Wedding Recap: Ring Holder

Before I go on our wedding day, I must share with you another handmade item that my mother made for our ceremony. My mom took leftover material from my wedding dress and made a ring holder for our Best Man, Michael, to hold the rings in before handing them to us. The rings were tied to the ribbons in the middle.

Then it was folded over and held together with a dainty blue ribbon for my "Something Blue" element!

 This is definitely something that can be passed down generation to generation in our family. As usual, thanks so much for this beautiful ring holder and keepsake Mom!

Honeymoon Series: The RINGS!

Chris had asked me not to show the rings until the big day, so here they are!

Mine matches the diamonds on my engagement ring band perfectly! Chris has yellow gold with a band of white gold around both sides. I absolutely LOVE Chris' ring, it's exactly what I always imagined him wearing when we got married.

What Chris didn't know about these rings, is that while he was at his Bachelor party, I took his ring to our jeweler to get engraved! I thought long and hard about what to put in his ring. Unfortunately, the way my ring is on the inside...there's no place for an engraving...so this was just for Chris.

I had "Amore Mio" engraved on the inside. This means "My love" in Italian and felt it was the perfect way to tie our honeymoon and heritage into our wedding. I can't wait to see his reaction when he sees it!

Invitations and wedding bands

I had such a great time last night talking with Kim and Heather on Blog Talk Radio. It was totally laid back, and we talked about some really great topics on weddings and blogging. Thanks so much to Heather for inviting me to join her and I hope we get to do it again! If you missed it, be sure to listen here: download

On to wedding updates: This past weekend we ordered our invitations and picked up our wedding bands! Unfortunately, I can't show you a picture of either. I want to wait until our invitations are mailed out and Chris asked me to please wait to show our rings until the wedding, which as much as I LOOOVEEEE them and can't WAIT to show them to you, I understand and will therefore wait to show you. (sorrrry)

But here's a really unique wedding band set! Very clever...rather odd...and quite suggestive I'd say??

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It was all I could do to not keep my wedding band on all night on Monday! It felt so weird to be wearing two rings..I felt like I just got used to the one..now I have to keep track of two?? Oy...this whole "getting married" stuff is complicated! The diamonds on my band match the small diamonds that are on the band of my engagement ring. They actually look like a set together, even though they weren't bought as a set. And for Chris' ring, it's exactly what I pictured for him when we set out to look at rings, I LOVE it. We found one that was "ok" at the jeweler, but the band was a little too narrow for his finger. So "our" jeweler, Teddy, made this one special for him with a wider band. It's a yellow gold band, with 2 thin strips of ribboned white gold on either side..it looks totally great on him! But it's weird...it's going to take some getting used to seeing him wear a ring!

Again, I can't show you our invitations, so here's a picture of the royal wedding invitations which went out this weekend!

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Mine do not look like this..but how cool is "The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by the Queen"??

We ordered through a very nice lady named Annette who has an invitation company out of her home called I Heard You're Getting Married. She was recommended to us by a friend's sister who got married a few years ago. She places the order for us, assembles everything, puts stamps on the return envelopes and addresses the outer envelopes for us.

Look, I'm all about D-I-Y and I like to be creative whenever possible. But, when it came to invitations...this was one place where I really, truly, didn't want to do this on my own. I went the easy route: I'm admitting it, and I'm fine with it. I also really like the invitation set that we picked: it matches our color scheme, and is very simple, yet elegant. We are cutting these down to the wire. These should have been out, well yesterday...but now they should be out by the first week of March and I will definitely breathe a huge sigh of relief when they finally drop. As on top of things I've trie to be...there was bound to be something that cut down to the wire, and that something happened to be the invitations.

That's all for now...check back tomorrow to vote for a friend who is in a very special wedding contest!