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After many more hours, we have finally decided on our save the date, and had them printed. They should be arriving in the next week or so!

This was the final design:

I'm going to order these baby envelopes from Paper Source in either blossom or paper bag. They're going to be attached to the back of the STD and hold our little magnet.

Here's a sneak peak at what we've chosen for our wedding invites:

This chocolate color, along with a light pink version, will be used on our invitations and programs and throughout our reception. We have ordered pocket folds in a chocolate brown color, and the invitation will be on a cream paper with a light pink mat for the border. 

Charlie is going to draw a map to use for one of the pocket inserts, along with these RSVP cards:

I can't wait to see how the final product turns out!

I also think I've decided on my shoes! The winners are...

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So relieved to finally be getting wedding things DONE!

save the date

This is my last day of vacation, so I've spent the majority of my morning trying to figure out what we are doing for our save the dates. I thought I had found what I wanted a few different times, but I keep changing my mind. This morning I've been downloading different fonts and trying to design my own by combining the things I liked from my previous two decisions. I need to come up with something fast, though, because they have to go out by the end of this month.

This was my first decision (colors were going to be changed to pink and brown):

From HelloLucky.com

My second decision:

From weddingchicks.com

I actually had this one printed, but I think it just came out too light, and didn't look very good. 

Here's what I came up with this morning. Surprisingly, this took hours of changing fonts and colors trying to make it look right (and I'm still not 100% sure it does).

These will be the small magnets that we're including with each one:

Now all I have to do is find the paper and a place to get them printed!

Somehow I stumbled upon Z Gallerie in my internet searches this morning, and of course I found something I had to have.

I think I'm going to use the larger one as a side table in our living room, and then stack the two smaller ones to use as a bedside table in our guest bedroom. And the best part is, they are on sale for $100 off. 

I may also pick up these babies.

Starting the year off right

We've been very, very busy since I've last written. I'll start with my trip to Chicago. We shopped, we ate, we drank, and we had FUN! I went dress shopping and had a little breakdown when I was having to try on dresses that were six sizes (seriously) bigger than I what I was used to, but I'm happy that I had the experience and now I know for sure that the dress I've already picked out is THE dress! Thank you, Caroline, for taking the time to put it all together! :)

Classic bean picture

My favorites

We were incredibly blessed at Christmas this year. This is the first year since I was a kid that I can remember literally getting every single thing that I wanted! Charlie's parents surprised me and bought me the elliptical that we were planning to buy in January! It came just in time because the gym is about to get seriously busy with people making resolutions.

Luckily, Charlie likes to put things together!

Charlie surprised me and bought me the dresser I've been wanting for our bedroom! I'll be posting before and after pictures soon! 

Again, super lucky that he likes to put things together!

We also go an iPad!! I'm already super obsessed with it, and want to get this case for it. Charlie doesn't approve, yet ;-)

And to top it all off, we are finally getting a new washing machine! For the past couple of years we've been using a hand me down that I'm pretty sure is from the 1980's. It worked great, and then I made the mistake of trying to wash Charlie's comforter in it last year and now it only washes on the gentle cycle without leaking water all of the place. I can't wait!

She'll be a new addition to our family this weekend!

For the past couple of weeks I've been doing some serious downsizing and organizing. I'm going through every closest, cabinet, and container we own and getting rid of everything that we don't need or use (I'll be posting pictures of all the organizing soon, too). We should be finishing everything up today, so we can start the new year off right!

Happy new year!