We’re going to post our ‘awkward wedding photo of the day’ later this afternoon but I had to share this fun cookie favor from Diane at CCC Gifts. They just started to create cookie favors inspired by bridesmaid gowns. These custom sugar cookies are made from a special recipe, frosted with royal icing and available in vanilla or chocolate. Check out a few of them below and click here to see more. Bon Appétit!
We just found these fun and unique place card ideas on MarthaStewartWeddings.com. Not only are they super creative but they’d also be easy to do yourself.
These place cards would be perfect for a summer wedding. All you need is a shallow serving tray filled with sand, drink umbrellas that can be found at any store and decorative paper from a craft store. Fold the paper to look like a beach towel, super glue the umbrella to the towel and you have your summer-themed seating cards.
These name cards are ideal for a Fall themed wedding. Just like the summer-theme get a shallow serving tray, fill the tray with real or fake moss and find some twigs from your own back yard. The pieces for this display could all be found at your home. Find a leaf stencil and craft paper at your local craft store and attach the leaves to the twigs with ribbon.
Two-in-one seating cards and wedding favors. If your wedding favors come in a box or can be placed into a box then decorate the outside with ribbon or wrapping paper that goes with your wedding colors and place the name card on top.
If you’re having a wedding in Vegas, then these place cards will be perfect. You can either buy playing cards from your local store or order specially created cards online. Add your guests name on the front of each card and use the card numbers on that back to assign them to a table.
All photos from: MarthaStewart.com
Bride.net has given a few tips on how to have a beautiful, creative Thanksgiving wedding. And even better, all the ideas can be applied to your Thanksgiving dinner.
Use caramel apples as centerpieces for your guest’s tables and then let them take them home at the end of the evening.
Add some color to your table with burgundy napkins and gold chargers. We have several discounted chargers for sale on BravoBride.
Gather leaves from your yard and use them as a place setting decoration. It’s easy and affordable!
Our friends at Manolo for the Brides provided a cornucopia of ideas on how to have a harvest party. Whether it’s making a wreath out of oranges or a centerpiece arrangement from pumpkins, it will be sure to get your guests into a holiday mood.
Martha Stewart Weddings has given us some great ideas on how to decorate your wedding and reception. Many of the ideas provided are simple and easy decorations you could do yourself. Read on and be inspired!
Large hurricane vases containing floating candles are placed on either side of a path strewn with rose petals. If you are picking from your own garden, pluck them early in the morning when roses are freshest. For a more inexpensive approach, use fake flower petals or just have the large vases as a pathway to the wedding and/or reception.
This monogrammed banner is a cute and sweet way of leading your guests to the church and/or reception. It is also a great way of greeting your guests to the event.
Use topiary’s to display a banner for your big day; this is a great way to introduce your guests to your wedding and/or reception.
Monogrammed entryway. Use letters from yours and your groom’s names or of just your soon-to-be last name to welcome guests. Use ribbons and paint the letters to coincide with your wedding colors.
There’s an old saying about love being in the details. To personalize your wedding invitations even more you can customize your postage too. If the standard ‘love’ postage stamps aren’t what you are looking for, then check out Zazzle.com. Zazzle.com offers a wide variety of special occasion stamps and also gives you the option of creating your own. One sheet of 20 1st class stamps will cost between $19.80 and $22.20. Until Sunday they are offering a Veteran’s Day special too! Here are just a few samples of what to expect:
Martha Stewart provided another cute idea for your bridesmaids to wear on your big day. Fabric flower rings. This could be a fun activity to do at a bridal shower or hand them out at the rehearsal dinner.
Start by cutting fabric flowers, such as the ones shown here, from their stems. Wrap ribbon around your finger to determine the approximate length you’ll need; cut ribbon to size, adding about 1/4 inch for overlap. Use a hot-glue gun to join ends together, forming a loop, and to add flowers to ribbon bands. Ta-da! You’ll have an easy and affordable gift for your bridesmaids! Or if you’re not a do-it-yourselfer, check out this new BravoBride Boutique that specializes in ribbon flowers – they are beautiful!
In case you haven’t noticed cupcakes are becoming all the rage and are sometimes replacing the traditional cake when it comes to celebrating special occasions. From the bridal shower to the bachelorette party to the reception, wedding cupcakes are making it more fun and easier to please your guests.
Why do we love cupcakes other than the fact they are small but so delicious?
Check out how some brides used cupcakes at their wedding and bachelorette parties below.
We love how there's still a cake on top for the bride and groom to cut!
The flower details on these cupcakes are gorgeous
Use wrappers to really dress up your cupcakes. Click on the image to see one of our favorite cupcake wrapper companies.
Martini or cupcake anyone?
What's a bachelorette party without a half naked man standing on top of your cupcake?!
Carol Bitner and her walk-mate, Bill Caputi, were married Sunday after finishing the Breast Cancer 3-Day fundraising trek from Buford to Atlanta. About 2,200 people walked for the 3-Day – large-scale fundraiser for breast cancer research that benefits Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
The two met in early 2008 as Bitner, who is a breast cancer survivor, was training for the 2008 Breast Cancer 3-Day. Training was one of the most important parts of Bitner’s life last year, and Caputi wanted to support her, he said. So they started walking together.
“I met him when I was training, and he just stepped in right away,” she said.
Those weekly – and sometimes twice-weekly – walks of five to 15 miles gave the new couple a lot of time to get to know each other. Then, about five weeks ago, Caputi popped the question, and Bitner said yes. The intervening weeks have felt like he was living in a Disney movie, Caputi said.
Bitner and Caputi feel like they are starting a new chapter in their lives, and the support they’ve received from their friends and family has been amazing, Caputi said. “At this point in life, to feel like this is like being rejuvenated,” he said. “Not just the body, but the heart, the soul – all of that is feeling like it’s 25 or 30 years old.”
Now that’s a great way to end such an important walk! We love her pink hat and veil too!
Alicia Flannigan and Patrick Thompson pose with his grandmother, Elizabeth Thompson, in the State House rotunds for photographer James Anthony. Photo by The Providence Journal/Kathy Borchers
If a fancy reception site isn’t in your budget, then just take advantage of an outdoor backdrop. A new trend in Providence, Rhode Island is to take advantage of The State House and its sweeping staircases and impressive rotunda to capture a formal wedding photo. Many couples are heading to the gorgeous location between the ceremony and reception to squeeze in some photos with an elegant backdrop.
Officially, the state doesn’t allow couples to marry or hold receptions at the capitol, but it has embraced the photo concept. The site has become such a desired locale that the state Facilities Department now books the space more than a year in advance, jamming in up to three couples a weekend in the peak wedding months of summer and fall.
So if you are wanting a memorable, beautiful backdrop for you wedding photos then research locations near your wedding and reception site and find what their policies are on using their location.
Usually when you hear the term ‘Wal-Mart Wedding’ it can mean a couple is planning their wedding on a tight budget. But these couples literally got married in Wal-Mart.
Crystal Newsome and Robert “Vick” Vickrey, both of whom are Wal-Mart employees got married in the York, Nebraska Wal-Mart Supercenter on September 26th, 2009. Robert has worked at Wal-Mart for 12 years and is the grocery department manager while Crystal is the deli manager and has been with the company for 5 years. The couple found their way to love about 2 years ago when their friendship turned into a work romance. They figured that since they worked, met and watched their love grow at Wal-Mart that they might as well get married there.
Photo by: Katie Burke/World-Herald News Service
Jori Ruit and Dan Holland, also Wal-Mart employees got married at their store in Freeport last Valentines Day. Their wedding took place in the Garden center and it became a community event with Freeport high school students decorating the store and some local businesses donated gifts and services. The Wal-Mart bakery made the cake and coworkers served as ushers and bridesmaids. To watch how they met and view the whole story click here.
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