Tasks for this week?

dibsontop

What's on your to-do list for this week?  WR or NWR.

dibsontop

At this point (11 days to go!) pretty much everything I'm doing is WR.

I'm picking up my dress tonight!!  I dropped it off at the seamstress in July.  I only needed the bust taken in a little and the bustle put in.  Considering there really wasn't anything big needing to be done (or a hem to be rechecked) she offered to just hold it until 2 weeks before the wedding.  She'll have it steamed/pressed and ready to go.  I was happy to leave it there so as to not have to pack it up and move it more than necessary.  I can't wait to see it again!!

Also on the agenda this week:
-Finish assigning table numbers and print escort cards
-Decorate flower girl basket
-Make sign for card box
-Make guest book (I decided on just a few 12x12 scrapbook pages that I can put in a scrapbook with pictures after the wedding)
-Pick up another gift for my parents (we're giving them a frame but I'm stumped on what else!)
-Finish buying groomsmen gifts
-Wrap gifts for wedding party/parents/readers/etc.
-Finish programs (tears of joy packets still need labels put on)
-Buy thank you cards for after wedding
-Make table numbers
-Print out copies of the readings to give to readers
-Buy lipstick for touch ups

By the end of today I expect to add about 25 more things to the list

Ms.BriarRose

I'm pretty much WR as well.

-Finish the baskets (bubble, program)
-make cutout top/cover it for freewill offering basket
-finish and order guestbook (we are doing the photobook online, but I don't know if I have enough time to do it )
-Make sign for memorial table
-Make little signs for candy buffet
-make love is sweet sign for candy buffet
-Wash Candy Buffet glassware
-get candy bags
-drop stuff off to the bakery
-get reader gift
-make and send general and personal itineraries to BP
-send email invite for RD
-send email to pastor/approve program (they print it for me, thank God)
-Print out readings
-ask a whole bunch of questions for the reception to the coordinator
-finish buying gifts and wrap all of them
-write RD speech
-write wedding day speech

We finished the seating chart and escort cards this weekend.  My mom is off next week, so we will probably get ALOT done next week. 

Love that you are getting your dress tonight!

About the Tears of Joy packets:  I highly suggest you not do them, and if you do them, don't put labels on them.  MrsJax did them for her wedding, and had a whole basket full left over.  They are still sitting in her living room, over a year later, being used up.  If you don't put the labels on them, you can at least use them for other things.  Just a tip for other girls who are thinking about it!  The better thing to do, in my mind, would be to place boxes of tissues on the end of pew/next to the guestbook if it's outdoors, with a sign saying take a few if you need them.  That way, guests have access, but they don't get wasted!

dibsontop

The tears of joy packets are already made.  They cost practically nothing and were super easy to make.  We took one tissue and slipped it in a vellum envelope.  We have little circles made already that just go on the front of the envelope.  And the envelopes have already been attached inside the programs with removable glue dots.  Really, I don't expect people to even use them, but it was more for the look of the program than anything else.  And honestly, these DIY projects are the only things keeping me sane at this point!

Here's an early rough draft of the program opened up with the tissue packets inside.

Mattsbride10

My to-do list...

Make menu tents/table numbers
Make memorial candles
Establish seating arrangement and print place cards
Make favor tags
Stuff favors into organza bags and attach tags
Wrap bridal party gifts

And all this has to be completed by next Tuesday because we are leaving for New York Wednesday night before the wedding.

EiDuffy

i'm finally meeting with some wedding photographers this week!

Santorini2011

DJs