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SO my firend reffered me to one of her friends that has a decorating business..(www.exclusi...
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09/25/2010
 This is me |
Hello Again
I've stayed away too long!
Hello all my WBC brides. I've been married 4 months now and I felt like something has been missing and I realized... it's you guys! I met a few friends through WBC that I am so glad to know and still keep in touch with. This made me realize, there are so many other awesome people here I haven't had the chance to meet yet! So I decided I want to change that.
I'm going to try to post some DIY posts and other helpful things about all the projects I did for our wedding and I want all brides to know that now that I'm done with planning for our wedding, my goal is to invest all the wedding energy into YOUR weddings! I have been a photographer and graphic designer for a few years now, and only a few weeks ago I realized my passion. I had been twisted up inside trying to determine what I'm supposed to DO with my life. I realized... I love weddings so much I want to be as involved in weddings as I can. That is why I discovered my passion is wedding photography. I am now setting out (along with my wonderful, supportive husband) to provide brides with anything I can to make their wedding as personal and beautiful as it deserves to be! My plan is to offer brides amazing photography as well as design services to customize every detail of their wedding they can imagine up. :) So we will provide packages and add-ons like monogram design, Save-the-dates, Thank you Cards, programs, signage and a zillion other things (anything you can think of really). I am SO excited to finally be declaring this passion to the world without any hesitancy! It's so freeing and exhilarating! I just want to giggle all day. I might be better at other things and I could make more money doing other things, but I would rather do something I love..... and I LOVE weddings. :) I wanted you all to know about this huge moment in my life because I feel like you've all been so welcome in letting me in and sharing a common love of weddings and love and all the mushy things that makes us all sigh inside. You can expect I'll be coming to all my WBC brides to ask for help as I'm starting out on this exciting (and yes, I'll admit it... scary) journey! See you around! If you'd like to follow my blog I'd love that, I plan to keep it updated more often and provide many posts of my boring life, keeping it real and personal and... ME! <3 Click Here to find follow my life Also... here is my website, which I am currently updating and it will be seriously kick ass. ;) Click here to see my soon to be super-kick-ass website And feel free to add my as a friend on Facebook! My Personal Profile My Photography Page <3 Brittany |
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06/12/2010
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Wedding Photography
My Album
Hey everyone! :)
I'm sharing the link to my Facebook Album that i made for the wedding. Some of my favorite photos are there, Both professional and non-professional. I'm still waiting on photos from one of my two official photographers but I'll be adding it to the same album eventually. If you can't view it you can add me as a friend I accept almost anyone :) LINK: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056260&id=80402016&l=149be564e8 |
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05/26/2010
 My sister lacing up my dress Me :) My bridesmaids (and my little flower girl :D) Me and my Daddy about to walk down the aisle Ceremony The ceremony LOVE THIS!!! Our attendants as we enter the barn for the reception The rings PRO Watching our slideshow. Sneaky awesome photographer. :) Personalized vows Non-pro We're MARRIED! Entering Reception Our reception menu/program The cake toppers my sister made for me :) Eating Cake-topper kiss Bouquet toss With the flower girl My and my MOH and best friend :) Dancing The Reception menus/progams I made and our dessert napkins Our candy buffet! I'll post TONS of pics later! It was GORGEOUS and a HUGE HIT! The cupcakes and candy buffet Photobooth Hydrating my anemones Abby (bridesmaid) helping me with my bouquet the night before the wedding                             |
Wedding Photos
Mostly Non-Professional
Here I am! I have wanted to post photos for a very long time, but I was busy... busy doing NOTHING but enjoying my honeymoon and life as a wife and living with my husband and yes, just a slew of wonderful things. :) Now that the stress is over I'm SO excited to share details about everything that went into making our wedding what it was. I wanted to post about all the additional DIY projects I did leading up to the wedding but I realized quickly I was RUNNING OUT OF TIME and needed to focus my energy on the actual DOING of them instead of talking about them, haha! I was able to finish most of my projects with the help of my amazing bridesmaids and family, but some had to be tossed or minimalized. In the end the day turned out GORGEOUS and amazing. it was the most stressful week of my life before the wedding but then it was all sunshine and happiness, lol. I guess you could say it was worth it but the day before and day of the wedding I was regretting all my DIY work. A week before the wedding one of my flower vendors told me my flowers (anemones) wouldn't be available and to choose a substitute. I didn't want a substitute and was so stressed but knew I'd live with whatever I got. Well my mom called them and they ended up sending them anyway, which resulted in about 2 bunches that actually looked the way they were supposed to and even then only after some rushed TLC by myself. The others looked very strange but we found a way to used them in the centerpieces, luckily I had enough "pretty" ones for my bouquet, which was my goal. When the flowers arrived I followed all the info I'd been reading for MONTHS before about hydrating them and such. Even then only some of them turned out looking open and pretty pink enough. Luckily my bouquet and the bridesmaids looked pretty good. The rest went into the centerpieces and looked fine. FRIDAY NIGHT the NIGHT before the wedding, I realized all our reception music was missing. I couldn't find my drive with all the music. I also realized I was missing my shoes. I STILL haven't found them. I FREAKED OUT. I was trying not to stress out my bridesmaids or turn into a bridezilla. We didn't have internet at our new apartment yet, so I took my husband's laptop and drove near the main office at 2 a.m. to try to download some of the songs so we'd have music at the wedding. I BROKE DOWN in my car and just freaking SOBBED. lol. It sounds sad, but I needed to let it out. I was just a MESS. I didn't know what to do and it sort of felt like a nightmare. The only thing I wanted was my sweetheart. So I drove to my honey's and called his cell just PRAYING he would answer. I woke him up and he let me in. I bawled on his shoulder and he was the SWEETEST he rallied together all his CD's and laid with me on the sofa all night while I downloaded music and did what I could to create some playlists. At the time it was horrid, lol, but I realized that it's one of the most memorable wedding moments of the entire week/weekend. It proved to me how perfect we are for one another and the next morning, even though we had some stressful moments, I was refreshed and at peace knowing that nothing mattered except that we were going to be able to share such an amazing day. It turned out SO beautiful. I can't believe it. My family and my attendants and my friends just were SO helpful. I can't say it enough. I'll probably share more stories as I share the rest of my details and DIY projects in the coming weeks. I plan to share MANY resources for brides and hopefully others can benefit from what I learned and what I share. Thank you all for being here for me and I hope you can let me be here for you. :) I love weddings and now that mine's done I'm SO EXCITED to be able to help others instead of stress about my own lol. I'll also be posting vendor reviews and the like as I go. Love you guys! THANK YOU! P.S. - More photos will come when the photographers (I work with them and got a great deal, so I'm not going to be pushy! haha) are finished editing them. <3 |
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05/09/2010
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I'm Married!!! :)
So beautiful
Yes! It's true! I'm a Mrs.! Yesterday was SO gorgeous and I can't wait to post photos. Sigh. I loved it. I was SO STRESSED OUT before and regretted so many of my DIY since it was so stressful but in the end it was worth it and all my guests noticed. SO EXCITED. :)
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04/28/2010
 Black & White candy buffet |
Candy Sweet Bar
List of sweets and treats :)
So my mom has sort of taken the front seat finding candy for our sweet bar. I'm SO EXCITED! It's going to be so much more overflowing than I even expected, haha. She's amazing. I'm SO glad that's not me worrying about all this! After all I Only have TEN DAYS LEFT!!!! Dying here. ---~Candy Sweet Bar Items~--- White M&Ms Pink M&Ms Assorted box chocolates Pink wrapped chocolate kisses Pink & White Sugar Gummy Squares Cheese-balls White Chocolate Dipped Oreo Balls White Cookies Pink Cookies Oreos Pink Foiled Color Chocolate Hearts Whoppers Good n Plenty Custom Monogram Wrapped Chocolate Squares Black/White Salt Water Taffy Pink Salt Water Taffy Chocolate pretzels Chocolate Pink Sprinkled Droplet candies Black Licorice Little Pink & White Swirl Lollipops (48) Large Pink & White Swirl Lollipops (24) Large Black & White Spiral Lollipops (24) Neapolitan Coconut Candy Pink Chocolate Dutch Mint Balls Strawberry Chocolate Truffles Pink Swirling Hard Cady Discs Black & White Candy Sticks (80) Pink Rock Candy Stick (60) Strawberry (pink) Wafer Cookies Chocolate Wafer Cookies Tuxedo Chocolate Dipped Strawberries |
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04/09/2010
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DIY Wedding
Flower Girl Headband
I used another of those flowers to make this headband for my little flower girl, Kerrigan Lane! She is going to look so byoo-fee-ul (as she would say it) : ) I used wide black, wired ribbon to make a bow behind the flower, sewed them all together and glued to a simple, thin headband. |
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04/09/2010
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DIY Wedding
Mothers' Corsage Flowers
These flowers were made the same way I made the ones I used for the pomanders. They are layered slightly different and I glued a pretty button in the centers. They'll be on black ribbons (1/2" probably) and worn on the wrist. These two are for the mothers. I plan to make similar flowers to be worn by others involved in the wedding but they will me made so they can be worn in any way they want and may look different and with smaller buttons. |
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04/08/2010
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Junior Bridesmaids
The Dress
Here is the dress we chose for the junior bridesmaids, my sister Brianna and my FH's cousin, Rachel. Rachel was here to visit over the weekend and we settled on this as the final choice! Now I just have to get my sister's and we're good to go! :) |
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03/30/2010
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DIY Wedding
Pomanders for my Junior Bridesmaids
So I just want to shoot myself... I had a HUGE post written out with a tutorial of sorts and EVERYTHING! Ugh. Well this is the first of many posts I hope to be sharing with you girls now that I finally had a day to photograph all the DIY projects I've been working on! I wanted to make pomanders for my juniors to carry. I originally wanted real roses but I'm doing my own flowers and was worried it was too big a task to add to the fact that I've never realy done flowers in my life, haha. I have made pomanders from silk flowers but I'm not really a fan of them, I wanted something more charming. I am using silk for my aisle decor, but I wanted something a step higher for my junior maids. I found two alternatives to floral pomanders that used fabric. Fabric Poms and Flower Hair Clips I still want to try the first one sometime, but instead I used the technique explained in the 2nd link to make 70+ flowers for 2 pomanders and a few other projects you'll be seeing on my blog soon. Basically the technique uses heat and circles of fabric from polyester or poly-blend materials to curl the edges of the fabric circles. You use varying widths of circles and stack them. I tried to fashion mine after light pink anemones and used corsage pins to pin each one into my foam ball. Seriously read the tutorial in the link, it's inspiring :) It takes awhile to make the flowers but it's actually very easy and affordable. I probably spent a few bucks per pomander for the fabric and ribbon. |
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03/30/2010
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DIY Wedding
Which Monogram Do You Want?
If we have yet to cross paths enough on Wedding by Color you need to be aware of the fact that I LOVE monograms! I love looking at them, making them, I dream about them. I have made some monograms for other WBC brides in the past and have helped some of you with your DIY monograms. I played around and came up with these designs in Photoshop and decided to give away some custom monograms to the first 5 brides who post a comment and tell me the following things: Your First Name Your Fiance's First Name Your New Last Name Your Wedding Colors/Theme Your Favorite Design Of Those Posted Here Another Bride on WBC Who Inspires You Available Designs: {see images to left) If you don't make it into the first 5 commenters then please still comment and if you'd still like a custom monogram from one of the listed designs I'll make it for you for $5 though Pay Pal. And just another plug for myself, I am a designer so I am always available for invitations, monograms (fully custom monograms are $15/ea), Programs and more. I really do love you guys so hope you enjoy. <3 |
dirtndiamonds
| 3 | years since wedding |
Brittany
Steven
May 08, 2010
Overland Park,
Kansas,
United States
Victorian Veranda Country Inn Garden
Victorian Veranda Country Inn
Black
Black and white solids with very light pink (blush) accents based on my favorite rose, Candy Bianca. Themes: Treasure Chest/Cherry Blossom
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