Bridal Shower Planning

This September my Brother is getting married. Him and his Fiancé will be getting married on their 8 year dating anniversary, so Londyn has been part of our family for so many years already and I already consider her my sister. My family had the privilege of getting to throw a Bridal Shower for Londyn along with her family. I worked on so many different DIY projects with my Dad, so I will be breaking them up in to several posts. Make sure to check back to see all of the details.

The first thing I did when starting to plan this Bridal Shower was make a vision board. I gathered pictures from Pinterest of ideas that I had for themes, colors, and projects to be made. We had a planning meeting with my family, Londyn's family, and a few of her bridesmaids. I wanted to have a meeting to go over plans, ideas and visions to make the shower become a reality.

I also made up a document (that I will attach below) that I had printed out for each person attending the planning meeting, that way each detail was ironed out and no one was left guessing what they were in charge of. Seem like a bit much? Maybe, but I feel like this helped make the planning process so much easier!

Below I have pasted in the document that I created for the planning meeting, enjoy!

Name:_______________________

                                                      Date: _____________________

Bridal Shower Planning Meeting

Date:_____________________________________________

Location: __________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Time: ____________________________________________     

Theme:___________________________________________

Colors:____________________________________________

Décor ideas: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Guest List: (Who will be in charge of that?)

______________________________________________

Invitations:

From:

RSVP to who:_______________________________________

By (date):_________________________________________

The Bride and Groom are registered at: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Recipe card (to be included in invite):

From:

Raffle for returning recipe card à

Prize: What’s the prize/Who will purchase it?

_______________________=___________________________

Tables: (8 seats max per table)

How many: _________

Rented or getting from where: ___________________________________________________

Chairs:

How many: _________

Rented or getting from where: ___________________________________________________

Tent/Shades/ Umbrellas:

How many: _________

Rented or getting from where: ___________________________________________________

Linens:

Color:______________________________

How many: _________

Rented or getting from where: ___________________________________________________

Fresh Flowers: (For the tables)

What flowers? Who will get those? From Where?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Table Décor/ Centerpieces:

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Food:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Who’s bringing/making what?

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

_______________________=_______________________

Dessert:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Drinks:

_______________________=___________________________

_______________________=___________________________ _______________________=___________________________

_______________________=___________________________

Plates: _______________________=_____________________

Cups:   _______________________=_____________________

Napkins:______________________=_____________________

Silverware:____________________=_____________________

Straws:_______________________=_____________________

Notes:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Guest Book? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activities/Games:

Who has the Groom?

Who will make it?_______________________

Prize: What’s the prize/Who will purchase it?

_______________________=_________________________

Send a card to the Bride and Groom

Write a note of encouragement, marriage advice, your favorite quote or Bible verse to be sent to the bride and groom during their first few months of marriage.

Cards:

What cards should be used? From where?

_________________________________________________

Who will get the cards?

_________________________________________________

Who knows the Bride and Groom the best/

                                      Bride & Groom questionnaire:

Who is going to compile questions (find the best questions from versions online) & get answers from the Bride and Groom?  _________________________________________________

Who is going to make a game sheet for the shower?

_________________________________________________

Prize: What’s the prize/Who will purchase it?

_______________________=_________________________

Favor:

Ideas: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Person in charge of favors: ____________________________

Person in charge of writing down gifts received: _________________________________________________

Person in charge of making Bride’s ribbon/ bow bouquet:

_________________________________________________

I am in charge of the following:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Check back for the Bridal Shower invitations and details about the invites!

                                                            XOXO, Whitney

My Room- Mini Makeover!

A few weeks ago I got a new bed, so I decided that my room needed a little update!

 I found these new pillows at Marshall's! 

The yellow ones were $9.99 each! The grey one is Kate Spade and was ONLY $12.99, I thought is was the cutest thing, and it just had to come home with me!

The "Believe you can and you will" canvas I bought from Burlington Coat Factory! I know right, who would have thought to look there for home goods! But they have some really great things!

 This is the new wall collage I made!
Pictures are also one of my most favorite things, like EVER. 

I love to have pictures of all of my favorite people and my favorite memories all over the place! 

Titus approves of my new bed, and loves the new pillows! I'm still dreaming up what I want to make for a headboard, so keep your eyes out hopefully soon for what I have in the works for that!

XOXO, Whitney

Fancy Dinner!

Every year around Christmas time, it's never on a set day, we have Fancy Dinner at my parents house. We all get dressed up and have dinner together. This year we had Mexican food, and it was so yummy!

I got this super cute crate at Ross one day, it has a chalk board on the front. I knew I had to have it when I saw it and I'm so happy I got it! 

I continued with the red and gold and glitter theme for the fancy dinner table set up. I picked/ cut some succulents from around the yard, and put them in pots that I added glitter to. 

For everyone's place card I used puffy paint and wrote the names on little peices of barn wood.

Fancy Dinner is one of my favorite traditions of the year! 

XOXO, Whitney

Stocking holder!

I had seen a picture on Pinterest of a board with hooks to hang stockings on, so I knew I wanted to make something similar for my Mom and Dad's house. They do not have a fireplace or  mantle to hang stockings on so I thought this would be perfect! My Dad and I worked on this project together and I loved every minute of it!

We found a piece of old barn wood and it was actually perfect size for where we wanted to hang it so we didn't need to cut it down at all.

 We used rocks as markers to figure out the spacing and where we wanted to put the knobs.

 I had collected knobs from all over, one was a vintage one that was on an old dresser at my Grandparent's house, a couple were from Pier One, and the others I had gotten from a local few different local hardware stores. 

This is the only picture I got of it hung up with all of the stockings on it, but you get the idea! It turned out just how I had imagined and I really like the way it looks! 

XOXO, Whitney

The most wonderful time of the year!

I love Christmas time! It is by far my favorite time of the year! I love everything about it, the sights, the smells, the food, and the time with the people I love the most! 

This year I went with a theme of red and gold, and a lot of glitter! 

Here are a few looks from around the house!

Wrapping gifts is one of my favorite things to do, ever.

I made this money tree for a family gift exchange. The limit is $20-25, I got the little tree on sale from Michael's and then folded 20 $1 bills and hung them as ornaments on the tree. This is a cute and different way to give cash as a gift! 

And of course I probably had a few too many red Holiday cups from Starbucks this season!

 Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas season, and are having a great start to 2014!

XOXO, Whitney

Handmade Flower Crown.

My sister Lindsey, our friend Carlie and I had talked about doing a photo-shoot just for fun, for quite a while. A few months ago now, we packed up a picnic basket, and 2 vintage suit cases full of outfits and accessories and props and headed out to the canyon for our photo-shoot.  Flower crowns have been so popular this year, in weddings and photo-shoots, so I decided to make one for our pictures. It was very simple, and I absolutely loved how it turned out!

What you'll need:

3 strips of scrap fabric

2 tiny clear rubber bands

Real or artificial flowers

A hot glue gun & hot glue

I used scrap pieces of fabric that I had.

 I tied 3 strips together with a tiny rubber band, then I braided the fabric together.

I made the strips extra long that way the crown could be tied on, 

and easily removed for the three of us to wear! 

 I bought 2 bouquets of flowers from Trader Joe's.
You can also totally use artificial flowers!

I then cut all of the blooms off of their stems.

 I weaved leaves and some of the extra foliage that was in the bouquets in through the braid and hot glued them to back, to make sure they were secure. I hot glued the flowers onto the fabric. For the heavier flowers (like the sunflowers) I pushed what was left from the steam through the fabric braid and hot glued on the back to secure.

Here it is all finished!

And take a look at the pictures below to see how gorgeous the flower crown

 looked in our photo-shoot!

Thanks for stoping by and Happy 2014! 

I promise you will be seeing a lot more posts this year!

xoxo, Whitney

 

Earring Holder

My amazing sister has more earrings then I can count! She had all of her earrings in many different places and was not able to see all of the ones she has. I decided to make her this frame so that all of her earrings could be in one place and in plain sight! 

I had purchase this picture frame a while back, it was on clearance at Ross. I took the back off and took the glass out. I then just stapled metal screen to the back of the frame with a staple gun. I hot glued around the edges, over the staples to keep the screen in place, and also keep the ends of the screen from fraying. 

I bought some little hinges and screwed them into frame and mounted it on her wall. 

I put the hinges so that opens from the wall so that she can easily get the backs and get the earrings off of the frame without having to take it off of the wall each time.

She absolutely loves it and says that it's better than anything she was searching for! 

And she loves that all of her earrings can be seen! 

XOXO, Whitney