Inspiration 101: Gold and Pink

Happy Spring! This romantic inspiration board shows the softer side of pink and gold. The combo is perfect for the spring and summer with it’s warm tones that are classic. Pink tones keep the feel soft and elegant, while touches of matte gold add understated glamour. We hope to do a wedding with this palette soon!

This first board is from The Perfect Palette:

This board is from The Wedding Paper Divas. Shauna Faust styling, Victor Sizemore, Centerpiece, Martha Stewart Wedding cake

Non-Floral Centerpieces: Apothecary Jars

We love the whimsy and old-fashioned look of apothecary jars. A very Anthropology-esque design that allows the designer and bride to open the creative flood gates and really create one-of-a-kind pieces. These particular photos are from a wedding we did at the Sanctuary Golf Course with Katie Van Buren as the photographer. This bride wanted a very organic feel and each individual jar’s design was significant to the couple.

 

Oh Martha! Monogrammed Favors

We love how favors can bring out the playful side of brides and they can certainly add color to any event. We always say that the best favors are edible because you can be sure there will not be many that are left behind. We particularly love this first photo which are Jordan almonds placed specifically to show the ‘R'.

Who doesn’t love chocolate as a night cap:



These cookies can be made with most standard rubber stamps:

Estes Park Styled Shoot

We were happy to lend our stationery for a gorgeous styled shoot at Della Terra in Estes Park. Amber with Save the Date Events coordinated the shoot with fab wedding professionals Kelli Hunt, Blue Bridal, KT Jean Designs, Intricate Icings Cake Design, Fleur Décor and Girls and Curls. It makes me want to get married all over again!

It's All in the Details: Napkins

Napkins are the perfect way to infuse color, style and personality with little impact to your wedding budget. There are so many napkin and ink colors available, you are sure to find your perfect match and we can help! Don’t just do one napkin color, do several! They can be great conversation starters for you guests especially when they have games on them! 

 

We're Crazy About...Lovely Wedding Details!

I have wine my mind! Just last weekend I was in Napa to visit the Silverado Resort and Spa for a June wedding we are doing. With those inspirations on my mind, I came across these fab little escort card holders. Sure, we have all seen them when they are laid down but this is a fun spin + it adds color! Thanks to Lovely Wedding Details - you can find them in the wedding section on Esty!

Inspiration 101: Orange & Gray

Gray has been so hot for the past year and we are still loving everything about it. It is a great ‘cool’ color that can take the edge off of hot vibrant colors and also can add a more contemporary and modern edge to the color palette. When paired with orange, these two colors play off each other brilliantly while still maintaining their own identity. It is a playful match that we hope sticks around for a bit!

Cloud 9 board

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Oh Martha! Popular Cake Toppers

Want cake topper inspiration? Look no further than Martha. Some toppers can be family heirlooms, some are whimsical and traditional packed with lovely tradition. Read below to get the scoop from Martha on what certain cake toppers can mean.

This horseshoe is a classic symbol of good fortune; a bride in England might tie a horseshow charm to her wrist for luck. The topper here is made of phalais, a dried grass that resembles wheat, itself an emblem of fertility and abundance. The ribbon is embriodered with the couples' initials.  

In Bermuda, couples top their wedding cakes with tiny saplings, which they plant to grow as their marriages do. Here, a milk-chocolate figurine, formed in a replica of a 1920s mold, stands on a faux top tier of Styrofoam coated to match the cake. The flowering quince branches above were painted with chocolate (choose pesticide-free foliage). Chocolate modeling dough makes a balustrade and miniature roses. The rolled fondant is tinted pink to pick up the hue of the quince.

As legend has it, wedding bells ring out to announce a brand-new union to the world -- and also to frighten away any evil spirits. These bells and the wreath of paper flowers that encircles them were made using the old-fashioned art of quilling, in which strips of paper are manipulated into intricate shapes. Gum-paste curlicues on the fondant-covered cake pick up where the paper ones leave off.

Guests will be enchanted with a pale-blue wedding cake draped in garlands of tiny leaves and delicate paper bows. A matching wreath topper symbolizes the eternal nature of marriage.

Working with designer Denise Sharp, they took poetic license with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famed love sonnet, quoting it on a cake by Kromer. Sharp's calligraphed paper garlands -- dotted with ribbon flowers and bows, and adhered with royal icing -- and paper bands encircle fondant tiers that graduate from rosy pink to paler pink on top. The bands are layered over satin ribbon and scalloped cardboard trim wrapped with embroidery floss. A crepe-paper bouquet on a fondant disk is the crown.

The topper is made of three nesting boxes, each edged in gold ribbon, tied up like a parcel from an elegant boutique.

For this cake topper, we selected a dish made of a barley candy. If you want to use a china dish, which is much heavier, insert three or four dowels into the top tier of the cake to support it.

A sunny canopy parts to reveal a three-tiered, fondant-covered cake. It is finished with an initial made of hand-painted, sugar-paste flowers, a sweet topper for a garden wedding.

 

Wedding Etiquette Wednesday: Double Envelopes

To double-envelope or not to double-envelope. That is the question! We get this questions a lot from our brides and as we are becoming more green, we find that double envelopes are not as popular as they used to be. Read on:
This is a tradition that dates back to soon after the Industrial Revolution (ca. 1800) and the invention of lithography. Lithography is a printing process in which chemicals are used to accept and print ink, instead of the labor- and time-intensive processes of calligraphy or engraving which had been two popular methods before. Lithography was a cheap printing technique that allowed wedding invitation producers to market their products to the then-burgeoning middle class. Delivery of these newly-minted invitations would prove to be problematic, however, as the postal service of the time was still unreliable. Thus, two envelopes were used: an inner one, unsealed (for the sake of courtesy), and an outer one, addressed and used to protect the inner from the rigors of travel.


Elizabeth Post, in her etiquette book Emily Post On Weddings (1994, Harper-Collins, New York), elaborates:

The use of two envelopes is a tradition that probably goes back to when invitations where delivered by hand. For politeness the envelopes were left unsealed. Later, when mail services, began, the unsealed envelopes were inserted into larger ones that could be sealed. A practical reason for using two envelopes today is that the names of family members, escorts of your invited guests and children can be listed on the inner envelope.

Color Inspiration 101: Chartreuse and Aqua

Spring is in the air and what better color pairs that Chartreuse and Aqua! These two colors are light, crisp and cool. Pair a signature drink in either color and you have a party!

These boards are by Kelly Oshiro, myfunkyhon.com and the centerpiece is by LI Weddings