Reception decor

First off, if anyone is having a fall wedding with the whole leaf theme the Dollar Tree Store has theirs in and they look really cool for being a whole dollar.They're four feet long and it even has some fake moss on the branches (you'll have to click on the image to actually see it). I think these bad boys are going onto the head table.

After visiting both of our parents and amassing the pile of Halloween stuff now it's time to start delegating what goes where.

Meet our ever growing pile

We've got some really cool blinking green skeleton lights from his Mom that as soon as I plugged them in I thought, DJ, perfect. Thanks to my Mother I think we have a miles worth of orange lights we can string up all over the place along with a garbage bag full of fake leaves.

As time goes on we keep getting more and more props to decorate our wedding with (stay tuned for my attempt at making a Pratchett mainstay) so we have to decide where to put the cool pumpkin and spider lamp as well as the cauldron and an adorable bat.

I think some of it will be a day of thing. "Oh well here's an open space, quick put ghostie there." Never mind all the pumpkins we'll be getting and my MOH pushing the idea of getting straw bales.

We do have one thing figured out sort of, the cake table. First we are gonna do the old standard of scattering the leaves around on the table (why fight against a standard) but thanks to his Mom we got some really cool lights that are green, purple and orange (I'll admit at first I didn't think the color scheme would work at all, but it really looks amazing together. So if anyone is thinking of having a purple/green/orange wedding I say go for it).

I'll admit this picture does not do them justice as it's about impossible to take a picture of lights but they really pop and we're gonna run them around the cake and through the leaves.

We still have quite a bit more to go to really bring out all the halloween stuff (that and we just love making halloween stuff. I really think I need to make a spooky wedding sign but I have no idea how) and so if anyone needs any ideas for a haunted house I'm sure this blog will help with that as well.

Oh and in other news, I changed my shoes from white to blue last night.
Anything to get more blue and an excuse to get my fingers a different color.

Barefootin'

I hate shoes. I have always hated shoes (and no one should ever take me shoe shopping). If given the option I will go barefoot (and since my feet are rarely trapped inside a shoe they smell quite lovely). I love the houses where they encourage you to take your shoes off so you don't mess up the carpet. I don't really feel like I can relax if my shoes are on.

I can get so bad I'll walk to the mailbox barefoot in any weather (and yes I have done it with snow on the ground before). It's the whole having to trap my feet in between pieces of leather that just bothers me.

So somewhere along the line I realized that I had to come up with some kind of really nice and fancy shoe for the wedding. Awe crap. I hate dress shoes even more than tennies. It's like torture times 10. Plus I have no discerning taste for what is cute in a shoe and what isn't. All I know is the levels of entrapment. Sandals rates about a 3, while those evil grecian shoes about a 9.5.

After some looking around, keeping my eyes open, possibly having to face the idea of wearing heels (which would lead to much entertainment for the guests but a broken ankle for me) I lucked out and found some simple white sandals (from Target) that didn't have the flip flop toe killer in the middle.

The only drawback is that there really is no arch to these things. So after some thinking and squishing in the store I decided to get myself some gel inserts. They're so comfy and fun to stand on and while the blue will be poking out all over the place I've just decided that if anyone does see them then I can say hey it's more of my something blue.

Hurray, I don't have to think about shoes anymore. Well till my bridesmaids started asking me what shoes they should wear.

I don't get the point of the dyeable shoes that are supposed to match the dress color. Really, who would ever wear a plum shoe again? Since my girls are all wearing tea-length dresses they seem to think it's important but I just say let them wear something they already have in their closet. They won't have to buy anything new (and can save some money to spend on something more fun than shoes) and they'll already be broken in. I'm kinda hoping my MOH will show up in her crocs cause it'd be entertaining.

I guess shoes goes right up there on my list of things I don't care or know anything about so I'm gonna pass the buck.

Anyone else hate shoes as much as I do? Anyone got the cajones to actually go barefoot (which I thought about but realized that October cement is usually quite cold)?