"Picture Perfect" Proposal

We had a very personal proposal that incorporated a tradition that we created.  Nick (Mr. O) did a wonderful job of surprising me and being all around sneaky!!! My mom pointed out to me a few weeks ago that our local newspaper was having a Perfect Proposal Contest...

Nick was so very excited! "We have to enter," he said.  So last week one night Nick and I sat down and wrote our story in 100 words.  I got a call from the paper on Tuesday saying we were one of the finalists!   So yesterday I went into the paper and they videotaped Nick (via webcam) and I telling our story. 

The voting started last night!  If you would like to vote for us, that would be wonderful!!  We are the last option entitled "Picture Perfect"
Here's the link:
Perfect Proposal Contest @ Globe Gazette

MY wedding

Nick and I are unique which means our wedding will be pretty unique as well.

I'm not going to lie to you...I've been planning our wedding for about four months.  I created our wedding binder a while ago!

Our (Nick has been actively involved) original idea was to go to Grand Superior  with our immediate family (around 25 people) for a simple wedding.  Eventually we would have a big open house at a park in our home town.  Now we are talking about eloping.  We would send out announcements asking people if they would help us celebrate our one or five year anniversary with a party instead of a reception.

When I started planning our wedding, I went to The Knot where they gave me a huge check list.  Now I'm a list kind of girl.  When I go on vacation, I make a list of what I'm taking but also a list of what I'm going to wear everyday.  But some of this stuff was ridiculous!  If you are looking for a good wedding checklist, look at offbeat bride's checklist.

After searching the internet, I learned that a boring, traditional white wedding isn't a requirement.  So now I have daily reading requirements that include:

• Ariel @ Offbeat Bride 
• Sara @ 2000 Dollar Wedding 
  
• Dana @ Broke-Ass Bride 

 What have these amazing women taught me?   Our wedding is ours and we can do what we want!  It's not about the wedding, it's about the marriage and celebrating the love we have for each other.

Showing Love

I haven't told you this but my mom got a Cricut.  It is really addictive....I love it.  I have been using it almost every day for the last few weeks.  Now, I'm not a scrapbooker and I don't feel brave enough to try to do a serious scrapbook.  But I do have a lot of other projects I have done.

 

I wanted to celebrate my engagement to Mr. O by making something to show off our photo booth getting engaged pictures.  So I took a plain IKEA frame we had laying around and some left over paper.  I bought one piece of paper at the Rustic Corner.  Here is what I came up with. 

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Our colors are black, white, and pink plus the felt flowers with buttons I'm making.  The flowers aren't felt though.  12-20-09 is the date we got engaged.  So I created a very personal celebration of our relationship

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The whole project cost two dollars.

What's Going on, Man?

Where have I been?!  Well it has been a crazy couple months....seriously I haven't posted in almost two months!  My goodness!  Bad Angelala!!

Well, I had to finish the fall semester at school after a big ol' flare.  Anyone with college and an illness...I commend you!  But I did it!!  After school ended, I went to see Mr. O in Philly for three weeks.

He proposed on my third day there!  He proposed at El Vez (an awesome funky Mexican restaurant).  They have a fun old fashioned photo booth that we always take advantage of.  After a Pink Cadillac Margarita, I was a little tipsy.  We got into the booth and I was smiling at the camera.  Mr O said "Are you ready?" to which I replied "yeah" still looking at the camera with my big smile.  Then he pulled out the ring box.  Here's the first picture the camera took.

How surprised do I look?

So now I get to plan a wedding.  Not sure when or how many people will be there but we are going to have it.  So I decided I wanted to make my own bouquet out of felt flowers.  Princess Lasertron is pretty much my idol right now.  I want our wedding to be as DIY as possible for two reasons.

1. It's cheaper.

2. It puts our stamp on it.  Mr. O and I are individuals and I want our wedding to show that.

So over vacation I started making flowers in general and once I got home I was totally in love with my flowers and felt crafties.  So in order to make money for the wedding (and hopefully after) I started selling them on etsy.

 Here is the link:

angelala designs

**All of my work is one of a kind so you better buy it now. 

Here's our wedsite:

Six years in the making

There's not a lot there but that's it.