For the Love of all things Purple

As you may or may not know, I am madly in love with the color of purple. It makes me think of elegance and royalty; all things that I want my wedding to embody. Here are some purple passion that I've gathered from my daily search.A purple inspiration board to drool over. (Don't remember where this picture if from so if it is yours, please let me know so I can give you proper credit)

















I am in love with these paper laterns and have been seeing them alot lately. They are also used in the showcased wedding below. I am starting to seriously consider them depending on cost and how it would look in my venue space.















Not sure if you read The Bride's Cafe but it always showcases some of the most beautiful weddings and the details highlighted are just breathtaking sometimes. Here are some pictures from Erin and Chris's wedding and of course the accented color is purple. I also love how simple but elegant her centerpieces are. And she had Christian Louboutins. I love love love Louboutins.

Silk Flowers: Are they the way of future weddings?

I was talking to one of my classmates and she mentioned how she was planning her wedding on a budget of $7000. I don't have to tell you that nowadays I am obsessed with anyone who is attempting to have a fabulous wedding on a smaller budget. We compared notes and she mentioned silk flowers. I heard of them so I decided to research them myself. And they didn't look half bad. While I do like "real" flowers, I don't love them that much. Silk flowers are wayy cheaper and it cuts out the cost of going to a florist for my bouquets and centerpieces. So that a new option. The boutineries and corsages are less than $10.00!
I found all this on the Brides's Bouquet which I promptly book marked. I have so much wedding stuff bookmarked, its out of control! My computer might crash from wedding overload...Knock on wood. lol...












Can you tell that they are silk? More importantly, do I really care?



Ahhh!! They also have options for centerpieces! Do you know what this means? It means, I can order everything now and just store it away until later. That would be one more thing to cross off my list...And I could get real flowers for my bigger decorations pieces...hmmm...the wheels are turning...maybe saving money isn't that hard. See, I'm interested in saving money but I still want everything to look classy and elegant.

School is dragging me down man Part 2

When I wrote this I did not realize it would be a part two but thats life I guess. School is still dragging me down. I'm tired all the time and I miss spending time with my baby. My schedule is all over the place but whatever. I finally bought some books today and I got a lap top!!! I am so excited about that, its been a long time coming. I really have no business writing today because I have absolutely nothing interesting to say, but I had to test drive the lap top.

So the FI and I were downtown and we walked into this huge cathedral. It was beautiful inside and very intimidating. We brainstormed about the possibility of having a "church wedding". He was more against it than I was but he likes the idea of getting married in a cathedral. I got excited because that meant I could invite more people to the actual wedding. But after careful thought, we realized that this would mean that the church would be divided into two parts: the haves and the haves not.
Some would have the reception card and some would not. It might work but knowing my culture, people would bombard my mother with phone calls demanding entrance to the reception or bombard the reception demanding to be granted entrance. Either way people's feelings will be hurt. Haha. So we thought the best plan of action would be to simply invite people who would also be attending the reception also. It would essentially be a "closed wedding", but we realize that there will be a few crashers. We are keeping the church wedding in mind.

So we'll see. Once the budget is set and I get serious about finding the venue, we can start on the guest list. That is the part that scares me the most.