[Roxiesmama]

Originally Posted by celstu1

Oh there will be time. My wedding is March 24th and my first dress alter is Feb 16, that is what the bridal store set up too, based on the wedding date! You'll have plenty of time!
I had a 6 month engagement also. Engaged in Sept, married in March! We are having an 'off season' wedding, which around here is Nov - March. That means that vendors are freed up a lot allowing them to cater to you more and work with a short engagement. Its worked out wonderfully so far! we'll see how it goes on the wedding day! YIKES!!!!
I can't believe it, 54 days to the wedding! Time is FLYING by!

We made 95 8oz jars of homemade grape jelly from the Concord grapes in our yard for favors. We boiled them, strained them, made the jelly and canned them all!!! It was 3 full days of work, then we made labels for every jar and tied ribbons/bows around the lids. We are going to put stickers on the top of every jar with people's names and table (placecards) so people take the jelly home! We finally finished them this past friday night (except the placecard part), what a relief!!!! Our centerpieces have a bunch of little pieces, but we took wine bottles (empty of course) and spray painted them with chalkboard spray paint. We are naming the tables different wines, which we will write on the bottles. Then we have a bunch of fake grapes and votive holders with those LED votives, my mom made the holders, they are wine corks glued together and onto a cork coaster with a white ribbon tied around them. We got the wine bottles all sprayed, so now I need to put ribbon on those ... and then I'm done all wedding presentation prep work! YAY!!!!!

Glad to see that I should have enough time to deal with the dress fittings after it (finally) comes in.

Sounds like you did an awful lot of work on those favors! I bet they will be a big hit. I love the wine bottle idea for the centerpieces! I just ordered mine from the florist...LOL.

Our favors are somewhat put together, though we realized we're most likely going to have to order a few more. I added some people to the invitation list and I am nervous that we won't have enough. We ordered these adorable personalized stone coasters from etsy.com. I just love them, and want them in every room of my house! We had a heck of a time finding little boxes to put them in, but we lucked out at Michael's in the baking section. Turns out these little cookie boxes are just the right size.