happy go lucky wedding

This isn’t a detail for my wedding, but I thought it was so cute so I had to share.  I wish I could incorporate this, but I’m afraid with all the little things I already want, my wedding will start to look like a circus of details, so I need to know when to stop.  And thankfully I do.  But, if you have a pear/pair theme, it would be great!

I found these on La Pomme on etsy.  They are just so cute.  Hopefully someone else reading this will have a pear theme and can use them.

Ok, so Mr. Fro Yo and I started thinking about what we wanted for the ceremony and went through the logistics of what might be possible at an outdoor wedding. We liked the unity candle, but feared that wind would blow it out, so we moved on. We also liked the sand ceremony, but we would have to bring our own table to the ceremony, and that sounded like a lot of work (Yes, apparently I’m that lazy). I researched a little more and found out about hand fasting.

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I’d never heard of this, but I was intrigued.   It’s an ancient Celtic ceremony that is the inspiration behind today’s modern day expression of “Tying the Knot.” 

(Image courtesy of Natalie Williams Photography)

The officiant or one of your bridal party tie your wrists together, typically with cord, but some couples choose to do it with things that mean something to them (ribbon, etc).  This is to signify that you are bound together through life.

(Image courtesy of Natalie Williams Photography)

Some vows I’ve seen that accompany this part of the ceremony are:

“These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding your hands on your wedding day, as you promise to love and care for each other today, tomorrow and forever.” and “These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it, that will hold and comfort you when fear or grief confront you. These are the hands that will wipe away tears from your eyes, both tears of sorrow and – much more common I am certain – tears of joy.” 

So what do you think? Would you all be interested in seeing that?  Has anyone seen this before?

So when I met with my florist she asked me what I had in mind for boutonnieres and I honestly didn’t know.  I knew that I didn’t want something super traditional, but I wasn’t sure what that meant.  So we talked about what flowers I liked and then Kristen suggested we do eucalyptus and  one flower (maybe ranunuculus) for the groomsmen and Mr. Fro Yo. Sort of like this one.

But I envisioned more traditional eucaplyptus like this. 

And billy buttons for the ring bearers (dyed green).  So cute!!

Um, are you kidding me, every picture is gorgeous!!  I found this on 100 Layer Cake and pretty much fell in love with every shot.  The photographer?  Great.  The venue? Gorgeous.  The flowers, dress, hair piece?  Precious.  Anyway, I want my wedding to feel like this, all the guests look like they’re having a great time and it’s just so laid back.  Love it! 

Holy crap you guys, I WON something.  I keep entering all these contests on these blogs and think no way am I actually going to win anything because I seriously never win anything, but then I won!!  Project wedding was giving away this free name changing thing.  Wow that sounded intelligent, let me try again.  They were giving away a free certificate to Miss now Mrs.com  which is an online name changing website.  Basically, you fill out your information one time, they put it in all the necessary forms, then they tell you where to go and you take all those pre-filled out forms with you.  Or, you can mail the ones off that allow for mailing with your wedding certificate.  They say it saves tons of time because now you don’t have to find out which forms you need because they will generate them all for you.  Sweet!  I’m seriously so excited.  The service costs like $30, so I’m really glad I get it for free!  This is definitely motivation to keep entering the contests.

So I’m enjoying my memorial day just relaxing, took the dogs swimming, read a little of my book and then I thought, why don’t I search for bridesmaids’ dresses.  I visit all the usual sites, J crew, Dillards, Nordstrom, Macys and then Banana Republic.  When I head to BR instead of searching through all the dresses and finding one I like and being tempted to buy, I decide to just search for grey dresses.  Well, 4 came up and 2 were PERFECT.  Both of them were under $130. 

I promise this is grey, though it sort of looks white.

Only they just have size 12 and 14 left.  Why didn’t I think to look before memorial day weekend when everyone is searching??

Ok for some reason I had a hard time finding inspiration for cakes that I like. I think that’s partially because I couldn’t decide if I wanted round or square tiers.  I figured I would start searching and saving any that I thought appealed to me in some way. 

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Do you see that last one, it’s square and round!! Thus solving my dilemma of having to pick just one.  All of these appear to have fondant on them, which I really don’t want. 

Well, so recently we went to a cake tasting and it was awesome, and obviously delicious.  We are using Audrey for our cakes, and I couldn’t be more excited!  I guess you’re probably wondering what we picked… Well, the dilemma between the round and square layers continued up until I got to the tasting, but I did always have that square and round cake in my mind. 

Well, so did Audrey.  She drew some sketches for us and even had some styrofoam cake layers to help us see what it would all look like.  So we decided on doing one with a square bottom layer and 2 round layers on top.  It will be smooth like that one (but no fondant) and I’ll provide the ribbon, and our Audrey will make some sugar flowers like these.

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We picked french vanilla with a vanilla buttercream filling and buttercream frosting on the outside.  Now I’m searching for some square pedestal cake stands.  I found this one from Crate and Barrel that I like.  But there’s no harm in continuing to search.

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And for the groom’s cake we will put a picture stamp of Mr. Fro Yo’s favorite sports radio station. I told him I think it will look like we work at the radio station or that the radio station donated the cake, but this is the one thing that he’s wanted to pick and he’s actually really excited about it.    So I’m going to let it go. For this one, we went with double chocolate with chocolate buttercream and raspberry filling.  Yum!