save the date | balloons

although this post is a tad bit dated, being posted back in 2010, i love this cute save the date wedding idea. the guest would receive this cute card with a balloon attached. when they blow up the balloon - poof! they get their invitation with who, where, date and time! i love it.

if you have not been over to ohjoy, you definitely need to go and take a look at her diy's! they're clever and adorable! enjoy!

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wedding champagne

marcos and i want to have his dad give a toast at our wedding, so we have been looking for a good way to distinguish between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic champagne. my family does not drink and marcos'  family does, and we want everyone to be able to participate in the toast.

we didn't know how to distinguish other than placing a card or a tag on the flutes. so i saw something like this in a magazine and kind of adjusted it to work for our wedding. the 2 colors would represent the content of the glass. tell me what you think!

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[gorgeous cards from ohhappyday!]

wedding photographer

marcos and i have been searching for a little while for a quality photographer for our wedding. we found a few that we might be interested in and started reaching out to them to find the best option for our needs.

while we were searching, we found an amazing and super talented photographer, emily lesher, and we fell in love with her style of photography. we were nervous that she might have already booked the date that we needed and if her prices would match with our budget.

we spoke with her this past week and we have actually signed a contract and put down our down payment! we are so thrilled that we are going to be able to work with someone who is so talented and so personable. after speaking with her on the phone, we both got a really good vibe from her and we're excited to meet her soon!

things are slowly falling into place for our wedding and we couldn't be more excited! visit her website here to see her wonderful work!

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table no.'s

as i was browsing for extra 'things' to put on our tables at our wedding reception and after looking at candles and votives and flowers and just stuff... i naturally came across pictures of weddings and was able to look at some of the decor that other people had used.

i forgot about the table numbers!!!

i couldn't believe it! and i found some really cute ones in adorable off-white standing frames. i did my research and looked high and low for the perfect frames and found that they are available at ikea. i found some that were used for about $2.50 each and then looked them up on the ikea website and found something that was super exciting!

these adorable little tolsby frames were available at ikea, right down the street from my home for a whopping $0.99/each!! i couldn't believe it! i ran into the bathroom and told my showering fiance that we HAD to go to ikea ASAP!!! so of course we did and i got some perfect little tolsby frames for a perfect little price! and i plan to use them like so...


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clothes for him >

marcos and i decided that we don't want him to wear a tux to our wedding. it's just 'not our style'. so we have been searching high and low for a super cute suit for him to wear that would fit our style and fit him well. we found this faded black suit from jcrew and thought that it would work well with our wedding colors.

we are headed out on a cruise in 8 days and we plan on taking some time in california to find a jcrew wedding and take a look at this suit. we are super excited!


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wedding favors

marcos and myself have decided what we want to do for our wedding favors. we were trying to think of something that wasn't ghetto and something that wasn't tacky and something that our guests could really use and enjoy.

we went searching online for the perfect favors that would fit our style because the last thing that we would want to give someone is a little bag full of m&m's. i would rather not give a favor than give something that wasn't 'us' and wasn't memorable.

so we came up with this idea. well - we found this idea. and i wanted to share!!


what favors did you give your guests at your wedding?

presenting > our wedding flowers

this weekend, marcos and myself sat down for to make a tough decision. after many hours of contemplating what would fit our style and how we would make it work with our venue... we decided on our wedding flowers.... the ones that made the cut are the ones that we now present to you as...

it's amazing how everything is really starting to fall into place.

wedding checklist:

1. dress - purchased
2. ring (mine) - purchased

3. ring (his) - found
4. venue - selected
5. suit (for him) - found
6. bridesmaids dress - found
7. flowers - found
8. caterer - looking
9. guest list - chosen
10. honeymoon - looking

11. invitations - (should be done)

12. colors - selected

13. hair style - selected

14. shoes - looking

15. cake - selected

16. wedding favors - selected

i'm sure i'm missing a few things... but they'll fall into place sooner or later! happy [late] monday!

the venue +

so yesterday, the fiance and i woke up and went on the search for the perfect venue for our wedding. seeing as though our wedding is going to be TINY, probably around 40 people in attendance, we wanted something that fit our needs. we went to a few places and found that they didn't really fit our style and wanted something more simple, yet elegant. also - there were a lot of places that wanted to charge us for a whole day when we only will need to venue for about 3-4 hours, maximum.

we had made an appointment to go see the sleepy ridge golf course and their amazing venue and we were so thrilled that it was more of what we were looking for. they don't have the greatest pictures on their website, but there are some gorgeous videos of some other weddings that took place there, and i just had to share. enjoy!

password is: McClain (case sensitive) 

Renae {+} Kenny // Sleepy Ridge Highlights from Chris McClain Productions on Vimeo.

my wedding hair ------o

so with my dress all purchased and paid for, and my fiance and i starting to get things for our wedding, i decided that it would be a good idea to start looking for the hair-do that i want to have. it has to match the dress and the style of our wedding.

so as i was searching, i found this messy bun, and decided that this would be it! i think it's just simple, and it would allow me to show off the flowers and the back of my dress. i must go with an up-do.

so tell me what you think!

// wedding dress \\

so i got my wedding dress last night... i didn't think that i would find the absolute perfect one on my first night of trying on dresses, but i did. and i am so in love with it. it's so simple and perfect and just my style. more pictures to come. ♥

wedding ideas

my fiance and i decided this past weekend, that we didn't want to elope anymore. we want to have very, very small wedding. just for our immediate family. so, we started looking for some cute wedding ideas and i ran across this wedding from 'style me pretty' and completely fell in love. i love the colors, i love how simple and small it looks. of course, ours would be up a scale, being able to accommodate about 40 people.

we are very excited and are starting to plan for sometime this spring! our date will be decided soon! tomorrow i will show you what we found for our center pieces... just you wait!