WHAT DIY???

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Our wedding is in 2014, a year and a half of planning and budgeting. Going thru my must haves Church, reception venue, wedding gown, entourage outfits my budget is going going going GONE!! Searching the web I found out a lot of sites that has tutorials for DIY wedding stationery and IDEAS!!

Well, think think think

I still have time and I really want our wedding to be nice and have an coordinated feel so I came out with the idea of doing some DIY projects.

The last time I was crafty was during my highschool and college days, am just hoping I still have it :-)

I am excited to start this project

Lets the adventure begin :
 
Find a wedding stationary checklist -  better to know what you are getting yourself into, go thru the list.

Check out this sites

The Essential Wedding Stationery Checklist

Paper Source - Wedding Checklist & Stationery Timeline

DIY Bride - Stationary Checklist

Little Wedding Guide - Stationary Checklist

Reflect - This might sound weird, but just take a breather and ask yourself :

The obvious reason would be you wanted to save some $$$ but then you could do without some of the wedding stationary and just have the basic stuff.
 I did ask myself this question, well as what Ive written I wanted my wedding to have a coordinated look and if I do pull it off, its going to be a great achievement for me :-)

• You have to search the web ( although I would be posting the cool sites that I've found).
• Doing layouts 
• Buying/sourcing for equipments and materials.

•  Wedding Invites - am eying to do a pocket fold invites and this includes the main invite, entourage cards, reception card, directions and RSVP cards. Our Thank you cards would also be having the same design.

PLAN A

PLAN B

• Ceremony Program - Planning to have a fan ceremony program.

PLAN A

PLAN B

•  Reception Program 
• Table number
• Place cards / Escort Cards
• Favor Cards

• Misalettes
• Ceremony Kit ( labels : water bottle , pocket tissue ) - this depends on our budget :-)
• Favor boxes/bag

Make your timeline - Planning a wedding is stressful and adding these DIY projects will just add more sleepless nights to you. If you PLAN your schedule then it would not be a problem ( fingers crossed).

Have Fun - You are doing this for the biggest day of you life to date, make sure you enjoy every minute of it, you're only doing this once (unless you did a terrific job that your friends would ask you to do it for them :-) ) Ask help from your MOH and bridesmaids its not part of their duty but then they are your family and friends, if they said YES then you did a good job in choosing them, if they said NO, they have a good reason and being family and a friend we would understand.

READY? GET SET? GO!!!!

DIY : Monogram

FOR CHICSAKE 

Renaissance Writings

My friends and Family never thought that I would even get married or I think they even wondered whether I know that such a word existed. So I can't blame them for their reaction when I sent them our save the date via FB, courtesy of Wedding Chicks ( they have a lot of Wedding DIY stationaries and inspirations)

My cousins were happily excited to the point that my cousin Jason almost booked a ticket to Manila for June 2013, Jetstar was having a promo and its ending soon. Luckily he confirmed the date with me before they bought the ticket.

 Some of my friends also thought that we are getting married this year

DIY Save the Date from Wedding Chicks

This was our Save the date picture that I've sent, well I think this was misleading although it was not intentional hmmmm? maybe they are so excited .. or selective reading that they missed out the full date below :-)










After receiving my friends and family's reaction and I don't want to have anymore confusion. I changed our save the date picture

DIY Save the Date from Wedding Chicks

 So far am not getting any confused reaction, I think this Save the Date picture is a keeper.