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Mr Pretzel loves cupcakes… no, no, no, I don’t think you get me… he LOOOOVES cupcakes. According to him it is the perfect serving of cake. They are like little cake nirvana in your hand. I like cupcakes and I’m not too crazy about wedding cake. So it was a no brainer early on—we were having wedding cupcakes.

While that was an easy decision, how to top the cupcakes was not so easy. After trolling Etsy, I quickly realized that most traditional toppers would not work on cupcakes. So, it was time to brainstorm mini-toppers that would work on cupcakes.

First, I looked into using LEGO Minifigs, since Mr Pretzel is a LEGO fan.

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This first centerpiece post is a definite work in progress (so don’t judge; it will probably require multiple drafts until I’m happy). A while ago I was home sick and took the opportunity to do (a very) rough draft of our centerpieces. Here’s a brief synopsis of what I made, using the materials I could find at home.

Also, be warned, I do not own a Gocco or Cricut or any of those serious tools that many of you talented crafters out there have in your homes, so all of my attempts are on the “homemade” side of cute. But not to worry, for the real deal I’ll be getting outside (e.g. Staples) help with printing and cutting, etc.

I have about 50 Save The Date cards left over and was hoping to incorporate that image into our table numbers somehow. So I started by cutting out, very carefully, the image from the rest of the card. This took a while but since I’ll only need 20 or so table numbers, it shouldn’t be too torturous of a task. I didn’t have any white cardstock lying around so I used what I could find: a white Anthropologie bag (I KNEW saving those puppies would be good for something!).

Here’s a shot of all my materials, minus the Scotch tape I used to tape the paper together:

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I am taking a break from our recaps to share our wedding trailer with you. I am so excited to have hired a videographer to capture the day. It seriously made an impact on the day. We decided to go with Focal Point Weddings to shoot the day. We loved their style and knew that it would be just what we wanted.

Today they shared our wedding “trailer” with us. This is a preview to the full highlights package. I am so excited… seeing this gave me chills. They really captured some great moments.

Alan & Carolyn :: Wedding Trailer from FocalPoint Cinematic Weddings on Vimeo.

I believe your wedding album design should reflect your sense of style just as much as every other choice you make for your wedding day. To help you identify which wedding album design is most appealing to you, I’ve taken one set of images and created a variety of album designs to show how each album design affects the viewing and interaction of the images on the page. While there are literally infinite design possibilities for wedding albums, I’ve found that most designs can fall into one of the following categories: Fine Art, Traditional, Editorial, Collage, or Embellished. I’ve included a quick preview here, but you can click on the links to view the complete album design sample.

FINE ART
This album design displays one image per page, like a gallery in a book, allowing each image to stand on its own and command the full attention of the viewer one image at a time. Images are usually centered on the page with a white or black background or matting, with or without contrasting border/bevel (the sample below is black background with contrasting white border/bevel.) If the book is printed with images on the front and back of each page (allowing two images to lay side by side when open) there are opportunities for pairings of images that uncover hidden or implied relationships. If you’re a minimalist, or want your album to look like a portfolio of art, this is the album design for you:

Fine Art Album Design Sample

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After spending time in Florence and Rome, we continued down the coast and arrived in Naples. We took yet another tour bus to the ancient city of Pompeii.

Here are a few things we learned while exploring:

1. The city was buried under ash after Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, and was rediscovered in 1748. You can see Mt. Vesuvius in the background of most of the pictures.

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I loved the calm in the church just a couple of hours before the ceremony was to begin. For a wedding of 100 people, we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect church to be married in. Some of our guests even commented that it felt like a little country church… that is, until an ambulance came blaring by in the middle of the ceremony. Ahh, urban life!

Daddy Stiletto made sure Mr. S’s flower was pinned on just right…
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With ~ 210 invitations going out, you can imagine the importance of keeping track of RSVP cards!

To do so, I invested in the coolest little pen ever - the blacklight/secret agent pen!!! I wanted to keep the RSVP cards looking nice. I also wanted to avoid guests feeling like they were “ranked lower” just because of their #. So, I went with the spy pen. Plus, it’s so fun to use!!!

I had numbered our guest list according to each address, and set about writing each invitation’s # with the corresponding RSVP card—this is to eliminate any confusion if the cards are illegible, or if anyone forgets to fill out the name portion (and yes, this does happen!). You can see a little line under the “Joyfully Accepts” line which says “____ of ____ will attend”.

Older Asian guests (maybe Asian guests in general…) are NOTORIOUS for bringing uninvited friends and family along with them to receptions… I wanted to eliminate any and ALL confusion about how many were included in each party.
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