Texas Baby Blues

In our quest to do our wedding our way and make it all Mike and Ali, we’re making a lot of the items and decorations ourselves. Also, everything that we are using has a special meaning.

This has also carried over to the table assignments. If it was up to us, we would just let it be a free for all and let people sit where they wanted. However, the venue is requiring not only table assignments, but seating assignments as well so they know who ordered what dish at RSVP time (more on this when the time comes) and where to serve it.

This request forced us to add an extra layer of Mike and Ali to the planning. We weren’t about to just number the tables and leave it at that, we needed table names that were meaningful, and unique.

On a further level of making everything ourselves, we are incorporating my photography into the table names and assignment cards.

One of the table names is “The Lone Star State”, and we were trying to come up with a photo that represent Texas.

Cut to a few weeks ago, I was telling Ali I wanted to drive out into the sticks (didn’t have to go far in Texas!) to get some photos of bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.

We set out this past Saturday morning to Chappel Hill, Texas, A little town that hosts the Bluebonnet festival every year, a little over an hour outside of Houston. The town itself was a little disappointing.

We were hoping that the town that not only hosts the Bluebonnet Festival every year (the biggest festival in Texas) and the town that calls itself the “birthplace of Texas” to have a little more history to  explore.

That not withstanding, we had a fun time on our little road trip and we accomplished our goal of taking some great photos of Bluebonnets.

To see the rest of the photos, take a look at my Flickr photo stream.