Wedding Details: Personalizing Shoes

I love extra, unnecessary details that make fabulous pictures!  Above are stickers placed on the bottom of the bride's shoes from Your Happily Ever After. A fun easy way to get your something blue!  And below they just used sharpies to write the initials of the couple.  Easy and extremely affordable!  (The bottom picture is from Style Me Pretty, I think - I grabbed it awhile ago and forgot to page mark it!)

Budget Savvy: Centerpieces

Centerpieces can really start to add up on cost - especially if you want huge pomanders at each table. Clustering groups of vases, tin cans, pots, bottles, candles, etc... can provide a lot of impact without costing a lot! You can get away with single stems, or petals, or potted herbs!  You can spray paint them, cover in fabric, or tie on accent ribbon to tie them into your wedding theme.  The options are really endless!
Any favorite centerpieces??

Wedding Planning: Martha Stewart On-line Wedding Expo

Head on over to Martha Stewart Weddings to register for their online bridal expo!  These are always full of fantastic ideas and it's free - win win!

Bridal News: Google for Weddings

Google's launched a whole wedding tool!  Wedding website, planning tools, etc.. I've barely glanced at it - but I love google for everything else so I'd guess this would be a HUGE help for brides.

Let me know what you think/if you like it!

Flower Buddy

 

 

Wedding Layout

So here's more from FloorPlanner.com!  Here's the current layout we're playing around with for my sister's wedding!

Book Favors

We went down to Portland, OR this past weekend to attend my cousin's wedding. The favors were so fun I had to share them! At the centerpiece of each table they had a stack of books for the guests to pick from and these neat book plates (see pic above) to stick in the front of them! (This also tied into their invitations which were hand typed on library cards.)

Wedding Planning

With my sister getting married in just over two months we all have been extra busy making calls, creating lists, shooting emails, and sketching out time lines!  It's all starting to come together.  We've got the dress, the building, and the pastor so even if nothing else came together we could still have a wedding! My mother and sister are hard at work on the guest list so that all the invitations can go out and then there will be a little breathing time.
Yesterday my sister-in-law and I packed up the kids and scoped out the site for the reception  (Sunnyside Park)- which we loved.  (And I managed to get us pulled over for talking on my cell phone in the state of WA!) We are now working on ideas for her outdoor tea-themed reception (although being the end of August it will be ICED tea!) and playing around with lilies as her theme flower.  I'll keep you posted!