Flowers From A Blogger

Jessica from {An Atlanta Bride} was kind enough to put together a little flower inspiration board for me, since Mommy and I are going to the florist on Friday to see a mock-up of the bridesmaids bouquets. Check it out:
Check out the arrangement on the far left in the middle row. It's divine. And is that a little dahlia I spy in the middle!? Thanks Jessica, for thinking of me!!

Seeing Starfish

Not sure if it's my love for ring shots or starfish....but I love the following since they are ringshots on starfish.

white box weddings

brooke schwab photography via ritzy bee
brooke mayo via elizabeth anne designs

rae leytham

A little detail shot...it would be SO neat to incorporate starfish everywhere at the reception.

e lucky designs

The Card Box

Listen. The card box has become my worst enemy.

Originally we wanted to take 3 round hat boxes of different sizes to make a card box that looked like a cake with three tiers (photo example found here without the modge podging). We were going to affix plum fabric to it and it would be perfect. So we thought. When Mommy and I got into thinking about the real construction behind it....we decided it would be near impossible for Kristen, who volunteered to make the box, to do. The fabric would never be tight enough and it would just not look right.

So then we thought about using square boxes instead. But this is a lot of work (and money once all the supplies have been bought!) for 1 little card box that will never be used again! Seeing as how I cannot bear to use the standard white card box offered at the reception, an alternate idea for a card box is needed. So far I have only come up with one alternative.

Would it be ok for me to take a large glass vase and use it for the card box? A large vase with a lot of depth. I would wrap them with ribbon and affix a sign similar to the monogram that will be attached to the centerpieces (see picture of centerpiece vase inspiration here). I would have a friend stand at the gift table to ensure that none of the cards were taken out of the vase. The venue wedding coordinator would take the vase to our room shortly after the cocktail hour ends.

What do we think?

It's almost back to school time and this ring shot reminded me of how excited I would always get to go back to school (and back to school supply shopping). photo by jk photography.

Wanted...

1. A videographer that doesn't cost a fortune. Perhaps starting out in the business or something.
2. A convertible car that Chris and I can drive from the hotel to the church and then back to the hotel for the reception. Any convertible will do. Please reference picture below as evidence of how adorable the pictures will be of us in the car.
3. Good weather on Sunday for our engagement pictures...supposedly it will be 75 and sunny. Perfect.
4. A dress (the color plum, of course!) for the rehearsal dinner and cute shoes for said engagement pictures. Attempting to make it to the mall Wednesday night.
5. Life to slow down for just a moment so that I can enjoy the final stages of planning this wedding, see my friends in Indianapolis a couple more times before I move, and just breathe.

Assuming my readers can only really help with 1 & 2...potentially 4. Any thoughts?!

(elizabeth messina)

Allow Me To Brag

Allow me to brag.

Tasks accomplished this weekend:
- We found and purchased the argyle socks that the groomsmen will be wearing in the wedding.
- We added items to two of our registries.
- We stopped by the tux shop and made the final decisions as to the men's attire for the big day.
- BM J picked up the BM dresses from the dress shop.
- Half of the invitations are in the mail.
- I completed thank-you cards for the wonderful wedding shower that was thrown for me last weekend

This week I will:
- Meet with the priest
- Send out the rest of the invites
- Get together outfits for engagement photo shoot (this Sunday!!!)
- Attempt to get my hair cut, tan and get a manicure
- Go to final dress fitting with Mommy and MOH on Thursday
- Go to taste testing at reception venue on Friday
- See the mock-up of the BM bouquets on Friday
- Meet with the organist at the church to determine music for ceremony on Sunday

Thus, blogging on tying the knot will be a little slow this week. Hopefully I will be back with pictures of the final invitations, pictures of the final dress fitting, and lots of updates.
Until then, remember this and this post and my ideas about taking pictures in front of a mansion on our big day? Here's just another little gem that is making me lean towards taking pictures outside the mansion...

(hy studio)

The Garter Search

As I chatted about here, the garter toss (in my mind) is one of the wedding traditions on the way out the door. I am trying to get Chris to resist the urge to scrounge for the garter and somehow embarrass me in the process, but we haven't come to a complete decision yet.

(photo by jessica claire)

That said, I still want a garter to wear and keep. Any suggestions as to where to find one?
Just to be safe, perhaps a fun one to throw (my friend Jenn threw a Bengals garter) in case Chris wins this battle. And one to keep like this one suggested by my friend Kristen. Thoughts?

(photo by: jennifer skog )

Other posts on wedding traditions on the "outs": planning forever: what traditions are out, pearls events: wedding traditions which may be going, EAD:traditions

Poll: Necessity of a Potential Photographer's Blog

Recently I was talking with a friend from the lake who happens to be a photographer. She is attempting to break into the wedding photography business and was asking me all sorts of questions relating to weddings, the wedding industry, and what I looked for in a wedding photographer.

Long story short, this is what I told her: I wouldn't dream of hiring a wedding photographer that didn't have a blog. In fact, I barely looked twice at most photographers websites when I was searching for one...I headed right for the blog. The simple reason behind my logic is that a blog allows a photographer to share his or her most recent work. A website (usually) contains older images and isn't updated as frequently. A blog allows a person to express feelings and his or her personality while a website merely displays contact information.

So what do you think? Would you/did you hire a photographer that didn't have a blog? How beneficial do you think a photographer's blog can be? Discuss. And vote

A pretty picture, found on the pretty blog of bobbi + mike
{Update: 50 total votes. Yes: 33. Not necessarily: 14. Unsure: 3}