So I'm officially a married gal! Jeff and I tied the knot on the beach in Cabo at the beautiful hotel
Zoetry end of March. We had about 35 of our closest friends and family for an all-inclusive vacation/celebration. I wanted to share some of our planning/wedding highlights.
Paper/Invites: for our save the dates, wedding invites and Cabo itinerary my close friend and designer Ashley helped me craft a vintage/natural theme. Using colors like light blue, sage green and tan we sent out "boarding pass" save the date, travel poster/post card invites and "passport" in-room booklets keeping our guest informed of the hotel amenities and events. (Ashely's starting a shop on etsy, which I'll link to once its up!)
Cost:
Design- Free
Paper/envelopes- $100
*Random: $120
Printing- Ashley took care of this as well! What a steal!
*I bought a
Gocco printer, that I used to print parts of her design onto my envelopes. Also we used raffia to tie our invites together.
The event: for the wedding, I wanted to have things that were uniquely mine... and not going to bust your budget. After dress shopping, I found a few ($3k-$5k) dresses I liked and used those as inspiration for a
lady to create a dress for me, from scratch for $500! (not including fabric cost)
Cost:
Fabric: $160
Dress: $500
I wore a pearl/diamond necklace my grandfather had given me and used etsy for the rest. I had a flower/veil hairpiece, cake topper and shrug created to match my vintage style.
Cost: It was under $200 for all 3 pieces to be originally created just for us, worth the investment! Love me some etsy.
Venue: Luckily, a beach provides most of your ambience! The hotel's outdoor area was changed to an imperial/single table to make the space feel different on the day of. For the placecards, I purchased some buri fans online and some tags/stamps/ribbon at Michaels and handwrote each persons name to keep our intimate feel.
Cost:
Table/seating: included with wedding package
Cards: ~$75
Flowers: $700
The shoes I did splurge on, but I tried so hard not too! I ended up with these lovely Badley Mischka shoes, but they were ~$100 on sale!
I thought overall we had a unique and initimate wedding. I am so grateful that we were able to spend time with our friends and loved the beach wedding. I say same time, same place next year?
