Live and learn. I ordered a cute Alice in Wonderland book. Its hard back cover with gold around the pages. I was so excited to get it today, but was confused by the size of my amazon box. It wasn't a good confusion either.
When ordering online make sure to check the measurements!!! I guess I will now have 2 Alice in Wonderland books featured in my wedding. Luckily it was a decent enough deal and its something I will keep forever or as long as I want too.
So the search for my perfect Alice book continues.....
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
When you hit the motherload make sure to have funds transferred asap!
There was 30 of these priced at a dollar each they gave me a deal the whole thing for $20(SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT MORE!)
This to me screams Alice for our save the date cards. I am going to put this on top of my blue dress. It was $3.
They have boxes and boxes of these hats. They are going to let me go through and grab the ones that work with my theme. Right now they are $10 each. I bought 2, but hoping to talk them down on my last 4 I purchase.
Does this not scream Alice? $7 and its real glass. I walked by this several times and didn't even notice it.
This is strictly for my before wedding photos. I splurged and think it will amazing in pictures.
This was $7 and I thought it was cute!
I have a lot of inventory to write down and do some math. This Estate Sale was literally heaven. I can not believe some of the stuff I had found.
Im going to add a few more wonderful pieces I have found. Not adding everything, but enough to prove estate sales rock! If you are in the Portland Area stay away this summer I will have to kick some ass!
Cost/List of items I have..will be updating a lot!
This is my list of items.
$13.50 Alice in Wonderland vintage 1960s hardcover book
$9.95 card symbol food sticks(96 count)
$25.00 broach for my bouquet
$7.92 8 tea cups
$0.00 vintage birdcage
$0.00 decor top hats that my mom had 8 total
$0.00 shabby chic food tray
$7.00 24 glass vases
$12.00 shoes for engagement wedding shoot. Alice and Olivia(favorite brand) at goodwill!!!
ESTATE SALE
Total spent was $210 heres a semi break down of the prices fingers crossed I get the table set that I desperately NEED
$10.00 Beautiful hair brush
$10.00 Matching brush mirror
$1.00 misc. tea cup, saucer and matching plates. There are chips, but well worth it.
$2.00 silver serving tray
$20 English tea hats
$3.00 apron
$7.50 Heart glass container
$7.50 Shadow boxes
$10.00 Mini cakes
$2.00 tea cup
$17.50 many tea cup/saucers
$2.25 bell
$1.25 bell
$6.00 brand new frame
$7.00 tea pot
$8.00 bun holder
$2.00 candle stick
$20.00 mini tea cups roughly 30
$8.00 compelte tea set
$1.00 silver butter plate
$14.00 misc. decor
$8.75 cake plate with lid
$3.00 napkin holder
$4.50 vintage mini dessert plate
$3.00 4 piece buffet set
$13.00 tea runners
$4.50 glass set
$8.50 candle holders
$5.00 silver/crystal platter plate. Vintange and made in USA
$3.00 mini bells a bag of them probably 30 or so. Will be great for soemthing Im sure
$3.00 tea cup and saucer
$12.00 for a victorian treat tray(?) I have no idea I don't do tea things.
$3.50 Tea cup and saucer
$2.25 Tea cup and saucer
$4.50 crystal sugar holder, lid and spoon
$2.50 tea cup and saucer
$13.50 Alice in Wonderland vintage 1960s hardcover book
$9.95 card symbol food sticks(96 count)
$25.00 broach for my bouquet
$7.92 8 tea cups
$0.00 vintage birdcage
$0.00 decor top hats that my mom had 8 total
$0.00 shabby chic food tray
$7.00 24 glass vases
$12.00 shoes for engagement wedding shoot. Alice and Olivia(favorite brand) at goodwill!!!
ESTATE SALE
Total spent was $210 heres a semi break down of the prices fingers crossed I get the table set that I desperately NEED
$10.00 Beautiful hair brush
$10.00 Matching brush mirror
$1.00 misc. tea cup, saucer and matching plates. There are chips, but well worth it.
$2.00 silver serving tray
$20 English tea hats
$3.00 apron
$7.50 Heart glass container
$7.50 Shadow boxes
$10.00 Mini cakes
$2.00 tea cup
$17.50 many tea cup/saucers
$2.25 bell
$1.25 bell
$6.00 brand new frame
$7.00 tea pot
$8.00 bun holder
$2.00 candle stick
$20.00 mini tea cups roughly 30
$8.00 compelte tea set
$1.00 silver butter plate
$14.00 misc. decor
$8.75 cake plate with lid
$3.00 napkin holder
$4.50 vintage mini dessert plate
$3.00 4 piece buffet set
$13.00 tea runners
$4.50 glass set
$8.50 candle holders
$5.00 silver/crystal platter plate. Vintange and made in USA
$3.00 mini bells a bag of them probably 30 or so. Will be great for soemthing Im sure
$3.00 tea cup and saucer
$12.00 for a victorian treat tray(?) I have no idea I don't do tea things.
$3.50 Tea cup and saucer
$2.25 Tea cup and saucer
$4.50 crystal sugar holder, lid and spoon
$2.50 tea cup and saucer
Creating a Budget
Today I am going to make a few posts. The first one that will actually help you is creating a budget. This includes knowing your budget. Zane and I are not having family help us pay for our wedding. We are paying 100% by ourselves. This makes us more aware of how much our one day is going to cost. If you are having family help pay please take into consideration how much they will be sacrificing to help you. When its not your money you don't see the financial suffering due to a wedding.
The first budget was $10,000. We looked around at local "wedding" venues and realized they are all crap! Newest budget is $7,500 with a goal of keeping it under $5,000.
We went to an amazing brewery. They have many locations and wonderful buildings and gardens. They even have a ballroom in downtown. They had great "deals" as you didn't pay a site fee you had to have anywhere from $7500+ depending on season/date of food and beverage purchases. This sounds great until your not allowed to try the food! If I am paying this much money and am paying all for food I would like to know what I am getting myself into. The second problem was one location didn't have enough room to do a aisle for the wedding and breakdown into reception. Instead our guest would be asked to go outside for a hour in November in most likely rain. If we wanted off season in the ballroom they didn't have a ac for the summer in August. Downtown old building in August heat sounds sticky, sweaty, gross and to much money.
We then went to a wedding house. We were very pleased with the location. It was ok. It was off a busy road. They kept saying they had parking attendants who would park guest car in the Uhaul lot next door. If we wanted a outdoor ceremony we could have it.....its by a busy street and all you could hear were cars, ambulances and people talking. They even had TWINKLE LIGHTS. Really twinkle lights are Christmas lights they don't take down. According to them this helps the ambiance. So, we sit down after our tour of basically a updated house without rooms and got told it would be $17,500 for the cheapest wedding they do. We both laughed hysterically. We were in SHOCK!!!!!!!!
Our adventures at venues continued until we gave up and decided to stay engaged partners forever. Our wedding was not going to happen. With prices always over our budget or 100% of our budget we had lost any happiness that comes along with getting married. The day that is supposed to be about love, happiness and a commitment was becoming depressing, stressful and sad. We were happy about giving up. These places make there money many times over for what? Clearanced Christmas lights???? Crappy food that you really don't want. A planner that really is just a sales person and probably will only be helpful the day you pay them.
A few months later I decided to have our wedding on our property. Were lucky enough to have many acres so we have room for parking and a tent. Even if we had a small yard we could have a very intimate affair with the people we care about and be happier then spending to much money. There are also state parks with a refundable fee if you clean up. Point is sometimes having a outdoor event somewhere close is the way to save a lot of money.
With this decision came a smaller budget. Since we don't have a site fee now were going to put that money into landscaping our house which will be cherished for many years. I then decided to have a themed wedding of Alice in Wonderland.
So, for decor I am going to spend around $1000. This sounds like a lot, but please hear me out. Themed weddings are not cheap at all. Renting silverware, plates, cups, etc. is not cheap. I am working at going to garage sales, goodwill, thrift shop and buying 100s of pieces for our wedding. We will not have plastic forks or knives. We will have real items in our wedding. To have tea cups, vases, candy, birdcages, etc. etc. for decoration is not cheap either. I will have a list of how much I actually spend on everything. I am keeping records of everything I purchase and how much I spend. I also am asking all my friends on facebook if they have any tea items they are getting rid of. If its going to goodwill let me take it from them
For a wedding dress I don't have a budget yet. I am currently selling my elliptical which is sold this Sunday, a previous wedding dress I found brand new with tags at goodwill for a little more then I spent and our sons clothes that were going to goodwill. Anything I sell from here on out will go towards my wedding dress. So in all honesty if I sell $1000 in stuff on craigslist that is how much I can spend on my dress. Ive also lost 50 pounds. So, I am going to have a garage sale and anything I sell will go in my evenelope. Open your eyes and look around and see stuff that you could no longer live with. You can do what you want with the money you make. I will probably only spend $300 and have the rest for my decoration, food or renting the big huge tent.
I will start a blog just for cost of my decorations. I am also working on getting items together for our engagement wedding shoot. It will be Alice in Wonderland theme of course. My goal is to keep it under $200 including our photographer fees. These will also be our save the date cards. I will reuse and keep all decor in the photograph to be placed in our wedding.
The first budget was $10,000. We looked around at local "wedding" venues and realized they are all crap! Newest budget is $7,500 with a goal of keeping it under $5,000.
We went to an amazing brewery. They have many locations and wonderful buildings and gardens. They even have a ballroom in downtown. They had great "deals" as you didn't pay a site fee you had to have anywhere from $7500+ depending on season/date of food and beverage purchases. This sounds great until your not allowed to try the food! If I am paying this much money and am paying all for food I would like to know what I am getting myself into. The second problem was one location didn't have enough room to do a aisle for the wedding and breakdown into reception. Instead our guest would be asked to go outside for a hour in November in most likely rain. If we wanted off season in the ballroom they didn't have a ac for the summer in August. Downtown old building in August heat sounds sticky, sweaty, gross and to much money.
We then went to a wedding house. We were very pleased with the location. It was ok. It was off a busy road. They kept saying they had parking attendants who would park guest car in the Uhaul lot next door. If we wanted a outdoor ceremony we could have it.....its by a busy street and all you could hear were cars, ambulances and people talking. They even had TWINKLE LIGHTS. Really twinkle lights are Christmas lights they don't take down. According to them this helps the ambiance. So, we sit down after our tour of basically a updated house without rooms and got told it would be $17,500 for the cheapest wedding they do. We both laughed hysterically. We were in SHOCK!!!!!!!!
Our adventures at venues continued until we gave up and decided to stay engaged partners forever. Our wedding was not going to happen. With prices always over our budget or 100% of our budget we had lost any happiness that comes along with getting married. The day that is supposed to be about love, happiness and a commitment was becoming depressing, stressful and sad. We were happy about giving up. These places make there money many times over for what? Clearanced Christmas lights???? Crappy food that you really don't want. A planner that really is just a sales person and probably will only be helpful the day you pay them.
A few months later I decided to have our wedding on our property. Were lucky enough to have many acres so we have room for parking and a tent. Even if we had a small yard we could have a very intimate affair with the people we care about and be happier then spending to much money. There are also state parks with a refundable fee if you clean up. Point is sometimes having a outdoor event somewhere close is the way to save a lot of money.
With this decision came a smaller budget. Since we don't have a site fee now were going to put that money into landscaping our house which will be cherished for many years. I then decided to have a themed wedding of Alice in Wonderland.
So, for decor I am going to spend around $1000. This sounds like a lot, but please hear me out. Themed weddings are not cheap at all. Renting silverware, plates, cups, etc. is not cheap. I am working at going to garage sales, goodwill, thrift shop and buying 100s of pieces for our wedding. We will not have plastic forks or knives. We will have real items in our wedding. To have tea cups, vases, candy, birdcages, etc. etc. for decoration is not cheap either. I will have a list of how much I actually spend on everything. I am keeping records of everything I purchase and how much I spend. I also am asking all my friends on facebook if they have any tea items they are getting rid of. If its going to goodwill let me take it from them
For a wedding dress I don't have a budget yet. I am currently selling my elliptical which is sold this Sunday, a previous wedding dress I found brand new with tags at goodwill for a little more then I spent and our sons clothes that were going to goodwill. Anything I sell from here on out will go towards my wedding dress. So in all honesty if I sell $1000 in stuff on craigslist that is how much I can spend on my dress. Ive also lost 50 pounds. So, I am going to have a garage sale and anything I sell will go in my evenelope. Open your eyes and look around and see stuff that you could no longer live with. You can do what you want with the money you make. I will probably only spend $300 and have the rest for my decoration, food or renting the big huge tent.
I will start a blog just for cost of my decorations. I am also working on getting items together for our engagement wedding shoot. It will be Alice in Wonderland theme of course. My goal is to keep it under $200 including our photographer fees. These will also be our save the date cards. I will reuse and keep all decor in the photograph to be placed in our wedding.
Our Story to say I do.
The best way to start this blog is to let you in on our story. Zane and I have been good friends for many years since the 6th grade. We dated on and off for many years after we graduated high school. Then finally we settled down 2.5 years ago. We started dating and then got engaged by accident. I was at a bazzar selling my organic dog treats and he had "our" son. They went out for the day to look for Christmas presents for me. They ended up picking out my engagement ring together(SUPER SWEET). Tyger(child) promised to keep a secret. Zane should have known better then to trust a just now 6 year old. When I got home Tyger shouted "WE GOT YOU A RING......JUST KIDDING". I laughed it off and didn't think anything of it. We ate dinner and after dinner Zane brought out the ring and said he wasn't lying. I was in shock. They picked out an amazing floral ring. Its a flower of diamonds. After our engagement was announced we started planning. This has been a very stressful 6 months and I hope with this blog I can help you and you can take see our wedding from begining stages of planning all the way to the wedding. I will show pictures and give tips along this 14 month journey. Our wedding is September 14 2013. I have 477 days of planning ahead of me.
We are doing a themed wedding of Alice in Wonderland. My budget is $7500(broken up in 14 months) GOAL:$5,000 OR BELOW. Granted this doesn't seem like Im on a budget, but for a themed wedding this is a very budgeted event. We will have over 100 guest.
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