06 November 2007
The Big Reveal
Over the next few weeks (or week, if I'm feeling ambitious!), I'd like to show and tell you all about our wedding.
Today's episode: Gifties & The Rehearsal!
Now that my Bridesmaids (who will hereafter be known as my Dream Team) have received their gifties, I can reveal what I was working on from 23 May – 30 September. I used Estelle Watercolours, 2 balls/scarf (one in each colour) and finished each scarf with long tassels. My top secret knitting project was both a labour of love and a sanity saver as I returned to work full time in May and followed the intense class in Jacobean Shakespeare in the summer months. Last spring, I polled Lindsay, Katie and Diane on their favourite colours and the colours of their fall and winter coats. Entrelac scarves were big on Craftster and I was dying to try the challenging technique. While I worked on each scarf, I concentrated on the recipient of that scarf; memories, personalities, countless reasons that I love them and that I’m glad they’re in my life. By the time I finished the three scarves, I identified each scarf so strongly with each girl that I wasn’t surprised to see how perfect the scarves looked on them...the scarves even matched the outfits that they were wearing that night!
All together now:
Charcoal & Jade for Katie, Navy & Merlot for Lindsay, and Ivory & Merlot for Diane.
To make the wedding day even more fun for the girls, I made up survival kits. Each kit contained a healthy and delicious B. Goods cookie, chocolate covered pretzels, lip stuff (aka Blistex), and smaller “just in case” items. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I’d add those pint-sized bottles of water but I just couldn’t track them down before the wedding.
Dream Team Survival Kit:
The Rehearsal took place on the afternoon before the wedding. It was a dark day, rain plummeting down by the bucketful and the lights in the church were low. Joe, Lindsay and I brought the hand-made seating chart, homemade giveaways (heart-shaped linzer radelns made by my mom!) and pumpkin tea light holders (carved by Joe and Sean on Thursday night) to give to Liz, the coordinator, to decorate the reception hall.
After lunch at Harry McLean’s, the wedding party went their separate ways: Joe and the lads went to his mom’s and the girls and I returned to Ottawa . It was the perfect quiet evening, chatting with the girls over wine and getting to bed just before midnight for a good night’s sleep. Strangely, I woke up several times throughout the night because I was starving. Some people get cold feet – I get hungry.
That's it for tonight's installment. Stay tuned for more wedding trivia and pictures...
Erika.
"Scarf at Rest"
...zzzZZZzzz...
Today's episode: Gifties & The Rehearsal!
Now that my Bridesmaids (who will hereafter be known as my Dream Team) have received their gifties, I can reveal what I was working on from 23 May – 30 September. I used Estelle Watercolours, 2 balls/scarf (one in each colour) and finished each scarf with long tassels. My top secret knitting project was both a labour of love and a sanity saver as I returned to work full time in May and followed the intense class in Jacobean Shakespeare in the summer months. Last spring, I polled Lindsay, Katie and Diane on their favourite colours and the colours of their fall and winter coats. Entrelac scarves were big on Craftster and I was dying to try the challenging technique. While I worked on each scarf, I concentrated on the recipient of that scarf; memories, personalities, countless reasons that I love them and that I’m glad they’re in my life. By the time I finished the three scarves, I identified each scarf so strongly with each girl that I wasn’t surprised to see how perfect the scarves looked on them...the scarves even matched the outfits that they were wearing that night!
All together now:
Charcoal & Jade for Katie, Navy & Merlot for Lindsay, and Ivory & Merlot for Diane.
To make the wedding day even more fun for the girls, I made up survival kits. Each kit contained a healthy and delicious B. Goods cookie, chocolate covered pretzels, lip stuff (aka Blistex), and smaller “just in case” items. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I’d add those pint-sized bottles of water but I just couldn’t track them down before the wedding.
Dream Team Survival Kit:
The Rehearsal took place on the afternoon before the wedding. It was a dark day, rain plummeting down by the bucketful and the lights in the church were low. Joe, Lindsay and I brought the hand-made seating chart, homemade giveaways (heart-shaped linzer radelns made by my mom!) and pumpkin tea light holders (carved by Joe and Sean on Thursday night) to give to Liz, the coordinator, to decorate the reception hall.
After lunch at Harry McLean’s, the wedding party went their separate ways: Joe and the lads went to his mom’s and the girls and I returned to Ottawa . It was the perfect quiet evening, chatting with the girls over wine and getting to bed just before midnight for a good night’s sleep. Strangely, I woke up several times throughout the night because I was starving. Some people get cold feet – I get hungry.
That's it for tonight's installment. Stay tuned for more wedding trivia and pictures...
Erika.
"Scarf at Rest"
...zzzZZZzzz...
Labels: Dream Team, kniticisms, wedding
