Detail To Love: Chic Candle Centerpiece

Sep 14th

by: Lauren

Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to wind down (or gear up) for the weekend! This week’s detail to love, is an excellent candle centerpiece idea that is both eco-friendly and cost effective! And you really can’t wrong with candles, right?

Photo by Lisa Lefkowitz, via SMP

Gorgeous, chic, and simple! The vases containing the floating candles look to be wrapped in gold string, and the tall votives are wrapped in a patterned paper. Such a great way to incorporate color into your tablescape- not to mention the beautiful glow of candlelight! What do you think of this chic candle centerpiece? Will you be using candles as a part of your own table design?

Modern Vintage Purple Mississippi Wedding

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Sep 14th

by: Kristine

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Did you know that one of the best ways to saturate your wedding with color is by adding varying hues of the same shade? It provides dimension without going overboard and it gives you choices without overwhelming you (always a good thing in my book). I am loving the way Valerie and Matt did this by including shades of purple in their wedding details… and I’m always a sucker for a good s’mores station! Enjoy your Friday with these photos courtesy of Adam + Alli Photography, lovelies!

What (or who) helped you most in your planning process and/or on your wedding day?

Shanna Lumpkin, my event planner, was the biggest help in the planning and making my ideas come to life! She took all my pictures/plans/ideas and made them even bigger and better than I could have imagined. Any idea I talked about she made possible! My actual wedding day, she was running around setting up all the small detailed things I had picked out.

What was the most important thing to you when deciding who to work with for your wedding?

I wanted someone I could trust to make my wedding the wedding of my dreams, who understood my ideas and was creative in ways I wasn’t!

What was your inspiration for your wedding details and/or design?

I wanted a vintage wedding full of sentimental things from my family, but also contemporary and slightly modern. I love old architecture, and The South building was perfect to fit my idea of modern but vintage!

What was your favorite thing about your wedding?

Oh my goodness, this is a tough question! Not sure what you mean so I’ll answer two ways:

1. Seeing my groom’s face when he saw me in my dress for the first time! He was grinning from ear to ear! (Even while having a million pictures taken, which he usually hates!)

2. My daddy made mason jar chandeliers that hung over my wedding cake! They were gorgeous and so special because he made them for us!

What is your best piece of advice for other brides?

Hire a planner and photographer you feel comfortable with handing over the tasks of your wedding day! You don’t want to be running around trying to get things done. The day goes by so fast that you want to be able to sit back and enjoy every tiny detail you have dreamed about!

Isn’t that purple gorgeous in all those different hues? A big thank you goes out to Valerie for answering our questions and sharing some memories from her big day. I love when a bride recognizes the importance of hiring good vendors (and yes, especially a good photographer and planner!). It really does pay off.

xo-Kristine

Vendors who made it all happen…

Photographer: Adam + Alli Photography / Reception Venue: The South Warehouse / Wedding Planner/Coordinator: Shanna Lumpkin Events / Cake Baker: The Cake Diva / Catering: Fresh Cut Catering and Floral by Wendy Putt / DJ: OB1 Experience / Makeup Artist: Amy Head / Hairstylist: LaCru Salon / Lighting: Davaine Lighting

Wedding Planning Advice: Follow Your Heart!

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Sep 13th

by: Lauren

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“Follow your heart while planning, and to remain true to your relationship with your Fiance. So many brides get swept up into making everyone else happy on their wedding day. It’s important to remember that the day is about your love together, and bringing everyone in to share that.”

– Jenn Hopkins Photography

Jenn Hopkins Photography

email: jennhopkinsphoto@yahoo.com | phone: 352.514.2959
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location: North FL, Orlando, West Coast FL | type: Photographer | style: Classic | price: $$, $

Rustic Handmade California Wedding

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Sep 12th

by: Lauren

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Happy Wednesday everyone! I don’t know about you, but I most definitely cannot WAIT for it be Fall! (Not that we actually have Fall here in Florida, but I consider anytime you can walk outside without breaking a sweat as good weather.) Well, it may still be summer weather in some places, but I have a little hint of Fall for you with today’s wedding from Jennifer Eileen Photography! With a gorgeous rustic style and some amazing handmade DIY details, this wedding was beautiful, intimate, and is sure to be full of some great ideas for your own weddings! The bride Heather is here sharing some of her wedding insight with us today- take it away Heather!

What (or who) helped you most in your planning process and/or on your wedding day?

My sister and I did a lot of research online as it was a destination wedding, and focused on the venue and where our friends and families would stay first, that helped us narrow down our search.

What was the most important thing to you when deciding who to work with for your wedding?

This will sound dumb but the moment I talked to the venue owners (3 Oaks Vineyard), I knew we were in good hands- they were wonderful. The venue was love at first site. It is hidden away and you would never know something so quaint was there. I felt the same with talking to Jennifer Eileen on the phone. It seemed as though we had known each for years- we just GOT each other. So I guess you could say we were looking for people that were very easy to deal with and willing to make our perfect wedding come true.

What was your inspiration for your wedding details and/or design?

Casual, homemade, burlap. Not sure how to describe it really, but my family saved every glass food jar for months so that we could use 270 jars of all shapes and sizes on the tables filled with with flowers. We made the napkin rings, and every decoration and detail. I looked online to get ideas and see what kinds of things people were doing for their weddings, and then we just made our own.

What was your favorite thing about your wedding?

My favorite thing about our wedding was… well there was a lot really, but i think one of my favorites was that it was an outdoor venue. With no chance of moving everything indoors (as there was no place for that many people on location), at the last minute we had to rent a tent and it was breaking my heart to have to do it because I had always wanted to have my reception under the stars. But I have to say in the long run, the tent ended up being better than I thought. We hung chandelers from the top and it made our 115 person wedding seem like a quaint little gathering. I worried myself sick over that stupid tent ruining my plans and all it did was enhance the evening.

What is your best piece of advice for other brides?

I know everyone says it goes fast, but I have to say it again… It flies by and you have to just enjoy yourself and not worry. No one knows what is or isn’t supposed to happen, and for the most part no one even knows when something goes wrong…. just enjoy yourself. I lucked out in having a huge and very helpful family and could not have done it without them. Rain on the day before the wedding and having to wait for the last-minute tent put us WAY behind, but my big family showed up Saturday morning in full-force to make our dream wedding come true.

My last piece of advice is to get a wedding video. I was not wanting on, and my husband was, but I’m so so happy we had my uncle do one. There is so much stuff that you miss being the bride and groom- it’s awesome to go back and look at that day and see everything that happened.

Such wonderful handmade details, don’t you think? Like Heather said though, she had lots of help from her big family- and that’s what it takes to have a DIY wedding! Thank you for sharing your wedding insight with us Heather, and thank you to Jennifer Eileen Photography for capturing all of the beautiful details!

What do you think of all of the rustic, handmade goodness in this wedding? Are any of you planning on creating handmade details for your own wedding? If so, what are you going to be making?