enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: wedding

  • a peek.

    Thanks, Lisa, for the preview. So excited for more!

  • paul’s face is blurry, but the night is not. we had an amazingly wonderful time.

  • now we have a bridesmaid photo! the girls at the rehearsal dinner.

  • hopefully the last orange flower post.

    The bouquets are done and look fabulous. (Mine is the big one shown in the second photo.) I'm planning on them staying fabulous. It helps to be surrounded by positive thoughts and positive people. I've got three girls flying in at 1pm and from there on, it's a party all the way through May 2nd…

  • am in love with the flowers.

    Played around with centerpiece displays last night. Today I'm making the bouquets (not adding ribbon, just wrapping with wire.) The centerpieces are going to take less flowers than I originally thought because the blooms are so huge. This means we'll get GIANT bouquets. I'm so excited. Other plans for today : prep the house for…

  • flowers, flowers, flowers.

    The flowers arrived. 500 of them. And in under 40 minutes, I got the stems cut off and all of them into water. My hand might fall off, but I am fielding calls from the Guinness Book of World Records so I figure it's worth it. They look super orange from above but from the…

  • the one where i decide to open a flower shop.

    I've already got 500 roses set to crash land on my doorstep Tuesday morning (fingers crossed they are a shade of orange). To add a bit more spice to the bouquets, I picked up bundles of ranunculus at Trader Joe's this morning. They were only $3.99 for about a dozen stems. Last time we bought…

  • how to : boutonnieres.

    A few weeks ago, I shared my practice round of the boutonnieres I will be making for the groomsman & special men at the wedding. This tutorial shares the step-by-step process for making the same flower pins. Supplies needed : a rose, a piece of ribbon, floral tape, floral wire, a straight pin, three leaves…

  • wedding place cards.

    AND continuing the "no surprise left behind for the wedding guests week" – Our place cards! I bought place cards last summer at Paper Source and figured eventually I'd come up with a way to decorate them. After reading a bunch of posts on Japanese washi tape here last month, I thought of a solution.…

  • for the boys.

    I practiced a flower boutonniere the other night. It was surprisingly easy. Those leaves? They are lemon leaves picked from a tree at Paul's parents house. The ribbon is what will be wrapped around the bouquets & I think it adds just enough color. I'm making ten of these the day before for the groomsman,…