PLACE CARD BUTTONS

Martha does it again....


These buttons-cum-seating cards can also serve to introduce guests to one another. Calligraph names on paper, then follow directions included with a button-making machine. Pin buttons to 2-by-3-inch card stock with numbers written on the bottom.

THE GOLDEN GROOM

SIGNATURE DRINK - IDEAS

Serve a Special Cocktail at Your Wedding
For brides on a budget, a signature wedding cocktail can be a great way to go. At your wedding reception, rather than having an open bar, serve your guests beer and wine, champagne for the toast, and then one special cocktail. Make sure it has a fun and flirty name, and consider making a festive sign announcing it for the bar.

Suggestions for a signature wedding cocktail:

Something Blue
2 oz Hpnotiq
2 oz white wine
1 oz ginger ale

Love is in the Air
2 oz. sloe gin
2 dashes raspberry syrup
2 dashes lemon juice
1 egg white

Put all ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Drop a raspberry in the glass for a special touch.


Wedding Belle Cocktail
3/4 oz Dubonnet
3/4 oz Gin
1 Dash of Cherry Brandy
1 Dash of Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.


Sealed with a Kiss
2 oz chocolate liqueur such as Godiva or Crème de Cacao
1.5 oz vodka
Hershey's Kiss

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice,shake well, and pour into a chilled cocktail glass. Put a Hershey's Kiss in the bottom for the added love touch.


Hot Romance
1 1/2 oz rum
2 oz cranberry juice
2 oz orange juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail glass over ice. Stir and serve with an orange slice.


And, if you already have a favorite cocktail, feel free to rename it with a cute wedding-appropriate name.

Always and Forever
3/4 ounce Ultra Violet Orange Vodka
3/4 ounce peach schnapps
1 ounce grapefruit juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
1/2 ounce lime juice
a dash of strawberry puree

Mix all ingredients in your favorite glass over ice. Garnish with a fresh strawberry and a flower.

Electric Lemonade
INGREDIENTS
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger citron vodka
1/2 fluid ounce Blue Curacao
2 fluid ounces sour mix
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
1 lemon - cut into wedges, for garnish


DIRECTIONS
Fill a Collins glass with ice. Pour in vodka, blue curacao and sour mix. Fill to the top with lemon-lime soda. Garnish with lemon wedge, and serve with straw.

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Rebecca's Rockin' Vodka Lemonade
INGREDIENTS
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
12 fluid ounces vodka
1 lime

DIRECTIONS
In a gallon pitcher prepare the lemonade concentrate according to package instructions, replacing one can of water with the vodka. Squeeze juice from one lime into mixture. Pour over ice and serve.

Frozen Summer Slush
"This is a great frozen summer drink that is very thirst quenching! Vodka may be used instead of gin."

INGREDIENTS
2 cups white sugar
7 cups water
4 tea bags
2 cups boiling water
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate
2 cups gin

DIRECTIONS
Put 7 cups water in large saucepan, and heat on high until boiling. Add sugar and stir until dissolved; set aside to cool. Place teabags in 2 cups boiling water, and let steep until desired strength is acquired.
In a large bowl, mix together sugar water, tea, lemonade concentrate and orange juice concentrate. Stir in gin. Place in freezer container and freeze overnight.
To serve, Place several scoops into a tall glass, and fill with any clear carbonated beverage.


Absolut Sexy Lemonade Punch recipe

15 oz Absolut® vodka
7 1/2 oz triple sec
7 oz 7-Up® soda
4 oz lemon juice
1 lemon
sweet and sour mix
1/2 - 1 cup sugar
1/8 oz grenadine syrup



Pour vodka, triple sec, 7-up, and lemon juice into a 64 ounce container. Slice a lemon, add, then almost-fill with sweet and sour mix. Add sugar and a touch of grenadine, and shake well. Serve into highball glasses. Stir or shake well with each serving to circulate the sugar.

SIGNATURE DRINKS - THE CHOCOLATE BRIDE

I lke this one.....THE CHOCOLATE BRIDE
6 parts vodka
1 part chocolate liqueur
Chocolate curl

Combine vodka and liqueur in a mixing glass with ice cubes and stir. Strain into a cilled cocktail glass and garnish with chocolate curl.

COLORS COLORS - AQUA AND RED

HERE ARE A FEW IDEAS

PHOTOBOOTH

I so want this for the wedding....its a little pricy but i think that it will be a great favor. And a great addition to the scrapbook I'm creating.

KC Photobooth

CUPCAKES YAY...

Its Official I want cupcakes in lew of an actual wedding cake. I want them chocolate and white. Now do I want regular frosting????

Update.....

We have set a new date. June 19, 2010.

DRESSES.....

I'm not looking for a traditional wedding. I want it outdoors and a huge party afterwards. The dress isn't excluded from the non traditional factor. And I have to say that Jessica McClintock has dresses that are right up my alley.

I love this dress and its affordable!!!!!

BRIDAL BOOTCAMP

Weight loss central....

Yeah I know that I am probably stupid as hell to post this on the internet but oh well its a part of wedding plannng....I currently weigh 175 pounds and I wear a size 16. I need to come down about 20 to 40 pounds and to about a size 12. (wedding size 16).

So my plan to battle the bulge is:

Increase my water intake to 80 ounces of water.
Work out at least 3 days a week.
Reduce my caloric intake from FREE DIETING

Maintenance:	1990 Calories/day
Fat Loss:	1592 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss:	1400 Calories/day

DRESSES TAKE 2

Ok so looking at another bride's site I noticed this one... COCOMYLES and saw this one... really like this one....and look at the PRICE.

FRONT:

BACK:

DRESSES

I am not a tradtional person so nothing that I do will be by the book...My dress will be a dress that is usually created for a destination wedding but we are getting married in our home town.


Maggie Sottero Destinations - VD8702

Front:

Back:

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

Here are the three places we are pondering....

The Sawyer Room


The Loretto


Hawthorne House

DIY....OH MY

DIY LIST

• Invitations & all stationary: I am going with a few girl friends on Sunday to a class at our local scrapbook store.
• Favors: ????No ideas as of yet?
• Decorations: ???no ideas as of yet?
• Headpiece and veil
• My jewelry and my bridal parties jewelry

That's it for now. I will update when I come up with more ideas.

WE DO.....AGAIN?????????

About us!

We have been together since 1993. We were together for 7 years got that itch and broke up, we have taken the past 2 years to reconnect. Well things have went well and we have decided to try this again on what would be the weekend after our 10th wedding anniversary.

Our stats!

• Wedding Date: November 13th, 2010 (The weekend after our 10th year wedding anniversary)
• City/State/Country you're getting married in: The Kansas City Metro Area
• Wedding Colors: Pink, burnt orange, chocolate, platinum and white
• Budget: $15k
• Formality: Semi-Formal
• Number of guests: no more than 200!!!!!!
• Wedding Website: http://perryandnicole.weddingannouncer.com/
• Bridal Party: One maid of honor and possibly one bride's maid; a best man and possibly one groom's man; 2 Jr bridesmaids/candle lighters (still haven't figured out what their role will be) a flower girl (who will be 10 at the time) and a ring bearer