Etsy Favorites {#3}

It's time for another round of etsy favorites.  This time I'm featuring items from some of my favorite etsy sellers.

First up is Ink and Button.  I love the adorable headbands and fascinators that she makes, and she does custom orders.  Plus, she uses mason jars in her photos, and you know how much I love mason jars!

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Next is etsy seller Tytie who turns old things like books into furniture pieces for your home.  LOVE these, but seriously, how cute is that tea cup light!?

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Looking for a more wedding specific etsy seller?  How about goosegrease, who makes custom wedding toppers, or even sells DIY kits so you can make your own!

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Etsy Favorites {#2}

Time for another round of Etsy favorites, and this time they are all wedding items!

First up, this unique and personal fingerprint wedding band from fabuluster:

And for $195, it is a pretty affordable wedding band!

I love personalized cake toppers, and I love cupcakes in lieu of a traditional wedding cake.  So how adorable are these cupcake toppers from goosegrease!?

And they are customizable.

These personalized buttons are so fun and could be cool attached to the guests' escort cards, from repchi:

These chalkboard thought bubbles would be perfect for your DIY photobooth!

From dzns4ubyme

These papercut banners would be great for a shower, rehearsal dinner, or backyard wedding, and they can also be personalized with your names and wedding colors:

By aymujer

There are tons of lovelies for your special day at Etsy, all you have to do is look.

Let them eat...cupcakes!

I know, I know, cupcakes in lieu of cake is no longer a revolutionary concept.  But, I still think it is a fantastic idea and fun way to show personality, especially if you LOVE cupcakes like I LOVE cupcakes!

My husband and I had a cupcake tower instead of a cake.  We had a favorite bakery for a couple of years (big shout out to Vanilla Bakeshop!)  and we were lucky enough to get to have that bakery do our cupcake tower and for our venue to waive our cake cutting fee and allow it.  Our guests went nuts over those cupcakes.  Plus we picked our favorite flavors and it was easier to feed to each other during our "cake cutting."  And it allowed us to make adorable signs that told guests what flavor of cupcakes were on which level and cute little flags with our monogram on them.

So for all of you brides out there who are considering cupcakes instead of a traditional cake, I say go for it. They make for yummy treats and great pictures!

Cupcakes and tower design by Vanilla Bakeshop, Signs and flags by Tilde Designs, bird cake toppers by Cotton Bird Designs, and photos by Jennifer Roper

Simple Saturday

Sometimes I see a single photograph that I just love or am completely inspired by.  In an effort to dislocate my laptop from my lap on the weekends and spend more time having fun with my husband, I am going to start posting one every Saturday in lieu of a full post.  They might be photos a friend has taken, or that I took myself, or that I have found from one of my favorite blogs.  Today I am posting one of my favorite photos from one of my favorite photgraphers.

Photo by Elizabeth Messina via her blog, Kiss the Groom.