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May 14, 2012 share & comment

Strawberry Garden Bridal Shower Ideas

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.

Photographer: Melissa Biador
Makeup & Hair: Thorne Artistry

Event Designer: W.E.D. (Wedding Events Design)
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

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Categories: Bridal Shower Ideas
Colors: pink, red
Styles: garden

May 11, 2012 share & comment

Dessert Table Ideas From Amy Atlas

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.

Photographer: Lane Dittoe Photgraphy
Florals: Oak and the Owl
Vintage Rentals: Found Vintage Rentals

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Categories: Bridal Shower Ideas, Food & Desserts
Colors: pink

May 11, 2012 share & comment

Pink Peony Wedding Bouquet

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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Categories: Bouquet Recipe

May 11, 2012 share & comment

WindWishes

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.

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Categories: Features & Sponsored Posts

May 10, 2012 share & comment

Live from Barcelona The Pronovias Fashion Show

Not sure if you knew, but we took a little journey to Spain for a few days to attend the 2013 Pronovias fashion show. We are so excited to see this spectacular event. The top models, the after party …yep we can hardly stand it. Luckily we get to share everything with you as it happens, so we will be streaming live tomorrow at 11:30 am PST. Be sure to come back and check it out.

We can let you know first hand it’s going to be one stylish and amazing event. Today we we took a tour of Pronovias to see where all the magic happens. We got to see Manuel Mota’s atelier and the Pronovias studios up close and personal. The amazing seamstresses were making last minute adjustments and finishing up all of the gowns for the show tomorrow. We met the oh-so-charming Manuel Mota and asked about his inspiration behind this collection and we’ll be sharing that later so stay tuned. We can’t thank Manuel enough for the generosity of his time and talent. He gifted two beautiful signed sketches to us, such special keepsakes. We were thrilled to meet the gorgeous top model Karolina Kurkova who will be headlining the show tomorrow.

We just arrived just this morning to Spain and already so much has happened, we can’t wait to share more with you. A special thanks to Ana Paula and all our friends at Pronovias for allowing this to happen. What an incredible experience! Be sure to follow Pronovias on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram to get your wedding fashion fill!