Wedding DIY Stamped Coctail Napkins

I wanted personalized napkins with the monogram/logo I'd designed for the wedding. I went online searching for someone to do the stamp and found a website http://www.rubberstamps.net/ to do my custom job. For about $15 I got my 1.5"X3" rubber stamp including the shipping. I picked up an ink pad (permanent) from Joann's on sale an used it and I was ready to stamp.



 With a movie ready, I stamped over 200 cocktail napkins that I'd picked up from Ikea. $1.99 for 100 in a pack. I purchased 2 packs. I used regular paper to do a couple of stamps at first to make sure there was no blotches, and then proceded. As you can see to the left of the two lower images, I'd lay out 3 napkins and stamp, stamp, stamp, stack and repeat. I made sure to apply even pressure. I had to reapply everytime to make sure I had a clear image for each napkin.

 This was the final look at the wedding. The worked perfectly and there was no running of ink onto anything or anyone. Athough my arm was tired by the end, I got a lot of use out of that stamp in many other areas of the wedding.



Ouch

Hazards of wedding DIY. In trying to remove the metal piece from around the neck of the wine bottles, I've earned two new band-aids. I started the label peeling of the wine bottles.

Goofed on first big order

I ordered a bunch of supplies from the Webstaurant store, but didn't pay attention to the guest towels. They were supposed to be plain (so I thought), but it turned out to have "guest towel" written across the front so there's no way for me to stamp the monograms on them. I'll have to order a new batch since I'd be out $20 by returned and ordering the new set. I'll make sure to read carefully this time.
The forks, dessert spoons, wave plates, cocktail napkins, wine goblets, tumblers and spoon straws all came in. I hope I'm still sticking to the budget.

Save the dates.

Mailed out the save the dates on Tuesday or Wednesday morning. I'm so excited because everything turned out well. People have received and have been visiting the site.
Ordered the napkins, flatware, etc from Webrestaurant on 10/6 and can't wait for those to get in so I can stamp our monograms on them.
We also went to the wine festival yesterday afternoon and had fun, but I can't repeat that for a while because that will totally mess with my losing weight in time for the wedding.

From Engagement until 10/2

Wow it's been about 6 weeks since I got engaged, August 17th, two days after my birthday to be precise. How time flies. On our website I shared the story of how it all happened, but even though I knew the proposal was coming it still caught me by surprise. As soon as I got back and shared the ring pictures with everyone and wanted to get right to trying on dresses to figure out my silhouette before going in for surgery. I was going to be getting a sessamoidectomy on my left foot which had been bothering me for well over a year. Almost as long as Brian and I have been together.
We selected our venues: Church of the Ascensions and Bay District Volunteer Firehouse.
We took our engagement pictures on September 14th at National Harbor...thanks to Garrett James of Capital Media.
Designed our monogram  and order a stamp to put or monogram in various places where possible.
Designed and ordered the save the dates.
Completed collecting the addresses of my A-Listers and plan to mail things out tomorrow.
Chose my caterer today, 10/2...Quality Street Kitchen and I'm excited with the way she tailored the menu to what we envisioned. Now I can start with the rest of the planning.

As for my dress, I did a fitting of my muslin on 9/28 and we decided to wait until February to start because I want to drop a few more inches and don't want to have to alter the dress later. In the meantime, I've got plenty of other projects.
I'm in the process of collecting wine bottles from everyone I know for the centerpieces.