Strawberry Jam, Cotton Candy & French Vanilla...oh my!

Since our wedding date is so far away, we have yet to make any official plans. No venue, no dress, no caterer, etc. At times it almost feels like we're not even engaged. However, I get my planning-fix through our engagement party, which is on August 1st. We are planning a backyard brunch at my parents house (I hope the weather is nice, otherwise it will be indoors & therefore not as aesthetically pleasing).

Things are all falling into place for the party. We have the caterer set...omelette station, crepe station, a customized cake & champagne. The invites were sent out a few weeks ago; some by post mail, some by evite (see previous post).We decided to have a candy table, finally made the final decision about that last week--it will be color-coordinated, all red, pink & white. The choice of color was determined by Jelly Belly flavors (yes, I am that crazy). So the flavors will be strawberry jam, strawberry daiquiri, cotton candy & french vanilla...yum! We'll go shopping in a few weeks for the rest of the candy, but I feel like red & pink allow yummy candy options, think red licorice, swedish fish, white chocolate covered pretzels, I could go on & on. Please, if you have any suggestions, I am all ears! We're thinking of a table like this, except with pink & red too...

(I stole this image from the Knot, it's too cute!)

I will continue to post about the planning process for the party as we still have tons of things to figure out, like centerpieces, guest book & favors :)

Technological Amazements

So we sent out our engagement party invites this week. We decided to invite a majority of our guests through an evite to save paper & money. We were able to gather up most people's e-mails to send out the invitations. Some people will be receiving hard copy invites either because we don't know their e-mail addresses, or because they're technically incompetent. Although, I was very impressed to hear that my grandma, who can't open pictures sent to her in e-mails, was able to follow the evite link and respond to the invitation...or so she thought. Supposedly she was thrilled to tell my mother about her accomplishment, however, she must have messed something up because when I checked the response list, she wasn't on it. Oh well, kudos to grandma for trying.

I also became really nervous when I heard that a family friend hadn't received the evite. We later found out that he was simply too scared to open up an e-mail from a sender he didn't know. This brought up concerns that others would do the same. Luckily evite keeps track of who has viewed the invitation, meaning that I can see if a guest has seen the invitation or not. So in a few weeks, if a guest has still not viewed the invitation, I can send it again or call them to let them know. Oh how technology amazes me sometimes.