Happy Sunday, everyone! I had a really fun weekend this weekend becaaaaaauuuusse I got to start making the centerpieces for the wedding!
With the wedding 167 days away (but, really, who's counting), it's exciting to start doing some of the more "fun" stuff. I feel like, since we made our big decisions last fall (date, venue, DJ, photographer, and church), we haven't been doing much in the way of wedding planning. A couple weeks ago, we wielded the "zappy gun" while we registered and last week, we worked on sending out our Save the Dates!
But yesterday has been the most fun so far. I really wish Patrick could have helped out, but he lacks some of the finer motor skills that we used yesterday (sorry, Patrick!)
My mom's friend, Victoria, owns a farm in Adelle, Wisconsin and she very kindly offered to help me make centerpieces for my big day. My sisters, my mom, my second mom Pam, Patrick's mom Beth, and a family friend Sue trekked out to the farm. I'm not entirely sure everyone exactly knew what they were in for...
First, let me tell you a little bit about Victoria. She is, in a word: cool. Patrick jokes that she's my girl crush (not untrue). I won't go into her entire history, but she used to be a florist in Downtown Milwaukee and she and her wonderful husband Tom chose to move out to the country. They built their gorgeous farm home from and old barn and Victoria grows flowers and different assortments of vegetables (right now she has lots of garlic bulbs going). Among a lot of other talents, she makes a lot of her own food from scratch and still makes beautiful floral arrangements for a large hotel in the area. She's going to be hosting a multitude of classes in her shack this summer if anyone is interested in coming with me! Also, she'll be launching her very own blog soon and everyone should check. It. Out! I'll be sure to keep you posted!
Her house is absolutely gorgeous and every inch, beam, and corner of the house speaks to Tom and Victoria. I would post pictures of the house, but maybe that would be creepy? Tom actually felled the trees to make their hardwood floor! And, from her beautiful antique trunk collection around the house to her shiny copper pots and pans that hang in her kitchen, their house is so uniquely theirs. Honestly, I want to move in, and maybe one day Victoria will find me just hiding up in their loft amongst all of her dad's old books.
She's so wonderful and she came up with the centerpiece idea and just ran with it. When I met her back in February, she just started sketching some ideas and it grew from there! Unfortunately, I'm not very creative, but I told her that I know what I like and I can take direction very well. So far, that has worked out very well because I have liked everything she has come up with. As many of you know, decision-making is not my strong suit, but I made some decisions as it came to this project! Go me!
As we got to the house yesterday, Victoria had a beautiful spread for lunch: two types of salad, Ceasar and a tomato artichoke, a carrot soup that was to DIE for, some spinach-stuffed chicken breasts with a lemon aioli, and delicious bread. To drink, lemonade with rosemary-infused ice cubes. Very fun and very delicious. Once we had filled our bellies, we decided to take a little walk around the farm. We saw the shack where Victoria will hold her classes this summer that she has also made into a very quaint guest home and met her chickens. Most notably, Mo'nique, for whom Kalee had a certain fondness.
Afterwards, Elise and I took a ride in the 4-wheeler back up to the house with Farmer Tom (just because) where we started our project. Elise joked that the truck looked like an orange Pope-mobile.
I don't want to share too many pictures because I don't want to give away the centerpieces before the wedding! BUT! I will tell you that they are awesome. We toiled for about 2 or 3 hours making these centerpieces, just clucking our little gal talk, just like Victoria's other chicks! At the end of it all, we were able to make a mock-up of a table centerpiece, and I'm super psyched for everyone to see them.
I'm so thankful for my sisters, family, extended family, and NEW family for helping out yesterday! I hope everyone had as much fun as I did! And now we get to all look at the centerpieces with a particular fondness and pride.
See you all on Tuesday!
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