Not finished of course but I wanted to be able to write it down and add to it as I need! I want a lot of Dance songs, funny songs, and songs people can enjoy themselves with. I don't want high school prom, but I don't want anyone to be bored either!
Songs played before the ceremony while guest are entering in
Chapel of Love- The Dixie Cups
Love and Marriage- Frank Sinatra
Sparkling Diamonds- Nicole Kidman
Stand by Me- Ben E. King
Love Bug- Jonas Brothers
Here comes the sun- The Beatles
Songs played after the ceremony while guest are leaving
Linus and Lucy- Peanuts Theme
Beautiful Day- U2
Reception Music
Lucky- Jason Mraz (First Dance Song contender #1)or Bride and Groom enterance song
Only Hope- Mandy Moore (First Dance Song contender #2 my favorite)
At Last- Etta James (First Dance Song contender #3)
Single Ladies- Beyonce, Bouquet Toss
For Good- Wicked, Memory Song
Honey Honey- Abba, Bridesmaid entrance song
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
1,2,3,4- Plain White TeesTT
Somebody to Love- Queen
Circus- Britney Spears
I'll Stand by You- Carrie Underwood
Low- Flo Rida
500 Miles- The Proclaimers
Right Round- Flo Rida
Pocket Full of Sunshine- Natasha Bedingfield
Stand by your Man- Tammy Wynette
Cha Cha Slide- DJ Casper
Yeah Toxic Remix- Usher/B. Spears
Mambo #5- Lou Bega
God Blessed the Broken Road- Rascall Flatts
MmmBop- Hanson
Just Dance- Lady GaGa
You Shook Me all Night Long- ACDC
Love Shack- B-52s
She's Always a Woman to Me- Billy Joel
Have you ever really loved a woman- Bryan Adams
I'll Be- Edwin McCain
Upside Down- Jack Johnson
I'm Yours- Jason Mraz
Can't Help Myself- Four Tops
Come away with me- Norah Jones
What a Wonderful World- Lois Armstrong
How Sweet it is to be loved by you- Marvin Gaye
Crazy Little thing called love- Queen
I'm a Believer- Smash Mouth
From this Moment- Shania Twain
Don't know why- Norah Jones
Blue Skies- Ella Fitzgerald
I don't need anything but you- Annie Soundtrack
When you say you love me- Josh Groban
Somewhere only we know- Keane
We go together- John Travolta (Grease)
Cheek to Cheek- Ella Fitzgerald
ABC- The jackson 5
What I like about you- Lilix
You're the one that I want- Grease
Girls Just Want to Have Fun- Cyndi Laper
Crazy in Love- Beyonce
You Sexy Thing-
I Get A Kick Out Of You- Frank Sinatra
All I ask of You- Phantom of the Opera
The way you look tonight- Frank Sinatra
Ain't no other Man- Christina Auglara
Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf
Together Forever- My Bestfriends Wedding
My Girl-
For Once in my life- Michael Buble
I'll be there for you- Friends theme song
You are so beautiful
Save the Last Dance for Me -Michael Buble Last dance song
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Saturday, July 4, 2009
&hearts - New Wind
Well, I haven't written anything in a while because I've been so depressed and discouraged about this wedding. Nothing felt like it was going as planned and I was just stuck. Stuck with ideas, stuck with themes, stuck with cold feet, just stuck. We were (and still are but I have hope!) 2 seconds away from loosing our venue, but I really believe if I talk to Mike then he'll just hold it for us. We are getting it, we just want to make sure we have all the money so we get exactly what we want. I mean, he's not going to loose any money on the place for that day, we are going to have it there, I just need him to fight off the other brides with a stick! haha
Today I got so many new ideas. Ideas that pulled it all together for me. Ones that finally felt like our wedding. Everything I wanted just magically came together in my head and it all made perfect sense. We've been stressing about the fact that the chairs for the ceremony are $5 each and that's an extra $500 that we weren't expecting. Don't get me wrong, the chairs are nice, but they aren't anything special that I can justify $500 on. Then it hit me. Hay bales with Randy's grandmother's quilts draped over them to make the into benches for people to sit on. (!!!) It's perfect. It goes perfectly with our theme, it's going to be a bit cheaper, and bring so much more character to our ceremony. Hay bales here are around $3.50 each and each one sits 2. That's like $1.75 per seat as apposed to $5. I still think it's a bit much for seating that we have no use for after 45 minutes so we are going to see if we can just "rent" them from someone. (We'll even feed 'em for coming and pickin' 'em up! lol)We have no use for 50 hay bales after the wedding so this seems the best way to go. Plus Randy's grandmother has TONS of quilts that we all have. Randy and I have 4 just between the 2 of us. They are so mismatched with different colors and fabrics and textures. Very neat! This is my newest obession that has sparked my new Americana backyard BBQ themed wedding!
We have also decided (mostly) on the menu. With our venue for a basic of $10 you get fruit, veggies, cheeses, crackers, dips, and drinks all included. We where going to go the cheap way and do the pasta bar for $5 a person, but that to me is so blah and uninspiring and doesn't go with the feel of our wedding at all! Now we've (i.e me and my MIL) decided that we want mini BBQ sandwiches (mini PB&J for the kiddies!), corn on the cob, potato salad, and green beans. We've also decided to drop the Mario themed grooms cake (who needs that much cake?) for fruit pies and ice cream.
We have decided to forgo traditional bouquets and opt for lovely handmade felt flower and button bouquets by princesslasertron in our colors. If you haven't seen her work, she is amazing! The bouquets will be a little pricier but will last a lifetime and are darling to look at. To cut down on my floral budget we are thinking about changing our original idea of blue hydrangeas in a glass globe centerpiece to red carnations (and possibly other wildflowers or shasta daisies) in blue mason jars. I still love my idea of using poppies so I may add them in somewhere as well.
Well, I have to go, but I'm trying to figure out how to make and inspiration board for my new all American down home wedding. I'll let you know how it goes!
Today I got so many new ideas. Ideas that pulled it all together for me. Ones that finally felt like our wedding. Everything I wanted just magically came together in my head and it all made perfect sense. We've been stressing about the fact that the chairs for the ceremony are $5 each and that's an extra $500 that we weren't expecting. Don't get me wrong, the chairs are nice, but they aren't anything special that I can justify $500 on. Then it hit me. Hay bales with Randy's grandmother's quilts draped over them to make the into benches for people to sit on. (!!!) It's perfect. It goes perfectly with our theme, it's going to be a bit cheaper, and bring so much more character to our ceremony. Hay bales here are around $3.50 each and each one sits 2. That's like $1.75 per seat as apposed to $5. I still think it's a bit much for seating that we have no use for after 45 minutes so we are going to see if we can just "rent" them from someone. (We'll even feed 'em for coming and pickin' 'em up! lol)We have no use for 50 hay bales after the wedding so this seems the best way to go. Plus Randy's grandmother has TONS of quilts that we all have. Randy and I have 4 just between the 2 of us. They are so mismatched with different colors and fabrics and textures. Very neat! This is my newest obession that has sparked my new Americana backyard BBQ themed wedding!
We have also decided (mostly) on the menu. With our venue for a basic of $10 you get fruit, veggies, cheeses, crackers, dips, and drinks all included. We where going to go the cheap way and do the pasta bar for $5 a person, but that to me is so blah and uninspiring and doesn't go with the feel of our wedding at all! Now we've (i.e me and my MIL) decided that we want mini BBQ sandwiches (mini PB&J for the kiddies!), corn on the cob, potato salad, and green beans. We've also decided to drop the Mario themed grooms cake (who needs that much cake?) for fruit pies and ice cream.
We have decided to forgo traditional bouquets and opt for lovely handmade felt flower and button bouquets by princesslasertron in our colors. If you haven't seen her work, she is amazing! The bouquets will be a little pricier but will last a lifetime and are darling to look at. To cut down on my floral budget we are thinking about changing our original idea of blue hydrangeas in a glass globe centerpiece to red carnations (and possibly other wildflowers or shasta daisies) in blue mason jars. I still love my idea of using poppies so I may add them in somewhere as well.
Well, I have to go, but I'm trying to figure out how to make and inspiration board for my new all American down home wedding. I'll let you know how it goes!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wedding Playlist
Not finished of course but I wanted to be able to write it down and add to it as I need! I want a lot of Dance songs, funny songs, and songs people can enjoy themselves with. I don't want high school prom, but I don't want anyone to be bored either!
Songs played before the ceremony while guest are entering in
Chapel of Love- The Dixie Cups
Love and Marriage- Frank Sinatra
Sparkling Diamonds- Nicole Kidman
Stand by Me- Ben E. King
Love Bug- Jonas Brothers, Isle song (maybe)
Songs played after the ceremony while guest are leaving
Linus and Lucy- Peanuts Theme
Beautiful Day- U2
Reception Music
Lucky- Jason Mraz (First Dance Song contender #1)or Bride and Groom enterance song
Only Hope- Mandy Moore (First Dance Song contender #2 my favorite)
At Last- Etta James (First Dance Song contender #3)
Single Ladies- Beyonce, Bouquet Toss
For Good- Wicked, Memory Song
Honey Honey- Abba, Bridesmaid entrance song
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
1,2,3,4- Plain White Tees
Going to the Chapel- The Shirelles
Somebody to Love- Queen
Circus- Britney Spears
I'll Stand by You- Carrie Underwood
Low- Flo Rida
500 Miles- The Proclaimers
Right Round- Flo Rida
Pocket Full of Sunshine- Natasha Bedingfield
Stand by your Man- Tammy Wynette
Cha Cha Slide- DJ Casper
Yeah Toxic Remix- Usher/B. Spears
Mambo #5- Lou Bega
God Blessed the Broken Road- Rascall Flatts
MmmBop- Hanson
Just Dance- Lady GaGa
You Shook Me all Night Long- ACDC
Love Shack- B-52s
She's Always a Woman to Me- Billy Joel
Have you ever really loved a woman- Bryan Adams
I'll Be- Edwin McCain
Upside Down- Jack Johnson
I'm Yours- Jason Mraz
Can't Help Myself- Four Tops
Come away with me- Norah Jones
What a Wonderful World- Lois Armstrong
How Sweet it is to be loved by you- Marvin Gaye
Crazy Little thing called love- Queen
I'm a Believer- Smash Mouth
From this Moment- Shania Twain
Don't know why- Norah Jones
Blue Skies- Ella Fitzgerald
I don't need anything but you- Annie Soundtrack
When you say you love me- Josh Groban
Somewhere only we know- Keane
We go together- John Travolta (Grease)
Cheek to Cheek- Ella Fitzgerald
ABC- The jackson 5
What I like about you- Lilix
You're the one that I want- Grease
Girls Just Want to Have Fun- Cyndi Laper
Crazy in Love- Beyonce
You Sexy Thing-
I Get A Kick Out Of You- Frank Sinatra
All I ask of You- Phantom of the Opera
The way you look tonight- Frank Sinatra
Ain't no other Man- Christina Auglara
Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf
Together Forever- My Bestfriends Wedding
My Girl-
For Once in my life- Michael Buble
I'll be there for you- Friends theme song
You are so beautiful
Save the Last Dance for Me -Michael Buble Last dance song
Songs played before the ceremony while guest are entering in
Chapel of Love- The Dixie Cups
Love and Marriage- Frank Sinatra
Sparkling Diamonds- Nicole Kidman
Stand by Me- Ben E. King
Love Bug- Jonas Brothers, Isle song (maybe)
Songs played after the ceremony while guest are leaving
Linus and Lucy- Peanuts Theme
Beautiful Day- U2
Reception Music
Lucky- Jason Mraz (First Dance Song contender #1)or Bride and Groom enterance song
Only Hope- Mandy Moore (First Dance Song contender #2 my favorite)
At Last- Etta James (First Dance Song contender #3)
Single Ladies- Beyonce, Bouquet Toss
For Good- Wicked, Memory Song
Honey Honey- Abba, Bridesmaid entrance song
Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder
1,2,3,4- Plain White Tees
Going to the Chapel- The Shirelles
Somebody to Love- Queen
Circus- Britney Spears
I'll Stand by You- Carrie Underwood
Low- Flo Rida
500 Miles- The Proclaimers
Right Round- Flo Rida
Pocket Full of Sunshine- Natasha Bedingfield
Stand by your Man- Tammy Wynette
Cha Cha Slide- DJ Casper
Yeah Toxic Remix- Usher/B. Spears
Mambo #5- Lou Bega
God Blessed the Broken Road- Rascall Flatts
MmmBop- Hanson
Just Dance- Lady GaGa
You Shook Me all Night Long- ACDC
Love Shack- B-52s
She's Always a Woman to Me- Billy Joel
Have you ever really loved a woman- Bryan Adams
I'll Be- Edwin McCain
Upside Down- Jack Johnson
I'm Yours- Jason Mraz
Can't Help Myself- Four Tops
Come away with me- Norah Jones
What a Wonderful World- Lois Armstrong
How Sweet it is to be loved by you- Marvin Gaye
Crazy Little thing called love- Queen
I'm a Believer- Smash Mouth
From this Moment- Shania Twain
Don't know why- Norah Jones
Blue Skies- Ella Fitzgerald
I don't need anything but you- Annie Soundtrack
When you say you love me- Josh Groban
Somewhere only we know- Keane
We go together- John Travolta (Grease)
Cheek to Cheek- Ella Fitzgerald
ABC- The jackson 5
What I like about you- Lilix
You're the one that I want- Grease
Girls Just Want to Have Fun- Cyndi Laper
Crazy in Love- Beyonce
You Sexy Thing-
I Get A Kick Out Of You- Frank Sinatra
All I ask of You- Phantom of the Opera
The way you look tonight- Frank Sinatra
Ain't no other Man- Christina Auglara
Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf
Together Forever- My Bestfriends Wedding
My Girl-
For Once in my life- Michael Buble
I'll be there for you- Friends theme song
You are so beautiful
Save the Last Dance for Me -Michael Buble Last dance song
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Best engagement story ever!
This was great! So funny!
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29462344/
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 8:55 a.m. CT, Mon., March. 2, 2009
A lot of guys try to come up with proposal scenarios that their girlfriends will remember forever. So give Reed Harris credit for accomplishing that goal — even if it turned out to be in don’t-try-this-at-home fashion.
The idea was a variation on a common theme: Put the ring in a drink and let his beloved discover it. Harris did his part, hiding the ring in a Wendy’s Frosty milkshake. But, as he and his girlfriend, Kaitlin Whipple, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Monday in New York, she ate the entire shake and never found the ring.
Harris and Whipple had attended an LDS Institute class last Tuesday at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M., where they live. Afterward, they and a group of friends went to a Wendy’s for Frosties. The friends were in on his plans and recorded what they expected to be a heartwarming proposal on a cell phone video camera.
Ready, set ... gulp!
But the other women in the group, eager to hurry the discovery process, made the mistake of challenging Whipple to a race. Being rather competitive, she grabbed a spoon and wolfed down the entire contents of the cup.
“I felt nothing at all,” she told Lauer. “I was racing my friends, so there was no way I was going to lose that competition.”
Harris checked everyone’s cups and didn’t find the ring — gulp! This was not in the script. The video shows him hugging her and whispering in her ear that she had eaten her engagement ring.
Whipple’s gut reaction was disbelief, the story being harder to swallow than the ring.
“I thought he was joking,” she told Lauer. “I couldn’t believe that I swallowed the ring. I kept waiting for him to get down and propose.”
Harris couldn’t believe it either. “It’s not that small a ring,” he told Lauer, a bit defensively.
X-ray marks the spot
Instead of marriage, Harris proposed a trip to the local hospital for X-rays. It was only when the technician handed her an image showing the ring inside her that Whipple accepted the truth.
Image: couple
TODAY
Because Kaitllin Whipple had swallowed the engagement ring, Reed Harris proposed to her with an X-ray showing it inside her.
From the hospital, they went to Harris’ place, where one of their friends pointed out that Harris still hadn’t proposed. So, with X-ray image of the ring in hand, he got down on bended knee and asked for Whipple’s hand in holy matrimony. A friend captured the tender moment in a picture that shows him looking at the camera with a sheepish grin and Whipple sitting with a big smile on the couch — holding the X-ray of her ring.
Ever the gentleman, Harris took the blame for the accident. He had been waiting for the ring to arrive, and had planned to propose Wednesday night during a more formal date at a fancy restaurant. Whipple suspected that he set up the Wednesday dinner date to propose to her.
But Harris told Lauer that when the ring finally arrived on Tuesday, he was so excited he couldn’t make himself wait another day. So he hatched the Frosty plan on the spot.
‘This too shall pass’
The next day — Wednesday — Whipple posted the whole story along with pictures and video on her blog, Krazy Kaitlin. One of the pictures shows her posing with the X-ray along with a bag of prunes and a box of high-fiber breakfast cereal. Her friends, she said, assured her that “this too shall pass.”
On Thursday, she had happy news to report on her blog: “It arrived this morning and I have never been so excited about my bodily functions. Haha. It’s so beautiful and I love it. It was definitely well worth the wait.”
After getting it cleaned, Whipple finally slipped the elusive ring on her finger and posted another photo.
Image: couple
TODAY
All’s well that ends well: Reed and Harris got flown to New York to show their elusive engagement ring on TODAY.
But that wasn’t the end of the story. A Salt Lake City television station got wind of the tale and interviewed the couple. Then TODAY called and flew them to Houston to appear on the weekend edition of the show Sunday, then to New York to make two more appearances Monday.
“When I woke up this morning I never thought I’d be getting a call from NBC!” Kaitlin wrote Saturday. “I look forward to it but am scared to death at the same time. National television WOW!” Sunday’s blog entry is headlined “Kaitlin & Reed are in NYC!!”
The couple haven’t set a date for their wedding, but have narrowed it down to either the last weekend in May or the first weekend in June. As for the honeymoon, Whipple wrote on her blog that she hopes more surprises are in store: “Maybe we'll get a cool honeymoon out of this crazy engagement story somewhere down the road ... we can only hope :)”
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29462344/
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 8:55 a.m. CT, Mon., March. 2, 2009
A lot of guys try to come up with proposal scenarios that their girlfriends will remember forever. So give Reed Harris credit for accomplishing that goal — even if it turned out to be in don’t-try-this-at-home fashion.
The idea was a variation on a common theme: Put the ring in a drink and let his beloved discover it. Harris did his part, hiding the ring in a Wendy’s Frosty milkshake. But, as he and his girlfriend, Kaitlin Whipple, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Monday in New York, she ate the entire shake and never found the ring.
Harris and Whipple had attended an LDS Institute class last Tuesday at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M., where they live. Afterward, they and a group of friends went to a Wendy’s for Frosties. The friends were in on his plans and recorded what they expected to be a heartwarming proposal on a cell phone video camera.
Ready, set ... gulp!
But the other women in the group, eager to hurry the discovery process, made the mistake of challenging Whipple to a race. Being rather competitive, she grabbed a spoon and wolfed down the entire contents of the cup.
“I felt nothing at all,” she told Lauer. “I was racing my friends, so there was no way I was going to lose that competition.”
Harris checked everyone’s cups and didn’t find the ring — gulp! This was not in the script. The video shows him hugging her and whispering in her ear that she had eaten her engagement ring.
Whipple’s gut reaction was disbelief, the story being harder to swallow than the ring.
“I thought he was joking,” she told Lauer. “I couldn’t believe that I swallowed the ring. I kept waiting for him to get down and propose.”
Harris couldn’t believe it either. “It’s not that small a ring,” he told Lauer, a bit defensively.
X-ray marks the spot
Instead of marriage, Harris proposed a trip to the local hospital for X-rays. It was only when the technician handed her an image showing the ring inside her that Whipple accepted the truth.
Image: couple
TODAY
Because Kaitllin Whipple had swallowed the engagement ring, Reed Harris proposed to her with an X-ray showing it inside her.
From the hospital, they went to Harris’ place, where one of their friends pointed out that Harris still hadn’t proposed. So, with X-ray image of the ring in hand, he got down on bended knee and asked for Whipple’s hand in holy matrimony. A friend captured the tender moment in a picture that shows him looking at the camera with a sheepish grin and Whipple sitting with a big smile on the couch — holding the X-ray of her ring.
Ever the gentleman, Harris took the blame for the accident. He had been waiting for the ring to arrive, and had planned to propose Wednesday night during a more formal date at a fancy restaurant. Whipple suspected that he set up the Wednesday dinner date to propose to her.
But Harris told Lauer that when the ring finally arrived on Tuesday, he was so excited he couldn’t make himself wait another day. So he hatched the Frosty plan on the spot.
‘This too shall pass’
The next day — Wednesday — Whipple posted the whole story along with pictures and video on her blog, Krazy Kaitlin. One of the pictures shows her posing with the X-ray along with a bag of prunes and a box of high-fiber breakfast cereal. Her friends, she said, assured her that “this too shall pass.”
On Thursday, she had happy news to report on her blog: “It arrived this morning and I have never been so excited about my bodily functions. Haha. It’s so beautiful and I love it. It was definitely well worth the wait.”
After getting it cleaned, Whipple finally slipped the elusive ring on her finger and posted another photo.
Image: couple
TODAY
All’s well that ends well: Reed and Harris got flown to New York to show their elusive engagement ring on TODAY.
But that wasn’t the end of the story. A Salt Lake City television station got wind of the tale and interviewed the couple. Then TODAY called and flew them to Houston to appear on the weekend edition of the show Sunday, then to New York to make two more appearances Monday.
“When I woke up this morning I never thought I’d be getting a call from NBC!” Kaitlin wrote Saturday. “I look forward to it but am scared to death at the same time. National television WOW!” Sunday’s blog entry is headlined “Kaitlin & Reed are in NYC!!”
The couple haven’t set a date for their wedding, but have narrowed it down to either the last weekend in May or the first weekend in June. As for the honeymoon, Whipple wrote on her blog that she hopes more surprises are in store: “Maybe we'll get a cool honeymoon out of this crazy engagement story somewhere down the road ... we can only hope :)”
Friday, February 27, 2009
My wedding style
Thank you for taking the Style Your Dream Wedding Quiz.
Garden weddings capture the carefree elegance of summer. With the scents of the garden and the magic of flowers, a softer side of nature surrounds you. These weddings are usually a collaborative effort between family and friends who all work together to make the wedding special and creative. Your buzzwords are "fresh," "airy," "enchanting," "natural" and "frolicsome." A backyard is ideal, but other wonderful locations to consider are parks and botanical gardens in your area. The wonderful thing about planning your Garden wedding is that the actual location is not as important as the feelings the location should invoke. Any room can be transformed into a garden paradise with the right flowers and decorations.
Your Stationery: The elements of Garden wedding invitations are delicate and intricate in lettering and design. You may consider a pressed flower as part of the invitation or using handmade paper with your flower colors worked into the pulp. Overall, keep it simple and let the flowers be the focal point.
Your Dress: This is your opportunity to run wild with your childhood fantasies of being a nymph or a fairy princess. If you have an inner flower child that longs to run free, this is your opportunity. Look for sleeveless wedding gowns or wispy empire-waist gowns. The dress is the show, so your jewelry should be minimal and delicate. A soft shawl can be wrapped around your shoulders later if your reception is outside.
Your Hair: Long and loose or up with wisps, the key to gorgeous hair for a Garden bride is to incorporate the flowers into the look. Whether you use diamond hair clasps that look like bumblebees, or you pin pansies into your bun, you should continue to align the look with your surroundings. It’s a good idea to indulge yourself and hire a hair stylist to create that style for you. With an outdoor location, you have to make hair a more important part of the picture as the elements can change your look in minutes. You will want to consider whether or not it will hold its own against the elements that time of year without someone having to follow you around with a can of hairspray all day.
Your Flowers: With a Garden wedding, you may want to decide on your flowers first because, besides you, they will be a key element that defines the style of this wedding. Cascading wildflowers that intertwine on archways could be a beautiful choice for a Garden look. Looped around the backs of your chairs or in the bridesmaids’ hair, the flowers should accent and complement all of your decorations and inspire many details of your wedding. Consult with your floral stylist and find a floral mix that aligns with your chosen color palette. See the Color Palette Booklet in our Style Your Dream Wedding book for color ideas that will align with your overall Garden wedding.
Your Ceremony: If you have a Garden ceremony, one of your concerns will be to prevent the intimacy of the ceremony from being lost in the great outdoors, so plan on creating a visual centerpiece for the ceremony, such as an arbor with flowering vines, an archway of flowers, a beautiful white chuppah or even a tropical-style palapa. There are some incredible gazebos that can act as a great focal point for a ceremony and can be purchased inexpensively.
Your Reception: A large tented dinner reception with dinner and dancing would be beautiful for a Garden wedding. The tent can be incredibly stylish. The tabletops may have white napkins tied with green organza ribbons and green and white flower centerpieces punctuated by large, white column candles. Some beautiful color ideas can be found in the Color Palette Book, a special addition in Style Your Dream Wedding.
Edible flower arrangements are a fun and innovative way to beautify your reception area and feed your guests. Mouth-watering and appealing fresh fruit arranged like a floral bouquet, with flavorful pineapple "daisies," chocolate-dipped apple wedges, fresh strawberries and accents of grapes and ribbed melon slices on skewers, carry out the Garden theme beautifully and are conversation pieces that your guests will "ooh" and "aah" over long after your wedding is over.
Refreshing gifts for your guests made of strawberries and apple wedges dipped in semisweet or white chocolate and sprinkled with sliced almonds, coconut or chopped nuts, and nestled in a chilled box with a colorful bow that matches your reception colors, will be an edible reminder of your wedding that your friends and family can take with them to snack on later. Menu items can include yummy salads and fresh dishes, and a string quartet can add romantic ambiance.
Your Cake: Use the flowers to lead your design for a Garden cake. Real or confection, flowers arranged beautifully on your cake will enhance your wedding! You may also opt for small individual cakes in different flavors or little cupcakes. For shape, allow your cake to step upward on an angle rather than a perfectly stacked wedding cake, recreating the image of garden steps.
Your Photography: Capture some selective focus shots among the flowers. With so much color available, your photographer can create some beautiful shots by pulling focus in different ways. Also, capture the small details of your dress or your rings by photographing them close up with the flowers as your background.
Your Getaway: With a Garden style you can feel free to use a variety of modes of transportation. To tie this together with your Garden style, decorate your getaway vehicle with flowers that match back to your wedding.
Fanciful weddings are imaginative and creative. Often, the location will have special significance for the bride and groom. Think of a couple tying the knot on the roller coaster they rode on their first date. Or what about a life-long film buff marrying in a movie theater? Your buzzwords are "adventurous," "unique," "quirky," "imaginative" and "out of the box." The location for your wedding can be as wild as your imagination. Consider nightclubs, casinos, hot-air balloons, sports stadiums, a yacht, a zoological garden, a bowling alley or even underwater.
The bride who wants a Fanciful wedding is not afraid to be different, so brainstorm and think of things that you truly love and that make you happy. Infuse these things into your ceremony. Nothing should be crossed off your list if you love it. For example, if giggling small children make you happy, have a group of them walk behind you down the aisle holding your long, flowing veil.
Your Stationery: Don’t limit yourself to traditional invitations. How about a key that opens the door to the VIP Room at a nightclub? Or a puzzle that when put together is a picture of the bride and groom? Play with shape and cut of the invitation itself and use interesting and dimensional shapes.
Your Dress: Whatever strikes your fancy, your dress can be selected or made to match or can fashionably contrast with your theme. A Fanciful wedding is truly all about you and can be as unique as you want it to be. Go down the aisle in matching his and her bathrobes if you like. If it’s a Halloween wedding you may be in costumes. A word of caution with this style: be sure to really refine your ideas and vision before you pick your dress so that it aligns and enhances the style. If you don’t isolate your style early enough, it will be easy to "lose your theme" and end up with a wedding and reception with no real stylistic direction.
Your Hair: For a Fanciful wedding you may create a completely different look for your hair. If you have short hair, clip-on hair or extensions can be added for length or fullness. Dramatic streaks of color to highlight your face or match your flowers can be achieved with a great hair colorist or with small clip-on hairpieces. Headpieces like medieval crowns, tiaras or tribal-inspired headdresses can be researched online. You can also find great costume hair adornments at vintage stores and at specialty costume stores.
If you have a certain look that you would like to replicate, your best bet is to find a hairdresser that specializes in the type of hairdo you want. For example, if your wedding has a Renaissance theme, and you want a dramatic hairstyle befitting Renaissance royalty, you may want to find someone who has done theatrical hair in a play, festival or performance from that era. Remember, your hair is important because it will live in infamy in wedding pictures. If it’s not right, you could have pangs of regret every time you look at your wedding album.
Your Flowers: You may want to think outside the box and choose to embrace a Willy Wonka approach and have some edible floral arrangements. Or, perhaps you don’t want real flowers but would love to have some gorgeous paper sculptures accented with origami puzzles. You can feel very free to use whatever you would like with this style. There are several breeds of natural flowers that can provide beautiful, fanciful colors. Consult with your florist and he/she should be able to help you create a Fanciful bouquet that aligns in color and style with your particular Fanciful wedding style.
Your Ceremony: Create your own ceremony from start to finish. Perhaps you wish to have your entire ceremony on horseback, or to marry while skydiving. Whatever your fancy, you will want to write your ceremony to fit the venue. Make sure that your vows are not too long if you’re falling from 15,000 feet!
Your Reception: Once you pick your style, dive in. Maybe you want a circus theme where your officiate wears a clown suit. Too silly? How about cotton candy and candied apples becoming the newest martini flavors at your Fanciful reception? Allow the location to set the entertainment. If you’re at a fair, then perhaps your guests can play at the carnival booths, take rides on the Ferris wheel or watch a clown show. Use your imagination and to create a fantasy that everyone will remember.
Your Cake: Your cake topper can carry through the theme of the location you decide to hold your wedding. There are some clever topsy-turvy cakes to choose from these days with all sorts of unusual fillings and toppers. Snicker doodle crumbs in your frosting? M&M’s in every slice? Giraffe toppers if getting married at a zoological garden? Think outside the box, as nothing has to be conventional with a Fanciful wedding. You are the creator and anything goes.
Your Photography: Allow your photographer to work some special effects into your wedding. Other than that, make sure that whomever you hire gets pictures of all your fanciful details. It would be helpful to hire an art photographer, one that knows how to work with Photoshop and graphics to create fanciful images of your wedding with an artistic quality. If you or your groom are proficient in Photoshop you may want to try your hand at this as well and your friends might love getting these framed shots as a gift for their birthday or special event.
Your Getaway: A hot-air balloon? An elephant? What’s your fantasy? Use all of your creative juices to plan the most fun and romantic getaway. Let your imagination run wild!
Garden weddings capture the carefree elegance of summer. With the scents of the garden and the magic of flowers, a softer side of nature surrounds you. These weddings are usually a collaborative effort between family and friends who all work together to make the wedding special and creative. Your buzzwords are "fresh," "airy," "enchanting," "natural" and "frolicsome." A backyard is ideal, but other wonderful locations to consider are parks and botanical gardens in your area. The wonderful thing about planning your Garden wedding is that the actual location is not as important as the feelings the location should invoke. Any room can be transformed into a garden paradise with the right flowers and decorations.
Your Stationery: The elements of Garden wedding invitations are delicate and intricate in lettering and design. You may consider a pressed flower as part of the invitation or using handmade paper with your flower colors worked into the pulp. Overall, keep it simple and let the flowers be the focal point.
Your Dress: This is your opportunity to run wild with your childhood fantasies of being a nymph or a fairy princess. If you have an inner flower child that longs to run free, this is your opportunity. Look for sleeveless wedding gowns or wispy empire-waist gowns. The dress is the show, so your jewelry should be minimal and delicate. A soft shawl can be wrapped around your shoulders later if your reception is outside.
Your Hair: Long and loose or up with wisps, the key to gorgeous hair for a Garden bride is to incorporate the flowers into the look. Whether you use diamond hair clasps that look like bumblebees, or you pin pansies into your bun, you should continue to align the look with your surroundings. It’s a good idea to indulge yourself and hire a hair stylist to create that style for you. With an outdoor location, you have to make hair a more important part of the picture as the elements can change your look in minutes. You will want to consider whether or not it will hold its own against the elements that time of year without someone having to follow you around with a can of hairspray all day.
Your Flowers: With a Garden wedding, you may want to decide on your flowers first because, besides you, they will be a key element that defines the style of this wedding. Cascading wildflowers that intertwine on archways could be a beautiful choice for a Garden look. Looped around the backs of your chairs or in the bridesmaids’ hair, the flowers should accent and complement all of your decorations and inspire many details of your wedding. Consult with your floral stylist and find a floral mix that aligns with your chosen color palette. See the Color Palette Booklet in our Style Your Dream Wedding book for color ideas that will align with your overall Garden wedding.
Your Ceremony: If you have a Garden ceremony, one of your concerns will be to prevent the intimacy of the ceremony from being lost in the great outdoors, so plan on creating a visual centerpiece for the ceremony, such as an arbor with flowering vines, an archway of flowers, a beautiful white chuppah or even a tropical-style palapa. There are some incredible gazebos that can act as a great focal point for a ceremony and can be purchased inexpensively.
Your Reception: A large tented dinner reception with dinner and dancing would be beautiful for a Garden wedding. The tent can be incredibly stylish. The tabletops may have white napkins tied with green organza ribbons and green and white flower centerpieces punctuated by large, white column candles. Some beautiful color ideas can be found in the Color Palette Book, a special addition in Style Your Dream Wedding.
Edible flower arrangements are a fun and innovative way to beautify your reception area and feed your guests. Mouth-watering and appealing fresh fruit arranged like a floral bouquet, with flavorful pineapple "daisies," chocolate-dipped apple wedges, fresh strawberries and accents of grapes and ribbed melon slices on skewers, carry out the Garden theme beautifully and are conversation pieces that your guests will "ooh" and "aah" over long after your wedding is over.
Refreshing gifts for your guests made of strawberries and apple wedges dipped in semisweet or white chocolate and sprinkled with sliced almonds, coconut or chopped nuts, and nestled in a chilled box with a colorful bow that matches your reception colors, will be an edible reminder of your wedding that your friends and family can take with them to snack on later. Menu items can include yummy salads and fresh dishes, and a string quartet can add romantic ambiance.
Your Cake: Use the flowers to lead your design for a Garden cake. Real or confection, flowers arranged beautifully on your cake will enhance your wedding! You may also opt for small individual cakes in different flavors or little cupcakes. For shape, allow your cake to step upward on an angle rather than a perfectly stacked wedding cake, recreating the image of garden steps.
Your Photography: Capture some selective focus shots among the flowers. With so much color available, your photographer can create some beautiful shots by pulling focus in different ways. Also, capture the small details of your dress or your rings by photographing them close up with the flowers as your background.
Your Getaway: With a Garden style you can feel free to use a variety of modes of transportation. To tie this together with your Garden style, decorate your getaway vehicle with flowers that match back to your wedding.
Fanciful weddings are imaginative and creative. Often, the location will have special significance for the bride and groom. Think of a couple tying the knot on the roller coaster they rode on their first date. Or what about a life-long film buff marrying in a movie theater? Your buzzwords are "adventurous," "unique," "quirky," "imaginative" and "out of the box." The location for your wedding can be as wild as your imagination. Consider nightclubs, casinos, hot-air balloons, sports stadiums, a yacht, a zoological garden, a bowling alley or even underwater.
The bride who wants a Fanciful wedding is not afraid to be different, so brainstorm and think of things that you truly love and that make you happy. Infuse these things into your ceremony. Nothing should be crossed off your list if you love it. For example, if giggling small children make you happy, have a group of them walk behind you down the aisle holding your long, flowing veil.
Your Stationery: Don’t limit yourself to traditional invitations. How about a key that opens the door to the VIP Room at a nightclub? Or a puzzle that when put together is a picture of the bride and groom? Play with shape and cut of the invitation itself and use interesting and dimensional shapes.
Your Dress: Whatever strikes your fancy, your dress can be selected or made to match or can fashionably contrast with your theme. A Fanciful wedding is truly all about you and can be as unique as you want it to be. Go down the aisle in matching his and her bathrobes if you like. If it’s a Halloween wedding you may be in costumes. A word of caution with this style: be sure to really refine your ideas and vision before you pick your dress so that it aligns and enhances the style. If you don’t isolate your style early enough, it will be easy to "lose your theme" and end up with a wedding and reception with no real stylistic direction.
Your Hair: For a Fanciful wedding you may create a completely different look for your hair. If you have short hair, clip-on hair or extensions can be added for length or fullness. Dramatic streaks of color to highlight your face or match your flowers can be achieved with a great hair colorist or with small clip-on hairpieces. Headpieces like medieval crowns, tiaras or tribal-inspired headdresses can be researched online. You can also find great costume hair adornments at vintage stores and at specialty costume stores.
If you have a certain look that you would like to replicate, your best bet is to find a hairdresser that specializes in the type of hairdo you want. For example, if your wedding has a Renaissance theme, and you want a dramatic hairstyle befitting Renaissance royalty, you may want to find someone who has done theatrical hair in a play, festival or performance from that era. Remember, your hair is important because it will live in infamy in wedding pictures. If it’s not right, you could have pangs of regret every time you look at your wedding album.
Your Flowers: You may want to think outside the box and choose to embrace a Willy Wonka approach and have some edible floral arrangements. Or, perhaps you don’t want real flowers but would love to have some gorgeous paper sculptures accented with origami puzzles. You can feel very free to use whatever you would like with this style. There are several breeds of natural flowers that can provide beautiful, fanciful colors. Consult with your florist and he/she should be able to help you create a Fanciful bouquet that aligns in color and style with your particular Fanciful wedding style.
Your Ceremony: Create your own ceremony from start to finish. Perhaps you wish to have your entire ceremony on horseback, or to marry while skydiving. Whatever your fancy, you will want to write your ceremony to fit the venue. Make sure that your vows are not too long if you’re falling from 15,000 feet!
Your Reception: Once you pick your style, dive in. Maybe you want a circus theme where your officiate wears a clown suit. Too silly? How about cotton candy and candied apples becoming the newest martini flavors at your Fanciful reception? Allow the location to set the entertainment. If you’re at a fair, then perhaps your guests can play at the carnival booths, take rides on the Ferris wheel or watch a clown show. Use your imagination and to create a fantasy that everyone will remember.
Your Cake: Your cake topper can carry through the theme of the location you decide to hold your wedding. There are some clever topsy-turvy cakes to choose from these days with all sorts of unusual fillings and toppers. Snicker doodle crumbs in your frosting? M&M’s in every slice? Giraffe toppers if getting married at a zoological garden? Think outside the box, as nothing has to be conventional with a Fanciful wedding. You are the creator and anything goes.
Your Photography: Allow your photographer to work some special effects into your wedding. Other than that, make sure that whomever you hire gets pictures of all your fanciful details. It would be helpful to hire an art photographer, one that knows how to work with Photoshop and graphics to create fanciful images of your wedding with an artistic quality. If you or your groom are proficient in Photoshop you may want to try your hand at this as well and your friends might love getting these framed shots as a gift for their birthday or special event.
Your Getaway: A hot-air balloon? An elephant? What’s your fantasy? Use all of your creative juices to plan the most fun and romantic getaway. Let your imagination run wild!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Wedding Cost Estimator
So I've been roaming around some other lovely brides to be bloggers and I've found tons of stuff I just LOVE! I found this wedding cost estimator on Rick and Erica Always, forever (http://rickanderica.blogspot.com/). I was so nervous to see what my final total would be, but after I saw it, I was pleasantly surprised! As long as I say at the bottom of the total and aim to go under, I should be fine. If I could have the grand total around 7,000 with both sets of parents helping, I think that's reasonable.
Based on the zip code you entered for 36203 Oxford, AL , the number of guests (101-150), and the items selected, the estimated wedding cost is between $9,975 and $16,626.
I'm not sure how much either side will be helping. I know his parents are much more willing than mine but if they could only help with the big stuff, like the venue and the catering I'm pretty sure we could cover everything else. Mind you, I don't expect anyone to be paying for this wedding other than Randy and me, but getting help would be SOOO nice.
I've thought about all the things I wouldn't mind giving up or leaving out but in the same thought I know this is the only wedding I get to have and I want it to be perfect for the two of us. I'm so up and down about this wedding.
I guess I'll feel better once we can agree on the venue and put down a deposit on our date. That's the biggest thing. Pretty much everything else can wait but that really can't much longer. I'm a bit overwhelmed. Most of the girls on the May 2010 board on the knot already have their venues book as well as most everything else in their wedding. It's crazy. I feel so behind. Part of me thinks I have plenty of time and the other thinks that if I don't get on it soon, this is never going to happen. Stressful.
If you want your own Wedding Cost Estimator check out
http://flowersfloralflorist.com/blog/wedding-cost-estimator/
One day I will learn to hyperlink I promise!<
Based on the zip code you entered for 36203 Oxford, AL , the number of guests (101-150), and the items selected, the estimated wedding cost is between $9,975 and $16,626.
I'm not sure how much either side will be helping. I know his parents are much more willing than mine but if they could only help with the big stuff, like the venue and the catering I'm pretty sure we could cover everything else. Mind you, I don't expect anyone to be paying for this wedding other than Randy and me, but getting help would be SOOO nice.
I've thought about all the things I wouldn't mind giving up or leaving out but in the same thought I know this is the only wedding I get to have and I want it to be perfect for the two of us. I'm so up and down about this wedding.
I guess I'll feel better once we can agree on the venue and put down a deposit on our date. That's the biggest thing. Pretty much everything else can wait but that really can't much longer. I'm a bit overwhelmed. Most of the girls on the May 2010 board on the knot already have their venues book as well as most everything else in their wedding. It's crazy. I feel so behind. Part of me thinks I have plenty of time and the other thinks that if I don't get on it soon, this is never going to happen. Stressful.
If you want your own Wedding Cost Estimator check out
http://flowersfloralflorist.com/blog/wedding-cost-estimator/
One day I will learn to hyperlink I promise!<
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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