Wedding Decorations Update!

I've been super busy lately. Every time I checked something off the 'to do' list it seemed to get longer. I'm starting to feel a little more prepared. I finally made up my example table decorations. Take a look.

 Here's the basic table layout. Alternating small plate/large plate, seperated by a bowl and trail of shiny things

This is the large plate - the roses will be white, not yellow, and the daisies will be blue. I'm hoping to find cornflowers/bachelor's buttons too, but I don't hold out too much hope for that.

Here's a close-up of the bowl with daisies in the middle and the strewn shiny thing collection *smile*


And last is the small plate, with the candle rosebowl, again with small ivy's around it.

So there's my table decorations. In other news, I'm still trying to work out a hairdresser, we're still working on my dress and Jon's shirt. We have to pick up the alcohol still, find various accessories, finish music lists, make a shopping list for the final bits and pieces we're making ourselves snack-wise, but that is pretty much it. Starting to feel a little less overwhelming. It's good :)

Sit Spot/Quickie Wedding Update

First off, I'm participating in the sit spot 30 day challenge (click for more info). To keep my sanity and reduce any pre-wedding stress I thought it would be a good idea to carve out 20 minutes of time per day for me to just sit and be. So far it has been wonderful. Even on busy days, I've made sure to carve out time (even if it has to be at 11:30 at night).

The spot itself is close enough that I don't sigh at the thought of getting to it, but it's far enough away from the rest of the humans crammed into this small space that it feels at least marginally private. The traffic from a nearby road is slightly distracting and annoying, but I can put up with it for now. I haven't seen a lot of wildlife so far - I've seen a magpie and a cat, and heard something that sounds like a bird (I thought it might be a dog or coyote the first time, but the call repeated several times and was almost identical each time). It might be an owl, but I don't really know - are there any other birds that call at night in the calgary area? It must live nearby because I've heard it on two nights now, though tonight it sounded further away than last time.

In other news, wedding stuff is coming along. Only 23 days left! That's SOON.

I ran into a slight glitch with the favours - I wanted to do little ivy plants as favours, but with mothers day coming up apparently the growers tend to keep them to put together with other things to make baskets. So instead I now have a bunch of little peat moss discs, a bunch of little pots, some rooting compound and 8 bigger ivy plants. So tomorrow I get to spend the day playing with plants and dirt and stuff. Looking forward to it :)

Other things left to do:
 - still haven't gotten letter of authority - I'm thinking of calling to see where they are with it
 - figure out and finalize hair bookings. adjust makeup times as necessary
 - do trial run for making flower bowls and set up an example of the table decorations and take pictures for Jon's mom, who will be in charge of starting the table decoration setup the day of
 - order alcohol
 - get fabric for Jon's shirt, and spend time with my sewing friend to put together my dress
 - go through music and finish making playlists
 - various other things that are on my list but I can't think of right now

*sigh* I have three days off starting tomorrow and they're already booked full of wedding stuff to do. I just want a day off! 23 days until it's over...