the only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize

My dress is very very simple, but the vail is beautifully embroidered (pictures will come soon enough.) I decided not to wear a necklace and I’m wearing my hair down. I chose beautiful art deco inspired earrings looking at some bios on theknot.com and knew that I wanted gold shoes. I am the biggest fan of Hanky Panky under garments and I have found a blue set that includes a garter to toss to wear on the wedding day. My accessories are so much fun and it has been a lot of fun finding the best ways to turn my bridal “outfit” into an Erin Bridal Outfit. I love personalizing everything and putting my own touches on things.

From top: 1) Hanky Panky, 2) Adriana Orsini for saks fifth avenue, 3) Manolo Blahnik

I’ve also decided to carry a gold locket that belongs to my mother that her father gave her. I’m going to have it tied with satin ribbon to the stems of my bouquet– with a picture of my parents and brother on the inside. I’m attaching the locket to the bouquet in addition to the four handkerchiefs that I previously wrote about. I like having the little bits of family history and the love from my mom, girlfriends, and Todd’s mom right with me.

It’s after midnight and that means that it’s already March 3. We’re officially two months away from the big day!

for my maid of honor

Catherine is an artist herself and she loves green. I decided to incorporate some blue because you see so much green and brown or green and yellow. I designed this with Catherine in mind– hopefully she’ll like it!

not your typical guest book

Todd and I brainstormed a lot over what kind of guest book would we have. I didn’t want to use the usual sheets from my bride book as the guest book because I wanted a little more than just someone’s signature on a line. I wanted to create an opportunity for guests to leave us notes and give us a book that we’ll want to look back through later.
I love the idea of the Polaroid guest book where the bride and groom provide a big blank book and have an attendant at the entrance to take Polaroid pictures of all of the guests. Then the guests attach their picture to the book and sign around their picture. The only problem is that I don’t have a Polaroid camera and I don’t want to assign someone to take those pictures all night.

from theknot.com

I also loved the idea of a guest book quilt. The bride and groom provide little quilt squares and markers for the guests, the guests sign them, and then the bride and groom have the squares sewn into a quilt that they can use forever and pass down through the generations. It does sound like a lot of work, though.

quilt from Findgift.com

We decided on another idea. For Christmas, I used kodakgallery.com to create coffee table-style photo albums for my parents and brother. I scanned in hundreds of old pictures and then uploaded them all into kodakgallery.com. The website is so easy and you can go back and place pictures on each page just as you want it. I’ve decided to do the same thing for our guest book. I’ve created a book of pictures of Todd and me throughout our courtship and I’ve left every other page blank so our wedding guests can sign all around our pictures. I hope it goes over well. I know that we’ll go back and look through it all the time to remember the wedding day, the special guests that attended, and to look at pictures from all of our fun experiences together!

from kodakgallery.com

i want candy!

A huge trend in wedding and event planning is candy buffets. We’ve jumped on the bandwagon and decided to have a candy buffet at our reception set up as guests exit and leave.

Candy buffets are all fun, but I’ve definitely seen some that are pretty and even more personal than others. Some candy buffets feature every color of the rainbow and some stick wtih the wedding colors. We’re doing the latter. Here is a picture of a gorgeous candy buffet that I recently saw. The photo was taken by candyfavorites.com. There are quite a few websites to help you locate different candies in bulk so you’re not trying to open up small package after small package to empty them all into a giant container big enough to serve all of your guests.

Restockit.com is a great resource for containers. They are just nice enough for the occassion– you don’t want to use your mother’s Waterford crystal candy jar for this!

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