FLOWERS ARE FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhh I can't believe they're done!!! and I'm really happy with how they turned out :) Small and simple yet modern and cute.  I couldn't find any bouquet holders so I devised my own out of stuff around the house...namely toilet paper and paper towel rolls and the inside tube from a roll of aluminum foil...can't even tell the difference after you wrap them in ribbon! =D I just bought a block of floral foam for the inner cores of the handles.  I got the brown brick of dry floral foam from Walmart, it was less than half the price of the exact same brick at Michaels.  Full instructions on the Guitar Pick Flowers DIY page! I really hope these help someone else out since I couldn't for the life of me find instructions anywhere when I started out!

Counting the days...

The days before the wedding are getting less and less and I'm trying not to panic that I won't have everything done in time! I just finally started on the flowers last night and thank goodness they're turning out better than I hoped so I think this is the last decision I have to make! We'll see about that lol.  I also finished my last hanger last night (mine of course) so that's another thing checked off.  Last week I ordered my bridesmaids gifts which came in really quick from http://www.flirtyaprons.ca/.  All my girls love to cook and the aprons on this site are adorable, I even ordered one for myself and one for my mom for her birthday. So in all, they're getting the aprons, jewelry for the day and hangers for their dresses.  I'm still debating what to get for my FG and RB, I'm thinking about making them fleece tie blankets and Ryan still has to decide what he's getting for his groomsmen.  So I guess there are a few decisions left to make! 

I updated the DIY page today with instructions for the corsages, RB pillow and personalized hangers.  I've been getting a bit lazy so there aren't pictures for each step but I think if you look at the final picture you should be able to figure it out :) Those projects weren't overly difficult.  I'm going to update the instructions tonight with a how-to for the guitar pick flowers I'm making for the bouquets and boutonnieres.  I finished 9 flowers last night and they came out good enough that I'll try really hard to remember to take step by step pics!  Piccies of the ones I did last night below :) They still need their stems wrapped and I have to figure out how I'm going to actually make them come together in a bouquet but I've gotta get them finished first!

DIY update

I just finished up a couple more DIYs so I thought I'd post some pics cause I think they're pretty :) DIY instructions for the corsages to come once I do my last one and remember to take step by step pics!

Corsages for our moms/grandma/reader:

My Ring Bearer Pillow:

Finally chose some flowers!

Choosing flowers has been the most difficult part of planning so far! Especially after I discovered that the flower that I really wanted doesn't actually exist in real life...damn you green gerbera daisies! I love daisies though so I was trying to figure out how to still incorporate them somehow (I think we're going to put them on the cake) when I came across the coolest flowers made of sola and palm wood on save-on-crafts.com. These are seriously cool but I couldn't figure out what might go with them either! I don't have avery good imagination when it comes to putting things like that together in my mind so there I was still stumped and growing more and more frustrated by the prices I was seeing for fresh flowers! I decided to forego the green flower thing altogether and finally found these amazing chocolate brown preserved roses that I think I will pair with white gerberas (which DO exist! yay!) and leave the green for the ribbon. Wish me luck, I can't wait to see how I do on this DIY!