Granting Your Wedding Wand Wish

Making that grand exit from the ceremony is common place for most couples.  You'll see the use of bubbles, eco-friendly confetti, rose petals and bird seeds thrown as the newlyweds make their way down the wedding aisle in the direction of photographs or to greet guests.  But I love the idea of ribbon wands...waved by excited wedding guests cheering them on!  They work so much better for photographs, in my opinion, because they can continuously be shaken verses the one or two tosses of petals or confetti.  Check out some of the wand ideas below:

Add bells and a tag of well wishes to the ribbon wand

Personalize the ribbon hanging from the wand
with your names and wedding date

Jazz up a beach wedding with a starfish affixed to the ribbon wand

Display the wands on a table and ask guests at the end of the night to wave
for a fabulous send-off

And guess what, you can make these picture perfect wands yourself.  All you need are wooden dowel rods (or paper straws, plastic sticks), ribbon and a hot glue gun.  Have fun!

Until next time...WEDologize!

(photo credits - purple ribbon wands; personalized wands; starfish wands; married couple; stripped wands)

Accessorizing the Wedding Cake

When selecting your wedding cake, either from a photo or from an actual visit with a cake designer, there are some things that you should consider.  Question - Outside of selecting the cake flavor, filling and decorative frosting, what types of design can be offered to make this cake not only taste good, but look wonderful? So let's think about designing this gorgeous piece of confection from BOTTOM to TOP. 

Your wedding cake will be put on some type of base for easy transport, typically silver or gold, but if you want to give the cake more height, consider placing it up on a decorative cake stand or pedestal.
 

When selecting the actual design components, will you use fresh flowers or sugar flowers over an actual patterned design?  Both will offer elegance to your cake, but the cost difference is major.  Fresh flowers will always be less in cost than using actual sugar flowers.

How about adding some colored ribbon to your wedding cake tiers?  There are so many variety of ribbons (satin, grosgrain, sheer, wired, etc.) that the options and positioning are limitless.

Now what bride doesn't love a little BLING?  Adding bling to a wedding cake can take on so many different forms...from banding each or every other tier, adding bling brooch details or a burst of bling and crystals shooting out of the top tier.

And as you reach the top tier of the wedding cake, ask yourself...do I want a topper?  Know that toppers can be all sort of items...a cluster of fresh or sugar flowers, a bride and groom, an initial monogram or almost any thing you can think of.  Check out our blog post devoted to cake toppers.

Last, if your wedding cake isn't going to be served as dessert or sliced and displayed on a dessert buffet, make sure you have some fun packaging for your guests to take their yummy treat home.  Check out how DE suggests you "bag" wedding cake.
 

Until next time...WEDologize!

(photo credits: fresh flowers - http://linzievents.com/tag/wedding-cakes/; sugar flowers - www.weddingcakes.com/; ribbon - http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/; bling - www.rockwellsbakery.com; LOVE topper - www.etsy.com; base - www.sweetandsaucyshop.com)

Unrolling That Spool of Ribbon (Day#30)

As I was coming up with some design ideas for one of my clients, I came across a pretty unique idea for using ribbon. Typically when thinking of a wedding or event, ribbon enters into the scenario to decorate programs or used as an embellishment to favor boxes/bags. But the "shabby chic" bride has come up with some pretty unique ideas of using ribbon for decorative purposes.  Check them out!

For displaying escort cards

Ribbon wands to swing as the newlyweds depart the ceremony

Backdrop for dinner or even photographs

Chair decor

Until next time...WEDologize!

(photo credits: www.marthastewart.com; www.perfectpaletteblog.com; www.wanelo.com; www.thewhitelibrary.com; www.stylemepretty.com)