The Wedding Lens .com

Cool, so this is a widget available from the photo-storing/sharing website I mentioned in my previous post. I am really excited to see our guests post their photos here!

My wedding invites

Patrick and I are enthusiastically counting down the days until our wedding (23!!!!). Although we haven't driven ourselves crazy with some of the more *ambitious* craft projects, Pat and I have really enjoyed putting a little bit of our artistic personalities into this special day. These are the invites:

We bought an invite kit from Target and then dressed it up a little bit. I printed all of them off on my DeskJet printer (still going strong after 7 years!). Patrick designed and cut the wraps for the invites using pretty paper from the art store and some ribbon.

He also drew the illustration for the reception card and I created the map on the back.



Then we had a little assemly line!






We are not having a professional photographer for the wedding because many of our friends take great pictures. Instead we put these little notes in the invites asking guests to upload to our online photo album hosted by http://www.theweddinglens.com Great site and a great way to save $$$$!

I'd love to share some more of our projects with you in future posts. What are some of your favorite wedding craft ideas?

Philly to the Jersey Shore

We love living in Philly, but sometimes we need to get out of the city for the day! Yesterday we spent the day at Brigantine Beach. I haven't been to a lot of beaches in NJ, but this one seems pretty great. If you have a car just mapquest how to get there (it seems like parking is free on the street) but here is how to get there via public transit from Philadelphia:

-Take NJ transit from 30th street station. Check this link on NJ Transit's website, clicking on Philadelphia's 30th street station to Atlantic City station. Trains run pretty frequently.
-Once you get to Atlantic City (about an hour and a half) get yourself to the bus station, it's a really short walk from the train station and you can check out the Atlantic City Outlets on the way-- the bus station is next to the Reebok store.
-Catch the 501 bus to Brigantine and ride it to Brigantine ave and 14th street. Walk about 2 blocks to the beach and enjoy!!

There is a Rita's right on that corner, I had my first Blendini of the season, yum yum!!


**A round trip (train and bus) will set you back about $20 a person-- not too shabby!

Enjoy the sun and surf!!