Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 32

Oh how we love Style Me Pretty and everything it gives us!!! Beautiful eye-candy for the bride obsessed gal or guy. We are honored to have one of our weddings featured on Style Me Pretty's Little Black Book Blog!!! The wedding that SMP is featuring was a one of a kind wedding. Caroline and Will have been together since junior high. How cute is that?! Please check out the post on SMP's blog for more pictures!!

Click here: Caroline and Will Richardson's Wedding

Happy looking!!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 18

Photography by Andrea Polito Photography

Fall is definitely in the air! The leaves are falling, sweaters are about to be worn (hopefully..) and you can spend your evenings out on the back porch with a glass of wine... thanks to the nice Dallas weather.

We'd like to wish one of our brides a Happy Anniversary! Her wedding was recently published on Style Me Pretty's website. Yah!! We love published weddings. Alexis was the creative force behind her wedding... we were just there to make sure everything went as planned. It is so important to have a "day-of" planner to take on all the final details the month of your wedding. Please check out Alexis' wedding to see her beautiful outdoor fall wedding. It is definitely one of my favorites!!! There were many unique things incorporated in her wedding so be sure to read the article to get some good ideas!

Some of the Vendors:

Wedding Planner- AK Event Design

Photography- Andrea Polito Photography

Floral- Fete Des Fleurs

Videography- Mason Jar Films

Venue- Marie Gabrielle

Makeup- Maitee Miles

Favors- Tart Bakery

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 16

Photo via Shop.GetMarried.Com

Looking for creative, inexpensive, chic ideas for your wedding? Who isn't, right? Well, we received a wonderful magazine this week called "Get Married" that is full of great ideas, fun items to spruce up your reception, inexpensive invitations, DIY sections and a Real Weddings section. I highly recommend looking at www.shop.getmarried.com. One of the cutest ideas I saw, which I'm definitely going to use in the future, was to use the cute little "Love Birds" tag pictured above with the ribbon around the chair slats of a chivari chair. The tags are 50 for $19.00. Shop.getmarried.com has a lot of fun tags to choose from. Let us know if you use any of their products!!

Photos via www.GetMarried.com

Styling by Aisha Holly & Photography by Aruna B Photography

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 13

Picture via Style Me Pretty

Fall is here in Texas...which means it could be rainy, chilly or humid!!! With outdoor weddings coming up, our brides are wondering if they should be ordering chic umbrella holders for the possible rainy day or stylish wraps to help keep their guests warm from the slight Texas chill. Oh, what will the weather be like? Since it is fall, we are hoping for the slight chill in the air because of the adorable ways you can display the wraps. Get creative!! You can attach a cute note that says something catchy like, "There is a chill in the air, feel free to borrow a wrap so your arms won't be bare."

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 11

Photo via Dallas Morning News, FD Luxe

Cruffles.... sounds tasty. They are, in fact, a perfect blend of truffles and cake. The Cruffle has been featured on Daily Candy and in the August issue of FD Luxe. FD Luxe said, "Stephanie Worsham's 'cruffles' are a genious marriage of two decandent sweets- cake and truffles. The innocent-looking treats appear to be your average chocolate- or vanilla-dipped truffle, but bite inside and you'll find a heavenly center of spongy, delicious cake, the really moist kind like mom used to make." There are many flavors to choose from... white cake, strawberry, lemon (yumm), red velvet, chocolate peanut butter, brownie (!) and so many more. To order your own box of cruffles, call 214.518.5039 or go to cucalu.com. Here's wishing you a SWEET Wednesday!!

We've been blogged!!!

We are so excited that a rehearsal dinner we designed and planned is being featured on Bella Flora of Dallas' Blog! There were so many details that went into this wonderful event. The invitations were done by a local Dallas calligrapher, Jennifer Lang. She also did all the table numbers, escort cards, place cards and menus. Her work is beautiful! Everything from the linens to the hammered chargers brought the design full circle. It was a beautiful night!! ....not to mention the family was a JOY to work with, which always makes our job more fun!!! Check it out!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 10

Photo via Brooklyn Bride

Happy Wednesday! We hope everyone is having a wonderful day. We are answering a popular question today.... "What is a good place to host our wedding website?" NearlyWeds.com is for the stylish bride who wants to pay a flat, onetime fee. They charge $49 for 2 years. NearlyWeds offers a 2 week free trial. You can do so many things on this site... create a blog, manage your guest list, the list goes on... They offer many cool website designs. Super Cute!! Go check them out!

Weddingwindow.com is another great option. They has been around for many years and were voted by the Wall Street Journal as the #1 wedding website provider overall.... we all know we trust the WSJ! It isn't a free site but is very affordable. For example, if you want to pay by the month it is only $10.99. There are many other pricing options and upgrades available. If you sign on for 6 months you also get a free issue of InStyle Weddings! Every bride loves wedding magazines...especially when they are free!! Check out their site for design options. You can upload your own designs, create custom fonts, use custom colors, and much more!

Here's wishing you a great website design!!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 9

photo via D Weddings

We love Tart Bakery! Angie and Kristin met the sweet sisters that started Tart Bakery, the sweetest shop in Dallas, about 5 years ago while we were both working our first wedding show. We have checked in with each other over the years, thrown a fashion show together, and referred business to each other. We love Tart for their small goodies, wonderful cakes and cute things we find in their stores. They opened a second store at the Shops at Legacy in Plano. It is a little different than their cute little shop on Lovers Lane. The Plano store has a room attached to the bakery that can be rented out for wedding showers, baby showers, girls night out (BYOB), or if you, the Bride, want to throw a cute "Thank You" party to your bridesmaids. It is super cute and open late!!!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 8

Folder & Inserts designed by Crown Bindery

Last week we discussed "HOW" to word various invitations and now we are moving on to "WHEN" to send out your invites. Our "Wish" is that this post helps answer a few questions and makes your invitation process that much easier. You can create your own calendar to keep you organized.... click here to find out where we found the cute folder and inserts above. You can find it all online for less than $25. What a deal!!

Save the Dates

Save the Dates is where we will begin, since it is typically the first invite that is sent out during your wedding invitation timeline. Save the Dates are typically sent out 6 months prior to the wedding date. If people are coming from another country or if a lot of your guests are in school, jobs that need ample time to ask off, medical school, residency etc... you might want to send them out a little earlier.

Wedding Shower Invitations

Wedding shower invitations should be sent out around 4 weeks prior to the shower date. You can send them out as early as 6 weeks but you run the risk of guests forgetting about the party.

Rehearsal Dinner Invitations

Rehearsal Dinner invites should go out after the wedding invitations. We suggest sending them out 2 weeks after the wedding invites are put in the mail.

Formal & Destination Wedding Invitations

Wedding invitations should go out 8 weeks prior to your wedding date. We recommend 12 weeks if you are having a destination wedding. Your guests will need ample time to make travel plans, especially if you didn't send out a save the date. However, for destination weddings, we always recommend sending save the dates. When sending out wedding invitations you'll need to make sure your response cards are due no later than 1 month prior to your wedding date. You'll need time to organize your seating chart, escort cards, place cards and food estimates for the caterer.... and there will always be the ones who do not pay attention to the response date. So be prepared to make a few phone calls or have your wedding planner make the calls! :)

"In a Nut Shell"

Save the Dates 6-8 Months from the wedding date

Shower Invitations 4 Weeks prior to the shower date

Destination Wedding Invitations 12 Weeks prior to the wedding date

Formal Wedding Invitations 8 Weeks prior to the wedding date

Rehearsal Dinner Invitations 2 weeks after the wedding invitations are sent out

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 7

Hello Lucky's Woodland Damask Wedding Invitation

We are such invitation and paper junkies... Brides are always asking us "How should we word our invitation" and "When should we send out our wedding invitations? Save the Dates? Shower invites? Rehearsal dinner invites?" Over the next two Wednesday Wedding Wishes, we will be covering the how and when of invites.

Lets discuss the 'How'... when brides need proper etiquette for how to word the wedding invitation, we refer to a wonderful invitation designer who has a page solely dedicated to wording wedding invitation. Hello Lucky is the place to go for a quick reference on invitation wording. The site lists out formal and informal ways to word invitations from many different hosting perspectives... such as, the brides family hosting or the couple hosting. Hello Lucky gives 30 different ways to word a wedding invitation. ...and if you don't need help with your invitation wording, you can just browse Hello Lucky's site. It is great eye candy and you might even come away with a purchase. :)

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 6

In todays economy we are running across a lot of "Do It Yourself" (DIY) Brides. These are the brides that like to find ways to lesson the blow of the wedding expenses. If you have the time to "DIY" on a few tasks, it can end up saving you quite a bit of money. We love finding new designers on Etsy. Belletristics is a design shop online where you can get many items from customized monograms to wedding invitations. They send you the file so you can either print them on your home computer or send to a professional printer. How easy is that?!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 5

Spoon Invite via Brown Turtle Neck Sweater

"Why the spoon," you may ask? Today we are all about planning a party, planning a date with your significant other or just planning a night out with your girlfriends before your big day. Sur La Table offers cooking classes of all types at their location on Travis and Knox. Not only do they offer fun cooking classes, they have a store full of goodies you'll need to fill your new kitchen with.

We love Sur La Table because they host you! It is a perfect place for a shower for your wedding. When you host a shower at their location they do the planning, everyone assists with the cooking, you and your guests enjoy what you cook and then they clean up!! How great is that?! Sur La Table also offers couples cooking classes, which would be fun for a date night. Click here to see the current schedule. ....and back to the spoon, the simplicity of the spoon as an inviation caught my eye. You could use it as an invite for a shower (although mailing might be difficult but you could mail it in a box) or you could give it to your fiance' or best friend as a date night invite. Simple...Elegant!

Wednesday Wedding Wishes, Num. 4

Shopping for your honeymoon? One of our favorite sales of the year is coming up at the end of August. F.I.G. Finale Sale!!! If you've never been.... we highly recommend you go. Many of Dallas' top boutiques are part of this great sale, as well as, smaller designers you've never heard of and sample shops at the F.I.G. It is a great place to stock up on cute new dresses, fun bags, shoes, sunglasses and jewelry for your honeymoon. I'm sure you could also find great gifts for your bridesmaids and groomsmen at a discounted price. Check out www.fashionindustrygallery.com for details and be sure to mark it on your calendar. You don't want to miss it!!!

Glitz, Glamour and an "oh so fabulous" wedding feature!!!

photography by Stephen Karlisch

Our team planned a wedding for a beautiful bride last December. Please check out the feature on Jessica and Andrew's beautiful wedding on D Magazine's website! It is great eye candy to give you a break from the ho-hum of your daily routine. :)

Enjoy!!