Candles are a classic and traditional gift for a wedding but they do not have to be plain candles. These Autumn Elegance candles are a perfect favor option for a fall themed wedding. Strewn with autumn leaves, this triple-tiered wedding cake candle comes packaged in its own gift box, tied with a ribbon in the rust-like color of falling leaves. You may also add a personalized gift tags in a color and style that matches your wedding. Check it out!
I love this adorable décor idea from the Hostess with the Mostess. Not only are these bridal shower decorations cute they are also something the bride can keep and to add to her kitchen. Don’t you just love decorations that can be repurposed into something useful!
When choosing flowers for your wedding, one thing you might want to consider is the meanings of these flowers. This gives you a fun way to pick that perfect flower.
Rose – Love
White Daisy – Purity
Gardenia – Joy
Orchard – Beauty
Carnation – Distinction
Blue Violet – Constancy
Forget-me-not – True Love
Red Chrysanthemum – Sharing
Lily of the Valley – Happiness
White Lilac – Youthful Innocence
Attention to detail will make a definite impression among your guests – one not soon to be forgotten. Create an atmosphere of luxury for the ladies. Place vases of fresh flowers, or elegant dried flower arrangements, in the ladies room. Add fragrant bowls of potpourri, heart shaped soaps in decorative dishes, perhaps candles if the venue will permit (votives safely contained in glass holders). Include a lovely basket filled with items such as hairspray, a container of safety pins, tissues, hair pins, and a decorative dispenser containing hand cream, along with other such convenience items as a courtesy to your guests.
The Hostess with the Mostess had this recipe on her site and I thought it would be the perfect cocktail for a summer wedding or even a bridal luncheon. I know it is going to be almost 100 degrees today so I may need one of these by the end of the day!
Servings:
8 to 10
Ingredients:
· 1 Bottle Dry white wine
· ½ cup orange liqueur
· ¼ cup Sugar
· 1 unpeeled lime, thinly sliced (remove the seeds)
· 1 unpeeled lemon, thinly sliced (remove the seeds)
· 1 unpeeled small orange, thinly sliced (remove the seeds)
· 1½ cups sliced fresh strawberries
· 1½ cups halved green grapes
· 2 cups chilled sparkling water or club soda, or more to taste
· Garnish: whole strawberries with hulls
Directions:
Combine the wine, liqueur sugar and fruit in a large pitcher and refrigerate overnight. Pour into cocktail glasses filled with ice and top off with club soda. For the garnish, slice the strawberries partway, form the bottom up, and place one on the rim of each cocktail glass or wine goblet.
It may be early morning your time but it is 5 o’clock somewhere and that somewhere just so happens to be 1800-Flowers. You heard me right 1800-Flowers. They have a super cute Happy hour centerpiece collection that is just to die for! These intoxicating flowers are the perfect touch for bridal luncheons, bachelorette parties or even an informal wedding. Check them out!
When planning a wedding everyone knows that the details are so important. It is that close attention to detail that will amaze and impress all of your guests. With that in mind, check out this idea. Instead of sealing your invitations just as is, use a wax seal. This will give them an ultra elegant and impressive feel. Plus it is really unique. How many invitations have you received sealed in wax? Probably not that many, if any at all, that’s what makes this such a great idea. Check it Out!
A groom’s cake has its roots in the South, and although it used to be viewed as an added and unnecessary expense, this once-neglected cake has been making a huge comeback. Intended to be a gift from the bride to the groom, the groom’s cake is usually dark (often chocolate or liquor-soaked) and designed with a nod towards what’s traditionally considered “masculine” (i.e., no rosettes in sight). Although you do not need a groom’s cake, you just may want one. The groom’s cake can serve many purposes, from dessert at the rehearsal dinner, to an alternative choice to the bride’s cake at the wedding. It’s customary for the groom’s cake to be displayed next to the bride’s cake, and later cut and put into boxes for guests to take home. And believe it or not, legend has it that single women are supposed to sleep with a slice under their pillow the same night they receive it — and if they do, they will dream of their future husband. Boxed slices of groom’s cake can also serve as your wedding favors. If you go this route, take advantage of the opportunity to get creative with the packaging — an additional way to reflect your bridal style. A current creative trend in groom’s cakes is to have the cake reflect the groom’s interests and hobbies. For instance, a recent groom’s cake we loved was in the shape of a skyscraper – the perfect choice for the groom, who was in
Who could have thought that yarn on a box could make such a pretty favor? Martha Stewart that’s who! Leave it to Martha to come up with a cute inexpensive and easy favor idea. Favor boxes can look playful or sophisticated with yarn. Many of these ideas use the same technique: Attach end of yarn to bottom of box with a clear round mailing seal; wind yarn around box several times, cut off, and affix other end to bottom with a second seal. Precut all of your yarn before wrapping. From top left: A pink box is wrapped with a band cut from mesh paper; wind yarn in one direction, then the other, weaving it through. A paper band covers a pink box; it’s tied with a fuzzy orange mohair bow. Wavy white yarn binds a green-lidded box; slip extra yarn behind strands at each side, and tie in a bow. From center left: For the double bow on this box, tie a regular bow, making loops twice your desired length; next make a bow with the right loop (pull loop open, flatten it, cross one end over the other and pull through); repeat with left loop. Tape scalloped card to box, wind yarn between scallops, knot at middle with a short piece, print names on sticker paper, and cut out with craft punch. This long box is covered in tweed-print paper and nubby yarn.
From bottom left: Wind variegated yarn around a box in an asymmetrical design; slip tag under strands. Knot yarns around a matchbox- style box; splay ends for fringe. A band of houndstooth card stock and an off-center bow wrap a box. Source
