The Centerpice Tins and Candy Boxes

What a lot of creative and beautiful decorations which fit our Victorian Faerietale perfectly.

I'm just going to post pics and a brief explanation.

These are the tins and candy boxes we'll use for the centerpieces at the reception. Twigs and stones go in the tins to create mini trees and small gifts are tied to the branches for people to take.

Close up, the ladies used a mix of decoupaging and affixing jewelry, shells, and paste gems to them. They look really cool and very unique. I had no idea they would turn out like this! Wow!

Hey Ethel, your prince now has a cool spray of feathers coming from his hands!

A little faux treasure chest that Stephanie created as a decoration for the cake table! Yay!

This wedding is going to be so cool! I'm starting to get really excited about it. A magical beginning to our life together, surrounded by the people we love.

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The decorated decoupaged tins and tinket boxes we'll use for the centerpieces at the reception. Twigs and stones go in the tins to create mini trees and small gifts are tied to the branches for people to take.

Yay For Scarlett!

I have this amazing friend, she's a whiz at organizing events and understanding how people work. I've had the joy and pleasure of working with her before on another community event and so she knows how I work and how I like things.

Tonight she showed up at my art showing at the Phoenix Asylum in Boulder and offered her services to us for whatever we may need! I had to pick my jaw up off the ground and felt my heart swell. I had been aimlessly searching for someone exactly like her, someone capable and willing to be in charge of all the decorations and set-up for the ceremony and receptions the day of.

Everyone knows I'm a control freak with major OCD and "I Do It!" habits, many of the women helping have been repeating like a mantra "You need someone to take charge of getting everything done for you." These lovely women are doing quite a bit already, and don't feel up to the task of making sure the big picture happens.

Scarlett loves doing these kinds of things and is amazing at achieving miracles. To have her want to help on a trade basis is even better. (I think she wants art, maybe something else - whatever she wants, she gets for this! This lady knows I have a hard time receiving without giving back.)

This is a prayer answered in hearts and rainbows. Yay!

Our Party Reception Venue Went Under!!

I received a general "we're sorry, dear customer's, but the economy made us close" email from them.

Sad for them, trying not to panic for us.

We did an extensive venue search before we settled on the Pub, most of those places are booked now or super expensive for us - like a minimum of $5K to book there for anything...

We need space for over 100 people, maybe upwards of 200 with booze and food available to all.
I have a contact with a brewery, we can get a keg of good beer for the price of a keg of PBR with them.
We have a ton of champagne already and a discount with a big liquor store thru another friend.
My Not-a-MoH's saying that we can cook for that many people.
It would not be a stretch for me to make army sized portions, I already make platoon sized ones. ;P
We pick easy dishes and let anyone who wants to volunteer, each make one dish in a large quantity.

It's just finding the right space to be able to do this in, with less than 3 months to go.
I sent an email back, giving our regards and reminding them of both our contract and the deposit we'd already paid to them for our reception. I figured either they are so far up to their eyeballs in panic that they forgot or they've talked about how to deal with these kinds of things and have been brainstorming how to fix it at little to no stress/extra cost to either side.

All I can say right now, about my feelings on all of this is: D'oh!!

The owners sent a response email to us, apologizing and offering to help us find a new place. She said they hadn't run our card yet, just put the deposit amount on hold, so she'll undo that and void the receipts. I'm really glad that they were able to respond and be so helpful. Even if they didn't do it in an order which would cause less of a freak out, the fact that they did this at all gives them even higher marks in my book.

Supposedly, she talked to the owners of another restaurant next door to them, today. Asking if they'd take our contract at the same terms and prices. There are other options as well. But it's really nice of them to go out of their way to help us find a replacement venue.

Goodbye Scotch Corner Pub - we loved you while you were around, we're sad to see you go.