Wedding Blog

I designed our programs a few weeks ago. I knew I wanted to use the wood grain paper and incorporate many different images from the wedding theme (birds, branches, etc). I started designing and came up with a plan.

I would use the wood grain paper for the covers and cream paper for the pages (I still used a thick cardstock because I wanted it to…

When I was in North Carolina for my shower/brunch/bachelorette extravaganza, I had to take advantage of the craft stores. I have been on a hunt for birds to put on the tables. I got inspiration from these weddings where birds looked so adorable on the table.

I wrote about a shawl basket that I loved, and decided to borrow the idea! I received our shawls and I love them. So, of course, I had to create some adorable signs and tags to go with them. We are super lucky to already have a great basket given to us by Mr. AC’s mom that we are going to use.

Once we picked the girls’ dresses, I knew that I wanted them to have headpieces. I battled with the headpieces, finding SOOO many that I loved on Etsy and online. I was willing to spend the money to buy them. I thought the time it would take me to make them would be too much to handle.

But then I made the mistake of going to…

So, in my last post, I showed you the table/place cards that almost were. Sadly I had to leave that project in the dust due to time, but decided that our “Reserved” signs had to be rockin’! As usual, I turned to my handy MS Word to create a template.

I was trying to explain the project to Mr. AC. I said, “imagine a “Reserved” sign…

I am so sad that I am abandoning this project. I really loved it, and when I did it DIY-style, I just got so excited. I wish that there was a way to make it work, but the amount of time it would take to cut out each bird has slipped away.

Basically, the idea was for the birds to serve as place cards and sit…

Now that you have seen the bags we are using for our treat/candy bar, I wanted to share with you the things we have decided to include. As I mentioned in my bag blog, one of my bridesmaids’ moms has offered to spend the day baking with me a few days before the wedding to help create the candy/treat bar. I am so thrilled that…

There are 2 things I knew when I started this wedding process. I wanted to wear a birdcage veil, and I wanted to wear some type of headpiece in my hair. I have seen SOOOO many amazing ones online, and even wrote about them here. This is another example of something I really wanted to do and was willing to pay for, but got roped…

I live in New York and all of my bridesmaids live in North Carolina. Most of my family is in North Carolina, and let’s be honest… my heart is in North Carolina. When my friends asked to throw a bachelorette party and shower for me, I knew that I couldn’t ask them all to come to New York. Plus, I love excuses to head down…

I have been given a great gift by one of my BM’s mothers! She wanted to throw me a shower or a luncheon, but I thought there must be something different that we could do. Mrs. Greene (my BM’s mom) is an amazing woman. For years in college she hosted get-togethers at her home and made delicious meals and yummy desserts. She has an amazing…

You will remember from this post that we really wanted a unique guest book. When I saw a bench used for another wedding, I knew that I wanted to go that route.

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Mr. AC and I are incredibly lucky, as our friend is an amazing wood worker (he owns Hill Country Woodworks) and he very generously made us a bench to use as our guestbook.…

I loved the idea of making door hangers for our guests and have seen so many brides make some really great ones! I decided to give it a try. I found quite a few templates out there, but decided to tweak mine just a bit.

I have lots of leftover wood grain paper and want to carry that theme throughout the wedding. I decided to make…

***A Post from Mr. Apple Cider on his wedding ring choice!***

I wanted my wedding band to be unique. I wanted the ring to be noticed.

Miss AC and I had been looking at all the typical jewelry stores, combing through all the online galleries, and I was never really sold on anything. Then a while ago, I read a post on Weddingbee (yes, I am the…

I have been in DIY mode the last 2 weeks. This weekend we worked on our out of town bags and they were all do-it-yourself style! I have been thinking about our out of town “bags” for months, and finally came up with a design and plan this weekend and made them! I am really excited to share them with you.

You may remember that I…

Our rehearsal dinner invitations excite me! I knew I wanted to make them extra special too, and started thinking of a design in my head. Our rehearsal dinner is being held at an old apple barn, so we decided to go with an old country theme. Not “cheesy” country, but simple, old country. We hired a bluegrass band and I have started gathering design elements!

I…