Our Wedding: Last Minute Details

With our wedding just over a week away, there are lots of last minute details popping up.  I thought I had it all settled, but some small things are coming undone...

Absent Guests

For example, out of 22 guests, my cousin found out today she cannot come (a last minute work trip)!  So now we have a gaping void to fill at the table (and I'm also so sad she won't be here).  My aunt's also not coming, so we now have space for two!  Want to come to a wedding?

And as the day approaches I am increasingly sad that my (previously...) best friend won't be there.  She has dumped me completely since deciding not to come to my wedding a while back (informing me by email), and she didn't like that I was very hurt about it and said so.  So that all feels painfully sad to me and disappointing, especially as I have so very little close family.  You want your most beloved people around you at a time like this.  And to feel rejected and dumped by someone you love (and who you thought loved you), well, it's just tragic.  I've been dumped without an explanation for anything, including why I've been dumped.  It's just so *petulant child* and so very, very cold.  A ten year friendship tossed out with the trash, despite my repeated offers to remain friends and "get through this", etc.  I have never been so disappointed with any person.

But I guess we must Keep Calm and Carry On, as that exhaustingly inescapable saying goes.  For once, the phrase finally means something to me, and I think it's damned good advice.

So getting back to happier thoughts...

Our Paper Goods

Our final paper goods arrived today from California.  Here is the program cover:

* adore *

And here are some gorgeous place cards:

And we had these charming signs made for the ceremony chairs:

I can't wait to see it all in place.

Florals

Today we also had a final meeting with our florist.  

Unfortunately, some of my most coveted flowers are not available at the last minute!

I was so excited to have flowering pieris but she said the recent supply has looked bad, so we're dropping it!

*sorry - not available*

We did find a charming and unexpected flower to add to the bouquet, which adds a vintage feel:  "Blushing Bride" (Serruria Florida), native to South Africa.  

These have an ancient feel, and are in the Protea family.  We're also going to add some tiny wax flowers, as shown:

My bouquet might look a little like this, with peonies and astilbe and white scabiosa and roses, but I've asked for more foliage and some ivory and lots of garden roses to be added.

Our final flowers will be a charming surprise!

Footwear

After talking to my photographer, I realized I really should have a "wedge" shoe for the outdoor ceremony (otherwise you slowly sink into the ground wearing pointy heels).  

I thought I would rest and relax on Saturday (the first weekend I didn't have anything really "to do" for the wedding).  Apparently now I will be shoe shopping (again).  Ugh.

Lovely wedge bridal shoe via Etsy

My gorgeous pointy heels will be worn at the reception I guess, and magically appear in photos as though I had them on the entire time!

Rain Plan

We even discussed a rain plan for the ceremony, so that's settled!

I love this photo

Photo:  Melissa Miller

Have a happy weekend, dear friends.  

When you next hear from me, I'll be a (so very happily) married woman!

xo Terri