Shoes, Shoes, and More Shoes!!!

I'm not excited about this part of the wedding at all. Can you tell??!!

Clever Cake toppers

This is a new one. I'm stuck on having love birds on the top of my wedding cake, but this is really clever take on the traditional bride and groom cake topper. They are just sitting on the edge of the cake.



http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=sitting+cake+topper&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Another Creative Theme

Very cute wedding for a couple that met during elementary school.

Apples as wedding favors

More cute themed favors and guest book, even class pictures!


They used chalk to create place cards.

Things Could Always Be Worse!

Oh no! Gulp! She swallowed her own engagement ring
Woman’s boyfriend hid it in milkshake to propose; happily, the crisis passed!

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.

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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.

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.

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 :)”

Cute Library Wedding idea

Maybe I'm a lil bit dorky, but I really like this idea.
From the blog: Speak Quietly: Ramblings About Libraries, Writing, and Everything in Between
http://speakquietly.blogspot.com/2008/06/library-themed-wedding-part-1-of-2.html
Instead of a guestbook they had library slips.

Each table was named after a writer that the couple enjoyed and had a book by that writer, every seat also had a book-themed crossword puzzle.

Cute Garters

From PetereneDesign's Shop on Etsy

Etsy!

More cute ideas from Etsy.... I think I would use one of these even after the wedding
Emma Gordon London

Cute Bridesmaid Dresses from Etsy

Very cute bridesmaid dresses and they even have pockets!

Details:
Amanda Archer Collection
www.amandaarcher.com
$165

Bargain Hunting Inspiration

Here is more inspiration from Project Wedding:



















Details:

Dress: www.lightinthebox.com

Shoes: www.shoebuy.com

Hairpiece: www.cinderellaspumpkin.com

Bracelet: www.addanaccessory.com

Earrings: www.overstock.com

Veil: www.affordableweddingveils.com

Wedding Colors

Some ideas for colors: I'm thinking light blue, and a soft apricot orange for flowers.

Wedding Colors by leslie5210 featuring J Crew

More Bargain Hunting Inspiration

This one was on Project Wedding. Can't beat the price! I'm really liking the headpiece..... is that called a fascinator?























Shopping Details:

Mon Cheri Wedding Gown - www.ebay.com

Headpiece -www.etsy.com

Necklace - maylui.etsy.com

Bracelet - maylui.etsy.com

Wedding in Spring Continued

Here are all the items in used in the wedding in spring post if your interested:

	BP. Platinum 'Larissa' Sandal - View All - Nordstrom $59.95 - shop.nordstrom.com
	Bridesign - Wedding Flowers - Rose - Romantic - Orange / Yellow - Grand 36p... $900.00 - bridesign.com
	Women's heels - shoes - J.Crew $368.00 - jcrew.com More J Crew shoes »
	Trumpet Sweetheart Sweep / Brush Train Satin Organza Wedding Dresses for Br... $219.99 - lightinthebox.com More dresses »
	Bridesmaids Dresses - Silk Ballerina & Halter Dresses, Short & Long Dresses... $215.00 - jcrew.com More J Crew dresses »
	Purses - Unique Vintage - Pinup dresses, Rockabilly dresses, prom dress $190.00 - unique-vintage.com More dresses »
	Fashion Jewelry & Fine Jewelry - J.Crew $100.00 - jcrew.com More J Crew »
	Fashion and Stylish Bridesmaid Dresses On Sale at Discount Price!-P5 89.99 SGD - lightinthebox.com
	Fashion and Stylish Bridesmaid Dresses On Sale at Discount Price!-P3 79.99 SGD - lightinthebox.com
	Karen Millen | Karen Millen Pear Hook Earrings at ASOS $78.15 - asos.com More Karen Millen »
	ACCESSORIES - Unique Vintage - Prom Dresses, Pinup dresses, Rockabilly dres... $76.00 - unique-vintage.com More dresses »
	J.Crew - Search $69.99 - jcrew.com More J Crew »
	Donna DiStefano - Gorgeous Engagement Rings - In Style Weddings instyleweddings.com More rings »

Wedding in Spring

If I hadn't already found my dress while bargain shopping at Glamour Closet in Los Angeles for amazing deals on originally obscenely expensive wedding dress I think I might have taken this route and bought my dress online. It would be risky, but the price is definitely right and the dress is beautiful. Okay, the ring probably isn't exactly bargained priced, but a girl can dream.

Ooo la la, a candy bar

I love, love, love this idea: combine the idea of party favors with the seating cards and a kick ass candy bar.

Check out the pix:

Sad, but so true

This is exactly how I feel most of the time when speaking to vendors..... It's just a cake!!! No, no it's a "Wedding Cake!!!"

Cake toppers

These are soooo cute! However, I really can't justify spending 200 or more dollars on a cake topper. It's a little ridiculous to spend that much don't you think? I mean it better be able shoot out fireworks at that price. I really want to do something like this, maybe it's back to the DIY
projects!
Ann Wood Handmade for $400
http://www.annwoodhandmade.com/
















This one is from Rain's End on Etsy for around $120
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=100427

Save the Date (work in progress)

The save the dates are coming along, after 4 hours of working on them they look a little like this. Now I'm torn between leaving them alone or incorporating them into some sort of a postcard. For any mac users Skitch.com made adding the lettering in a lot easier.

Save the Date.... HELP!!!

We are trying DIY route for the save the date's and so far it's not going so well. I really like the idea of using a photo-booth for the save the dates. Unfortunately the first round of taking pictures didn't go so well. We ended up dropping most of the signs and the pictures were mostly of the top of my head. Off to round two. Hopefully this time we will be more successful!