On November 7th my significant other says “let’s get married this year”, the plan was to get married next year, I said okay thinking the game plan was still to go to the courthouse. But no, he wanted to keep the same plan of getting married on our anniversary, December 8th.. slight problem with that. At that time it was 9 weeks away. Back story as to why it was more of an issue, on September 16th my Little brother was in a roll over semi accident and was life flighted to an out of state STICU with severe brain damage, most to all of my and my parents attention and time has been on him and keeping things up kept on the home front, my parents own a small farm, so my “spare time” became EXTREMELY limited I was working a 8-4 & a 4:15-6 along with doing the farm chores that took between an hour, hour and a 1/2 and staying longer so my parents and brothers dog(s) could be out of their cages, so I wasn’t getting home till 9 or 10 o’clock at night to then do my own upkeep of our home and animals. So with a wedding to plan and less than 9 weeks to do it I felt very rushed and stressed out, not what anyone wants to feel when planning a wedding. However my 4:15-6 job allowed me to cut out early for the season to give me some extra time, that helped, but only a little. I found our licensed ordain minister, found our venue, sent the invitations, picked our colors, found a photographer, booked a reservation for dinner after, got his shirt, bought the wedding bands and got the dress.
Now I wanted a courthouse wedding I didn’t want the dress, I didn’t want the invites, I didn’t want colors, I didn’t want the photos or the big dinner. So we settled, 8 invites, simple white dress my sister had worn for maternity pictures with her first born, simple minister that actually knows my dad (so I called on one of his favors), his favorite color and mine for our colors & a local place for dinner that would take our reservation.
Now, I wasn’t going to do flowers because that’s not who I am but when I told my mom that, she about cried (she had a courthouse wedding and the flowers are the only thing she wished she had) sooooo I said fine I’ll do wood flowers so that way we have them forever (yeah, if you know me that’s cheesy). I looked and looked and looked and then I found these, seemed simple and they seemed coat effective with the tight budget and timeframe I had I was hoping for them to be here in time, they were. They showed up I watched the “how to stem your flower” video and away I went, an hour tops is all it took me. I worked YEARS in a floral shop so I knew what I was doing, mostly, sort of; I had also order a box of extra flowers with a few different colors for more color and flower options and I loved the idea and execution of it. I think they look beautiful and would 100000000% recommend these to ANY bride no matter what their timeframe is till there wedding. So thank you LuvSola for the beautiful flowers and the easy design to keep my hectic life moving because if it would have taken any longer they would probably be 1/2 done and still in the box.