Phew. This week totally kicked my butt. Thankfully, I’m only working 3 days next week. Then it’s time to set off some fireworks!

I had dinner with my best friend on Wednesday night and asked her if she would be my maid of honor. She was thrilled, though she was a little nervous too. Neither of us have been in a wedding before. In fact, neither of us have even attended many weddings! It’s all pretty new to us, but I’m sending her some sites like Wedding Bee and Style Me Pretty that I think will help her get her feet wet. I know they helped me!

Next up, I have a bridesmaid that lives out of state that I’m asking to be in my wedding party. I mailed her card yesterday, so she should get it early next week. I’ve only hinted that she’s got mail on the way, and I’m still not sure if I should hint further or just let her be surprised.

Has anyone else ever asked out of town friends to be bridesmaids? How did you go about ‘popping the question”?

I was SO excited to get these in the mail yesterday. I ordered them from LittleLadyCompany on Etsy. I’m hoping I find my crafting genes as we get closer to the wedding, but I know the paper goods are out of my realm. I worked with her over a week or two to customize these to fit me. She was fantastic and went around digging up shades of gray and purple for me. They’re so cute – I don’t even want to give them up, LOL. Take a peek:

HEEEEE. FH is away until Sunday night, and I want him to see these before I give them away. Cannot wait.

Did any of your early wedding purchases leave you feeling giddy like this?

Hoo boy. This is a tough one.

Like most people, I hope, I’ve known a lot of incredible people during my life. I’ve been struggling with the task of which ones to ask to be part of my wedding party. This is one of those decisions that could quickly get out of control and turn into this:

Ack! You can’t even see the people in this picture. The size of this wedding party will probably end up being half the size of everyone even invited to my wedding. So I came up with a few simple rules for myself:

1. People who are willing to help & get crafty. I will be asking, so brace yourself.
2. People who don’t live terribly far away. Almost all of mine are local, luckily.
3. People who don’t have small children or other commitments that would make this difficult. FH’s sister in law would be a good choice, but their new daughter was born premature, so I don’t want to burden her with a big responsibility. We do want to ask her to do a reading or a similar task, because she’s special to us and we want to include her.

Your rules may differ, but I think it’s good to realize these kinds of things before asking people. What kind of qualities did you look for in your wedding party?