Hi all!! I figured I'd do a separate post on what I learned from throwing my own tented wedding because I learned a whole lot! I touched on some of it in my Chicago Wedding blog post but figured I'd deep dive into more details here. PLANNING So if you don't know, we had a destination wedding a month before our Chicago tented wedding. What shocked me the most was that this tented wedding was 80% more work than the Punta Cana wedding. All I had to do for the Punta wedding was send photos and hope it looked like them which Thank God that it did. In my head, my 'wedding' was in Punta Cana since that was where we'd first walk down an aisle, and Colin wouldn't see me until the ceremony, but that w

Hope you got to view my two big blog posts of all my wedding photos from Punta Cana and then also Chicago! I wanted to do a dedicated post for some of the decor I DIY'd so you can find it in one place. Enjoy! Table Numbers I made these acrylic table numbers with my friends cricut machine. I seriously need to get one for myself! I bought the acrylic 4x6's on amazon and then we just used gold vinyl for the cricut to come up with the numbers. I downloaded the font Memories for it- it was perfect. I did write up the numbers in Photoshop prior to just so we wouldn't have to connect each letter in Cricut. My brother then made me the wooden display but they sell those on etsy here. Name Cards I onl

Can’t believe the day has come to share all the pictures of our Chicago wedding and all that went down to plan for this!! I vlogged the days we set up for this if you want to see the play by play haha. Here’s the videos! Also already posted my welcome bags, and wedding week outfits here. Ok so where do I start… well .. we decided on a Punta Cana wedding (video here) but then my mom really needed to see me get married in a Church here in Chicago (Polish Catholic mom) so she said, lets do a small thing here too. Well… that turned into 140 people but at least we did it in my cousins backyard so that saved on costs! I did so much research into vendors and definitely chose the most reasonably pri