Our Wedding: Wedding Haul

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I'm here to share a huge wedding haul! I have a ton of items that I've picked up over the last five months and have been storing them in our second bedroom which I've dubbed the "wedding room"

I realized I haven't been really good about sharing things as we've bought them so that's what we're going to do now. 

The first thing I have to share is our cake stand. We previously picked out our cake and are just doing a small cake that we can cut for pictures. I just wanted to get a simple cake stand, super cheap so I head to HomeGoods where I found a plain white cake stand. 

It's just super simple and I think will make our cake be the part that stands out- I would hate for a super flashy cake stand to steal the moment from our beach cake!

Next up are these gorgeous wooden trays which I will be filling with sand and sand dollars. The sand dollars will be our guests place cards. I think this will look super pretty and I can't wait to see how it turns out!

Here are the sand dollars for the place cards. I will be writing everyones names on them along with the table numbers once we have that information settled.

I'm not sure what is going to go into this fame but I think it's super cute and will look great!

This sign came from either TJ Maxx or Marshalls and will be part of our decor. I'm thinking it will go  on the table with our guest book.

This sign also came from TJ Maxx or Marshalls and I am planning on putting it on our sweetheart table.

These are our flower girl baskets! I picked up two of these from Amazon, we have three flower girls but one will only be 10 months old so she won't be holding one!

Our ring bearers will be carrying these Ring Security Briefcases from TheKnot. They will be so cute carrying them!

Our favors to our guests are these Photo Booth magnets. We booked a photo booth for our reception and we will be putting these at everyones place settings so they can take their photos home with them.

I decided early on that I did not want to have real flowers during our wedding since they are so expensive. I  ordered these bouquets from Afloral.com and they were super cheap and I think they will do the job just fine. No need for expensive flowers that will die the next day!

I had an accessory appointment at Alexandra's and found this gorgeous hairpiece that I will be wearing on my wedding day. I will be wearing my hair half up half down and can't wait to see how it turns out!

Lastly, I picked up these earrings for my wedding day! They are so gorgeous and I can't wait to wear them!

That's all for now- but I'm sure I'll be sharing many more wedding hauls and updates- we are at 82 days until the wedding- woohoo!

Our Wedding: Wedding Haul!

This past Saturday while Tim played golf I headed off to complete some wedding shopping! I have a huge list of items I need to purchase for our wedding- some are gift items, some are decor, and others are items we need to complete wedding crafts. I thought I'd share the items I purchased on Saturday with you guys and share what I'm going to do with it all.

I went to four different stores- Michaels, AC Moore, Staples and Dollar Tree. I'll be sharing prices of everything as well so you can get an idea of how I'm *trying* to do our wedding on a budget. A lot of our wedding with be DIY and honestly quite a bit of it I'm ordering off Etsy :)

Let's get started!

I went into Michaels for craft sand which I will be using in our centerpieces. I will have sand inside a tall hurricane vase with a white pillar candle lit on top of the sand. Super simple and classic beach themed centerpieces and fairly inexpensive.

Each container I purchased was $3.99 and I picked up eight of them. I will probably be going back for more- I'm not sure how far each of them will get me...

The reason I chose to use craft sand instead of just heading to the beach and gathering real sand is the fact that it looks cleaner and because it won't smell. This way I have control over the coloring and I think it will look nicer.

I also picked up the chalkboard pictured above for $50. This was an impulse buy but I had been picturing having a chalkboard as decor for our ceremony so I grabbed it! Michaels has a lot of cute chalkboard signs which I may go back for depending on how ambitious I'm feeling.

At Michaels I spent $87.64 which was the far most expensive of any store I entered on this day.

Next up at Dollar Tree I picked up three gift bags for flower girls gifts I have received and wanted to package. I also grabbed three sets of tissue paper which will be helpful for all the gifts I have to get coming up! Unpictured is a huge poster board that I grabbed to make our seating chart on. I can't wait to show you how I organize that!

At dollar tree I spent $7.49 for everything and walked out happy that I could cross some items off my list.

At AC Moore in the wedding aisle I found a few items I'd been searching for.

It is so difficult to find a cake knife and serving set that doesn't cost $50+ and I think that's a little ridiculous. I know we are only using it for pictures and I obviously want it to look nice but afterwards  I probably will never use it again. I found the set pictured above for only $16.99 and the sweet cashier used a 40% off coupon so I ended up getting it for $10.19!

The set of 50 gift cards is simple and beautiful and was $12.99. I know I'll be sending out a ton of thank you cards over the coming months and wanted a large quantity package that would last me a little while.

I walked out of AC Moore paying $24.80 and feeling so accomplished!

Finally, my last stop: Staples!

I went in only to buy card stock so I could complete a couple of wedding related crafts. The cardstock was $22.99 and I have already used a ton of it to get some wedding things printed!

While I was walking up the paper aisle I saw the sweetest stickers and decided I had to buy them to put on the back of our invitations. Each package of 48 cost $3.99 and although it was a little bit of an unplanned splurge I think they'll look great.


Overall I was very happy with everything that I purchased during my wedding shopping trip and I'm so thrilled to get a few items off my list!

I still have quite a bit to do so stay tuned I'll be sharing it all with you!