Unbroken Candles Arrive

After the disappointment of the candle shipment from Khol's last week, I am very happy to report that the new shipment of candles were packed much better and arrived almost completely undamaged. There were only 3 out of 53 broken this time, which is a huge improvement. Hopefully there won't be too many more obstacles or upsets in planning our wedding, but it's nice to know I have a great family and fiance to help and be there for support.

Broken Candles....Completely Broken

Well, last week was somewhat of a disappointment. We got our shipment of the monogram candle holders in and when I opened the box every single one was broken. They shipped all 53 of them in the same box with one sheet of bubble wrap layed on top of them. There was no packing in between them and the box was breaking apart because of the weight. Matt, my mom, and I took them back to Kohl's and returned them, then reordered them again. We asked the woman we talked with to put a note under shipping to package them in multiple packages and to wrap them with more bubble wrap in between them. I got on my email a couple days ago and had an email from Kohl's confirming our order, and I saw that yet again they have put all 53 in the same package. Hopefully they wrapped them each with bubble wrap, but I'm very doubtful. I don't know how you could think that putting 53 glass objects in a box together with nothing between them wouldn't result in them all being broken. I could ask an elementary student to do this task and they would even say that they would need to put something between them because they would break. I have been pretty relaxed about things, but this is stressing me out and is absolutely ridiculous. Bridezilla may come out if this next shipment is completely broken.....

The broken, damaged box they came in.

The one sheet of bubble wrap they put on top.

All of the candle holders completely broken, cracked, or chipped.

Centerpieces

Things were slow last week, but I finally have a new update! We have gathered all the centerpieces for the wedding! Over the weekend my mom and I were shopping at Khols when we saw these monogram candles. We started pulling out the letters to make CLARK and then pulled out all the remaining C's. The CLARK candles will sit in front of us on our table at the reception and the C's will be on the guest tables. We were only able to find 7 C's in the store, but we found them on Khols.com and ordered about 50 more. They were such a good deal, to get a monogramed candle holder with the candle already in it: perfect! We also found some white pumpkin candles at Khols that are going to be placed by the book, cake, food, etc. This ties in with our other centerpieces which are white pumpkins cut into baskets with flowers in them. My uncle is a farmer and is going to grow the white pumpkins for me. I've put a picture below to show what they will look like only we are going to cut the pumpkin into a basket and the flowers will be purple. I'm so excited to get all this stuff this weekend, and on sale!! I can just imagine what the reception is going to look like and I must say, I think it will be beautiful!


Monogram Candle Holders/Candles



White Pumpkin Candles



White Pumpkin Centerpieces (Basket Cut w/Purple Flowers)