Countdowns and Paper Upcycling

Alright here are the long promised photos of the "Wedding Bells" banner I made last weekend:

Pretty cute right? I think next time, I will go for more of the color variant letters if I have double letters in a word.










If you remember that I said I saved the paper scraps from cutting the wedding invitations, then you have a really good memory. If you didn't remember, now you know that. :) When it comes to more expensive paper, I want to use as much of it as I can.

A long running joke during our engagement was that there would be a paper chain countdown to the wedding. Mr. Fiance thought it was just that, a joke. Well, yesterday he was rather surprised to find that part of his Valentine was a paper chain..

That's right, I re-used the scraps from the wedding invite project to create a 100 days Wedding Countdown. Each day will feature something that will (likely) only happen on our wedding day. Our My plan is to take a picture of us with that day's piece of paper and then use a digital photo frame or the digital projector at our venue to cycle the photos through - along with our engagement photos - during our cocktail hour.

 This is the same hallway where the wedding bells sign is... the paper chain extends from the front door to about a foot and half into our living room. Essentially about 20 feet long.

Here is what is essentially on each of the slips:

    #   days until insert wedding day event

You can see I started off with "100 days until I am Mrs. _______"

Generally I usually used our first names on the slips so that they are written in the first person and will make sense to our guests when they see them. So the list below has the title of the person in our wedding and not their actual name, in case you want to borrow the idea.

-Mr. Fiance is no longer a bachelor
-(insert name) is no longer a bachelorette
-MoH gives her Maid of Honor Speech
-Bride's parents walk her down the aisle

Yes, you read that right. My parents are walking me down the aisle. A job that traditionally in Christian based ceremonies is reserved for the father of the bride, I decided to challenge. Mom and Dad always made a point that they attempted to the best of their ability to raise their children together, that one parent was not above the other. They even made a point of telling Mr. Fiance and I this before we ever got engaged; if Mr. Fiance wanted to ask permission, he needed to sit down and ask them together. They later revised that and said he didn't need to ask, that he did not need to ask. That the decision to become engaged would be entirely my decision. Regardless, I took this matter to heart and ask them to walk me down the aisle together. That they would both be helping me transition into this new period of my life.

How did you celebrate or will you celebrate your 100 day countdown?