Jason and Taylor love the impeccable ’60s-inspired style of the hit show Mad Men. They also wanted their wedding to  feel like a place they take clients for drinks and dinner. Seems simple enough … right? Apparently not,  Taylor had a hard time finding anything that looked like, “Mad Men” theme without looking cheap or cheesy. The only thing that seemed to be spot on with her initial planning process was our Mad Men Save The Date.

Lucky for Jason and Taylor, David Tutera from My Fair Wedding  came into the picture and took over. Arranging every detail for their Mad Men inspired wedding. The entire celebration went off without a hitch and was more then they could ever imagine. Read on to hear more from the bride and be sure to see more retro inspired wedding ideas from this real Mad Men wedding by clicking here. All captured by Matt & Molly Snelson of Mathieu Photography.

Filming with the crew was awesome. It sounds so cliche but by the end I didn’t notice the cameras. I felt like these were my friends from way back in the day and we were just catching up. Both Jason and I really gave David full rein of our wedding. We had no strings attached. We knew it was going to be fantastic. I don’t think we knew how amazing. I would have never dreamed that I would be doing a photo shoot on the set of “Mad Men” or to get married there. I mean I joked around with my family when they said, “What do you think David will do?” My response was, “Put us on the set to say I do.” I said it thinking no way on God’s green Earth was that a possibility.

Everything on my wedding day went off without a hitch, or if a hitch happened I didn’t know about it because the crew handled it. I got to be like so many Grooms. I showed up and got dressed and then married. I didn’t stress about the caterer, florist, or rentals. I sat up in the suite with my girls and Mom. That is the way everyone should get married.

Jason and I chose the theme of “Mad Men” because when we first got engaged I asked Jason what he wanted for the wedding. His reply was, “To get married in the Galapagos Islands, to not wear a tux, to have a “Seinfeld” themed wedding cake, a whiskey and cigar bar. I vowed to have him not wear a tux, to have a whiskey and cigar bar. I looked into the rest but they were kinda out there requests. From what I could do I thought I could make the whiskey and cigar bar have a lounge feel like in “Mad Men.” I wanted it to feel like the place they take clients for drink and dinner. Jason and I are big into retro fashion, especially the sixties, so the concept just kinda snowballed from there.

When I saw Jason at the end of the aisle, tears were instantly in my eyes. Jason and I have been together for 8 years. It was long over due, because I have known that he was “The One” since our first date. David and his team made Jason far more handsome than Donald Draper ever could be, which I know was an easy job. My officiant was my Uncle Timmers, it was his first wedding and truly I think he knocked it out of the park. Every tear shed was of pure happiness and love

My photographers were the only thing that I was allowed to keep when David changed everything, although if he had tried to change them I would have fought to the death to keep them. I know that they have been to some crazy weddings, but between the filming schedule and my family they were able to get the most amazing shots of Jason and I that I will cherish for a lifetime and more. Not only were Molly and Matt able to take charge and get the shots they needed to they are such professionals and amazing people that they brought out the true Jason and Taylor moments. Jason and I are not the most photogenic people, I know everyone says that, but truly, and Molly and Matt captured that day in the photos. I loved the way they both took pictures that had the booms and cameras in the shots it capture the true essence of that day.

All in all it was a beautiful wedding. Jason and I are truly blessed. We couldn’t have “Dreamed Bigger” as David says. Thank you to everyone who helped,. some of you I will never know but I want to personally say thank you for making my wedding everything I wanted and more.

Event Designer: David Tutera – My Fair Wedding – WeTV
Venue: Los Angeles Center Studios
Makeup & Hair: Meredith Harper Weddings
Cake: A Wish and a Whisk
Caterer: Above All Catering
DJ: Vox DJs
Dress Designer: Dolly Couture
Flowers: Studio Fiore
Groom’s Attire: Tuxedo Junction
Lighting: Amber Event Production
Stationery: Bella Carta Studio
Prop or Furniture Rentals: Choura.us
Event Rentals:Town and Country Events Rentals
Brdesmaids Fashion: Aria
Linen: Cloth Connection
Wardrobe Stylist: Unique Vintage

Tracie Howe Photography and some other Seattle, Washington wedding vendors collaborated to bring you some utterly fabulous vintage travel wedding ideas. From the ceremony to the sweetheart table, they have covered every vignette you could possibly need at your wedding.

This creative team even styled a travel themed wedding alter with the cutest globe-trotting chair accessories. We also must mention the bride and her vintage-glam wedding style, the lace gown and classic up-do are ultra gorgeous. There is so much more to see in the full gallery.

How much are you loving all of these vintage travel inspired wedding ideas so far? The paper airplanes, the table decor or vintage post cards as escort cards … which is your favorite?

Photographer: Tracie Howe Photography
Venue: Herban Feast
Makeup & Hair: Kathy Evans Beauty Studio
Coordinator: Blush Celebrations
Dress Designer: Allure Romance Collection
Flowers: Lola Floral and Design
Veil or Hair Accessories: Serephine
Furniture Rentals: Vintage Ambiance
Paper Goods: Heathoriginal
Bridal shop dress provider: From the Gown Up
Rings only: Baraka Creations
Dessert Truck: Street Treats
Wardrobe Styling: Kathy Evans Beauty Studio

A key element to any wedding look and feel is your wedding bouquet. It is as important as choosing your wedding gown. It must reflect who are, the tone of the wedding and and of course be beautiful.

Our next bouquet from Oak and the Owl Interior and Floral Design Studio might just fit everything you are looking for and then some. It’s soft and romantic spring florals would pair perfectly with a lacey wedding gown and vintage-style decor … wouldn’t you agree?  All photographed every so beautifully by Lane Dittoe Photography. Our peony wedding bouquet contains the following flowers: Garden Roses, Calla Lily, Dutch Tulip, Dusty Miller, Peonies, and Ranunculus.

To see more wedding bouquet recipes click here and to see more wedding flower guides click here. Again a special thanks to our Orange County wedding vendors Lane Dittoe Photography and Oak and the Owl Interior and Floral Design Studio for putting together such prettiness for us.

Simply put, you will be so happy that you chose to have your wedding day filmed. You will have priceless memories captured that you can watch for years to come. We are quite certain that our next couple, Cara and Andrew, are more than happy they had Hello Super 8 capture their rustic Vermont Wedding. It is romantic, heart felt and makes you happy all in the same moment. Once you watch the film you may notice that the music that accompanying it is awesome. We aren’t kidding, Amy actually kept hitting repeat on the film, listening to the song over and over. Needless to say you should click here and purchase music from Darling Side.

By the way  Hello Super 8 is one of our Hand-Picked wedding vendors. You must check out their Hand-Picked page to learn more about how they make modern films with vintage cameras.

Remember last week when we set up that super cute dessert table and made a few recipes from the new Amy Atlas book? We also put together this delightful meringue encrusted wedding cake. We crushed light pink meringue and ever so gently placed it around the cake. Set it on a vintage aqua cake stand from Found Vintage Rentals and voila, we had a rustic inspired wedding cake. We love the contrast of the light pink and blue cake stand … don’t you?

We hunted down some of our favorite blue cake stands, so you could replicate this look yourself. Are you seeing a blue cake stand in your future?

1. Fenton Turquoise Glass Hobnail Cake
2. Set of 3 Teal Cake Stands
3.  Royal Doulton 100 Years of Royal Albert Collection (perfect for tiny cupcakes)
4. Rachel Cake Stand
5. Historia Cake Stand by Skyros Designs
6. Parisian Footed Cake Stand

Colleen and Corey knew they wanted a romantic and intimate wedding that also showed their love of Charlotte and their southern background. While keeping true to their vision they also wanted to stay on a budget. They saved money by making almost everything themselves, scouting out pre-owned items, spray painting decor to match with the theme and baking the sweets for the dessert table. With all this do-it-yourself going on the question still remains “How Much Does A DIY Wedding Cost?”.

Lucky for us Colleen goes into a full breakdown on the costs of her diy wedding along with pretty much every detail from start to finish. You can see all the photos from this diy wedding in the full gallery by clicking here. Captured by Abigail Seymour Photography.

My bouquet was made of blush pink garden roses, snow-white dahlias, and a mixture of wildflowers from a fresh cut flower farm in Asheville, and adorned with an antique broach from my mom. To include part of Corey’s Irish heritage, we decided to incorporate a handfasting ceremony, in which our two mothers bound our hands together using lace from Corey’s mother’s wedding dress.

To fancy up our gorgeous invitations from The Aerialist Press, we punched pretty shapes out of cardstock and tied all the pieces together with bakers twine like a little package. We addressed the envelopes using faux calligraphy, in which we printed the address on the envelope in a scripted font and traced it with a metallic pen.

The Aerialist Press is one of our Hand-Picked vendors, you must visit their page to see more of their divine work by clicking here.

The ceremony programs were designed by an etsy seller, printed on recycled paper, and placed in mail holders filled with baby’s breath. We provided ceremony refreshments in the form of a “strawberry lemonade stand” complete with striped barber straws. Heart shaped lemonade labels were placed on each lemonade container and we created the “Wet your whistle and have a seat” signs by printing them on cardstock and placing them in painted frames that we already owned. The ceremony chairs were lined with baby’s breath and the altar was draped in white sheer fabric and adorned with a halo chandelier I found at Ikea. We painted large white pumpkins and surrounded them with pre-owned sparkle pumpkins to adorn the front steps of the house to be seen as the guests arrived.

The reception took place in a courtyard filled with trees that we strung with bistro lights the day before the wedding. To create the centerpieces, my sister and I spent months gathering lanterns on sale and collecting vintage green glass bottles from flea markets. We crafted the table numbers from wooden numbers and spray paint, and we used silver leaf and spray paint to turn clear glass votives into mercury glass votives. I wanted to be eco-friendly wherever possible, so I used recycled card stock for all paper products, including the guest book love letters that we tied with bakers twine to each napkin place setting.

The dessert table was my favorite part of the wedding décor, because it was both beautiful and delicious. Our mint green almond and spice cake was covered in dahlias and garden roses and topped with miniature versions of Corey, myself, and our cat Picasso purchased from an Etsy vendor. Apple pie has always been my favorite dessert, so my sister and I made apple pie pops the weekend before the wedding. My sister also whipped up some strawberry and cinnamon macarons for the lucky guests (I swear her macarons are the best in town). To satisfy the chocolate lovers, Corey and I picked up chocolate covered oreos and pretzels. Recycled card stock and our trusty paper punches were used to create the dessert table signs, which were held in place by some adorable bubble place card holders from BHLDN. We also crafted the sparkle Colleen and Corey signs hanging in the dessert table gazebo as well as the bride and groom signs on the back of our dinner chairs. To save money on flowers, we placed empty mason jars on the dessert table (as well as other locations around the venue) for the bridesmaids to place their bouquets in after the ceremony.

To save money, we made almost everything ourselves, and used as many pre-owned items as possible for décor, from the mail holders for the programs, to the baskets that held the flip flops and blankets. We also altered items that we owned to fit in with the look of the wedding, using glitter, spray paint, or card stock. Another budget saver was my agreement with the videographer whom I decided to hire in the last month before the wedding. I was very fortunate to be able to afford a fantastic videographer because he agreed to bring the cost down by sending me just the raw footage, which I could then have edited by a video savvy friend.

This should give you a good starting out point on How Much Does A DIY Wedding Cost? This just a little insight into one bride and groom’s overall expenses who saved costs by doing as many projects on their own as they could.

Photographer: Abigail Seymour Photography
Venue: Whitehead Manor
Hair & Makeup: Lindsey Regan Thorne Be Pretty
Cake: Cheesecake Etc.
Caterer: Family Catering Service
Cinematography: Whitney Photo and Video
DJ: Daily Soul Band
Dress Designer: Watters (Style Sonara)
Flowers: Sweet Earth Flower Farm
Groom’s Attire: Hugo Boss (purchased at Nordstrom)
Jewelry: BHLDN (Earrings)
Officiant: Rev. Heather Casselberry
Shoe Designer: Butter
Veil or Hair Accessories: Ban.Do (Crystal Swirl Bobbi)
Bridesmaids Dresses: JCrew
Programs: Set Apart Designs

What bride to be would not want a garden bridal shower with a Strawberry theme in mind?  Especially if she gets to wear that cute pink ombre dress, bright red pumps and sip strawberry mojitos with her best friends all day. Sounds delightful to us. So be sure to bookmark this post and show it to your maid of honor as you most likely will have bridal shower with your best girl friends.

To see more garden bridal shower ideas designed by Wedding Events Design visit the full gallery by clicking here. Beautifully captured by San Diego wedding photographer Melissa Biador.

The menu looks delicious : Savory strawberry salad, strawberry pasta and berry delicious sweets for dessert. Below is a recipe for those strawberry mojitos. The perfect drink for a hot summer day. Courtesy of allrecipes.com

Ingredients
white sugar, for rimming
2 large limes, quartered
1/2 bunch mint leaves
7 strawberries, quartered
1 cup white sugar
1 cup white rum
2 cups club soda
8 cups ice cubes

Directions
1. Pour 1/4 to 1/2 inch of sugar onto a small, shallow plate. Run one of the lime quarters around the rim of each cocktail glass, then dip the glasses into the sugar to rim; set aside.

2. Squeeze all of the lime quarters into a sturdy glass pitcher. Toss the juiced limes into the pitcher along with the mint, strawberries, and 1 cup of sugar. Crush the fruits together with a muddler to release the juices from the strawberries and the oil from the mint leaves. Stir in the rum and club soda until the sugar has dissolved. Pour into the sugared glasses over ice cubes to serve.

Event Designer: W.E.D. (Wedding Events Design)
Makeup & Hair: Thorne Artistry
Cake: Hey There Cupcake!
Flowers: Sweet Pea Floral Company
Stationery: Nic.Roc. Designs
Prop or Furniture Rentals: W.E.D. (Wedding Events Design)
Cake Pops: K Creative Cake Pops
Model: Betty Schram Kunz

Amy Atlas is queen of the dessert tables. She has transformed the cake table into a stunning piece of edible art and shares all the how tos in her new book.  Filled with levels of tasty treats, fresh flowers and beautiful signs. All taking weeks to plan, prep and design. Matching the theme of the wedding and becoming a direct reflection of the bride and groom’s sweet tooth. These days we are positive your guests are just waiting to see what delicious goodies will be at the desert table.

In honor of the dessert table and sweets in general, Amy Atlas has just launched a new book Sweet Designs. Overflowing with inspiration, easy recipes, dressed-up store-bought treats, and craft ideas to make dessert a fitting grand finale to any gathering. The perfect inspirational item for brides to be planning the sweetest day of their lives.  We were so inspired by Amy’s new book we decided to whip up a few of her recipes and design a dessert table of our own. Luckily for us we have our house culinary expert Caitlin to help us out. Captured ever so perfectly by Lane Dittoe Photgraphy.

A dessert table looks especially pretty with fresh florals. The lovely Nancy of Oak and the Owl paired a variety of pink spring blooms in delicate white vases. Our wonderful friend Jeni of Found Vintage Rentals provided all the pieces for our delicious shoot. Including her personal collection of Ironstone , an amazing two hundred year old French farm table, gorgeous vases and the oh-so-darling antique light blue scale. How cute does that look with the cake pops? Steal worth idea … right?

We were so inspired by Amy’s meringue recipe that we created a little something extra. We are huge fans of meringue, it’s so light and crispy and such a special treat. We created a meringue encrusted cake, using crushed meringue from the kissed we added it to our cake. Light and fluffy cake, creamy icing and crunchy meringue – delicious, don’t you think? We sure do!

You can find more dessert table inspiration and all the recipes seen in this inspirational in Sweet Designs by Amy Atals.

Who knew that by only using two flowers you could have such a dreamy wedding bouquet? Petal Productions used large leaf dusty miller and light pink peonies to put together this exquisite bouquet. It truly is the ultimate girly wedding bouquet.

All this pink peony magic was photographed by one of Hand-Picked wedding vendors KT Merry. Be sure to visit her Hand-Picked page by clicking here.

We also have the flower girl’s matching head wreath and  flower ball. The little girls head wreath is made out of light pink spray roses  and lacey leaf dusty miller. So incredibly feminine and romantic.

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WindWishes are small paper banners strung with beautiful ribbons & beads, then hand-lettered with words that express your most heartfelt hopes and wishes.  Use them inside or outside when you are celebrating life’s extraordinary moments.

They can be used at your wedding for seating, a wishing tree, your vows, at the cake table, wedding favors and so much more. Below is just a small sample of many of the designs. They also you to get creative with their friendly “Design-it-yourself “ tools.

From The Founder:

In my life I have been a daughter, a bride, a mother, a calligrapher, a great grandmother and a cancer survivor… Through it all I have never stopped writing WindWishes, distilling life’s joys and sorrows down into their essence. 

Whether you choose one of my designs or make your own, I hope these simple, beautiful banners help to create celebrations and memories you will never forget! Visit WindWishes to learn more about these keepsake pieces of art.