Comments on: dear d*s: wedding to home decor + chrome restoration

By: Erica (Wedding Dresses)

Erica (Wedding Dresses) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:45:00 +0000

These are really great ideas. I have been searching all night for something like thsi – i think i might use the guestbook ideas. Thanks so much :)

By: sedona bride {destination wedding photographers}

sedona bride {destination wedding photographers} — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:37:04 +0000

I’m so happy to have found that you featured part of our photo shoot. We are huge fans of Design Sponge!

Margaret of http://www.vandammeweddings.com
styled this whole shoot and did an amazing job!

You can see more images from this gorgeous editrail shoot in the slideshow below…

http://www.sedonabride.com/vineyard-wedding/

or on our blog …
http://www.sedonabrideblog.com/

By: Margaret Van Damme

Margaret Van Damme — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:41:44 +0000

I love your blog. Thanks for using the photos of our recent editorial 40′s inspired vintage shoot at a local winery. You can see the complete slideshow here http://sedonaweddingblog.com/

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:22:49 +0000

I used mason jars for rustic centerpieces out in the cocktail hour area outdoors, had them scattered around the perimeter with tea lights, etc. And I am KICKING myself now for recycling these. I am finally, finally building out my pantry, and don’t have any containers for rice, beans, pasta, etc. I wish so very much that I had kept my mason jars. They would make such a nice, stackable, vintage-chic pantry. Sad face!

Also, we bought alphabet letters in our initials from a craft store and painting them in our wedding colors. After the wedding, I re-spray painted them black and now they hang in our home.

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:37:24 +0000

great ideas! one suggestion: if you purchase things for your wedding that you want to be sure to find at home once the honeymoon is over, be sure to enlist a couple of friends ahead of time who understand your intentions for those items. i still have no idea where some of the items from my wedding ended up because i was too busy being a bride to keep track of them! that day will probably be a blur for you, and rightly so. you should be able to relax and enjoy your guests instead of worrying about where your “stuff” ends up. and i agree with the comment about starting with what you’d like to see in your home and working back from there. enjoy!

By: ForkInTheRoad

ForkInTheRoad — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:35:06 +0000

Hello Budget Bride!

I was one too, in 2007. We had around 85 guests and I had six bridesmaids! My best advice is that you don’t need as much stuff as you think you need.

We had one venue where we had the ceremony and sit down dinner reception. Our decorations were minimal.

I bought seven vases, I think about $1 each, and placed them around the reception room. When the ceremony was finished the bridesmaids bouquets went into the vases and mine went on the cake table. I gave my bouquet to my mother to say thank you.

Centerpieces were one $5 flowering plant in a $2 pot on a $.50 cent circle placemat in the centre of each round table with three tea lights. The placemats were reused in our own home. The plants were given away. We had eight people per table.

For a bit of colour I put an orange at each place setting (my friend used pears last fall for her wedding). I think I spent $40 for a box of 100 oranges. And the guests really liked the way it looked when they entered the reception!

Our wedding favours were homemade cookbooks with family recipes that I made with MSWord, printed at home on my colour copier, and bound in one corner with a binder ring wrapped in ribbon, I made one per household, with a thank you note attached to the ribbon.

I also printed my own place cards and mini table menus. I had bridesmaids seat people so that there was no need for a big seating chart, also, as there were place cards, some people preferred to find their own seat.

I brought my laptop with songs on it to hook up to the venue speakers (if you plan to do this make sure ahead of time that it will work) and created my own playlists, though people could also play DJ and choose songs. The ceremony music was a burned CD played on a portable stereo, which I had a friend pause and play at the right moments.

Anyway – could go on and on (I already am) – so I hope this helps!