This started out as just an idea of a way to say "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" again. It's quickly become this crazy fun addiction--Heather and I are on a mission to see just how cute we can make this, and just how little money we can spend on it! A lot of our best ideas can be found on my Vow Renewal board on Pinterest--many of them are being used as pinned and some are being tweaked a little so that our ceremony will have the same over-all feel.
I mailed out "Save The Date" postcards a few weeks ago. I never did these when we originally got married, because of the extra cost involved when we went the traditional wedding-stationary-store route back then. Having two thrifty, crafty minds running things this time, we came up with this:
We laid out Scrabble tiles on the back of the game board, and I laid my wedding rings down with them for the "O". We snapped a picture, then Heather uploaded that picture to a photo editing site and added our information. We sent the edited photo to Walgreen's and got 25 free prints with that weeks promo code. To mail them, all I did was address the back of the photo like an envelope, and put a postcard stamp on them, which is cheaper than regular postage and no envelope cost. Love how they turned out, and it was fun to do that part of the wedding prep that I never had before! I've begun mailing the invitations out this week, and they are being done the exact same way, but the free prints came from York this time, for signing up to be a new customer!
The only other thing we have completed and ready for the big day is our rings! We are not interested in replacing our "original" wedding rings, and were not going to have the exchange as a part of our renewal. But then I came across a custom-designed cuff band made by Billie, owner of Amayeli. So I contacted her and asked if she could make a set for us, and this is what came in the mail just a couple days later!
Billie works with all sorts of materials, and does custom designs all the time. These are hand-stamped silver aluminum, and though they are a cuff design, I did provide her with our sizes and she made them pretty dead-on to size. It is a soft metal, so she suggested that we not wear them on an every-day basis. She explained how to maintain the polished look-shoe polish of all things!- and how to keep the stamped words full of color. If you are looking for a crazy-affordable and heart-burstingly sentimental ring set, you won't find a better way to fill that wish!
Billie, love doesn't even begin to describe! These are so absolutely perfect for the simplicity of and reason behind this ceremony that I cried when I saw them, and I'm pretty sure I'll cry when Ryan and I exchange them. Thank you!!!! You are so so talented, and it is an honor to be able to wear another of your creations!
Much more to come soon, I am ridiculously excited to share this stuff! I've always known bargain hunting and frugal living were fun, but now I get to demonstrate and that's a whole new experience! :)
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