Ok so what is the difference between all of these different parties?? And I have a dilemma! my Fianc...
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02/13/2009
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Wedding Flowers
Red Roses
Our entire wedding was all black and white, with small amounts of red accents, the main accent being our red roses. We used red roses for the bridal and bridesmaid bouquets, and the groom and groomsmen boutonnieres. We also used red roses, with very minimal greens, for all of the centerpieces with red rose petals sprinkled around them. I love how they came out. They were red "freedom roses." I thought about going with "black magic roses" which is a very deep red, but my bridesmaids wore black, so I was nervous that they would be too dark. I liked the "freedom roses" because they were a deep red but they still really stood out against the black and white theme.
Sizes Pictured: My bridal Bouquet- two dozen roses, Bridesmaids- one dozen, Flowergirl - three roses, Throw-Away Bouquet - six roses, Centerpieces - nine roses. Our Florist was Way's Greenhouse in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. |
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02/04/2009
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DIY Wedding
Favors!
I am such a sugar addict, so I definitely felt the need to go with candy for our favors! We made our favors using a 2" clear favor box which was filled with all different types of red candy, tied with a black satin bow, and had a tag on it which read "Carrie & Lyle: Love is Sweet!" The font on the tag matched the font that we used on our escort cards, table numbers, and invitations, and the back of the tag was printed with the damask pattern. At the reception, the favors were placed on the center of each guests plate like a little gift.
tips: www.dunwoodybooth.com has great deals on satin ribbon If you buy "double faced" ribbon (pretty on both sides) you don't have to be as careful when you are tying your bows, which saves a ton of time.  |
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02/04/2009
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Wedding Reception
Our Reception Tables
I had such a hard time deciding how to do the head table at our reception. I really wanted the people in our bridal party to be able to sit with their significant others, but I also did not want to have one giant head table, so we ended up doing a sweetheart table with two square head tables on either side of it. We labeled the head tables "Bride" and "Groom" and then all the bridesmaids, their guests, and my parents sat at the "bride" table, and all the groomsmen, their guests, and my husbands parents sat at the "groom" table, and it seemed to work out really well. I was nervous that we wouldn't really like sitting by ourselves at a sweetheart table, but it ended up being a really nice time for my new husband and I to catch up and take a breather, and WE ACTUALLY GOT TO EAT OUR DINNER! The rest of the guests were seated at round tables, which each held 8-10 people. We used black table toppers over ivory linens on the tables, and ivory chair covers for the chairs. All the ivory stuff came standard, the black linens were extra. I would have loved to have all black and white, but linens are outrageously expensive to rent! For the centerpieces, we kept it simple with red roses, and had red rose petals on the tables as well, and then we added our damask accents in the frames that held the table numbers, and in the tags on the favors.
tips: save money by putting your bouquets in vases for the head table, rather than getting additional centerpieces. If you are using black table cloths, make sure that they do not dim the lights too much during dinner, my older guests really had an issue with this. |
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01/31/2009
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Wedding Reception
Toiletry basket
This is the toiletry basket that we had in the ladies room at the reception, we had one in the men's room too, but what guy is going to think to take a picture of it??? My mom did the baskets for me with damask tissue paper (www.gallery19.us) and she filled them with all of the essentials, tissues, mints, tampons, safety pins etc, just in case there were any emergencies at the wedding. (The tooth brushes actually came in handy when the the black piping on the cake stained my cousin teeth!). I also had some large damask dinner napkins out to use as hand towels (from bed bath & beyond or www.gallery19.us).
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01/30/2009
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Wedding Reception
Damask Escort Cards
Here are some pictures from our escort card table . The escort cards were made with a folded piece of card stock. The back of the folded card was all damask print, and then a very small portion of the print poured over to the front of the card where the guests name was listed. We had the table designation inside the fold with a little black sticker which we wrote the table number on in white ink. We also had to show the food designation on our escort cards, so instead of cluttering the card up with more writing, we put a little gem stone on the front of the card of the people that were getting chicken, and put no stone on the cards of people requesting beef.
For the table numbers, we used damask print picture frames form Target. |
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01/20/2009
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Wedding Reception
Inspirations Table
Outside of the ballroom where our reception was held, we set up what we called an "Inspirations Table." My husband and I are lucky enough to both come from families where both of our parents are still married, and 3 out of 4 sets of grandparents remained married (although some are now deceased). The fact that we have so many inspirational marriages to look up to, really means a lot to both of us, so we wanted to display that at our wedding. We set up a table displaying all of the framed wedding portraits of our parents and grandparents, and framed the words "Our Inspirations" to display in the center of it. My mom also had my cousins boyfriend take a picture of my husband and I right after our ceremony. Since we had a three hour gap between the ceremony and the cocktail hour, he was able to get the picture developed as an 8 X 10 and frame it, and we had it displayed on our inspirations table as well. It was really neat to be able to display a photo of us, taken just hours before, to be set up amongst all of the marriages that have inspired ours. It was also a way to remember some of our grandparents, who are no longer with us, in a happy way, rather than a somber one.
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01/17/2009
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Wedding Reception
Cookie Buffet: A Sweet Celebration
These are some of the pictures from our cookie buffet. We served the wedding cake for dessert, but then we also had a cookie buffet set up after dinner by the bar for an extra treat. My mother-in-law and some of my aunts made all of the cookies, some showed our heritage, others were just our favorites. The people at the ballroom set it up for me with all of the items that I provided, however, it came out much different than I pictured it. I had paid extra to have black linens in the ballroom, but I figured I would just use the standard provided linens for the bar/cookie buffet area. Well, the linens were not as neutral as I expected, and it kind of threw off the whole "black and white damask theme" that I had going on. It still came out nice though, just not what I was expecting. Funnily enough, I was so busy enjoying myself at the wedding that I didn't even see the cookie buffet until the very end of the reception, when most of the stuff was already gone anyway. That's the importance of photography, to capture all the moments that the blissfully distracted bride misses out on!
(I have a more detailed description of the construction of the cookie buffet below, in an earlier post.) |
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01/16/2009
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Wedding Photography
Soooooo Disappointing
I have been a little MIA lately with the posts, but I am finally getting myself back on here to add some more wedding posts to my page. So much time is spent planning everything, so of course you want to make sure everyone sees how well it all turned out, and to hopefully share some helpful tips and ideas. Honestly, for the past two months I have been a little anti-wedding, which is heartbreaking. After the wedding was over, my husband and I bragged how everything went off with out a hitch, and how the day could not have been more perfect. Little did we know that our photographer would soon be ACCIDENTALLY DELETING HALF OF OUR PORTRAITS!!! I have lost all of the pictures with me and bridesmaids that were taken after the ceremony and most of the creative portraits, that I had my heart set on, with me and my husband, not to mention all of the portraits of me by myself. Devastated does not even begin to describe my feelings towards the loss of my portraits. I do still have a large number of pictures to remember my day, but I still can't help but think of all the portraits that are lost.......kissing at sunset, kissing under my veil, casual shots sitting on an old stone staircase. It is so disappointing, especially when you thought you did everything to make sure that your day would go perfectly, and hired only professionals so that there would be no room for error. I am still in negotiations with the photography company, so I do not want to elaborate to much further, but how do you even begin to compensate for such a loss?
tip: always have someone taking backup snapshots!!! |
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11/20/2008
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DIY Wedding
Guest Book & Pens
For my guest book, I made a photobook on kodakgallery.com. As discussed in a previous post, I filled it with all pictures of my husband (of one month) and I, that we had taken over the past 10 years of our relationship. I am so happy that I went with this idea. It really showed our guests the transitions that we have been through over the years, and really how we "grew up" together (although way too many people found it appropriate to tell my husband how fat he used to be). I also posted a little framed note next to the book asking guests to share some words of wisdom, advice, or well wishes for the bride and groom. We now have a book that shows a timeline of our relationship and is filled with notes from all of our guests on our wedding day, wishing us luck and giving us blessings for the years ahead. It is definitely a keep sake item that won't just get shoved in a box and forgotten about. The book and S&H ended up costing about $50, but it is really good quality and well worth it. Plus, I ordered it less than a month before the wedding, and it still came in in time. phew!
I also made flower pens that I set up in a damask print vase (that matched all the votives shown in a previous post), filled with red and clear marbles. These were made using a Bic pen, a fake flower (with most of the stem chopped off), and green floral tape. They were surprisingly easy to make and really cute. Thanks becky1012 for the idea! |
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11/11/2008
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DIY Wedding
Cheap and Easy Champaign Flutes and Serving Pieces
Throughout the whole wedding planning process I learned that everything wedding related is extremely expensive and usually over priced, so I decided that I wasn't going to let myself buy fancy champaign flutes and serving pieces just to use for 5 minutes. I would just use what ever I could come up with. Having a damask theme, I saw the adorable Bride and Groom champaign flutes online at Target, but for $30! It was too late to add them to my registry and I wasn't about to buy them myself, so I borrowed two flutes from my mom's stemware collection, bought damask rub-on decals for $1 at Walmart (in the sewing/wedding stuff section) and I made my own. These took less than five minutes to make and literally only cost me A DOLLAR!
The serving pieces were also a borrow from mom. I tied a piece of black satin ribbon on them, which was left over from my favors, and viola, my own customized serving pieces FOR FREE! Thanks Mom! |
carriet
| 4 | years since wedding |
Carrie
Lyle
Oct 18, 2008
Wilmington,
Delaware,
United States
Catholic Ceremony
Ballroom
Bella Pictures
Red
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