Project Wedding: Photographer

This is my least favorite thing to figure out and my favorite thing about weddings! It is why I am doing all these little details! I want pictures of my work haha. So we went to bridal fair after bridal fair and had at least 4 consultations with photographers who we were hoping had good stuff. We did see a LOT of good stuff, some stuff overpriced, and some stuff not so our style.

We had FINALLY decided on Tim Davis, an amazing photographer who knew my sisters in high school. We loved him, but wanted to talk budget before committing because he was still expensive. Well I called him to book officially, and he proceeded to call me back and tell me that a couple had booked him ON THE SPOT FOR MY DATE!!! AUGHHHH! I cried. Not gonna lie. It was the first thing that I had decided to put money down on and I was back stabbed! Ok not really, but man was it hard for me to trust God in all that. I called my mom and sister, got some encouraging words, and bucked up. I looked and looked for more photographers and after talking on the phone with a good friend of mine from Ohio, I was informed that there was a really cool photographer that traveled for weddings!

Well I checked her out. SHE ROCKS!!!! I thought her pictures were SO good and SO my style that there was no way I could afford her I thought. I emailed her, and guess what?! She was in our budget! We are flying our photographer in from Ohio! Crazy! I feel like that sounds fancy, but in fact, it is not. haha. God really provided and I can see now why He wanted me to wait for Jessica. Here is a link to her site. Just click on it and check her stuff out!

http://www.jessica-valle.com

She takes amazing pictures. Clicking on the link above will open a new tab for you so don't worry mom, it won't take you away from this page:) Thanks, Chance!

So Tim Davis is probably still going to do our engagement sessions! I told him he owed me for ditching a Daeschner wedding opportunity;) He felt awful and said that he always checks with the people who book first but when a couple wants to sign a contract on the spot he has to say yes! So I obviously understood.
Anyway...project photography, check!

Project Wedding: Venue

Well, this was actually the easy part:) Chance had noticed that I loved this certain venue because our church had met there for his baptism! Crazy right? We actually bought a bunch of furniture at this place when he first moved to Wichita because it was going out of business, and little did we know they were transforming it from a furniture store to our future wedding venue! So, we bought furniture there, got Chance baptized there, and now we are getting married there. It's seeming to be an all purpose place for us! Susan says we should ask if they could transform it into a house for us someday:) haha.
So it was booked before we even got engaged! Chance is a sneaky man! But he knew I loved it and didn't want to lose our date. Sweet man I got! Here are the pictures of the place. We can have the ceremony and the reception there, so it's really convenient!






Whatcha think? We love it more each time we visit!

Project Wedding: Cupcakes

So I want cupcakes for my wedding. Judge away you old fashioned wedding believers, because I am going bold in all areas. Pretty much any way that I can make my wedding different than normal is going to happen:)I love having details that are special and that I worked to make happen. I hope everyone doesn't think I'm crazy. I just have this weird picture in my head of how this is all going to go down. And I am so ready to take it all on. DIY blogs, watch out...I'm comin.
We already booked the cake lady. They are doing a whole bunch of different flavors for us...filled ones even!! So we will have flavors like smores, lime margarita, chocolate raspberry, lemon, etc. YAY! Susan was in town a few weeks ago and we went and tested some at a place that has cupcakes just like what we were looking for! But they were a small joint, and we weren't all in agreement in depending on them for my wedding, but here are some pics of that adventure. Thanks Suze! I wish my sisters lived here!!! We are getting a grooms cake also. It is going to be Mario themed:) And then our "topper" will be a small cake that looks like a giant cupcake! How fun, right?





So, here is the basic idea of what I am going for.These pictures aren't the EXACT as I will do obviously, but this is the general display I want:



Or maybe something like this:



So, cupcakes... CHECK! You may think I'm crazy, but I'm planning on making my own stands for them:) HAHA! Man I'm committing to a lot. They may end up horrible, but gosh dangit, I'm gonna try. I think I can find some neat plates and then hot glue/super glue a cup to the bottom to make a stand that is customized to the style I'm going for. So basically I want to transform stuff like this:



....to things like this:



...Except way more awesome...cuz they will be Katie style:) Like this:



Anyway, I hope to go to places like Hobby Lobby and find some awesome things to put together. Also, I want to make platters out of old frames and fabric...You spray paint old frames and then put whatever fabric in the frame to coordinate with your wedding. It looks like this:



...whatcha think? I really like the idea and it seems simple. Seems ....key word.
Anyway. That's my project cupcakes. In the works!