Invites and Flowers, such fun, oh my!

With many things to do and little time to do the, Jason and I had to get busy booking appointments with various wedding vendors.

First up was arranging invitations to our lovely day.  Jason's good friend and colleague Andrew has a sister who just happens to run her own invitation and card making company called Cards By Cristina.  She makes beautiful handmade invitations and has a hug variety of colours and textures to choose from.

Cristina San works out of her house creating these beautiful little pieces of deliverable by mail art when she is not teaching music to school children.  Whether you want full scale service including return RSVP cards, directions, menus, etc, she can do it!  Or like us, opt for a simple one way invitation and provide an email address and phone number to RSVP.  Probably the best option when on a time crunch!

Next up:  Flowers!

For this I enlisted the help of my mother.  One of her close friends, Elvira, has a sister with extensive experience in floral arrangements.  Although she currently runs a costume emporium for various children's parties - how fun!  She still does a little freelance work on the side.

One afternoon, after a lovely lunch at C. Kelekis resaturant, Elvira, my mother, and myself headed down to the costume emporium .  Karla, our lovely florist and costume queen, was very helpful in exploring floral ideas for an Easter weekend wedding.  We decided on lovely spring flower arrangements with lots of colour: tulips, daffodils, gerberas, roses, etc, etc!  Being the flexible bride that I am, I decided to give Karla creative freedom to pick the best and freshest flowers in the warehouse and come up with beautiful creations for our event.  I trust that she will do a marvelous job!

I prefer to trust in her ability to choose the nicest blooms of the day rather than choose a specific flower and stick to it, come hell or high water.

People talk about how stressful wedding planning can be, but I gotta say:  So far, so good.  I really think it depends on your level of fussiness on the Bridezilla scale.  I have chosen to steer completely clear of the Bridezilla method of wedding planning...

                                
Instead I have been striving to be a serene and pleasant bride.  I think it's working...  Serenity now.  :)