Old Navy $1 Flip Flop Sale!

Hey readers!

Now everyone can buy $1 flip flops at Old Navy this Saturday, May 21st! :D :D :D

There's a limit of 5 per person, so bring your family and friends to help you collect enough lovelies for your reception!

Good luck ladies!!!

Old Navy Flip Flop Presale!

Hey readers,

Just letting you know if you have an Old Navy credit card, (or any of your family or friends...), you can take part in the Old Navy $1 flip flop sale going on tomorrow only, Saturday the 14th!

There's a limit of 5 per customer, and it's only in-store, but get a crew going with you and you should have a decent stock of them before the real crowds come!

Good luck!

Another Alert to All Thrifty Brides!!!

We have more amazing thrify-ness from The Christmas Tree Shop and the Dollar Tree! :D

First, we have The Christmas Tree Shop find, cute and comfy hooded terry wraps for just $8 each, in white, pink, blue, yellow and (I think) black:

These would be a perfect bridesmaids' gift, easy to customize, and a great way to get those cute getting-ready pics!


At the Dollar Tree, they're selling what most brides wait til June for...$1 flip flops!!!

You can get them in black or white designs or in black, dark blue, light blue, pink, purple, or yellow!

No more waiting in line at Old Navy ladies! Get these while they last!

Your welcome.

:)

(As a side note, Dollar Tree and Christmas Tree Shop gave me nothing for doing this post, this is just my thrifty opinion!)

How to Get A Phantom Wedding Like David Tutera's My Fair Wedding: Favors

After trying to wrap up the David Tutera - My Fair Wedding series in just one more post, I realized that one of the items did have enough information and choices to warrant its very own post, so here it is!

Step 9: Purchase favors.

Two words: masquerade masks!

This was a really fun element in David Tutera's Phantom of the Opera vision, and including this is more affordable than you think.

All your guests can have black masks like these half masks from Oriental Trading Company, 24 for just $3.49!!!


Show off your bridal party by giving them these very stylish but still very affordable feather masks, 12 for just $19.99!

If you don't want your bridal party to be as flashy, then these lacy lovelies from Crafta will work just as nicely! Each mask starts at $1.99 each and goes down to $1.59 each when you buy 6 or more!

The groomsmen are more difficult, just because there aren't as many formal mens masks that don't cost a bundle.

These black masks from Crafta go nicely with the gold lace masks, and are still affordable at $1.99 each, $1.59 each when you buy 6 or more. However, they do not go nicely with the black and white feather masks.

However, these black and silver masks from Amazon will work very well with the black and white feather masks! And for $4.63 each, they're not too shabby pricewise.


You can have a lot more fun with your mask and your groom's mask. Make sure you stand out from the crowd! One of my favorite masks for a groom would have to be this one from House of Masquerades for $17.95. Very formal Phantom :)

Another great mask is this black and gold one on Amazon for $9.99. Very classic!


For you, the elegant bride, I have some lovely white, over-the-top, high feather options! :D

The first, a lovely design from Crafta for $15.99:

The second, a very similar, but cheaper, option from Mardi Gras Beads and Supplies for $9.90:

If you want something a little different, try this mask from Party City for $19.99:

And if you want to splurge a bit on yourself, there's this lovely for $50 from Success Creations:

Photo copyright by Success Creations
All these masks should be on sticks and have any strings or ties removed, just for ease of use. You would have spent way too much effort getting your makeup right to endanger it by plastering a mask on your face! (And I'm sure the other ladies at your wedding will feel the same way!)

Where to get the sticks? A fantastic place to buy them in bulk is at CraftParts.com! You can get 100 1/4" diameter, 36" long dowels for $22! Give them a quick coat of paint, then hot glue or epoxy them onto the masks!

Total cost for favors: $78.51 - $153.17

Now (seriously) on to Step 10: All the Little Details!

Comfy Cozy Winter Wedding Inspiration

As I look outside at the wonderful snowy landscape before me, I just feel so comfortable and warm in my home.

I also start to think of lovely wintery things for weddings!

Over the past few months, despite my busyness, I was still able to collect a ton of winter inspiration, and I thought today would be a perfect time to share some tidbits with you!

I have always loved plaid...but I know I wouldn't like red in the color palette :P So I love this inspiration board (which also has a violin in it, score!) from The Finer Things. It has a tartan blue and green plaid theme, which is much more applicable to what I'm planning! And with the bf being proud of his Scottish heritage, I think he would love it! :)


For some reason I'm lusting after this pretty card box:


It just looks so dainty and pretty! The winter version of a birdcage card box! However I refuse to pay $40 for it...however you do find it from time to time on the Weddingbee Classifieds for less.

Just look at these!


Such a cute way to serve hot chocolate! You melt chocolate in ice cube trays and have it cool on sticks. (Full set of instructions are in Giver's Log, because if you don't temper your chocolate properly, they won't look as pretty!) Then you can dip your chocolate pops in candy melts chocolate and add on any embellishments, such as sprinkles, silver dragees, coconut, edible glitter, whatever! Serve your sticks proudly with glasses of hot milk or half and half! Mmmm...

I love the idea of including wood paper into the many paper elements of a wedding, however the wood paper does not come cheap! XP Despite this fact, I can't help but love the woodsy yet modern look of these escort cards from Martha Stewart Weddings.


I wonder if you could pull of printing a wood grain on satin-finished paper? Hmmm...something to try one of these days...

I think my friends would beg me not to put hundreds of little snowflakes on toothpicks...but wouldn't it be cute?! Maybe I could wrap the little container with an evergreen branch, so it looks like snow on a tree! :D Martha Stewart would be proud XD


o.0 On Project Wedding I found the most glamorous snow photographs I have ever seen:

Her makeup.
Her eyes.
So captivating.

You have no idea how badly I want photographs like that o.0

Well, I realized I have wayyy too much winter wedding inspiration for just one post to handle, so I'm going to space it out a bit. I think the wedding blogosphere needs more winter wedding posts anyways :)

The Results of My Rosey Quest

So I went to 4 Dollar Tree's.

And I managed to find 17 packages of just light purple rose soaps! They cost me a grand total of $18.50! :D

Apparently there were more color combinations than I thought, I was able to find white, light pink, bright pink, light purple, and light green for a monochromatic set, and another combo-colored set in white and peach!

Since my favorite color of all time is purple, (if you haven't guessed from my blog,) I was happy to get all purple flowers!

I was so excited with my find that I had to try them out when I got home!

So here's my quick review:

When you take them out of the container, they feel a lot like foam, and you're wondering if you really bought soaps or if the store just labeled them wrong...But alas! Once you put a teared-off petal under water it dissolves and turns to soap!

...I do wish though it didn't stick to my hand in a slightly gooey-soapy mess...your hands do get clean, because you're trying to wash/scrape the soap away...perhaps warmer water might make these easier to deal with.

Also they don't really have that strong of a scent, but that's nothing that a little body spray/perfume won't fix :)

However these things are sturdy enough that you could potentially thread them with a wire or string and do a craft project with them, as long as liquids aren't involved anyway.

In my opinion, I think these things have enough character that I don't care if they're a bit hard to wash with, but that is my honest assessment of them for any brides to be out there.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I have found the cutest soaps I've ever seen.

They are shaped like roses, and you break off one petal at a time to wash your hands!



They would be perfect as wedding favors or just something adorable to dress up the bathroom area wherever I have the reception, or perhaps something cute to put in the welcome bags for my 100 out-of-town guests!

They can be ordered online, but only by the case--no idea what I would do with 324 of these things...

And the greatest part of all?

9 of these lovely creations...for just $1

Hmmm, looks like I'll be making a trip to the Dollar Tree in the near future... :D