What a great weekend... I went to the pool and babysat my neighbor girls..that was a blast.. tetherball, swimming, and going up to the cabana for more sugar and candy..I love my neighborhood pool..and my neighbor girls! Then Thomas and I made the tags for the mason jars with the lace. He sawed down a pallet we found outside a furniture store and I painted some rustic looking signs, "Thank" "You" "McQuary Wedding" "Dinner + Dancing" and "Mr." "Mrs." Annnnd I made these cute little birds.. The ones I've been idolizing on the internet cost of $200 for the pair! I bought these clip on birds at Michael's and took the clips off..Thomas made some legs out of this twine-y wire.. I made a top hat, bowtie, and tux out of ribbon and felt for the groom.. and used some left over netting, diamond and pearl stick pins, and flowers for the bride...and hot glued...they crack me up. I'm going to have them by the guest book at the ceremony and on the gift table with the vintage bird house at the reception.....oh and I ordered the skeleton keys and pink stripey straws ! ..and the postcard rack is painted a flat black and we found a finial for the top..

So my idea was to have guests (on the back patio of the golf clubhouse) mingle and watch the bridal party take photos on the golf course.. i saw photos of the paper cones out of sheet music online.. saw that others had used them for petals, etc. Then I found the popcorn co. here nearby.. I went in and free sampled practically every variety.. I decided on three flavors.. cajun (orange and spicy), kettle corn (yellow and sweet and salty), and bubble gum (teal! and sweet).. love the teal blue color of the bubble gum..and that was actually my favorite pick from the whole store.. different and unexpected and the color will make the photos pop... so the popcorn is going to be in galvenized buckets (if i can find some that aren't too shiny..atwoods has some but tooo shiny now i think)..and mini chalkboards attached to label them (bought at michaels).. and guests will fill their cones with the popcorn.. i'll have some pre filled in these old wood coke bottle crates i found!!! excited about these.. I have two and they were $5! .. So then I was on stylemepretty blog and I found the idea I had in my mind! minus the wagon wheel cart..lol The cones are all made now..working on tags for the mason jars for the pink lemonade.. ordering the pink and white straws today too!