Hair & Make Up: Amy Stutzriem
Dress: Priscilla of Boston, Minneapolis
Cake: Buttercream, Eau claire/St. Paul/Minneapolis
Flowers: Avalon European Floral, Eau Claire
Invites and Event Design: Honeydew Creative
Caters: Eau Claire Country Club

More from Jen and Luke's wedding tomorrow . . .

Hair & Make Up: Amy Stutzriem
Dress: Priscilla of Boston, Minneapolis
Cake: Buttercream, Eau claire/St. Paul/Minneapolis
Flowers: Avalon European Floral, Eau Claire
Invites and Event Design: Honeydew Creative
Caters: Eau Claire Country Club

Dress: Priscilla of Boston, Minneapolis
Cake: Buttercream, Eau claire/St. Paul/Minneapolis
Flowers: Avalon European Floral, Eau Claire
Invites and Event Design: Honeydew Creative
Caters: Eau Claire Country Club

To by-any-means-necessary tactics of getting food

Special occasions are always a treat no matter which one of us takes on the cooking tasks.

For our three year anniversary, and the last of our dating anniversaries (which is a good thing cause we made the date up since neither of us could remember the actual date of our first date...July 1 sounded good enough), I came home from work to the most amazing smells of potent garlic, pungent cheeses, and creamy butter sauces.  Voila!

Home-made hummus, my favorite triple creme cheese, seared scallops, blue cheese-bacon risotto, and plenty of Founder's Cerise, Sauvignon Blanc and Prosecco to wash it all down.

Oh yeah, and he gave Penny a bath so she didn't smell too bad either!


Back off girlies, I've got this one locked down. 

Sincerely,

The luckiest gal in the world (shay)

Due to our financial situation, I long ago gave up on doing what other people expect from a wedding, so we're going digital! Email invitations felt tacky to me at first, but after looking at a couple of different sites that offered such services, I met my new friend, Pingg!

It's probably similar to all of those other sites, but Pingg's site design is so clean and crisp, it made me feel less cheap about the whole idea.


You can design your own invite, or use one of their templates. We ended up using the same graphic of our mugs that I stamped onto the coaster save the dates.

Pingg lets you email, text or snail mail the invites, which I thought was pretty cool.  And they track all of your RSVP info and send follow-up emails to folks who don't respond.  Oh yeah, and it's FREE!

My favorite thing about their invites, is when you receive the email and click on the link, it takes you to a site with an envelope on the screen. When you click on the envelope, the invitation slides up! Fun!

In an effort not to confuse people, we're only sending these out to the masses that are invited to the reception, not the small group invited to the ceremony and reception, to whom we already mailed invites.  I'm totally over thinking this, and I'm super worried that people who received our snail-mail invites are going to be confused about not getting the Pingg invite...Should I just send the Pingg invite to everyone, or leave it as is? Am I starting to lose my mind? Maybe a little....

xoshayox

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xoshayox