Minted: Wedding Programs

I am just going to be honest with you and tell you that I looked at all things wedding even before Matthew and I got engaged. I couldn't help it! It's all of Pinterest and the internet and I, of course, loved every minute of it! One of my favorite websites to always browse on is Minted. Around Christmas time I would look through all the gorgeous Christmas cards, I would look at the wedding section year round, and when we got the key to our apartment I started looking at all the art pieces they had on there!! Seriously, there is something on there for every season of life. Whether you are graduating, getting married, having a baby, or just wanting to decorate your home, they have it all! Whenever I get on their website I save stuff like crazy so I can go back and look at it. Lucky enough for me all I have to do is go to my "favorites" section on their website and see what all I have favorited/saved. Here are a few things I have favorited recently...

country florals wedding programs

chic romantique wedding programs

Seriously, these are too cute!!

banner and branches wedding program minibook™ cards

As you can see, we haven't quite nailed down which design we like best for our programs. We are still going through each one to see which one fits us best. There are so many to choose from... So how about you help us decide!! Do you like this design better?  It definitely fits our wedding colors. It's simple and absolutely beautiful. Such a classic, I think!!

or this design better?  It's different from any program that I have ever seen at a wedding and I really like that! I love the earthy tones it sets off and the layers add to it and make it fun!

Also, please look at these ADORABLE save the dates!!

I love the font used on there and the "Save OUR date" instead of "Save THE date" Kinda making me regret not sending out save the dates!!!! Minted has been in many magazines such as,  The Knot and Better Homes and Gardens, as well as featured in the Washington Post. I know some of you gals out there are engaged and are searching daily for new ideas and all things beautiful so I wanted to share a little of what I have found!! *This post is sponsored by Minted, however all opinions are my own*

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Entryway Ideas

Every since we got the keys to our apartment I have been dying to decorate.
The Lord is teaching me patience on this one :)
 While Matthew has been baching it up at our place until I move in after we are married I have been searching Pinterest and blogs for decor ideas. One thing I really want to do is add a console table in our "entryway". Matthew liked the idea of it and is on board with it, too!  We don't really have an entryway because this is a one bedroom apartment but there is plenty of room for a console table.

I would love to have somewhere for us to drop our keys, phones, and mail all in one place when we come in, and make it easy to find these items on our way out. I also thought the idea of a mirror above the table on the wall would be cute and helpful. Last minute mirror checks before heading out for the day! Its a huge blank wall so a mirror would go perfectly there!
 If we add some cute decor to it and style it up a bit and I think it will really add to our living room as well.

Here is what it looks like now. It will go on the wall that the air freshener is on. 

(I forgot to take a picture when I was there last so I had Matthew send me a picture this morning lol. Thanks, babe!)

and here is the mirror we bought last week at Kirkland's that I mentioned on Friday. 

I just LOVE it and love it even more that is was 50% off!

Now here is the console table we picked out! We found it on Amazon for a really good price, and it will match the color of our living room furniture!! 

So here is what we are thinking for our "entryway"

I am so excited and I've been looking at different ways to style it on Pinterest. There are so many cute ideas!

We also are wanting another one. Call us crazy but we love it!

This one would go in our dining area. We got the idea from the model apartment at our apartment complex when we did our first tour!

Here is the picture from the model apartment

and this is our dining area now. We are wanting to put it on that back wall (beside the back of the door) I think it will also really add to our dining area. 

Here is the table we found on Amazon. It's black which will match out dining set perfectly!

 Both console tables are cheaper on Amazon. I found them on other websites for $100+  than they are on Amazon. Gotta love good ole Amazon!

Here is what we are thinking for this one.  Just something simple, probably not as much on it as the picture below but something similar to this. We don't wan't it to look cluttered.

Above it we are going to add some of my antique plates we have left over after our wedding

Except they won't be plastic plates ;)

We'll only put up between 6-8 plates, depending on the sized of them because I don't want it to be too much. 

And that's all the ideas we've been throwing around for console tables!

 Do any of y'all have an entryway or did you make your own "entryway"?

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Wedding Wednesday: Registering

About a month ago Matthew and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond to start our registry there. The week before we went I did a lot of research. I read a lot of blog posts and tips from Pinterest. From what to register for and what not to register for, to what to ask and how many of items to register for. We decided we would register at 3 places. Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, and Amazon.

 I went through and made an Excel spreadsheet of things we needed and the quantity of the item. Then I went through most items and read reviews (seriously, I have read so many reviews I probably talk about them in my sleep) on them and found the best prices between the three places we are registering for and then that's where and how we decided to register for that item.  I almost feel guilty registering for some of this stuff, I mean towels that cost more than $10?!?! Matthew had to keep telling me that we need to register for things that are going to last for 5+ years instead of 6 months. I think that's also why I did so much research and found the best prices between the three because I would hate for someone to spend a lot of money at Bed Bath & Beyond or Target when we they can get it cheaper through Amazon or vise versa. Surprisingly, Amazon didn't cost less on some items, so we registered for those things at the store it was cheapest at.  I had read a lot of people get stressed out while registering and it's anything but fun so I tried my best to avoid that because I wanted it to be fun!! I emailed Matthew the spreadsheet a few days before we went so he could see what I had came up with, and he added some things he thought we needed. I also made sure we had lunch before we went so we would have full bellies and no one would get hangry... ;) We got to Bed Bath & Beyond and the lady walked us through everything and answered any questions we had. She was very chatty, but helpful! She offered to walk with us, but that would have stressed me out so we told her we would just browse and scan on our own lol.   I pulled that spreadsheet up on my tablet before we began and then just went through and marked the items off as we scanned them!  Matthew did all the scanning so that I could focus on marking things off our list. His exact words, "I'm like a scanning sniper". lol. We had a lot of fun and I enjoyed picking out things that we could possibly be using in OUR future home together...so exciting! It still took longer than I thought it would. We were there for about two hours, 30 minutes of that was probably spent listening to the lady who helped us...like I said, very chatty :) I was too focused and in the registering mode to take pictures while we were walking around, but I did ask the chatty lady to make our picture at the end. You would have thought that I asked her to give us her first born with the look she gave us...apparently that was new to her? She thought we were crazy for wanting a picture, ha! While she was taking our picture she told us about how she was taking a photography class so she knew how to take great pictures....well let's just say the picture turned out awful lol. Blurry and taken at a weird angle so we look like we are towering giants.  So, no picture from our first round of registering, but we are going to Target this weekend to register so hopefully we'll get a better one on round two! Any tips from you married ladies?!  Is there something we should definitely register for that most people don't think about?  Anything that you registered for but still don't use?  Any and all tips are welcomed :)

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Weather Channel - Pictures

I don't know about y'all but every now and then when we get a little slow at work I like to browse the web and see what's new. I look at news articles, read up on blogs, and I always find myself going to The Weather Channel's website. They have a section on their website of "Photos" They have different categories to look at and I end up looking at them allllllllll. They have the picture and then where it's at up under the picture and then a little history behind it below that. Call me a nerd but I love looking at these pictures and seeing/reading about what is out there!!
Here are a few I pulled from their website...

Thor's Well at Cape Perpetua on the Oregon Coast. (Flickr/Bill Young) 

Near the city of Morondava in western Madagascar lies a surreal forest of majestic baobab trees, jewels of the island country’s landscape. Tourists flock to this famed road, a protected zone, where the baobab, often called the 'upside down tree,' reaches a height of up to 80 feet tall and are up to 800 years old. (ALINE RANAIVOSON/AFP/Getty Images) 

The Wave is a tumult of striped, fossilized dunes that look like petrified surf hidden away in Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, near the Arizona-Utah border. It is famous among hikers and photographers for its colorful, undulating forms, and the rugged, trackless hike required to reach it. (Thinkstock) 

Yueyaquan is a crescent-shaped lake in an oasis, south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China. The depth of the lake, 

a popular tourist spot, had decreased over the years as sand encroached on the site but in 2006, the government started to fill the

 lake and restore its depth. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)  

Planted in the 18th century, the Dark Hedges is a tunnel created by intertwined beech trees that were planted in the 18th-century. (Flickr/kanbron) 

The Marble Caves (Cuevas de Mármol) are located on a peninsula of solid marble bordering Lake General Carrera, a remote glacial lake that spans the Chile-Argentina border, according to Atlas Obscura. The patterns that give the marbleized effect were caused by 6000 years of wave erosion. (Flickr/jvieras)  Seriously, can y'all imagine visiting these places?? Or even better, photographing them?!  It's a little hard for me to imagine that these places even exist because I have never seen anything like this, but they do, and now I want to travel the world and see them all!!  It's crazy to me that people can see this and still believe there isn't a God. So crazy. So if you get bored today go check out the rest of these pictures!! Happy Tuesday!

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