Wedding Memento Frames

You put so much work into picking out the invites, the stationary for your wedding... why not make them a displayable work of art! This is a great way to keep and display items from your wedding!

I have two different pieces here:

The top piece is a 13" X 17" picture frame from Michaels, about $8 (but you can use your coupons and get it for less!).
I had displayed (top to bottom, starting with the left side) our save-the-dates postcard, our invitations, our wedding programs, a piece of burlap from our wedding decor (1 Corinthians 13:8), a wedding kiss picture, our sparkler send-off picture, a Congratulations card (with a cute bride and groom outfit!), and lastly, our thank you cards.

And then the bottom piece I made of our wedding date. It's a divided picture frame, about 6.5" X 13" undivided, and cost about $6 at Michaels (again, use a coupon and you save!).
I went to this site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/collections/ and found pictures of numbers to print. I just adjusted the size and printed on my printer. 5 7 11!

Here is our living room! Finished project? For now :)

Hint for all you Apartment Dwellers out there: Try to stray away from push pins, they just poke little holes in the wall you have to deal with later when you leave! So, what's a good alternative? How about Command Strips (which you can find in almost any store!). They stick to your object and the other side sticks to the wall, but there is a tab that you can pull when it is time to take it all down, and No Mess/ No Holes! Pretty cool :)

Try this: Wedding Photo Book

Before we were even married, I knew what I was going to give our parents and grandparents for Christmas this year. Call me crazy, but when you plan your own wedding, you get "planning for the future" ideas like this! So I decided to make a photo book out of our wedding pictures as gifts! Photo BOOKS, not photo albums. That's where a company has a program where you download and organize all your pictures, then they print and bind them on a hard cover book, to make your photos look like a picture book! It looks amazing and so professional!

So here's how I made this work: During the summer, I found LivingSocial coupons for this company called MyPublisher where they were offering half off a book, PLUS added pages to your book! Which was awesome because three books can add up quick, and I had SOOOO many pictures from the wedding (over 800!) so the additional pages would be put to good use!
The great thing about LivingSocial is that the coupons didn't expire till 2012 (so PLENTY of time!) and I could buy three coupons and use them each for the discount! I also trust LivingSocial because I have had some problems with vendors and LivingSocial has backed me up with full refunds or credits! They know how to do business right!
So MyPublisher requires you to download their photo book software (free!) and then you download the photos you will use on to that program. Then... the rest is up to you! Being as creative or basic as you want, they allow you to tweak the photos a bit, re-size, write words, and give you tons of options when it comes to printing. They also let you know while you editing if that photo will looks it's best, or if it needs to have something done to it. It's strange how the photo can look great on your computer but won't print well... so thank goodness they have that! I also think MyPublisher has a refund policy, so if they are at fault for printing, or your unhappy with their work (mind you... your responsibility for editing comes in to play too) they will redo the book free of charge. Good business. Good accountability!

Of course my creative "genius" made me almost wait till last minute to put the finishing editing touches on the photo books... but ordering was a piece of cake, and although they said they were so busy from the holidays that orders could be taking the maximum estimated delivery time... mine came EARLIER than predicted! Way to deliver!

The Results? LOVE!!!!!!!!!!! They were beautiful and every one enjoyed them! And now that I have seen them, I am jealous and want to order one for my self soon! Good thing MyPublisher keeps your books always on file! ;) I will definitely be using them again! They are a little pricey, but they always have sales and deals and the quality is AMAZING!

Click here to see our Photobook of our Wedding~

Wedding Photo Collage

From the wedding, I had four cork boards. They were used as my escort cards holder. I decided to hang them in the dining area with the word: LOVE. Then I printed black and white pictures from our wedding day (free prints from Walgreens!) and used little wooden pins to secure them to the ribbon that was already on there. It is fun to eat dinner and talk about our wedding :)

The Adventure Starts with a Wedding

On May 7th, 2011 in a Beautiful garden in Alpharetta, GA, I married my best friend and greatest love Tommy Lanham! Tommy and I have been dating since September 5th 2008 and have enjoyed every minute together! Life has taken us on many difficult roads, for example, Tommy moved to Raleigh, NC for a job while we were engaged. It was hard being so far away from each other, especially during planning for our wedding! Fortunately, we had phones and skype and we both made as many trips to see each other as possible. The distance was hard, but well worth it in the end! Today, we are living in Raleigh, NC and are slowly making it our home and filling our days with adventure and love ♥


The wedding was magical and could only be described as Perfect! I may be biased, but really, there is not a thing I would change about the whole thing! Everything worked out beautifully! And we seriously couldn't have done it with out the wonderful help of our friends and family! Friends and family from every where helped us make our wedding day dreams come true!