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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The time we got married. (part one)


Details.  I care about them to a fault. 

To be completely honest, the little things no one would notice or see were the most important to me when it came to planning our wedding. 

Everything from the boutonnieres down to the postage.
Cotton, pumpkins, friends, family, all of my favorite things wrapped into one. 

Almost 100% of the decor was done by me. DIY bride for sure. 
My mom was a MASSIVE help and helped me created almost every single detail.  She deserves a metal! And my dad...he deserves one too because a) he put up with all this wedding madness b) he funded this entire event and c) he also crafted all the boxes and crates you'll see.

My parents are thebomb.com. For real. 

Our photography Erin, of ee photography, captured them wonderfully.

Here's a few, and by few I mean a lot...
(brace yourself)

ENJOY! 
 invite suite, designed by me created by Swoon Design.
      (picture from my phone, not ee photography)
          
invites has a burlap belly band tied with string and a contrasting kraft paper tag that read "m & t"

I designed these 3 page programs, my mom helped me sew them together across the top


 I added significant charms to my moms old charm bracelet and wore this at the reception, flower clips were added to the tie of the these comfy wedges



my grandmothers necklace she wore daily, gifted to me by my cousin
aside from my wedding band this is and will always be my most treasured piece of jewelry

 we went with a two tone ring for T and my wedding band is rose gold

My bracelets served as my something old, something new, and something borrowed.
My sweet brothers surprised me just minutes before the ceremony with a special bracelet to wear with these.

My mom and I had an absolute blast at Kendra Scott customizing earring for the ceremony. 
I later changed into j.crew studs for the reception. 

 Even though the florist couldn't get the anemones I was lusting after I was so happy with how our bouquets turned out!

I made my garters that morning.  There was a simple blue ribbon tied to the front.

Entrance at the venue. 
 My father in law provided all the pumpkins.  It was quite awesome! 




 Ahhh, just love this! 

 The ring bearer pillow was possibly one of my favorite details.  My grand father farmed rice in Texas, so this was really special.
It now is happily on our guest bed. I loove it! Our flower girls tossed die cut hearts. 
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This sign, along with the sign in table, and "welcome ladder" welcomed guests as they entered the chapel. 

 These wreaths I made are hanging our two front doors. I'm determined to make them work for each holiday and season!
I wired the jars and my mom arranged cotton for each pew. 


This is Travis' mom's 57 Chevy his dad gave her for Mother's Day year ago.
Travis loves this car and hopes this will one day be our Sunday "church car" - I love this idea!


I made streamers for the guests to wave as we walked down the aisle. 
The card reads "please wave these streamers as the newest Urbo's walk down the aisle as husband and wife".  It was a really fun touch! 

 The cross was borrowed from my parent's church. We had 4 single white roses in memory of our family members who were with us in spirit.


 Details of the sign in table.



These signs welcomed guest into the dance hall after cocktail hour. 

Who knew old springs could be special? My grandmother and I both used the springs on our beds as little girls! SO comfy! 
I'd wanted to do something with these springs since I was little! I added, cotton and engagement pictures.  This was in the foyer of the dance hall. 

The  courtyard where cocktail hour was help. 

 I loved  my cake(s)!


 My mom made hundreds of her "famous" chocolate chip cookies! YUMM!
Tasted better than it looks but I designed this for Travis and included all the cities and towns we love.


Each tablescape included had a horse shoe! For luck and "U" for Urbanovsky!
The brand on the koozie was a reoccurring theme. Loved the way it turned out!



  I plan to make our chair covers into pillows for our house soon!


 My mom and I created 3 different centerpieces. My mom cut our hundreds of aluminum hearts that hung on the branches. 
Guests took these home.
 I just can't get over the beauty of cotton. Love, love, love!

My dad made countless boxes and crates that we used throughout the wedding. He ROCKS!
These looked beautiful when lit. 

These fun little toys were a HIT! Especially among the children and those that took full advantage of the open bar! 

Our venue didn't allow a sparkler exit so we went with glow sticks at the last minute and I was SO happy we did! 

These make pictures of the party so fun! 

Photo booth fun! 

Each of our grandparents and parents were honored in the foyer of the dance hall.  
We have a LOT to live up to! 

 My incredible mom, once again, came through with favors.  She bagged up her delicious toffee for each guest to take home. 

We tied them up with bakers twine and stuck on our wedding brand!

Some of our amazing food! We served sliders, fries, Cesar salad, truffle mac and cheese, and SUSHI!
I am so sad there is not a single picture of the sushi being rolled.  It was definitely a crowd pleaser!

We also had a hot brownie and ice cream bar.  An ode to my high school best friends! 

Did you make it through all of them? Good job!

There's more to come! 


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

what Christmas means to me, my love

I LOVE Christmas.  Everything about it, but aside from the obvious family/friends time, cold weather (which is non existant in sweet TX), and Christmas cheer all around, Christmas cards are my FAVORITE part of the season.  I literally wait for the mail lady all morning and meet her at the box.
ok, so maybe I do that because I have nothing else to do with my day....
but honest to God, ripping open those Christmas enevlopes makes my whole day!

 I was SO excited to get to send out Christmas cards for the first time with my new HUSBAND!

**Also, I think it's worth mentioning that I left my computer at my parents and am currently at the library.  Someone is playing "Silent Night" on a organ and a children's play group is singing along (loud and off key no doubt), and laughing, and clapping....it's quite magical!

The Christmas spirit it still very much alive and it makes my heart ever so happy!

Back to it, here is how our card turned out this year...
Future brides: THINK AHEAD!
I brought the lights along to our venue and our photog, Erin Woolsey of ee photograpy, snapped this amazing pic for us. I plan to make a huge canvas to display at Christmas time. I LOOOOOVE it.

I used photoshop for the design and had them printed on zazzle.

This is the back:
below it says "the best is yet to come..."

And here's how I have all our beautiful cards on display. I could stare at this all day long. And maybe I do. or maybe I don't.... (but I totally do!)
I spy a sweet, lazy retreiver!

This year has been beyond special.  So many wonderful things happening to so many wonderful people. Our cards include numerous new babies, new marriages, and happy, happy, happy best friends and family.

These cards comes with so much love and I cherish each and every one of them.  I plan to keep them together each year and eventually (when when the day comes) have our little babes take turns choosing a card/family to pray over at dinner each night during the Christmas season - heck maybe each night all year, that's how much I love these things!

WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THE MERRIEST OF ALL CHRISTMASES
 FROM THE URBO'S TO YOU!

And really, I do plan and WANT to get back to blogging soon! Until then....

link up with kristen here


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

color crush


I LOVE neutrals.  Always have,always will.  I can thank my mama for that.


There is no doubt my house will be one neutral canvas. 
Just like my closet, my wedding, and about everything else I put my touch on...

BUUT in all the neutral wonderfulness I love hints of colors here and there.

With the house hunt coming to an end I am letting my mind run a little wild with possibilities.
(inspection today, pleeeease PRAY it goes smoothly and that N High St will be our new home)

And while this picture sums up basically everything about my style and fave colors...

these are some color combos I'm crushing on
all via pinterest





I am so excited to share my "inspiration" pieces for each room!  But I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch! Speaking of chickens.......we'll be getting some of those too!


(and bees, there will def be bees! duh)


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I'm loving that we're one step closer to owning a home.

I'm loving our wedding is only 45 days away. 

I'm loving that I get to spend a weekend with this ginger
and all of our best friends, in our favorite Texas town.

I'm loving the way things are going!

I sure hope you're
{LOVING LIFE}
too!

link up here and here!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

must learn

You know what I don't know how to do?

Well that list is quite lengthy...

but what I am referring to right now is blog design.

and photoshop.

and photography.

but really just blog design at this exact moment.

How on earth do you make your blog cute?

I gave it an old college try and this is what I got goin...

I'm not even going to share with you how long this took. It's laughable. Believe me. 

NOW.....
who wants to do this thing the right way? for free.
i'll pay you in cute daily pics of my dog. or choc chip cookies. or miller lite. 

ANY TAKERS???

Monday, August 20, 2012

everything and nothing


What in the world have I been doing? Everything and nothing at all it seems.



So much to update on.  Fun weekends, wedding plans and details, house news, babies, friends, family, life in general....and it's all coming...soon.

For now though you most certainly should follow me on instagram.  


I just discovered this little gem and I LOVE it.  Seriously, I get annoyed more of my friends aren't constantly posting pics!  You can follow me here.

All the going-ons deserve a post of it's own and that they will get but for now this is the number one thorn in my side point of interest.

A house.  This house.


We have been negotiating a deal on this beaut for almost 2 weeks now (I know, sounds insane to me too, small town biz I guess) and we are so, so close but after having 2 other houses fall through the cracks I am refusing to get excited about this one.

alright, I may already have it mentally decorated from wall to wall, but still not letting those ideas go to my head until we sign

As soon as this is done, I can relax and actually get ready for our new life. 

Now that everyone is back to work and summer is officially coming to a close, I am going to make it my job to cross things off my to-do list, and believe me, tackling that to-do list is a full time job in itself. 

Our hope is that by Friday we will have a deal on this house and will get to celebrate with best friends in RP,TX this weekend! And I feel confident saying that the second that happens I will be back in full "work" swing.  But, let's not hold our breath!

I'll leave you with 2 of the 300 reasons why I love the house above....

a HUGE closet
which is next to impossible to find in a house built in the 1930s

and this pretty little pinterest ready bathroom!

please, please, pleeeeease be mine soon!