BMF Featured on Emmaline Bride

Check me out in the world wide web doin big things!

I am so honored and excited to share with you that my Etsy site has been featured on Emmaline Bride: The Wedding Guide for the Handmade Bride. YES!!!

This is not only thrilling for me because it gives my Etsy site publicity but also because the Emmaline Bride blog maintains the same philosophy that I try to uphold with my blog and Etsy site. That is that a wedding should be personal and the best way to make that possible is with sentimental, handmade touches.


I have kind of been having a rough week so far so this seriously turned my frown upside down. Please check the beautiful write-up out here.

Fairytale Wedding Day

What a beautiful bride and handsome groom! The hubs and I have been up since 4:30 excitedly (well one of us was excited) watching the pageantry, history and romance of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!





I thought the wedding itself was beautiful and of course liked the small semi-private happy moments between these two very public figures. I especially liked the homily and thought it was sweet and touching and of course, there were the HATS.


At this point I'm still waiting to see a royal kiss to make the whole thing complete. What a beautiful way to start the weekend!

Wedding of the Century

WHO'S EXCITED???


I know this is offering up supreme evidence that I am a complete dork, but I 100% used to have this picture up on my wall:


Oh Kate you lucky little minx, if I didn't already have the world's best husband I would be jealous. Instead I am just SUPREMELY excited to witness a defining moment in our lifetime. In case you live under a rock, you're invited to this:


You planning to get up before the sun tomorrow? You know I will be. Just 21 hours to go as of right now. What's better than a good wedding?!

:)

BMF Etsy in Your Inbox

Just shipped out 3 new Etsy orders! Lots of happy brides and grooms out there gettin' hitched and letting me be a little part of it. Makes me so happy.

Life is so good.


If you haven't visited my Etsy store please have a little looksee.

Romantic Wedding Picnic Inspiration

What inspires and intrigues me about weddings is the level of creativity and personality they can display. It's sort of like a long, fun assignment. You are given a set of traditional tasks to prepare for (IE: ceremony decor, reception seating, cake cutting, bouquets) and then you apply your own style and snap to each task.

I suppose the same concept applies to dressing ourselves and our homes, but there is something so magical about bringing to life the love you feel for your partner visually in all facets of one special day.

Take, for instance...

{via Inspired by This by way of Sparkle&Hay}

How inviting would this be for guests? The mood is perfectly set, this isn't expensive or over the top, its just thoughtful and sweet, what a wedding should be. Love love love.

I'm such a romantic sucker. If I could replan our wedding I wouldn't because it was the absolute most perfect day of my life. BUT, its so fun to see the creativity out there and daydream, and of course to attend the well-thought-out weddings of friends!

DIY Detail: Wedding Cake and Favor Tables

During our wedding planning, we made every attempt to craft the details of our special day ourselves. As fate would have it, I fancy myself a crafty person so sewing tablecloths for our cake table and favor table was a fun little project for me. I also love the splash of coral that these tablecloths brought to our photos.



While doing too many DIY projects can easily overwhelm any bride, sewing these was pretty basic and didn't take much effort. That said, the benefit of knowing I made these myself and getting to use them again after the wedding was a HUGE benefit in relation to the minimal effort.


We had a bit of a leaning-tower-of-cake issue (and that was really only the beginning of our cake issues, but let's not get me started), but we thoroughly enjoyed the whole cutting and shoving cake in each other's mouths bit of the recetion. To. The. Max.

And that pound cake with strawberries and cream was GOOOOD too. :)

Love to New Heights.

Are you ready to pick your jaw up off the ground? I just couldn't NOT repost this artsyness via Chennergy (where there are even more of these incredible shots) by way of Ever Ours.

Love on display in the sky deck of the Sears Tower. Just... wow.

Stunning and so unique.

Gorgeous Coral and Green Real Wedding

You all know I am not only a sucker for green and coral colored weddings but also anything with big fat lucious peonies. So, though it takes a lot for me to melt enough over another blog's real wedding post to share it here (this one is via Ruffled), this one hits pretty much everyone one of my heart strings.

The colors, the flowers, the signage, the romance and the carefreeness... Just enjoy the heck out of it, wouldya?!

Major swoon.

Costa Rican Wedding from StyleMePretty

If this doesn't make you want to be swept away in romance to Costa Rica, what will?

Anika London Media Wedding Photography

Looking for amazing photographers for your upcoming nuptials? Maybe just some aqua wedding inspiration? Either way, husband and wife team Anika London Media will blow your socks off. They are the sweetest people and oh so in love... and who doesn't love that? Their most recent wedding is so colorful and romantic. Enjoy!

Swoon!

Check out their most recent blog for their personal love story...