Like a Fairytale Part 2: More Photos

I am sharing some more of Ashley Athey's great work today! You can check her out at http://ashleyatheyphoto.com/ . She captured the fun and the love so well!

It was like a fairytale come true!

So, married life has been keeping me super-busy, and just life in general. It's been 3 months since the wedding and I haven't posted in quite some time. Suffice to say the wedding was awesome! All of my hard work payed off and I have the pictures to prove it! So, I'll share: All photo credits to Ashley Athey Photography, who, by the way, is very talented.

I'll post more photos later this week, this is just a teaser!

Candy Buffet Favors

Ever since I heard of the idea of having a candy buffet for guests to pick out sweets of their choice and take home as favors, I thought it was a unique idea. Our candy buffet will be designed in our wedding colors: black, white, & tiffany blue, from the candy jar labels to the favor boxes (chinese take-out containers), to the candy itself. Also, we will have a sign on the candy buffet table which says, "Love is Sweet". So, I pulled some photos from various wedding websites, incl. http://theknot.com/ & http://projectwedding.com/, to help illustrate the idea.

Our favor containers are decorated with our monogram sticker and black ribbon: stickers purchased at http://labelsbythesheet.com/ and printed at home; chinese take-out containers purchased at http://efavormart.com/.

The candy jars were purchased at http://amazon.com/, Michael's, & Hobby Lobby. They are glass jars and containers of all different sizes and shapes. The jars will have labels on them with the name of the candy inside. They will look like this, only in our colors:

For candy you can purchase by color, a great site is http://candywarehouse.com/. The buffet itself will look a bit like these:

Finally, I purchased scoops for the buffet at http://scoops-scoops.com/.

Easy Drop Earrings to Give Bridesmaids

Fun & simple, I found these in The DIY Bride by Khris Cochran, a book chock full of fun projects for the big day. My bridesmaids are all gettting totes, personalized with fabric paint, filled with goodies. These easy drop earrings are going in the totes as well as some other stuff. Each earring set only costs about a dollar to make, too!

What you'll need:

-2 ear hooks (in your choice of metal)

-2 headpins (3-4" in length)

-2 pretty beads, medium to large-size

-2 metallic spacers (a bit smaller than the beads)

-2 faux pearls (also, a bit smaller than the beads)

-wire cutters

-round-nosed jewelry pliers

Super-easy instructions:

1.) Place one bead on the headpin, then the spacer, then the pearl.

2.) With the flat end of the headpin pointing down, hold the pin at the top of the pearl with your pliers as close to the pearl as possible.

3.) Use pliers to bend the pin to a 90 degree angle. Trim the end of the pin with wire cutters to about 8 mm or so.

4.) Repeat steps one and two for the second earring.

5.) With the end of the 8mm of the headpin squeezed between your pliers, tun the pliers half a turn to form a half-open loop.

6.) Insert the half-open loop through the circular connector piece of the ear hook, close the loop with the pliers...TADA!