More wedding-related news....

Some of you may have already read this over on dev's blog, but I thought I'd make some sort of effort at maintaining updates on the wedding front for those interested!

I have an M-of-Honor!

~me & devon in 2002 ~

Two classy broads kickin' it in Oklahoma for Lauren + Brad's wedding.

While there are a million ways to ask someone to be in your wedding party (some cute, some not), I hadn't really come up with a universal way to ask the girls I wanted in ours.  My thought was to come up with something organically and be satisfied with various way for the various girls.  Buck tradition, I always say!

Ok, I almost never say that.

Anyway, I was in a one-of-a-kind boutique here in San Francisco, just browsing around, when I came across this apothecary jar:

It automatically reminded me so much of my pretty friend.  It's girlie, french, and classy, isn't it?  Ok, so devon's not french at all, but I feel like she could be. C'mon, follow me here.  She likes wine and cheese and berets and bicycles.  All things culturally french, right?

I couldn't rightly just hand her a jar and ask her to be my matron of honor (don't think I didn't consider it).  So it sat in a bag until I was inspired, just before I flew out to Chicago.  I had to do some hardcore brainstorming as she  had set the standards pretty high with mini preparedness packages arriving on her bridal party's doorsteps a couple of years ago!

As cliched as it may sound, this was inspired while I was in the shower.

I have been making some fabric flowers lately and my favorite one seemed to fit perfectly on top of the little jar once it was flipped upside down.  I added a little tag that explained the flower's purpose and what she was supposed to do next.  Then I got working on the innards.

I played with her "title" for awhile.  

Ya'll have to agree with me on this one.  Maid-of-honor sounds so much cuter and younger than MATRON of honor.  I mean, take a look at the definition of Matron:

Breeding??  Really?  Actually, the formal definition of Maid ain't better (trust me on that one).  I'm going to be sticking with MofHonor for now.

Little bits of cardboard guaranteed an easy fit in the jar.

I wrote out my little message on strips of recycled cardstock and used red & white striped bakers' twine to tie each word to each other, like a strand of vocabulary.  Then, I tied the top of the strand to the inside of the lid so it would all pull out word-by-word by the recipient:

devon, would you be my m. of honor?

See?  She would lift the lid and pull out the message.

The string of cardboard words was anchored by a mini Scharffenberger chocolate bar (local here to SF) with a mini cardboard bird and an arrow pointing to a printed word on the chocolate to indicate how I feel about a positive response:

Sweet!

Thank goodness she said yes.  That could've been awkward.  :)