wide open field across from it where people will park, I kind of want to separate the space. I want to get/make two room dividers like this....



and put one on each side of the end of the aisle. That way I can have the people handing out programs stand by them, and people will have somewhat of a doorway to walk through to get to their seats. Also, it might give me a bit of something to hide behind before I walk down the aisle. Plus I think they'd be perfect for a farm wedding, looking antique-ish. We'll see how it all comes together...

Dresses and Billy Buttons

Here are some pictures of the dress I really love. I'm hoping to employ my mom to make one as similar as possible. Hopefully we'll be able to find a pattern and good fabric at the fabric store.









I love it! It's casual but still really elegant looking (I think). I like what the groom is wearing, too. We might do something similar for Bic (minus the vest?). On a separate note, I've discovered "billy buttons" or "billy balls" (craspedia is the real name)





and I really want to use them in corsages or centerpieces.

The Hunt Club

Ok, so I lied. Here is one picture of the greenhouse area



and here is the field next to it



So, yeah, let's hope for no hurricanes!

Date and Venue!

So, we have set a date (May 7th, 2011) and picked a venue!! I don't want to post pics of the venue because then nothing will be a surprise, but we picked The Hunt Club Farm in Virginia Beach. The ceremony will be in a field and the reception will be in a greenhouse area about fifty feet from the ceremony. I am very exciteddd. Now is the time I get to add up the costs of everything I will be using/renting/buying and realize how much a wedding really costs.

Personalized Monograms

"The Wedding Chicks" blog has a lot of really great "custom goodies"

(http://www.weddingchicks.com/freebies/custom-goodies).

I found these cool monogram templates where you can pick both the letter and the colors. I got four made (they email them to you immediately after you make them) and I plan to get them printed, string them, and use them in my save the date cards. The plan for now is to have the cards say "Please save the date for Mr. and Mrs." and then a picture of us where we'll be holding up the letters (on some type of string) to say Buck. Hopefully it will turn out as cute as I think it sounds...

Brooch Bouquet

So, after working on it for quite a while, I finally finished the top part of my brooch bouquet. All you need is tacky glue, a knife, some styrofoam, and lots of brooches.







I bought a styrofoam sphere, cut it in half, and all I did was glue the brooches on one by one...




and after enough brooches...I finally had it filled! Thanks to my mom, my friend, her mom, Michael's, A.C. Moore, and multiple thrift stores....










Next, I get to finish up the slightly smaller bouquets I am making for my bridesmaids and also figure out a good way to do the stem portion of each bouquet. We'll see how it goes...