104 Days Until the Wedding

Matt & I recently decided that we didn't want to have a traditional guestbook. We came to this conclusion for several reasons...
1. I couldn't find one that I liked well enough to ask Matt if we could buy it
2. I'd end up re-writing everyone's name that was in the guestbook and putting it into a scrapbook
3. After I did that, I'd never look at the guestbook again
4. Parents don't like to let kids sign guestbooks for some odd reason and I dislike that.

So... we decided that we'd like our guests to help us make a guestbook/scrapbook.

Lisa bought very pretty single-use cameras to put on the tables, so everyone can take pictures of each other. Then instead of a guestbook table with the guestbook and a fancy pen we're going to have sort of a craft table. We'll have various shapes, sizes and colors of paper and a wide variety of pens. Everyone can choose the size, shape and color of their piece of paper and pick out the pen of their choice, sign their names and decorate the paper however they choose. Then, we'll develop the pictures and use them along with the guestbook paper pieces to put together an informal scrapbook album of our wedding day. This way, we have a book that tells us who was at the wedding and all ages can contribute. It's very kid friendly. The kids will have a great time with the pretty colors :o)

Today, I went out to look for paper to use for this grand adventure. I was very fortunate to find some wonderful self-adhesive papers already cut down to 4.5" x 6.5". I bought two different color families to start and plan to buy two or three more by June. I also got some small squares in 8 different colors. I'll be able to use my fun scissors to cut the larger pieces down in to halves and quarters and that will give four different sizes of papers to put out.

The trick to this will be what we end up with as far as the pictures. Hopefully not everyone will use the cameras on the tables to just take pictures of us cutting the cake & other such random things.

We also booked our honeymoon recently. We're going to Minnesota to the Mall of America and Minneapolis. We decided that if we couldn't afford to go on my dream trip to Rome/Vatican City that we should go somewhere neither of us had ever been. It was a very difficult task but thanks to the cow postcard from when one of Lisa's friends visited the Mall of America, we came up with a place.

I just got off the phone with my grandma and she's offered to pay for the postage for our invitations. My grandma is awesome. Now I really have to get on the ball with finalizing my guest list and all that good stuff.

Things left to do:
*SHOE SHOPPING!!
*Flowers
*Pay for the Hall
*An engagement announcement for the newspaper
*Put together favors
*Call the Balloon lady again
*Discuss ceremony music with Amy J.
*pick readings etc for Ceremony
*ask people to read at the Ceremony
*finish picking songs for reception
*figure out what pictures we want the photographers to take
*purchase beverages
*buy rings
*put together the guestbook kit
*send invitations
*create seating chart based on responses to said invitations