I’m not sure if you heard, but last weekend, on April 21st, the “Rapture” was supposed to occur. Judgment Day. The end of modern times. On the same day, I received another prophetic, though slightly less dooms-day-ish email. It read, “Your wedding is in 5 months.” As I’m sitting here typing today, I guess I should continue planning. Whew. Five months is a pretty tangible time frame. We’re getting to the “You better be getting thing done,” phase. Fortunately, we’re looking pretty good. We have menswear and stationary left in the big picture, and the rest is in the details. Things like table décor to go with the flowers, making wedding favors, and organizing seating charts are what I have left to tackle. The final walk through on our reception site construction is scheduled for next week. I actually feel pretty calm about how the progress of things are going
Most of my stress comes from the fact that I’m not stressed about wedding planning, and it seems like maybe I should be. Shouldn’t I be sweating the details? Shouldn’t I be worried about what color napkins to use and herding all our groomsmen to the same place to get fitted for the same suit? I’m just… not. Well. I wasn’t. Until I heard the latest update on the end of mankind as we know it. The Rapture has been rescheduled from its original broadcasted time to the EXACT day of our wedding. And really, I can still only reply: What better way to celebrate than with the man I want to spend the rest of my time here on earth while surrounded by family and friends?
We made our photo booth for our Engagement party in about twenty minutes with materials we had on hand. As I said before, it was by no means perfect technologically, but for the memory/fun factor it was one of the BEST things we did at the party.
The most difficult part was the camera set-up. Amazingly, my mom’s camera has a setting that allows you to set it on a self timer that takes X number of pictures of X number of seconds. We set it to take 3 photos over 6 seconds, but you could do 5 pics over 15 seconds or 4 over 20, or lots of combos. I highly recommend checking out the rarely used settings on your little point and shoot digital camera. My mom’s is a no frills Canon Powershot that we placed on a tripod with easy to follow directions written out nearby.
If you are anything like me, you love DIY projects that require very little set-up, and even fewer supplies. If it requires me to special order a part or piece on-line, or make trips to five different stores for the right supplies… it probably isn’t going to happen any time soon. That simple fact is why I love paper projects. Who doesn’t have paper lying around?
One of the small details one runs into when planning a wedding in an out of the way location is making sure everyone arrives to that location with minimal u-turns and stops at the gas station to ask for directions. While checking the directions given on the usual mapping sites (lets face it, we’ve all been given wrong instructions on how to arrive at our destination) I came across 
Hmmmmm…. tasty. I detect a note of savings with a undercurrent of fun and a piquant of miserly craftiness.
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