How I Made My Table Numbers

Hello blog,


I haven't written in a little while.



So fun fact, it's still a little over a month til the wedding but I'm ALL FINISHED!

L and I have done heaps since my last entry.
Such as this sign:

Lyndon cut and shaped it and stained the wood, and I painted the words.


Well, apart from the wedding favours, which I'm not putting together until the week of the wedding.

But aside from that, I'm all done.



I wanted to write about how I did my table numbers, which was all DIY and took some time.

I also recently did the wedding playlist which took SO LONG! Oh my goodness.

I kept putting off because I knew it would take ages and I wasn't wrong!


But anyway, here is how I did my table numbers.


I started out by buying a bunch of card (that were the same as our wedding colours).



I then

I then hooked my laptop up to the TV and opened up a Word document.
I typed out all the numbers, the traced the numbers onto a scrap piece of paper.

Here you can see all the different numbers I traced.

Here's the Word document with the numbers on it on my laptop.

 I then traced over the scrap of paper onto the good card to there was a visible indent.
Then I traced over the indent on the card so I could more easily cut it out.
This is how it looked after I cut out all the numbers and with the second coloured card showing through.

The last step was gluing all the different cards together with glue stick.

I cut out two sets of each number so every card had a number on the front and back.

If I could do it again, I would have traced the numbers on the scrap of paper onto the card backwards, because some of the card got quite messy when I traced directly onto the card from the indent.

I don't know if that makes any sense.

But yes, that's how I did it!

It actually looks really good. It's amazing how using an actual font makes such a different.

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Further more, I really don't know what else to write.

If you have ANY questions for me at all, you should ask!

I'm watching TV while writing this so I'm finding it hard to focus on more than one thing at once.


Here's a funny picture I took of something L wrote when he was 11 years old.

Classic.

Til next time:

Two Months Til I Become A Wife

Dearest blog,



It has been awhile since I updated you.

Quite a lot has happened in the interim.

If you recall, the last time we spoke I mentioned how quite a few things still needed doing, namely in the areas that I assigned L (my sweetheart fiance) to cover.

I'm happy to report that I gave L some very strict deadlines and they worked a treat.

I told him he had to have our Honeymoon booked before Christmas day or I would be SUPER PISSED!
And it worked. Obviously.

So the Honeymoon is all sorted, yay!

He also booked the transport since we last spoke (ooooh, a limo), and now he is working on making a few decortaion-y things for the Reception.


I'm gonna be honest with you, writing a blog about wedding planning has not been as easy as I initially thought it'd be.


A lot of my wedding planning happens over the course of a long time, for example, usually L and I would do a very small amount every few days.

It has been nice having such a long time to plan.

I can't believe we've been engaged for over ten months. It feels like forever.


I received my wedding dress since we last spoke.

The woman at the store told me not to lose any weight, HA! As if I could.



I re-joined the gym and have been TRYING to go three times a week.

I will hopefully be able to stick to that for the next two months.

I'm not worried about not fitting in the dress, it's more to do with dealing with my stress levels/frustrations.

I'm more frustrated than anything else.



I feel better now that I have moved into the house L and I will live in as a married couple (he is staying with his Mum until The Big Day, gotta keep things above board), but I still get frustrated.


Mainly its with people.

I have found the last year a very trying time between me and certain people.

I have done a lot of soul-searching. Realizing who my real friends are.

I've realized I kinda hate social media, but its almost impossible to live in this society without it, ugh!



I barely blog anymore because I just can't be bothered.

I worry about what I'll do when I don't have this wedding to plan.


L and I are going to paint his bedroom (our eventual bedroom) because the walls are a weird green colour and it clashes with EVERYTHING!

I'm happy that we bought me a fruit bowl and right now its filled with nectarines and mandarins- yum!



We have confirmed numbers for the wedding and I have written out the seating chart and place card name-tag thingys. They look pretty great, in my humble opinion.


L and I have planned this wedding almost 100% by ourselves, sadly my Bridesmaids have not had much to do, mainly because I decided to do it all myself (my choice, not theirs!)
But its probably for the best because they are both UNBELIEVABLY BUSY!


I do get a bit sad when I plan by myself.

L helps me a lot but its not at all how I imagined it.


My maid of honour hasn't gotten her dress-hem fixed because Christchurch is crazy expensive and when she tried coming to Dunedin her car broke down!!!!!!
I know she'll get it done though so I try not to worry.



Further more, L and I are finalizing the ceremony, words and what-not.

We both got very very confused when we initially tried to do it so we had to go back to the Minister/Pastor/Dude and ask him to explain it to us.

Hahahaha! Such fun.


I've also been emailing all the vendors and confirming when things need to be paid by, it helps me feel like things are under control.

Which they are.


We also went out on Boxing Day and bought A LOT of sparkling grape and apple juice for the Reception, we looked like crazy people!



But anyway.


Planning is going well, as I'm sure you can see.

It's only two months away, and it is very exciting but also getting very real and is a bit scary.

I cannot wait to marry my wonderful fiance, he is my bestest friend in the whole wide world and it'll be awesome to share our lives together even more than we already are!!!!!


I don't know when I will next update this blog.


Like I said, I find it hard to write sometimes.

Most of the time.


Hahahaa.


But I'll try.





Thanks again for reading!

Here are some pictures:

DAYS TIL THE WEDDING: 60