I’m handy with the photoshop, love arts and crafts and had a two-year engagement, so it just seemed natural that I would make my own invitations and every other piece of paper stuffs for the wedding.

I was lucky, though. My FI’s cousin got married last summer and she asked me to make her invitations (she’s a brave soul—I had never made invitations before) so I got to cut my teeth on her invites. I learned quite a bit on that project and applied that newly-acquired knowledge to my own wedding invitations.

I had so many ideas. The one thing I was certain about was the theme—daisies. I originally wanted all the flowers to be daisies and the centerpieces to also be daisies “planted in wheat grass.

And thus the invitations would also include grass and daisies, like zeeees:

But that idea was soon deemed to be too complicated and thus thrown out the window. Then I soon found this image, played around with it, and what do you know? I had my theme.

Months and months later, after sever drafts, I had my invitations. What do you think?

This weekend my mom, sister and MOH journeyed to the far reaches of the earth (or so it seemed, our GPS couldn’t even find it) to Jacques Pastries in Suncook, NH. People tend to say that the cake tasting is the best part of wedding planning and I have to agree.

Our wedding cake comes as part of our wedding package at Sky Meadow and we’re lucky that the vendor of choice was the renowned Jacques Pastries – THE number one place to order your wedding cake.

Cake tasting was nummy, and can you believe that the phrase “too… much… cake” was uttered from my mouth? It was a lot of cake.

We ended up choosing chocolate cake with chocolate fudge and bailey’s cream filling for the biggest bottom tier (of course we’d have chocolate!), delectable lemon cake with black cherry cream filling for the middle, and spice cake with caramel cream and apple jam-type filling. It’s going to be amazing!

And the cake itself? It’s a variation on this design here, except the flowers will match those on my invitations with more flowers at the bottom of each tier, getting fewer towards to top of each tier.

Now, what to do about a cake topper. There are so many adorable choices on etsy, but I cannot believe the prices. I refuse to spend more than $50 on something that will sit on top of my wedding cake for 2 hours at most! I have a few ideas, but welcome any suggestions!

1. Spend your money – don’t hoard it.
   If you have a stable job and you can pay all your bills without any problems go out and spend your money. If everyone who could afford to spend money, spent their money we’d be out of the economy in no time!
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4. Help a sister out!
   Know someone who’s having a hard time? Do what you can to help them out. Bring them grocery shopping, send them flowers, just do what you can to make it easier for those who are less fortunate.
5. Buy American
   Going out of your way to choose American products (even if they are more expensive than products made in other countries) directly helps the US economy and helps keep Americans working.
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7. Practice random acts of kindness.
8. Volunteer.
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10. Become an entrepreneur.
11. Keep your job. Do more. Be more productive. Anything to stay employed.
12. Pay cash, not credit.
13. Go green.

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