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Between a busy day job, our wedding, and school, life's been busy. Since our engagement has been such a long one, wedding planning up until now has been pretty nice. I've been slowly gathering glass jars, craft supplies, and decorations, taste-testing wine and desserts, and gathering inspiration from different sources. Now it's time to actually pick a final direction, finish projects, and cross things off our to-do list.

Yesterday, I worked on our ring bearer book. I'd seen this project on a wedding planning web site, and with my love for vintage books, immediately fell in love and knew I had to make my own version. I found the perfect book on eBay a few weeks ago. Turns out it's over 100 years old. I made a yellow fabric flower, found the perfect ribbon, and painstakingly used my round hole punch to cut a 3/4" deep hole in the pages of the book. There's a cursive handwriting inscription on the inside of the book that you can faintly see on the left-hand side- it says, "With love, from Stella. Xmas '99." This page was actually on the right-hand side of the book originally, but I decided it needed to be preserved and glued it to the left-hand side of the book.