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Wedding Blog Post Love

Always a Blogsmaid - Who's Wedding IS it Anyway?
Sharing her experiences filming the show Who's Wedding Is it Anyway?

Polka Dot Bride - Peacock Party
Wow, what an amazing inspiration board!

Offbeat Bride - Gasworks Park Wedding in Seattle
A colorful wedding in Seattle's Gasworks Park. Love!

It's a Jamie Thing- What To Do With Your Leftover Wedding Items
Jamie shares a great new find with us, the Bride to Bride Boutique

Once Wed - DIY Natural Bling
Holy cow! Talk about creative!

Wedding Bee - A DIY Rewind, Adventures in DIY

The Wedding Cabaret - Real Wedding: Shanah & Jerry’s Gothabilly Wedding
A Goth style rockabilly wedding that looked like a blast!

Wedding Obsession - Kate Hudson & Anne Hathaway are Modern Brides
Kate Hudson & Anne Hathaway briefly sat down with Modern Bride to talk about weddings and friends and their movie “Bride Wars” .


Any wedding blog posts really knock your socks off recently? Leave a comment!

Happy planning!
~w.s.

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Online Tools: Wedding Mapper


Annother great online tool for planning a wedding online is Wedding Mapper.
This site is beyond excellent. Having your wedding in a large city? Having out of town guests? Then wedding mapper is the way to go. Include a map in your wedding invitation or make it available online. Either way, providing a map is part of caring for your guests.


In addition to mapping your wedding sites wedding mapper offers more services. You can explore wedding mapper and gain inspiration by browsing their wedding photo galleries, chat on their message boards, explore real weddings from around the world and you can look for vendors in your area.

Wedding Mapper explains what they can do for you:

An innovative and unique planning tool for engaged couples:

  • A wedding map makes it easy to communicate detailed information about your wedding and the local area to a large number of people.
  • In addition to the key wedding locations, you can add restaurants, spas, parks, and your favorite local attractions to your wedding map.
  • You can add photos and custom descriptions make your wedding map more personalized.
  • You can easily share your wedding map with guests and your wedding vendors to ensure no one gets lost on the big day.
  • You can store vendor contact information, hidden from guests, on your wedding map to keep everything in one place.
  • It is easy to create a printed version of your wedding map. We have Professional and DIY options available.

A great resource for wedding guests and vendors:

  • Wedding guests can become familiar with the local area and plan their weekend itinerary.
  • Guests and wedding vendors can print custom driving directions to and from any location on the wedding map.
  • A search tool makes it easy for guests to find accommodations, stores, etc. that may not be included on the wedding map.
  • A list view of the wedding map gives guests an overview of where they need to be and when they need to be there.
DIY, with their help. Yes, there is a vendor out there who will support your DIY madness by actually helping you! See their DIY wedding map guides.

But their services don't stop there, hold on there's more! You can upgrade at a very reasonable $9.99. When you upgrade you get:

Custom URL
Make it easier for your guests to read and remember your wedding map url. Perfect for wedding invitations. (eg. http://hisandjhers.weddingmapper.com)

Add Links
Add additional links to your wedding map. (eg. to your wedding website or registry sites)

Upload Files
Upload any files you used to create your wedding invitations so that your guests can print them out if they lose their invitations.

Enhanced Code Snippet
Add your wedding map to your wedding website with a location list, all photos, and driving directions.


Too busy to make your own map? You can have Distinctive Directions create it for you! Take a look at their packages here.

I highly recommend Wedding Mapper & the services of Distinctive Directions
Happy mapping & planning!
~w.s.

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Sparkly Wedding DIY - More Sparkle with Crystals

I have been so inspired by the sparkling handicrafts I have seen recently! Just fantastic! I want to share with you even more ways to incorporate sparkly accents into your wedding designs using crystals! I hope you enjoy and are inspired!


A Sparkling Wishing Tree
One last look at a variation on the crystal tree. From Here Comes the Guide, this amazing variation of the crystal wedding tree...the wishing tree! Simply follow the instructions for the crystal wedding tree, although these do not have to be as tall. Place some wish tags and pens on the table and have your guests write wishes for the bride and groom. A sparkly variation to the traditional guest book that adds so much to your over all decor!


Crystal Stems & Accents for Your Wedding Bouquet
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These are pretty little sparkles you can add to your floral wedding bouquet from veilubridal.com. You can purchase these outright or DIY. Over at DIY Bride, she teaches you step by step how to make these accents yourself. Most florists will happily provide these for you, but you can also DIY and add then to your bouquet yourself (you may want to let your florist know your doing it, or give her the crystal stems for them to add, so the look is just right). You can also add a crystal monogram as seen above!

A Crystal Bouquet
Image from: Chris@geocities.com

Nothing but crystals for this bouquet! Chris has a blog over at geocities where she shares with us step by step directions. These are some of the best directions I have found to make your own crystal wedding bouquet. She shares pictures, tips and advice from her 'Knottie' friends as well. Remember practice makes perfect if you are a DIY'er, or of course you can purchase one ready made with a simple Google search.

Top This Cake Topper
Images from: STBMrsJ @vbride.com message board, gina674 @nycweddings.com message board and Hamiharri @ anotherweddingblog

Many brides have taken on this DIY project by adding crystals to their monogram cake topper. Purchase your initials precut and add the sparkles in colors and patterns that match your overall wedding style. At the blog, Expect Nothing But Perfection they describe exactly how to make a crystal monogram cake topper! Also, instructions here too at Another Wedding Blog.


Crystal accents for your paper lantern!
From CREATE your STYLE™ with CRYSTALLIZED™ -Swarovski Elements comes a most fantastic idea to ad some crystal accents to your paper lantern display. Hang a bunch of lanterns then decorate a few lanterns with crystals. Hang a few throwies inside (see this previous post on lighting your lanterns with LED's) and watch the WOW factor come alive!

Head Wreath & Tiaras
Wen Hsu has created some stunning bridal jewelry here at Mareas Headpieces as well as sharing tutorials on her site. Stunning.



The Links
DIY:
Our previous post for DIY'ing The Crystal Wedding Tree
Create Your Style with Swarovski shares many inspirational crafts at their site.
DIY Bride instructions for crystal stems for your bouquet
" " instructions for your crystal bouquet.
Wedding Ideas & Details has tips for making your own monogram cake topper.
DIY Network has some step by step instructions for making your own jewelry.
NVO shows you step by step how to make a tiara.
Jewelry Supply also shows you how to make a wedding tiara.
IO-Mareas shares their tutorials on how to make a beautiful head wreath and a headband!
Wed Craft uses the 'way back' machine to make some old listing of crafts come alive again. Many great ideas and sources here.

Vendors:
After the Dress sells crystal bouquet letters as well as some crystal stems.
Custom Crystals makes very pretty Swarovski crystal monogram cake toppers.
Veilu Bridal sells lovely bouquet jewelry.
Couture Cake Jewelry sells monogram crystal cake toppers.
Mareas Headpieces Oh so beautiful creations. As well as sharing instructions for tiaras and headbands, you can purchase their products outright.

Crystal & Bead Vendors:
Decorating Studio a wonderful supplier. Great trims.
Art Beads has very affordable supplies.
Jewelry Supply has a wide variety of Swarovski crystals
Goodie Beads has a nice large selection of Swarovski & crafting supplies.
Cute As A Button has some pretty accent pieces.
Ebay offers great deals!
Panda Hall has all kinds of shapes of Swarovski.

Happy planning & crafting!
~w.s.

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10 Ways to Add Sparkle to Your Wedding - Ribbon Sliders & Buckles



Okay sparkly bride, here are 10 ways to add a little bling to your day.

Today we wanted to show you some easy ways to incorporate these very stylish ribbon sliders and crystal buckles into your wedding design.

1. Use a rhinestone buckle on your wedding invitation, seating chart, escort cards, table numbers...:
Image from:invitedpersonally.co.uk


2. Make a statement on your bouquet:


3. Slide a little sparkle onto a ribbon and wrap it around the vase you use for your centerpiece:
Image from: Soiree Special Events Blog post, scanned from Bride & Bloom


4. Use a rhinestone ribbon slider/buckle on the napkin rings:


5. Continue your design on your unity candle:
6. A bit of bling on your wedding favor boxes:

7. The bling continues to your guest book & pen:Image from: invitationsbydawn.com


8. Ribbon sliders used to embellish the ring pillow & flower girl basket:
Image from: theknot.com


9. Use a larger buckle for the sash on your dress, your bridesmaid dresses and for the flower girl:

10. Embellish your shoes or flip flops with a sparkly buckle:
Images from: dyeableshoesavenue.com & leighkarsch.com



The majority of images above are from professional vendors, which we have linked to below the pictures.
You can however add these little accents yourself if you want to DIY. We have linked to sites that sell these buckles & ribbon sliders so you *can* do it yourself!


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DIY: Luminaries & Votive Holders

After showing you how to add a some non flame 'candlelight' with Throwie DIY LED lights, we thought we'd share some fun DIY votive and luminary holders you can make yourself!
Use these to inspire you to light your wedding aisle, line outdoor pathways, hang from trees, or use as centerpieces. With the use of LEDs, no worries about fire restrictions! Get the candlelight like glow you had always visioned for your wedding day!
If you want to drop a couple of LEDs in these, it's safe and economical! Shred a little bit of pearly cellophane and top your LED light with it in the container to mask the light source just a little if someone peeks inside and you don't want the source so very obvious ;)


Etching and frosting glass
can mask the light source, just a little bit



Save-On-Crafts has tons of crafty ideas!



These are fantastic, not candles, just the forms,
light from the inside with whatever you like! DIY Network

Bead your votives to add a bit of sparkle

1. Beaded hanging votive candleholder on the DIY Network
2. Beaded votive holder on Curbly by DIY Mavin


Votive Crafts from Home And Harden Television

Jar Votives Ellen Allen on HGTV


"Stained Glass" Painted Fish Bowl With Votive by Courtney Clark on HGTV


Some Favorites From Martha Stewart
Three types of hanging votives:

Candle Chandeliers How-To from Martha Stewart

Hanging a set of miniature glass lanterns from Martha Stewart Living


Fourth of July Votives

More Luminary/ Votive Crafts from Martha Stewart:
1. Lacey Luminaries 2. Beeswax covered luminaries


DIY Votive Crafts from Krylon

Shimmering Holiday Votives on Krylon

Pearly Garden Party Candles

Wedding Votive Trio from Krylon


For the Winter Months, Try Ice Votives!

1. Small ice votive holder from Curbly.com 2. Ice Luminary at HGTV.Com 3. Ice luminary snowy walk from Christmas: 101 Wondrous Ideas to Make (Better Homes & Gardens) Posted by CreativeHome Style.com 4. Crazy tall ice luminaries on Flickr. Maybe not DIY, but inspiring!
5. Colorful Ice Luminaries on dnr.state.wi.us 6. lemon & branch ice luminary from Better Homes & Gardens


Hope you found these DIY votive crafts inspiring!
Happy planning!
~w.s.

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Attention Crafty!


We are a flutter about the Pacific Weddings DIY contest!
Are you crafting for your wedding? A little DIY?
Favors? Guest book or maybe an alternative idea to the traditional guest book?
Have a splendid table decor idea? Something new and fresh for the church aisle? Well,it's time to do it and send it in to Pacific Weddings Magazine and you could win! More info:
Simply email a photo and description of your D.I.Y wedding idea to contest@pacificweddings.com. The final product can be anything from save-the-date announcements to photo albums and favors, and PW editors will select the best in the bunch. If your idea is chosen, you will win a fabulous set of wedding design books and your idea will be featured in the Winter/Spring 2009 Anniversary Edition!
Read Pacific Weddings Magazine's Blog; Love Notes to get all the details!

Time to get creative and put that crafty nature to work!
Good Luck & Happy Planning!

~w.s.





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