A Favorable Change!

I was 100% sold on my idea to do wish bracelets. I thought it was fairly original as a favor but it's not... So I had to make it original.

Instead of a hemp knot I'll be using a silver infinity charm.

The bracelets were going to be accompanied by a cute poem about tying the knot and that was that.

Then things changed.

I have now decided to make Christmas cracker favors and I'm so excited! I can still use my infinity wish bracelets but they'll be in a more fun packaging that can also include some confetti, advice cards for the guests to fill out, candies and a drink ticket or two!

I love this idea more and more as I think about it, and so does Lance (so he says) and my parents.   What a great way to incorporate my British heritage at the reception!

Charm Tree Centrepieces

Browsing Pinterest, I saw a centerpiece that didn't just catch my eye, it made me do a happy dance too!

Beautiful Centerpiece!

I don't know what it is about this that I fell in love with.  Maybe the simplicity, the colors (they match the colors that I have informally chosen), or maybe that they're so big and would give the reception venue a more enchanting feel!  But... As I have promised myself, I want a Pinterest inspired wedding... Not a Pinterest cookie cutter wedding.  Soooooooooo, how can I make this my own?

Wish Bracelet Favors

I wanted something different for my table favors.  Something handmade, something that people would actually take home with them rather than leave on the table for me to toss out.  I remembered seeing a wish necklace on a friend years ago and the story went something like "you make a wish when you tie on the string, and when it wears out and falls off, the wish is supposed to come true".  Perfect!

I went to town online and started looking up different wish necklaces.  Many were just a bead on a piece of hemp string.  Some were even just a knotted piece of hemp string.

Not good enough!  A little eBay snooping later, and look at these gems!!!

Silver Infinity Charms

Do you know how much it cost me for 200 of these babes?  $25!!!  That was including shipping, and they're led-free!  Win-Win!  I cut 2 lengths of hemp string for each charm, and this is what I got... So all-in-all, the cost for 150 table favors should be around $60.00  Can't argue with that!  

Pretty cute, aren't they?

Now to set a date and then I can make the cards for these to go on, which means that I have 2 years to come up with a better poem than the one that everyone else has used!  

Do you like them? 

Would you make sure you took one home, even to give to someone else?

Do you have any ideas for a better poem? 

Do you like the shameless angle I took my picture so you could kinda see my engagement ring?  :)

<3 Marie

We decided on forever!

Well how about that!  After 4 years of just being "boyfriend-girlfriend" he finally popped the question on December 24th, 2012... That's a whole other story!  (Click here to read all about the proposal that I nearly sabotaged).  Lance and I (I am trying to include him as much as possible!) have decided on a smaller budget.  He's frivolous  I'm frugal.  I win!  I also love to make things, so I figured that I'd make a blog to detail all of the planning details in our two year engagement!

People ask me if I'm crazy for having such a long engagement... My response: No!  I am having such a great time looking through wedding magazines and other peoples blogs, not to mention Pinterest!  Why rush it?  This is supposed to be the best time of my life, and I intend to drag it out as long as I can!  :)

Anyway... Enjoy my blog, and if you're newly engaged, then a big congratulations to you too!