5 Years

This week Chris and I celebrated the fifth anniversary of our first date.
Because we're such dorks, we decided to summarize our relationship in an infographic.

Wedding Wednesday: Fabric swatches & photo props

We got some swatches in the mail this week and picked out the fabric for Chris' tailcoat. It's going to look so good!

Our friends Grant and Julie came over to help us with wedding crafts and we had fun making photo booth props. The mustache on a stick thing might be a little overdone lately, but I still love it. The results are just so silly! I got the idea to use some of our fake fur remnants from Martha Stewart.

Wedding Wednesday

I took the day off work yesterday to get wedding stuff done and we were so busy with wedding projects I totally forgot it was Wedding Wednesday. Oops.

Unfortunately that means I don't have any pictures of the crafts we were working on. Instead, here's a photo of our shopping cart a few weeks ago, filled with some of my favourite wedding-related purchases to date: foam swords and hippo bubble machines.

Cinco de Mayo

On Friday I went to Spins & Needles' Cinco de Mayo Pinata Party with our friend Jess. As always, it was a lot of fun!

When I brought home the pinata I made, Chris was pretty excited about smashing it.

So smash it he did.

Wedding Wednesday: Medals & Boutonnières

As you might have been able to guess from my post last Wednesday, we've been working on medals and boutonnières for our wedding party.

Real flowers don't belong at our post-apocalyptic underground event, so just like in my bouquet and our centerpieces, we're replacing them with bits of metal, ribbon and felt with buttons thrown in for good measure.

Our groomsmen/bridesdudes will each be rocking a set of decorative medals and awards, and our male family members will get button boutonnières made from parts of my Princess Lasertron bouquet kit.

Some of the medals before we put them in pretty little boxes

I'll be posting full instructions on how we made the medals soon!

Ottawa Vintage Clothing Sale - Spring edition!

Chris and I went to the Ottawa Vintage Clothing Show today. It's awesome that they've turned it into a more-than-once-a-year event!

While I'm still a little nostalgic for the days when the sale was at the Chateau Laurier, the organizers did a much better job setting things up in the convention centre this time around. There was a better layout, it was easier to navigate between stalls and, without the sun in our eyes, we could actually see the clothing we were trying to buy!

We were a little disappointed that there seemed to be fewer vendors with the menswear and military stuff Chris and I tend to gravitate towards, but we still found some great pieces.

There are two schools of thought when it comes to dressing for the vintage clothing sale: you can either put on your best vintage clothes in the hopes of impressing all the fashionistas, or you can opt to wear skin-tight spandex so you can try things on without needing to use the crowded, and not terribly private, dressing rooms.

Naturally, I went with spandex, whereas Chris thought it would be a great opportunity to wear a new bow tie he got for his birthday.

Speaking of bow ties, we got two at the show!

The polka dot tie is from Ian Drummond, the same seller who sold Chris those skinny ties four years ago. I didn't get a business card from the gold tie's vendor, but it was a steal for $5.

Also a steal for $5: this fabulous flowy pink dress!

My awesome little brother is pretty awesome

My incredibly talented little brother has a show coming up in June.

If you're going to be in Vancouver this summer you should go check it out!