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Our Wedding Reception Part 1!

11/16/2015

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I'm back again, with more wedding pictures!
Hooray!

Our wedding reception was just wonderfully, and completely perfect!

We had our reception at the Oaks Club, which is a little rental hall. 
This is one big way to save money on your wedding; have the reception at a rental hall, not a wedding rental hall! The reason for this, is that by adding the word wedding, it automatically makes everything so much more expensive! All the wedding rental halls we looked at, made you use their caterer and bar services for an outrageous price! The rental hall we used, cost only $450 to rent, and they let us bring in our own food, alcohol, and decorations! The result was a much cheaper wedding reception, and a reception that looked exactly how I wanted it to look, not how thousands of other bride's receptions looked!
I do have to brag a little bit here, because Nick was absolutely amazing when it came time to get the hall decorated! He (along with our wedding party) did everything possible to make it look exactly how I dreamed my wedding would look! 

The decorations! 
Our reception was lots of lace, pearls, and vinyl, with some superhero thrown in!
It was exactly what I wanted! Take a look!
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The Food!
We had Chinese food for our reception! It was so fantastic! Everybody loved it, I'm still having people come up to me and tell me, that it was the best food they've ever had at a wedding!
We had General Tso's, sweet and sour chicken, lo mein, white rice, fried rice, eggrolls, crab rangoons, and vegetable chicken! Yum!
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The Cake!
I am absolutely smitten with our cake!
I have dreamed of this cake since I was a little girl, and it was everything I dreamed of!
It was a five tiered cake stand (that me and Nick made), stacked with Krispy Kreme Donuts!!! It had lace, pearls, and black and white fake roses intertwined with the donuts. I wanted it to look like a super fancy wedding cake, except it's not fancy at all, cuz it's donuts!
The top tier was a delicious vanilla cake that we cut and smashed into each other's faces. 
The cake toppers were a Spiderman action figure holding a Batgirl action figure!
So perfect!!! 
Take a look!

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So that was the first part of my reception! 
Stay tuned for the rest... :)
(Photos by Graham River Productions)
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Peace Love and Our Wedding Reception
Jess <3

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7 Ways to Make Your House Halloween Ready!

10/5/2015

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Hello ghouls and ghoul-etts!
The Halloween Season is upon us!
Cult Classic Horror Films, the Monster Mash, Blood, and Haunted Houses are here! I am so excited!!! Is your house ready? Well, here I have for you my 7 tips for making your house Halloween ready! Yaaaay!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Before you do anything, first you must turn on Pandora, and turn it to "Halloween Party" Radio! This is the greatest collection of Halloween, and creepy music! Coin Operated Boy, Thriller, Nightmare Before Christmas, even Witchy Woman by the Eagles, and I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow, how cool! And of course, Little Shop of Horrors!
So turn on the music, get in the Halloween Spirit, and start decorating!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Candy Dishes.
During Halloween you absolutely must have at least one candy dish sitting around!
For something very different and cool looking, I use record bowls! 
Check out how groovy they look!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Get your House Halloween Ready!
I actually make these awesome record bowls, and you can buy them on my Etsy Shop, only $13.99 for a set of five!

Get your House Halloween Ready!
Fake spiders and skulls!
Fake spiders and skulls are great, inexpensive ways to add a little spooky-ness to your house! 
I bought this skull (the eyes light up and change colors!) at Dollar General a couple years ago after Halloween was over, for only $5.00, and my husband bought a pack of fake spiders this year at Dollar Tree for only a dollar!


Get your House Halloween Ready!
Zombie Sheets!
This is one of my favorite way to decorate for Halloween, because they are so versatile! You can put them on your bed, on your couch, or even on a chair! Take a look!

Get your House Halloween Ready!
We used the sheet and two pillowcase set and arranged them on a chair, to get this chair to be the focal point of our living room!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Throw the Zombie Sheet over your couch to get this simple and awesome look! 

Get your House Halloween Ready!
And here are the sheets on an actual bed!
I hand paint these great sheet sets, and you can purchase them starting at only $49.99!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
How to Make Your Home Halloween Ready!
Creepy Pictures.
​Holographic Halloween Photos!
I don't care if these things are cheesy, I love them!
We have three of these in our house! We bought two of them at Dollar Tree for a dollar each, and I bought the other one at a flea market.
Etsy is also great place to find creepy paintings and prints! 
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
How to make a creepy standing figure.
I love this little guy! He's super creepy, and super cool!
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-Get a tall lamp stand, and take the light bulb and shade off of it.
-Get a long dress or nightgown (I had this when I worked at the Factory of Terror. I got it at Goodwill for a couple bucks after Halloween was over a couple years ago).
-Leave the dress on the hanger, and hang it over the lamp stand.
-Get any mask that you have laying around (believe it or not, we already had this mask!), and place it over the top of the lamp stand, so that it covers the hanger.

And there is your super cool and super creepy standing figure!
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^^^Having trouble finding Halloween decorations you like? Check these out!!! ^^^
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Take a look around your house for things you can re-purpose and make into Halloween Decorations.
Me and my husband are both very kooky people, so we used a lot of items that we just happened to have laying around; they weren't even originally for Halloween decorations!
So take a look at some of the things we found and used for our decorations, and see if you have anything similar laying around that you can use, or think of your own original and crazy ideas!
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Get your House Halloween Ready!

-Mannequin Heads
I own two mannequin heads. Don't ask me why, but I love them! I use them when I'm vending at a festival to show off my headbands, and I just leave them around the house 'cuz I think they look cool!
You can find mannequin heads at beauty supply stores, or get one from someone who attended cosmetology school. 

-Old Suitcases
I got mine at a thrift store, and my sister bought me one from a vintage store. They were already out in my living room, so I just put a mannequin head, a fake hand, and some fake cobwebs on it to make it look creepy and old.

-Fake Cobwebs
There is no easier way to Halloween-ify a room than with fake spiderwebs! We bought a pack at Dollar Tree for only one dollar! And that one pack went far! Just pull it apart, and put it everywhere!

-Old dried roses
I dry all the flowers that my husband gets me, and they look great put into a vase and set out with all your Halloween stuff.

-Black Roses
We used fake black roses for our wedding, so we just dug out those!

-Old Pictures

-Posters from haunted houses, bands, and concerts. 
I have posters from when I worked at a haunted house, and my Misfits poster that I mounted on an old frame.
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Get your House Halloween Ready!
Now get to thinking of your own terrifying creations!
Have a blast!

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​Peace Love and Halloween
Jess <3


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My Bachelorette Party!

5/31/2015

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Ok everyone, today's post is super fun, because it's all about my Bachelorette Party!!!
We had a complete blast, and I'm SO thankful for all my girlies who made it such an unforgettable night! A special thank you to my wonderful Maid of Honor and little sister, who planned the entire night, bought all the phallic shaped accessories, and paid for the majority of the night!!!

 
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Our night started out at the beautiful Perennial Vineyards of Brewster, Ohio.
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We ate fancy and delicious foods, drank wine (of course), I opened my naughty gifts, and we ate this great cake that my sister came up with, made by Katy's Kreations.

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Our next activity of the night was belly dancing!!!
My sister thought of, and paid for this wonderful idea, and it was a blast!!!


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Our lesson was given by the beautiful Mariah from Belly Dance by Mariah Studio in downtown Canton.
If you want a fun workout, that actually works (and is super sexy!), try belly dancing!

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Next we walked around downtown Canton'sFirst Friday. The first Friday of the month (duh!), the art district comes alive in Canton! All the restaurants, art galleries, shops, and bars are open, artists tout their wares, musicians perform on the street, and you can just walk around and take it all in!
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We happened to randomly find this snapchat that a friend of a friend of one of the girls with us happened to receive, so she forwarded it on to us! Yes!!!
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In one of the galleries!
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After it had gotten dark, and we had walked around for a while, we wandered into Buzzbin, the small bar that by the end of the night everyone tends to gravitate towards. It has lots of drinks, a pinball machine, records on the wall, and live music (I actually played here a couple years ago when my band was together)! We happened to snag the only corner booth in the place, and commenced with the drinking, giggling, and later in the night, dancing along to the bands!

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The final (and super groovy) band of the night; Injecting Strangers. These guys put on such a great show! We really enjoyed it!

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Hanging out with the band after the show!

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I hope you enjoyed getting a little sneak peek into my Bachelorette Evening!
Thank you so much for joining me!!!

Oh! 
And my wedding is in 6 days!!!!!!!



Peace Love and My Bachelorette Party!
Jess <3

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