Posts from — May 2008

Our new blog of the week is Ready 2 Spark. Written by Lara, a Canadian bride-to-be and DIY extraordinaire, ready 2 spark is filled with creative ideas, inspiration, and humor. Make sure to check out the fabulous invitations for her wedding!

Continuing our unofficial kickoff of summer we have a gorgeous wedding shot by Rae Leytham and designed by the girls at Bliss Event Group!  You know this wedding is bound to be fabulous with that combination at work.

These centerpieces drew me in immediately.  How inventive is this?  Single flowers in shot glasses and bud vases.  This would be incredibly easy to DIY, although Lauren and Craig had the luxury of using the fantastic Wall Flowers for their decor.

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This is our 500th post. We want to thank all of you for your readership over the past seven months… We could not be inspired to write without you.

{San Francisco Photos}

In honor of this milestone we’ll be holding a giveaway this week. Comment on this post by June 1st at midnight and you’ll receive a beautiful package from Elizabeth Anne Designs! Let us know what you love about the blog!

E. & A.

It’s Memorial Day - the official first day of summer.  So in honor of that, and in the spirit of A’s GORGEOUS sunset board earlier today, I give you a wedding inspiration board built upon ocean blue and white, one of the cleanest color combos there is!

 
Clockwise from top left: The Wiebners, Semmi via Cherry Coloured, Carolyne Roehm via Tiffany’s Hand Painted Love Boxes, Architectural Digest via The Inspired Room, Something Sweet by Michelle via She Walks in Beauty, Carolyne Roehm, Susan Stripling, JK Place Capri via Desire to Inspire, Artfool, MS via DC Nearlyweds, Michelle Rago, Millie Holloman

Happy Summer!
E.

Happy Memorial Day! Inspired by those hot fiery summer days that take your breath away….

{Image Credits: Michael Wooley via Sarah Kaye, Toast and Tables, Cherry Coloured, Martha Stewart, CeCi New York, Brides.com, Art Fool, Brides.com}

A.

We’ve been using our three-day weekend wisely, making some subtle changes to the blog we thought you’d like to know about!

First, you can now subscribe to comments on a post via email.  We’ve used this often on other blogs so we thought it might be useful here.

Secondly, an automatically generated list of related posts from our archives now appears at the bottom of each post’s permalink page, above the comment form.  Hopefully this will take you to places you will find useful! 

Let us know what you think and if you see any issues with the new features that we may have missed in testing!

E.

A little tidbit of what I’ve been working on - yes, you spy gorgeous Laura Hooper calligraphy being goccoed!

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Hope your Saturday is as productive as mine has been.

E.

Brooke Schwab is absolutely one of our favorite photographers.  Not only is she insanely talented behind the camera, but the weddings that she shoots are just phenomenal.  Those colored shoes the other day?  Yep, that was one of her weddings (Laura was shooting alongside Brooke for that event). 

Brooke sent us yet another absolutely gorgeous wedding that we just had to share with you!  I was sold on the wedding the second I saw this:

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Finding a wedding dress is an interesting process, to say the least.  It is definitely the one iconic thing you will buy for your wedding that really brings it home that, yes, you are getting married.  It can be a fun and joyous process.  It can be a little frustrating at times.  It can make you laugh, smile, and bring tears to your eyes.  It can be all of that, really, because it is a big important decision, and usually one that takes a few times of looking to figure out.

I’m getting married in November, but I wanted to get started on my planning early so I wouldn’t be pressed for time.  After booking the venue, flipping through every bridal magaizine that was out at the time, and kind of thinking about how I wanted my wedding to “look”, I thought it would be a good idea to look for a dress.  Once I had my dress picked out, I could settle on a bridesmaid dress and my fiancee could think about tuxedoes and ties.  Also, and I don’t mind sharing this with you, it would help to provide some concrete (expensive concrete at that!) motivation for really getting back into my workout routine that I had stopped sometime during my courship with my fiancee. 

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How awesome would this look for a very daring bride?

{Image Source: People}
A.