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Floral Fridays

huckleberry — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:11:40 +0000

Who isn’t sucker for succulents? Growing up – I despised these “plants”. But they’re definitely growing on me.

PYT – Pretty You-nique Guest Book

lisaz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:07:53 +0000

I can’t believe how amazing this guestbook is. I cannot think of a more personal guestbook. This also makes a beautiful piece of art for your new home and a total conversation piece.

Photos by Jonas Peterson

Brilliant! Cakes with Bling!

ellejae — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:31:55 +0000

The bride’s aunt owns a antique jewelry store. She offered these beautiful pieces for the Cake! They look great. A You-nique way to jazzy up your cake without relying on flowers. Lovin-it!

PYT – Pretty You-nique Tablecards!!

ellejae — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:52 +0000

These awesome Michael Jackson Table Cards mad for great pictures and conversation. The bride and groom also had a Michael Jackson Impersonator perform after dinner. Great fun!

The King of Pop – The Groom’s favorite performer.

Lots of fun and an easy way to make your wedding You-nique!

I thought this would be a really cool poster for the bride and groom’s home. Personal wedding and icon memorabilia.

Floral Fridays

huckleberry — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:35:05 +0000

Not into fluffy, pink flowers? How about this for something different?

Callas and chocolate cosmos with a touch of feathers.

Floral Fridays

huckleberry — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:45:30 +0000

Feast upon these gorgeous bouquets! Using one type of flower for bouquets is not only elegant, modern and chic but also a great way to save money.

Dahlias and tulips look lovely grouped together.

Just Tulips

Just Dahlias

Calla lilies are also a popular choice for one flower type bouquets.

Cake of the Week

lisaz — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:17:37 +0000

Jennifer Davis Photography

Floral Fridays

huckleberry — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:00:09 +0000

I really like the bouquet handle treatment with the pretty bow and pleated skirt. Nice touch!

DIY Escort Card Tree

James — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:33:47 +0000

It’s been a little while since our last DIY post, and I know you are all itching for a new project. Well, the wait is over! Snazzy brought this fabulous idea to us for a tree of colorful round escort cards. Using colored paper and paint chips allows you to develop your own color palette, and the results are really charming and will be unique to you and your wedding.

Here’s what we used for this project:

A package of multicolored heavy weight construction paper (about $10 for 87 sheets of 5×7)
a bunch of paint chips from Home Depot (or maybe it was Lowe’s or maybe it was OSH, but it definitely was not the mom and pop paint shop down the street who we love and support)
Paper Shapers Nesting Punch, we used a round one but there are lots of different shapes out there ($15ish)
an endlessly useful fine point Sharpie, of course, you can use any pen you like
some decorative branches (prices vary depending on what type of tree, but start around $8 a bunch)
a small hole punch
ribbon or string to hang the place cards from the branches, although we opted to put them on the tree without either

Once you have your paper and/or paint chips, just start punching out shapes.

Also, at this point you should punch small holes at the tops of your circles (don’t wait until you’ve done the handwriting, lesson learned)

Hopefully, you have someone whose handwriting you are fond of to help write the guest names and table numbers on your circles.

Arrange your branches in a vase, basket, bottle… however you wish. Then begin hanging your escort cards. As I mentioned before, we just put the branches right through the little holes, but you can use string, ribbon or whatever you like. Our choice gave a more austere look to the final tree, but ribbons or twine might make it look more romantic, nostalgic, pretty…

We have a couple more great DIY projects in the pipeline here are ZG HQ, so stay tuned… or just put our RSS feed into your google reader.

Cake of the Week

lisaz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Photo by Amy Squires