Baby, It's cold outside!

It has been literally freezing in Houston the past two days, I think winter has finally arrived!  We braved the frozen tundra to get us a Christmas tree early this week, which was fun.  There is not a more intoxicating aroma than a Christmas tree if you ask me!

My Mom and brother Jeff checking out the selection

And we went out for Gingerbread Lattes from Starbucks afterwards :)

Yes!

And today I had a lovely dinner date with my gals Lindsey and Leslie.  Came home, finished my last school project, so I am OFFICIALLY DONE!  (for the semester)  Such a wonderful feeling!  

Oh, and Aaron and I met with Fr. James, the new head priest at our church about wedding things - I will talk about that more in a post soon.  He gave us a super long test to take to see how good we will be at marriage, lol.  It is a take home test, so I need to finish that and bring it back for the results.

Other wedding things that are going down this weekend:

*My Mom and I are going to Harwin (Houston's ethnic shopping district) for some discount fabric for table cloths

*Hopefully finding some last items for my Bridesmaids gifts

*Visiting a whole-sale flower shop we might order the wedding flowers from

*Checking into a rehearsal dinner locale

*Seeing about a hair lady my neighbor recommended

Oye, there is still so much to do!

Why Aaron and I are good for each other

We were made from the same nerd mold...

Aaron and I have a deep and serious love for all things Christmas and we are planning on attending a Home Alone pizza party at our local Alamo Draft House - because few things get you in the spirit of Christmas like Home Alone.

Keep the change, you filthy animal.

So all week we have been totally excited for Saturday.  We are pinching pennies to get this wedding paid for, and are sooo busy with everything that we hardly get time together to just have some fun.  Here is an excerpt of our discussion of the pizza party/budget.

Pssh, Romance is gross.

so much screaming.

Our Winter Wonderland Invitations - Part 1

Without further adieu...  our hand made snowflake invitations!  

My flash was being a little intense, so I apologize for the bad lighting.  They are basically a little booklet with all the info, and there is a pocketfold in the back for different enclosure cards.  (I'll show those in my next post, I didn't have any handy)  

The cover page was just a translucent page with our names printed on them.  I got a neat snowflake punch at Hobby Lobby, and some fun silver glitter paper for the front snowflake that is attached with a teeny brad in the shape of a heart :)

Page two is the ceremony info.  Pretty basic.  I tried to find clever wording, but decided to just keep it simple in the end.

Page two was the reception information since we are partying at a different locale than the ceremony.

The pictures really don't do it justice, they look really pretty and sparkly in person.  I have gotten so many compliments on them too, which feels really good since my Mom and I spend hours upon hours working on them!  I'll make a separate post over the weekend for the inserts and RSVP cards we made.  I would like to also give an honorable mention to the 10 or so people who have sent back their RSVP card already, way to be on top of things!

Part 2 - Insert and RSVP cards!