Newlyweds Rae and Noah’s wedding was featured on Martha Stewart’s blog full of photos by Dave Robbins.
The navy and blue palette, mixed with antiques (both resident to the venue and from the bride’s family), patterned paper, and some truly special details all worked beautifully together to create a stunning wedding.
There you are, happily planning your wedding, looking at gowns, registering for gifts, examining paper stock for invitations when it hits you — how harmful will your event be to our already stressed-out planet? More importantly, can you make your wedding eco-friendly without letting Mother Earth upstage you, the bride?
Armed with a little bit of knowledge about how many guests will be flying, driving and using hotels, you can easily calculate your event’s carbon footprint using a free online tool like TerraPass’s Wedding carbon footprint calculator. My advice is to take this calculator (and any others) with a grain of salt (use a grain of sea salt, if you want to be a purist about it).
Amy over at Eat Drink Chic has an incredible post on making your very own origami heart invitations. These are pure genius and so easy to do.
A few days ago I created these little origami heart invitations for our engagement. They open up to reveal the invitation message inside and have an attached string so that guests can also use them as a keepsake decoration. They also sit snugly in little translucent paper pockets with sewn edges.
An Indianapolis couple has won a wedding in a castle… a White Castle that is. Radio station X103 held a contest which Jeffrey Parks and Terri Sanders got the top prize, a fully catered wedding (with sliders and fries of course). The Rev. Don Stuck (also a disc jockey) performed the nuptials this last Thursday at the Shelby Street White Castle.
[Photos courtesy of X103]
White Castle has actually taken Valentine’s Day reservations for the previous three years now. It includes a a reserved booth, meal, candles and even a waiter at some locations. There have also been a few other White Castle weddings. Here’s one, and another…
When I got engaged recently, I was over the moon—but astronomical expectations for a dream wedding came crashing back to Earth when it finally hit me: Wow, we really have to pay for this shindig. Being a freelance journalist (me) and a newly graduated political science Ph.D. (him) we haven’t exactly saved a small fortune for such an occasion.
(image via Bridesmaid.com)
With the average cost of a wedding hitting $38,466, what’s a budget-minded bride to do? Besides browsing the usual suspects, such as eBay and craigslist for bridal accessories, wedding cake serving sets and favors, bookmark these five resources that are sure to save you some dough—and inspire you in the process.
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