Lets start with: My Big Redneck Wedding - Dumpster Diving for centerpieces.
One of my bridesmaid's (Jana) came all the way over from Germany to participate in our wedding. To make a trip like that you have to make it worth your while, so Jana came to America for 25 days. I was very excited to have her help :) I warned her that the day after she arrived we had a big day planned. So she arrived on Thursday night, I went to work on Friday and she rested up from her jet lag all day. Then Saturday came. Oh boy! Here was our schedule:
8:00 a.m. - Gomer's Liquor to order alcohol for the wedding. I was so excited they were open so early! I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there that were excited too....they are called alcoholics. Jana and I spent one hour at Gomers selecting the beer, wine, and random liquor. The good thing about Gomer's is that they take back anything you don't open :) So we over-ordered. They owner said we would be returning at least 1/3 of what we ordered. Turns out we ran out of beer two hours into the wedding and somehow forgot to set out the wine. So we have about 80 bottles of wine in our garage :) Nothing is being returned.
9:00 a.m. - go to bank
9:15 a.m. - head towards the mall - stop by every Wal-Mart we can find to clean them out of green ribbon
10:00 a.m. - go to mall and return 5 bridesmaid dresses Jana didn't need
11:00 a.m. - Meet Megan and Lu at Costco to get utensils and such for reception. We were 9 minutes late. (Megan made sure I was aware of this)
12:00 a.m. - go to Sam's Club in case they had a better selection (and Megan got a Sam's Club card) They did not have a better selection
12:30 p.m. - Eat at Applebee's so Jana doesn't faint. Meg and Lu came with :)
1:30 p.m. - head back towards the Northland stopping by Wal-Mart's on the way
2:00 p.m. - Arrive at the recycling center. Theresa had this great idea to decorate the tables at the reception with clear wine bottles. All I had to do was come up with 100 clear wine bottles for free!! So we showed up at the recycling center, found the massive dumpster full of clear glass and dove in. 40 minutes later we had made a lot of friends, heard lots of congrats on the wedding, and had 120 clear wine bottles.
3:00 p.m. - head home to unload car (stinky old wine bottle stench)
4:00 p.m. - meet Ross and Tawny at the wedding site to spy on a wedding
5:00 p.m. - make a last minute stop to my seamstress' house to get Jana's dress altered
5:30 p.m. - stop by liquor store to get some wine for the night (tons of wine bottles, but no wine)
6:00 p.m - meet Kathy at the house to begin our project
Middle of project...after we emptied a few more bottles...
2:00 a.m. - Mission accomplished
I have great friends :)
Stay tuned for pictures of the wine bottles decorated, and on the tables...
