Asking My Girls

Jay and I have briefly talked about who would be in our wedding party even before he proposed. By talking about this we were able to discuss who was most nearest and dearest to us. For me I was always torn between having just one person, having only my mother, or a small group of people. Should I include only family or have friends as well? Then the time finally came for us to make a decision.
We both ended up picking our parties really easily!
For me it was Alyssa, Alex, Kaityln, Heather, and Brittany. (friend, friend, cousin, future sister in law, future sister in law)
For Jay is was Efrain, Chris, Matt, Wade, and Josh. (friend, brother, friend, friend, my cousin)
Jay's little cousin would act as our ring bearer/groomsman

My cousins are the closest things I have to siblings and we definitely wanted to include them as well as his brother, sister, and brothers girlfriend. We also knew we wanted our best friends up there as we have grown up with them and share a huge part of our lives with them.

Jay had it simple, he called up his men and asked them over the phone. We wanted to wait until we were in person but we were just too excited to wait for two months.
He said he felt like he was asking them out. It was cute & funny. They all of course said yes!

I wanted to wait, but then I just couldn't anymore either. So I decided a way to craft up a cute way to ask them.
I was torn from pinterest ideas and images all over the web!

There was this cute idea. But not all my girls are of age and I didn't know what to put in the box.

This was adorable! But I've seen it a lot and wanted something else.

This was extremely popular! But too cute for me.

Then the beloved food idea! I didn't know it would last through the mail though.

So I decided to do my own type of card. I wanted it funny, because that's what I do. I wanted it straight forward with just a little cute.

So I went to Michaels

I bought:

Cardstock

Glue

Sharpies

I then went home and found the UGLIEST bridesmaid dress I could find :)

I found a picture of them, cut their head out and cropped it onto the dress.

On the inside of the card I put an appropriate message finally asking them to be my bridesmaid/maid of honor.

Here's how they turned out.

(sorry they're sideways)

HOW CUTE!!!

All but one called and said yes! Unfortunately the other couldn't due to scheduling and distance problems. She will still be an integral part to our day though!

Now that we've got our wedding party we can continue forward into the next tasks of planning!!