We have table numbers....Pt 1

In my journey to become the Mrs. I have found myself developing more technical skills than I ever thought a bride could use. Like I previously mentioned here I learned how to use illustrator to make my diy map for my invitations. When I first began doing my table numbers I wanted to do something creative with the canvas that I bought from Art Supply Warehouse but after trying different things I decided that it was too time consuming to paint all the numbers by hand.

I decided to go a different route after seeing my fellow blogger August15bride's table numbers. How amazing are these?

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Or how about Mrs. Tiramisu's table numbers?

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I knew that I wanted to use some of our pictures to enhance our tables and make it even more personal. Next time I will tell you how I accomplished it and show you our table numbers.

Are you going to have table numbers? Where did you get your inspiration?

I've been so busy...

I'm trying to finish up some project before the big day and haven't had time to blog about anything lately which is terrible since I have so much to share with you guys. I do plan on telling you about my diy centerpieces, my escort cards, my seating chart and final guest list. I hope that in the next couple of weeks I can share more details. Until then I leave you with a couple of photos of our trip to the L.A. Flower District.


Are you DIY your centerpieces? If you are where are you getting your flowers? Have you ever visited the LA Flower District? Do you have any advice to me if you've visited the L.A. Flower Distict?

The final numbers are in...

After much arguing back and forth between myself and family members we have a final number.

103 - Adults

3 - Children
7 - Infants

113 -Total
+2 - Bride and Groom

115 -Grand Total

These are our confirmed guest and the final number we are sticking to.

I'm happy with our number and I hope everyone shows up to our wedding. Now that we have a final number I can move on to our seating chart, escort cards, and table numbers. I plan on sharing more with you as I go along please be patient with me.

Did anyone try to add more people to the rsvp card then the number of people that were invited? How is your final number looking/coming along?

I really love our colors...

Whenever people ask me what my wedding colors are and I reply blue and orange they automatically think of either the Florida Gators or the Miami Dolphins.

I have nothing against both teams but it surprises me how people can't picture those colors together.

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Our orange is a tad lighter and brighter. Our blue is more like an aqua blue than anything else. I've previously shared with you some color Inspiration Boards to show you what I'm talking about.

Today I came across another inspiration board at Wedding Cabaret that features our colors. Isn't it amazing?

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Has it been hard for people to see your vision of color? What do you think of Orange and Blue as wedding colors?

Boxing up some signage...

During our adventure to find a videographer recently we found ourselves on 4th Street in Santa Ana, CA.

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As we were walking down the street we encountered several bridal shops which of course you know I just had to visit. One of the things that I didn't think I needed was a box card until I realized that maybe it would be useful to keep cards all in one place. All the bridal shops had the same type of boxes there for about the same amount $50. Ouch. Although the boxes are pretty and elaborate I couldn't see myself spending that much for a white lacy box like the one below.

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As I was trying to figure out what our wedding card box was going to look like I found myself looking at the elaborate three/four tier designs like the one The Roddy Bride posted on her blog. She did a great job because the box came out amazing.

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Since I'm a DIYer I decided to conquer the task. At first I liked the idea of using shoe boxes and covering them with fabric but since I'm only a few weeks away from the wedding I opted for a different option. I moved on from shoe boxes to cereal boxes. I thought maybe I can glue some of them together make a few incisions and voila. Well it sounded like a good idea at the time but once again I decided to take the simple route. During a visit to Target recently we found a wedding gift box that I thought would be perfect with some modifications. I decided to go for simple box when I realized that I'm probably going to be the one that has to take everything to the venue. I am making thinks easier on myself by downsizing things. Don't get me wrong had I really given much thought to this project early on I would have gone all out.

I mean look at these boxes:

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With all the choices out there ours seems simple but I think is lovely since I jazzed it up myself.

I began with a simple box:

I cut a slot for the cards at the very top and used some construction paper to cover it up:


I then drew out some letters and decided that this box was going to serve two purposes. The first one is the obvious card box and the second as the gift sign.


On the sides I cut our more letters and glued it with my glue gun. One side is in English and the other in Spanish:



Simple but functional. The best part is that it only cost me less than $5.00 to make this box. What do you think? Are you having an elaborate card box?

Murphy's Law...

This past weekend I went to my cousin's wedding which spoke about here. I will begin by saying that everything that could have gone wrong did. I will do my best to recap what happened at the wedding last Saturday.

My family and I both arrived at the church at 8:30am along with 2 of the bridesmaids. The groom arrived at 8:45am along with his brothers and his parents. We took pictures outside until we were asked to enter the church.




The church official asked us to go into the church at 8:55am. At 9:00am a limo pulled up and the wedding party began to enter. Five of the groomsmen were there ready to go and only four bridesmaids were present.

The doors closed and the anticipation of seeing the bride began to overtake the church. Everyone had their cameras ready and then the doors closed and never opened (well at least not for a while). The priest waited about 5 minutes and stated that since he had another mass shortly after the one we were attending he had to continue with or without the bride. 20 minutes past by before we heard anything from the bride again meanwhile my poor cousin is standing in the front alongside his parents. The doors flung open and along with her uncle and aunt the bride came down the aisle while the lady that was doing the second reading was taking her place.


The bride rushed to my cousin's side and the mass continued. 10 minutes later the rest of the bridesmaids, flowergirls, and the bride's parents entered the church. Everything was great after that until we got to the reception hall.


I will continue my story on a different day about what happened at the reception. The lesson of today's story is that both my parent's and my in-laws have been warned about arriving late. The wedding will go on with or without them as long as both my HBoO and I are there.

I love my cousin and wish him and his new bride a happy marriage full of love and joy. I am not telling you their story to make fun of the situation in anyway but simply to point out that things do go wrong. I think we lose sight of what's important during the wedding planning the most important part isn't the guestlist or the crazy amounts of signage we will have but that we are marrying the love of our lives. Like I've previously said things will go wrong and people will stress you out but what matters is that you committing your lives to each other in front of the world. The next morning after the wedding is all done you will be married and have made vows to each other that you must nurture as much as you have all the details of the wedding.

Good Luck and Happy planning to all of you...

It's All in the Name of the Wedding!!!

I have been growing out my hair since I got engaged two years ago and today I chopped most of it off. I wasn't planning to cut my hair until after the wedding because I was going to donate it to Locks of Love. I have been growing it out and donating it every two years for the past 10 years but after doing my hair trial two weeks ago the stylist and I decided that I needed an over due cut. I feel a tad selfish because I love donating it but I decided that I can always grow it out and do it again.

Of course I have to do a shot with the glasses:


Here is one without:


For the first time in my adult life I have bangs. I love it and the stylist said I will have more curls to work with on my wedding day.

Have you done something different to your hair to help your bridal hair? What do you think of my new style?

It's a wedding...

It's not my wedding yet but my cousins wedding. My cousin and his high school sweetheart are getting married today. The mass will take place at 9:00am and the reception will be from 4:00pm to 1:00 am. His wedding is going to be completely opposite of mine. We are having an intimate affair and they are throwing a huge party. I am completely stoked about it and can't wait to share some photos with you after it's all done. I just spoke with him and they are both extremely stressed out, which got me thinking if I will react in the same manner the night before our wedding.

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However, lately I feel that I am getting less stressed out as the wedding approaches. The strange thing is that since I took those 2 weeks off after I told you that I was stressed out I feel so rejuvenated and embraced the idea that things will go wrong. I realize that I could only control certain aspects of the wedding. I can plan and organize as much as I want but the truth is things will go wrong and there is nothing I can do about them. Now that my attitude has changed I'm enjoying the planning even more than before. Life is great and my focus has now shifted towards creating a happy marriage rather than being consumed by the wedding details.

I text my cousin and reassured him that today I will be there to make sure things run smoothly. I think he just needed someone to tell him that they are going to be there for him if things arise that they were not expecting. I told him that I will be there throughout his wedding making sure things go right. He really appreciated that and thanked me. I hope he and his new bride have a lovely time and things work out.

How are you handling the stress or if you are already married what advice do you have for the rest of us? Is there anyone taking charge at our wedding to make sure things run smoothly?

I love photography...

How cute is this bride with her umbrella? I just wanted to share with you these lovely photos I came across in Wedding Cabaret. You have to appreciate a happy bride with a black birdcage veil. These photos are so great. Enjoy!

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I have found myself countless of times admiring the different personalities brides have and how they bring it out during their wedding photos. I hope you enjoyed these photos as much as I did.

Take Out + Candy = Our Boxes

When you think of favors or recuerdos in a Mexican wedding you think of something plastic with lace. My mom and aunt kept asking me what type of favors I was going to have and since I don't want to ruin the surprise of the candy buffet I insisted on simply stating candy. I don't have anything against recuerdos but I rather have something that my guest can eat instead of just throw away.

Here is an example of a recuerdo:

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Like I've previously mentioned here we are having a candy buffet. When trying to figure out where our guest were going to put the candy in I began to look around at different ideas.

One option was bags:

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Another one was jars:

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And the last one was take out boxes:

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The one I completely fell in love with was the third option. I found that Paper Mart has the cheapest take out boxes. I ended up spending less than $20 for 100 boxes including s&h. If you live near L.A. you can pick them up from there warehouse and can save on the shipping.

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Here is how our boxes arrived:


Here is where we thank our guest for sharing with us:


Here is our names and wedding date:


Here they are all together:


Many hours and miles of ribbon later we finally finished our boxes for our candy buffet. I am really happy on how they turned out especially since my HBoO and I burned ourselves on the glue gun on more than one occasion.

Total cost of this project approximately was about $25 for 100 boxes all completed.

What do you think of our boxes? What kind of favors are you going to have at your reception?

I'm back from the Salon!!

When looking for a salon I was mostly looking for convenience and for great reviews. I decided to go with Atlantic Studio not only is it close enough to my house that I can walk there but my stylist is amazing.



I walked in with my supplies on hand and with an open mind. I took a collage of photos which could be used as inspiration. Since I'm not the "Bridezilla" type I wanted the stylist to have some input on what would work best with my hair, face and skin type.

I wish I would have taken a before picture of my hair but I didn't. Here is a photo of me without make-up.


Here is the after shoot with make-up and hair done.


This is a side view of my hair with a flower.


Here is the back of my hair.


Here are a few more pictures of me at home with my make-up and hair done.

You gotta love the lashes.



I'm still debating wearing my glasses on my wedding day so here is a picture of me wearing them.


At first a was a tad skeptical about having that trial done since I didn't want pay for it but now that I've done it I would recommend it to anyone. I discovered that my HBOo does not like so much eye liner on me. I also realized that I want more loose curls and due to that I will be layering my hair next week. Overall this experience was amazing and I wouldn't change anything except like I previously mentioned planning a romantic date.

Did you have a hair or make-up trial? What do you think with glasses or without? Less make-up or more?