The Tale of Mr Fuzzy

Meet Mr. Fuzzy

Now believe it or not…this little orange guy was an honored guest at our wedding.  Let me explain…

It all started When I first arrived in Vegas for my bachelorette weekend.  I hopped off the shuttle at PH excited to get my first drink and was greeted by two of my good girlfriends who were already in town!

Among the hugging, “hi”-ing, beer-handing, suitcase-carrying maddness…my friend and BM (we’ll call her Frank…for various reasons) kept speaking about someone named “Mr Fuzzy”.  Then she continued to flash this crazy plastic packaged thing in front of me that could only be described as a young child’s toy.

{pic via here}

While I attempted to check-in and speak with the nice man behind the desk…Frank kept going on and on about this weird fuzzy thing…that she apparently bought from some street vendor…

{pic via here}

Now at first I thought maybe Frank had already had a few too many yard-long margaritas at La Salsa Cantina…but then I reminded myself that this is Frank we’re talking about…this sort of thing is very typical for her.

We spent the rest of the day trying to find scissors so we could see this marvel that is “Mr Fuzzy”…eventually someone lent us a pair and we were in business.  Unfortunately Frank did not realize Mr Fuzzy was attached to a string and in deed not magical on his own.  She tried and tried…but still couldn’t get Mr Fuzzy to do his tricks.

We assured Frank that if she spent enough time practicing…she could do a Big Show for us at the wedding.  For the rest of the Vegas trip I don’t think 10mins past without a mention of Mr Fuzzy…Frank even did a late night photo shoot with him.  Needless to say…without Mr Fuzzy my bachelorette weekend would not have been the same!

Fast Forward to our wedding.  Excited for the Big Show…I asked BM Frank if she had remembered to bring Mr Fuzzy.  She hadn’t!!  Luckily my sister found an off-brand Mr Fuzzy at Wal-Mart.  (Yes apparently this thing is popular enough that it also has an off-brand nemesis).  Thanks to Franks efforts….and lots of UTube Mr Fuzzy video tutorials…Mr Fuzzy was brought to life!  His crazy tricks entertained us while we got our hair done!

Unfortunately Mr Fuzzy did not make it into any of the formal portraits that day…but he did sneak into the Shoot Shack with the Vegas crew…

See that little orange thing toward the bottom left of the picture?!  Yep..thats him.

Frank busted out some mad tricks with Mr Fuzzy for the shoot shack… Can you spot the fuzzy man??  flying through the air!

Later Frank did a little photo-shoot with the little fur ball…

So there ya go.

Mr Fuzzy…a VIP guest indeed.

That Crazy Monique

I tell ya…if I was rich…this whole “what should the BMs wear?” question would be solved…I would buy them all a Monique!!

It is pry a good thing there isn’t a purple color available…otherwise my cc might be taking a hit at this very moment…

all pics from here…where you can now buy your BMs some Moniques online!

Be My Bridesmaid?

Pre-wedding blog reading Steph would have just called and asked her friends/sisters to be bridesmaids…

Wedding blog junkie Steph knew that asking her friends/sisters to be BMs required something a little bit more special…I mean after all these girls are gonna be by my side on the big day and destressing me when the time comes so why not show them how much I appreciate them from the get-go?!?

Taking inspiration from posts via Miss Ducky on Weddingbee and the Budget Savvy Bride herself…I set off on my first official wedding related DIY adventure.  Be My Maid cards!

I liked how BSB cut out sketches of dress styles she liked…and I liked that Miss Ducky used pictures on the front of the cards of her and the girl she was asking…so I did my best to put these two ideas together.

step 1:  make dress sketches.  drinking wine is optional but highly recommend.

step 2:  trace and cut out favorite sketches on pretty purple Martha Stewart cardstock…add cute details with silver pen.

step 3:  find cute font and print out whatever text on inside of grey cardstock paper…I don’t remember the font but I’m pretty sure I got it from dafont.

step 4:  use bone folder to create that perfect crease!

step 5:  affix cute dresses to inside of card with glue dots (best thing ever!)

step 6:  adorn with cute stickers to add a little flair and round the corners with corner rounder (both optional)

step 7:  find cute pics of you with your “besties” and print them off.  i liked the blk/white look with the cards instead of color so I went with that.  affix pic to purple cardstock and attach to front of card with glue dots to give it some dimension.

step 8:  decorate outside of card with whatever else you got in your craft stash…ribbon, edge cutter, stickers, etc.

step 9:  print out names in pretty font..unless you are blessed with pretty handwriting…and trace onto vellum envelopes with black sharpie.

step 10:  insert card into matching envelope

step 11:  throw in some cute initial note cards and the oh-so-popular ring pop and send them on their way!

Sorry for all the smearing out of names/dates…gotta keep some things private.

So thats 3 BMs…and the other 2 are my sisters.  I didn’t have any pictures with them so I made ther cards a little different.  They actually turned out way cute too but I didn’t snap any photos!  I just put a bunch of the cut-out dresses on the front instead of a picture.

All the girls seemed to really like them…what do you think?