Sarah and Travis Idea Board 1

I'm really excited about Sarah and Travis' wedding. While browsing a few website and personal idea pictures, an idea board came together pretty quick. I know there wedding will be whimsical and fun :)

The Engagment Party

What a Happy Day

Here is our 3 minute video of our wedding day. Hee Hee

Wedding Favors

Have a told ya'll that my wedding was perfect!?! It was, I couldn't have asked for a prettier day and everyone had fun. I was worried having a day wedding that no one dance, but WE DANCED! here are pictures of our Wedding Favors, Cookbooks. Everyone loved the idea and for our 5 year anniversary we are going to do a second addition. It has come in handy since a lot of everyone favorite holiday recipes are all included - My sister said at thanksgiving "This was a great idea, I only needed this cookbook this year and not all five out on my counter" If you have the time it really is a great, usable favor. I used a company called G&R Publishing they were very reasonably priced and they had a super fast turn around.

Kissable Lips

Another one of my favorite things is Rose Bud Salve. This stuff really works. I had chapped lips one day and they were nice and soft the very next day! It is also great of your cuticles :)

A few thousand of my favorite things!

Christmas is here!!!! I love the holidays. I love gift giving! Yesterday one of my favorite Christmas songs came on the radio while at work. I of course explained it was one of my favorites, in which my co worker replied - "these are a few of my 10,000 favorite things". I guess I have a lot of favorite things- what is wrong with that? SO I decided to start to post some of my favorite things through the holidays. They might make great gifts for your wedding party... or something your groom can get for you!

Favorite things number one!!!!

Crabtree and Evelyn Gardner's Hand Therapy lotion.

I love this stuff!!! It feels so good when you put it on, and the smell is earthy and fresh. It would make a great stocking stuffer- or a gift to give your bridesmaids.

La Perla ~ SALE!

Get ready for the honeymoon! La Perla has a special sale! Use coupon code DC25 and get 25% off your order and free shipping!

Forget me Knot.

I love the idea of knots as sentiments. I have been eyeing a sterling silver knot ring, a remembrance of things I want to become and the people who love me for what I am. I love the Everlon Diamond Knot Collection. It is beautiful and has so much meaning behind it. It would be a great engagement ring, or a wedding day gift. It would even be a great anniversary gift. (Hint Hint Husband) I really love the bangle.

I adore photographery

I think one of the most stressful parts of my wedding planning experience was picking our photographer. I love pictures! It was hard to put a price on our pictures, something that will last forever. I was really happy with our photographer, but still check out photographers. I just love looking at peoples wedding and engagement pictures. I even have the itch to try to convince my husband to do a bridal portrait session as a one year anniversary gift, because I just can't get enough! Once like a Spark photography has adorable, fun, beautiful pictures. I have really enjoyed the last hour I have spent looking at their website. Check them out!

The first picture just says WE LOVE FALL!

Birch you never thought of these

I think Birch wood is beautiful and I love these flower girl baskets and vases. I almost want to buy some of these vases for my home and some fall arrangements I have floating in my head. Esty Seller NHWoodscreations has some great deals on her creations. I think I might pick up some of her potpourri too!

I'm also digging the wood vases with the Bride and Grooms intials in them. Such a cute idea.

Tag your the IT

These Alphabet Tags tags are super cute. I think they would be darling for seating cards or tags for your party favors! HECK you can even give them double duty as both. The Ormolu's store is fabulous. She has a love of paper just like me!

She can even custom make these tags for your wedding them. I love the organic look of them and plus I'm just in love with any kind of paper.

One Year Anniversary Paper Must Have!

Since the first anniversary is paper I know I will be having a sketch of my wedding dress created! Kristina Bailey does an amazing job! Check out her wedding dress sketches! I can't wait to have my beautiful dress created into a work of art, to hang in my bedroom! An 8x10 is only $140 which I think is a great price!

LOVE THIS~ Folk Art Fabulous-ness!

So I am a BIG fan of Etsy and probably go looking for random things about twenty times a day. Today I want to show case Middleburg Folk Art Studios

I love her whimsical and romantic cake toppers! HOW CUTE ARE THESE! Check out some of her other items. I may need to buy a few decorations for our home.

An air of mystery... well not really.

I love the look of a blusher veil. However veils in general just make everything seem softer and more romantic. Or even more dramatic!

LOVE THIS! ~ Wishing Wall

A lot of brides are finding new trendy alternatives to guest books. I love the idea of this Wishing Wall. Guest can write sweet wishes on the little notes and stick them in this fun "wall".. the wishing wall has 500 slots so there is plenty of space for a big wedding too. I think it would be cute to read a wish every day once you return from the honeymoon. Then once you have read them all turn your wishing wall into a gratitude wall. When your spouse (or if your starting a family) does something you're thankful for, or just want to let them know the small thing they did meant a lot. (like bringing you a pumpkin spice latte to work, since he knows you're having a bad day) You can write it on a little note and stick it in a space, then set aside quite time to read the notes to each other. YAY! So cute.

Available through uncommongoods.com. Which I love this site and their catalog its great for finding gifts for those that are hard to shop for :)

Ice Cream Dreams

Perfect Flavor Ice cream will create your very own ice cream creation. Yum Yum. How fun would it be to have an ice bar with your special wedding ice cream flavor served.. or a summer wedding to help guest cool off with mini ice cream cones filled with your sentimental flavor. It is pricey , and you will get 4 to 8 pints of your flavor.. so choose wisely. If you are doing the mini cones you will be able to stretch the pints to serve more guest.

Spruce Up your Wedding Reception

A popular trend for green weddings is giving guest a tree sapling to plant after the wedding. It is a lovely idea because of the meaning behind the growth and strength or trees. Here are few of my favorites packaged. I also love the idea of not just doing a pine or spruce.. but branching out (pun intend) into other varieties.

I love the use of more organic packaging like burlap and rough paper. Also if you have a lot of out of town guest you may want to do the tubes so the travel better.

You can get trees through the Arbor Day Foundation, or check with your local Arbor group or nurseries.

Also remember there are a lot of great quotes about trees to include on your tags ;)

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther

We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. ~Everett Mámor

This past weekend while helping a bride in Alaska we put together her Blue Spruce tree favors using simple tissue paper and ribbon. (we put a few small rocks in the bottom to help establish weight for a base). I loved what she wrote on her tags.

" We would like to thank you for helping to make this day a special and memorable one for both of us. Please accept this tree as our gift to you. As you watch it grow, we hope that it will remind you of the love you have seen rooted here today. Trees, like love, need to be nurtured in order to grow. It is our wish that with contant attention and nurturing, our love (like your tree) will continue to grown and blossom in our new life together"

Best Foot Foward

I love the initials on the bottom of the Bride's shoes. They photograph so cute! You could glue rhinestones on your own... however I just stumbled on these peel and stick letters. They are only $3, which is well worth not having another project on your list :)

They also have pearl and rhinestone peel and stick letters at your local craft store (I do love my Michael's!)

Just Adorable

I saw this save the date through Design Sponge and think it is just adorable. Enjoy!

Save the Date_9/26/09 from Jason Harmon on Vimeo.

Wedding Dress

I love Matt Nathanson. He is fabulous and I just found this song, which is cute and would be a great dance song (I could see it has a good daddy daughter song, or used for video montage)