garden wedding inspiration

check out this wedding at a botanical garden in england.  so beautiful.  i love the pink & greens (just add brown & you've got our wedding), the mis-matched chairs and of course all of the plants.

pink lemonade recipes

here are 2 pink lemonade recipes i found.  i like the idea of adding cranberry juice, rather than grenadine syrup.

this one is from allrecipes.com

and this one is from simply recipes

and here's an easy one with frozen juice...maybe the easy way to go!  just get organic frozen juice & the cranberry tea bags...

i want to look for large jars for the lemonade & iced tea on ebay.  we should make sun tea to go with it!

sunset, la syle

so on august 30, 2008, the sunset will be 7:21pm.  here's what i'm thinking for a schedule:

3:30p guests arrive

4:30p ceremony

5:00p cocktails/conversation

6:00p dinner

7:30p twilight hour, sunset & dancing

11pm- guests get cars out of valet, everyone out by midnight!

midnight

thoughts?

LA sunset photo from globosapiens.com

pretty cupcakes

pretty cupcake inspiration...

i'm not sure where the first 2 photos are from, but the last one is from the wedding bee.  she did cool diy cupcake stands too!

a dress for the end of the night?

we aren't going off to our honeymoon, so i don't really need this...but should i get another dress to put on for the reception?  this is from a really great designer called claire la faye.

project brigade: {cake stands}

these are the cake stands i'd like to make.  i saw this idea in a BUST magazine a while back & i think it would be fun to make them.  anyone up for trolling the thrift stores for plates & stemware?  maybe you have some lurking in your own cabinet...these are from the pleasing pantry.  

i also found some on this site, design*sponge.  they use old vases rather than stemware, but same idea.

ribbon

i just bought this ribbon off etsy from a shop called blue bird lane.  lovely!  i'm thinking of using this for various crafts & maybe for tying cloth napkins...it's actually vintage seam binding. {reduce, reuse, recycle}