page boy bag

Following up from the flower girl bags, is a quick post on the bag for our page boy, Aiden!

Similar to the girls' bags, the page boy page has a colouring in book and some coloured pencils, and a packet of stickers. For our littlest male member, we choose some "Cars" stickers - he's *really* into cars, planes and dinosaurs at the moment!

Waiting to be added to the bag are the following items that should be coming in the post any day now!

A black limousine - to add to all his cars collection, "wedding style".

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And, in case you were wondering what the male equivalent to a flower girl bracelet could possibly be!, Master Aiden gets an awesome badge to declare that he is in fact, the Official Ring Bearer.

So! That ends the official wrap up on the children's gifts! We are also paying for their outfits. The girls' dresses were ordered the other day and Master Aiden, his Mummy and I will be going shopping in the next couple of weeks to purchase his little suit. I wish I could show you the grown ups gifts, but they will have to be a post-wedding reveal! For now, I leave you with a picture of the dress we decided on for the flower girls, after looking a number of other options (we decided against the skirts!). What do you guys think?

kids colouring in books

Another project done and dusted!

As part of the gifts for the youngest members of our bridal party, and also to keep them entertained at the reception, I created some colouring in books for our flower girls and our page boy! One of the easier DIY projects so far and certainly one of the fun ones!

I started off by printing out multiple copies of various wedding related colouring pages. I managed to get enough pages going to be able to tell the story of a wedding, from the rehearsal day/dinner, through the flower girl/boy going down the aisle, through to the ceremony/cake cutting/first dance, etc. right to the bride and groom leaving in their "Just Married!" car.

Early on in my wedding planning process I had downloaded an AWESOME (though short) wedding activity book for kids. Unfortunately I didn't know I would be blogging at that stage and I don't appear to have saved a link for it [EDITORS NOTE (06/06/12) - I found the link today! I had Pinned it! Check out the wonderful book HERE!]. I couldn't use the whole booklet because there were a lot of activity pages (think join the dots, find-a-words, etc.) that were too old for our kiddies, but I did use a few of the colouring in pages and the front cover art (I LOVED the front cover). So if anyone recognises where it is from, please contact me and let me know so I can give credit where credit is due!

The other pages within the colouring in book are from this fantastic site here. If you want to make something similar to this, I seriously recommend checking this site out! Other then that, a simple Google search will bring up many free wedding-relating colouring in pages, including a bunch of Disney-related pages. We're planning to have a bunch of loose colouring in pages at the guest children's table as well (and some activity pages for the slightly older children!), along with some packets of colouring in pencils.

After the pages were printed, I selected a different coloured card stock for the back of each book. The page boy book had a dark grey card stock, the flower girls have one pink, one lavender.

After that, I sent them to work with my lovely Mum, who bound them for me and added hard plastic covers to the front and back!

Now each of the bridal party kids have a great colouring in book for the day, to keep them entertained and to take home with them to remember the day by! I think they turned out great! I can't wait to add them to the growing pile of bridal party gifts...I wish I could show you the rest, but for now only the littlest members! (I know they can't sneak on here and peek!)

Have you got anything planned to entertain your littlest bridal party members or youngest guests? Did/Do you plan to make anything similar? I'd love to hear about them!

page boy pillow alternatives

Way back when I started first blogging (it's coming up to a year! wow!), in amongst the first lot of random things I found and loved in the blogging world was the gorgeous ring bearer bowl by Paloma's Nest.

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I still love it.

But in all the wedding planning days (and etsy searches since then!) I have found a good number of other page boy pillow alternatives that I have fallen in love with as well. So I thought I'd share a few of them with you today. I'm still deciding on my favourite. Let me know yours!

a gorgeous moss pillow {via}

something for the damask lover {via}

to love, honour & cherish {via}

something for the heart strings {via}

something for the baseball lover {via} (my fiance!)

one for the mr & one for the mrs {via}

simple or embellished love {via}

happily ever after {via}

woodland wedding perfect {via}

simply stunning {via}

and last but not least

heirloom beauty {via}

our page boy!

Ok so I've been a bad blogger this week...See, what happens when you find amazing blogs to read, is that you stop writing in your own. Whoops!

But back into it!

I've got a number of posts lined up for this weekend, as long as I get 5 mins to sit down and write them. Today in fact, I am having a make up trial! Quite excited, it's included in a make up party for me and all my lovely ladies, so I'll be sure to do a write up of it (with pictures!) tomorrow.

But today, I would like to introduce you to our gorgeous little page boy, my nephew, Aiden. He is the son of my younger sister and bridesmaid, Danielle. And he's a gorgeous little monkey.

Now you've all seen the awesome books I found for our flower girls (can be seen here). Well, I ordered a Ring Bearer book online, and made up something similar for Master Aiden!





Cute right? Well I gave it to him on Thursday night. Now, he's only 9 months old, so doesn't really get it (of course) but he LOVES books, and was very excited to get something hehe. My sister really liked it and is looking forward to reading it to him when he's bigger! I can't believe he'll be two when we walk down the aisle!







PS. For anyone who is wondering what the sticker on the back of the card is, it's our stickers that I made to use to close our engagement invite envelopes! I've also used them on the back of the flower girl cards as well, here's a bit of a close up:


I think they turned out great!

Now just to give the little ladies their books!! Has anyone else done some fun projects for the littlest members of your bridal party?



PS. If anyone would like a copy of this Ring Bearer book (it really is a cute one!) it can be found here.

flowergirl project is finished!!

After a busy, BUSY weekend, catching up with a lot of gorgeous ladies (it really was an AWESOME weekend), I finally got a chance to sit down and finish the books for the girls. I can give them out this weekend and I'm quite excited. So, without further ado - the finished project!

(warning: there may be a lot of pictures of the envelopes...the amount of hassle we, and specifically my dad, had trying to get the damn things printed definitely requires some pictures of the end result haha)






Last night I also started the insert for my nephew's Page Boy book (on order) and designing something for the future hubby to put with whatever he decides to do for his groomsmen...when he finally decides to ask them...

Taking forever to ask the groomsmen seems to be a common theme with the men-folk! Did anyone else find their future hubby took a while to get around to it?