I am a terrible blogger - I have been extremely busy the past few days and have procrastinated to the max! But no fear, I am alive! I was only temporarily distracted by wedding planning. I came home to sweet Florida early Friday morning and hit the ground running meeting with my wedding planner within 30 minutes of stepping off the plane. (Shout out to Nicole Kaney at NK Productions in Sarasota, FL- she is wonderfully organized and has been a fabulous wedding planner.) This lunch meeting was followed by my 3rd trial run for my hair (I'm not a control freak, I swear ...) and I have more meetings lined up for the next few days. In the mean time I am working on my seating chart template - with a potential guest list just short of 300 that isn't something I want to leave to the last minute. Finally I have been inspecting the various shipments of wedding products that have come in and everything looked good until I got to the jars.

The jars are for our favors which I am going to tell you a little about. As I mentioned, our wedding has a vintage Florida feel to it - I am planning to post some of our "motifs" this week for you to see that include a great looking alligator and flamingo that we had as our stamps and that will also be making appearances on things like the menus and escort cards, etc ... For many of our guests, this will be a vacation of sorts to Florida and if you can imagine what a Florida vacation in the 50's and 60's would include (more elegance than tacky) then you can probably visualize a happy family bringing back a box of salt water taffy. So inkeeping with that idea, vacationing to a beach town, we are going to have salt water taffy as our favors. But the favors are really just a little token for our guests. Our main favor is a donation in honor of our wedding guests to the animal shelter in Dallas where we found Scout. Times are tough for shelters these days. But back to the taffy ... we are going to have a favor table with a bunch of apothecary jars clustered in the middle filled with taffy (this is really just decoration for the table) and then guests can take a jar like this one below pre-filled with taffy and attached with a vintage looking tag that details the donation to the shelter and a "thank you for coming" message.

I ordered hundreds of jars like this online and I must have misinterpreted the dimensions because the jars came to my mother's house and they are tiny. Tiny as in they could fit about one piece of taffy in them. So now I have to go through the hassle of sending them back and hoping I get my refund. I found bigger jars at Crate and Barell outlet in Dallas that are not much more expensive but still, it is always frustrating when you think something is going to work and BAM! you get a tiny jar.

Oh by the way, we are above a 90% acceptance rate so far so I have decided that I will just relax and smile at how all of these wonderful people want to share our wedding day with us ... how special!