Hello, my name is Anne.  I am a 27 year old bride to be from Nova Scotia, Canada.  I got engaged last weekend (September 13th).  My fiance's name is Jamie (still feels weird to say "fiance"... hehe) and we are planning a wedding for September 2010.  Our wedding will be in a small town near Moncton, New Brunswick. 

I was referred to this website by my newly married friend/ aspiring wedding planner/ bridesmaid, Tamera.  This site has certainly put me in the wedding planning frame of mind and is making the wedding planning process a bit less intimidating.

I suppose that's all for now... this is all still so new and exciting! :D

-Anne

I purchased my wedding invitations tonight.  I went into Michaels, just for fun, with no intentions to buy anything for the wedding... but I did.  I am just a sucker for a good deal!

So, I know that Martha Stewart has recently teamed up with Crane & Co for her new stationary line... because of this, her old stationary is now on clearance.  I got 48 customizable invitations and response cards (including envelopes) for $13.99 a box (regular price was $54.99).  So, my invitations won't be glamourous, but if I add some jewels or other embellishments, I think they will look great!  I also got matching cards to use as Save the Dates.  They were $5 a package.

It was a little bit tricky finding the Print Wizard for the invitations online, since everything is promoting her new line now... but I eventually found it at http://print.marthastewart.com/ and it looks fairly simple.

We finally booked some of our vendors!!! :D

- We booked our PHOTOGRAPHER

  Debbie Leger Wedding Art Photography
  www.debbielegerphotography.com

- We also booked our DJ

KISS Music Services - Professional DJ's
DJ Bucky (506)962-1477 kissmusic@rogers.com

- We placed our order for FLOWERS

  Aline Flower Boutique & Craft
  9416 Rue Main, Richibucto, NB E4W 4E2
  (506) 523-7114

This weekend I worked on my Save the Dates. Took me all day... Glad they are done though! Now, when the time comes, all I will have to do is stamp them and put them in the mail.

Hydrangeas for the bouquets and the church, Stephanotis for the ladies corsages, Green berries for the mens boutonnieres... Green and Cream flowers.

Since we are having our reception at a private residence, I have been looking around for interesting serving pieces and decor.  Items that I can reuse after the wedding.  For whatever reason, I thought it would be neat to serve drinks in drink dispensers, rather than punch bowls.  I finally found what I was looking for.  I purchased 2 glass drink dispensers on metal stands at Homesense for $20 each.  I plan to fill one with iced tea, one with lemonade/limeade... to match the wedding colours!  :P  I will float fruit in them.

We ordered the tuxedos from Tip Top Tailors.  If you go there, ask for some sort of coupn discount and they will most likely give you a deal.  So far, they have been great to deal with.  A good option when groomsmen are from different cities and provinces.

The groom with wear a white vest and tie, the groomsmen will wear chocolate brown vests and ties.

I found my wedding shoes at "What a Girl Wants" in Unionville, ON.  I really like them and they were only $40!

I found bridesmaid jewelry at a boutique shop called "Silver Lilac" in Unionville, ON on the same day I got my shoes.  It was a very productive shopping trip!  I love how unique the necklaces are.  The "fancier" necklace isfor my maid of honour (my sister).  In total, I spent $300 on all 3 necklaces.

I bought inexpensive unity candle set at JYSK.  It suits my decor and I will be able to use it at home after the wedding.  I purchased green candles, as mt colour scheme is green and chocolate brown.

My sister got married on July 17th and it was a beautiful day!  I was her maid of honour and she will be my matron of honour.  It has been a very special year for us!  I am waiting on more pictures of her big day, but here are a few... she did a GREAT job planning!

Our wedding cake topper is the Willowtree "Promise" cake topper.  I collect and LOVE Willowtree angels, so it is very fitting.  FI bought it for me :)

Our cake is going to be a Rice Krispie treat cake.  My great grandfather, grandfather and father all worked at Kellogg's... needless to say, there have pretty much ALWAYS been rice krispie squares in the house!  My dad is actually going to make the cake.  It will be decorated with ribbon.

Inspiration cake:

I had great luck with efavormart.com

They have really good prices and they actually ship to Canada!

Check out the website at: http://www.efavormart.com/index.aspx

I purchased table runners, table clothes and tulle from them.  They arrived in a timely manner, true to their images on the website.

My mom made these direction signs for us.  They are painted in our wedding colours and since out reception is in a barn, the stlye suits are wedding really well... Thank Mom <3

I'm finally on the list!  Wahooo!

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Our wedding was last Saturday, September 25th.  We didn't let the rain get us down and had a BEAUTIFUL, perfect wedding :)  So many family members and friends helped make our day wonderful.  We are so grateful and feel so loved.  Our ohotographer hooked up a laptop before she left our reception and uploaded all of our wedding photos, so we had them all on disc the day of our wedding!  They still need to be edited, but we have some great shots!