{Simple Sunday}

A little preview of a Pebble Beach wedding coming up later this week...

Photography by Sia McDonald

Details, Details - Part 2

So yesterday I talked about how important it is to infuse yourself in the details of your wedding.  I also told you that you don't have to blow your budget to do it.  This wedding is a perfect example of what I mean.

This couple used color, and lots of it, as well as some simple and fun DIY projects to personalize their day.  From homemade table runners to cupcake flags, the details were well thought out and personal.  These are some very inexpensive ways to make your guests feel special and to make your day feel like "you."

To see more of this wedding, go here.  Photographs by Crimson Photos.  For more fun and budget friendly ideas on how to personalize your day, see this old post and this old post.

Details, Details!

To make your wedding personal and "you" it is all about the details.  Whether you have a big budget or a limited one, you can always find ways to personalize the details, tie things together, and show that you put thought into each aspect of your wedding.  You can pick one element and use it throughout your wedding, like a personal monogram or symbol.  Or you can create the same feel with your color palette.

This wedding from Style Me Pretty illustrates my point.  Although it probably falls into the bigger budget side of the spectrum, you can do something similar with much less by paying attention to your details.

Notice the wood details, the use of greenery and succulents, the color palette tying grey throughout in the groom's suit, the paper goods, the chalkboard, the straws, and even the zebra!  The feel is rustic and chic, not too formal but not too casual.  Some amazing and talented professionals worked on this wedding but if you aren't lucky enough to have a budget that accomodates such professionals, you can do it yourself by thinking about the details and being consistent with your theme.

To see more of this gorgeous wedding, go here.  Photos by Steve Steinhardt.

Unique Invitations

I've done posts about invitations on hankies, invites in vintage books, and other fun invitation ideas.  But I love these unique colorful invitations with wooden accents.  Best of all, the bride DIY'd them!

Images by Amy & Stuart

Check out the entire wedding here and the bride's blog here.

Floral Lovelies

I spotted this wedding a while back, and while all of the details are gorgeous, I am in love with the florals.  The perfect shade of pink, the big dahlias, the bouquets...  love it all.

Photos by Aaron Delesie

Real Wedding Rehearsal Dinner

I had to share this fabulous rehearsal dinner I saw on Style Me Pretty designed by Jennifer at Salt Harbor Designs and shot by Millie Holloman.  I think these same ideas would make for an amazing wedding!

Vintage wedding on a budget

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  I've been traveling, had a baby shower, the husband's birthday, and a busy work week.  It is probably inevitable that things are going to slow down now that I'm 7+ months along, but I'm still hoping to accomplish three posts a week.  We'll see how that goes...

I've been wanting to share this real vintage wedding because not only is it gorgeous, but it was done on a $4,000 budget.  Ah.Maz.Ing!

Oh, that dress.  It was vintage and totally restored, and is now up for sale on Once Wed.  Check out the bride's blog here, the Once Wed feature here, and the photographer's website here.

Rustic Ojai Wedding

I spent my one year anniversary in Ojai this weekend and there was a wedding where we were staying.  The location, the Ojai Valley Inn, was so beautiful I kept thinking it would be the perfect place for a wedding.  So I looked for a real wedding at that venue and found this gem on Grey Likes Weddings.  Even better, the bride wore the same wedding dress as I did!

All photos by Joy Marie

Even if you can't hold your wedding at the Inn, I do highly recommend a long weekend getaway!  It was the perfect romantic spot and we can't wait to go back.

Rustic Charm Wedding Details

I love the details from this rustic barn wedding, spotted on Ruffled Blog and shot by Christian Parreira.

The florals are gorgeous and I adore that wooden boutonniere!

My Wedding: The Details

So in case you didn't see yesterday, my wedding was featured on Style Me Pretty this week, and I'm still riding on that high!  It has been 10 months since my wedding and I thought I was sort of "over it" but having my wedding on SMP has reminded me how much I loved that day and how wonderful it was.  So I wanted to share some more of the detail photos.

I wore shoes from J.Crew (that I got on sale for $99), had a dress label sewn into my gown with my married name and wedding date (bought from etsy seller danamariecreations), my gown was the "Fern" by Melissa Sweet, my mom gave me a hanky with family heirlooms stitched on which I wrapped around my bouquet, my maids and I wore earrings by Erin Gallagher and I wore a garter by Julianne Smith.

My florals were done by Greenwich Floral Design.  We did multiples mixed with larger arrangements (but all low) in vintage containers I collected like milk glass, white pottery pitchers, glass bottles and mason jars, etc.  If only peonies had not recently gone out of season my florals would have been just what I wanted, but I loved them anyways.

I collected vintage keys and tied them to our escort cards (and also to floral containers).  I made my programs myself and included custom made cd's inside of music we love and incorporated into our wedding.  I did lots of other DIY projects, like the petal cones above.  We served Hemingway mojitos as our signature drink, as a nod to my husband's favorite writer (he is also a writer and a book lover).  We had cupcakes in lieu of cake, done by our favorite bakery, Vanilla Bake Shop.

My maid of honor and I designed all of my paper goods.  We started with a custom monogram and incorporated that in my save-the-dates, invitations, programs, welcome bags, cupcake flags, and drink stirs.  We also made my entire invitation suite (which was letterpress printed at Studio on Fire).  We made signs for the card table, guestbook table, bathroom baskets, flip flop baskets, and cake table.  Besides my invites, my favorite paper elements were my cupcake flags, my drink stirs (which had our monogram on one side and famous quotes about drinking on the other side), and the cootie catcher menus!  As a result of our collaboration, we started an etsy shop called Tilde Designs where we sell all of these paper goods, among other things, and do custom orders.  Check us out so we can both become stay-at-home moms someday instead of the lawyers we currently are!

I hope you like the details from my wedding.  Please leave any questions in the comment section and I would be happy to answer them!

I've also done previous posts of some of the DIY projects I did.  To see those go here, here, and here.

We're on Style Me Pretty!

It made my day, no my whole MONTH, to see my own wedding featured on Style Me Pretty yesterday!

Head over and see the feature in its entirety here!  And now that the feature has finally run, I can share more details and photos with you on my own blog, so I'll share more tomorrow.  Many thanks to Abby and the staff at Style Me Pretty for the feature...I'm so honored to have my wedding included on what I think is the best wedding blog out there!