People, did you hear? HITCHED is SOLD OUT. That's right, seems you guys ARE looking for a fresh vision in wedding planning 'cause we threw the bait and our ship is now full!! But don't frown just yet, we have a couple more tickets to give away this week. Today we BP gals are giving two tickets away to the person who can wow us with a rad idea for a wedding. Can be a spin on vows, a new type of decor, a fresh cocktail band, an alt-fashion choice, you name it. We will pick the winners by the end of the day today.
Ready, set, go.
Instead of just having typical sweets on the dessert table, I thought of having different types of wedding cakes or desserts typically served at weddings from around the world. The French have the croquembouch. At Italian weddings, they typically serve zuppa inglese. Filipinos have a pastry called Sansrival. The Chinese have a huge layered cake called lapis Surabaya. The Danish have a cornucopia cake. The challenge would be finding different bakeries who could make all of these specialties, but I think it's a fun twist to the ever popular dessert table.
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend & I are singing a few songs during our wedding. One of the songs I'm be singing will be "Like a Prayer" on the ukulele. The big surprise for my new hubby & guest will be a choir that will pop out mid-performance. It's going to be huge! <>
ReplyDeleteMy hubs and I didn't want a guest book sitting on our dusty shelves for eternity. Instead, we had my father, a landscape photog/architect take a few panoramic pictures of the "drive into" Quail Hollow Ranch in Santa Cruz, CA where we got married. He printed two huge (21/2" x 4") & colorful panoramic photos that guests signed throughout the evening. They will be hanging on the walls in our home forever. Little piece of my father and of everyone who joined us. Amazing. Stoked on this idea. :)
ReplyDeleteMake the ceremony more personal. Instead of repeating the vows, read the vows aloud yourself, read a special poem or passage, or write your own vows. Have it beautifully printed (do it yourself using a graphics program, use a calligrapher, or have it letterpress printed) to give to your significant other. During the reception it can be popped into some frames as part of the decor for the reception, and then afterwards, you will have a beautiful reminder of your special words to grace your walls.
ReplyDeleteThe bride and her bridesmaids could have gorgeous succulent bouquets (I am utterly obsessed) and then plant them after the wedding. These little plants can then serve as a happy reminder of the special day, for years to come!! I can't wait to get married and do this myself :-)
ReplyDeleteWe at focusing the entire celebration on the notion of past, present, and future! It began with my engagement ring: a three-stone setting with the diamonds from my mother's engagement ring used as side-stones. Our table numbers and corresponding seating cards will be graced with a photo of a couple from our lives whose relationship inspires us. At the reception, we will serve local brews from each of our hometowns and the city where we met...all wine will be Californian, to honor our new home. Our music playlist will be a compilation provided from our guests' response to: what song do you find most romantic? what song makes you wanna dance? At the end of the night, guests will leave with a jar of pickles from my family's Southern recipe and a jar of Italian pickled eggplant made from a recipe past down through my fiance's family.
ReplyDeleteThe past, celebrated in the present, propelling us into the future!
My Fiance isn’t supposed to know my secret wedding plan until the day of, but I'm going to have to risk ruining the surprise for a chance to win her tickets to this event. Hearing it was sold out devastated her and I can’t have that.
ReplyDeleteSo here's the plan and a little bit of background. My Fiancé and I are planning a destination wedding so the celebration will to come after. We are going to be married in what is among the first Christian churches to be built. It’s high atop the mountains of Armenia, overlooking a majestic natural landscape. The plan for the reception was inspired by my career. I’m an editor at a quite large Armenian-American newspaper operating in Los Angeles so I’m going to be publishing a special, private, full-color edition of the paper just for our wedding reception and guests.
The paper’s top headline will read “Breaking News: They Got Married.” Directly underneath it will be a close up picture of us being wed in the ancient Armenian church. The picture will span across the top section of the entire front-page, while the bottom half of the page will excerpts from four stories: “The Birthday Proposal”, “Finding the Church of Our Dreams”, “The First Date…”, and “The Honeymoon of a Lifetime.”
This paper will be a full sized newspaper with 15 pages and will include the following sections: Editorial, Top Stories, Opinions, Travel, Letters to the Editor, Photo Stories, and Comics. Every story in the paper will be accompanied by photos from the events being described.
The Editorial will be a message from the bride and groom to our friends and family, thanking them for their ongoing support and understanding and providing a short glimpse of the wedding reception they are about to experience.
The top stories section will have pieces highlighting the major moments and experiences we shared together, from the volunteer programs we worked on, to the best dates, surprises, and birthday weekends.
The Travel section will showcase stories about our vacations across the country and world, highlighting some of our best moments together on our many trips to Northern California, the Eastern US, and Armenia. The articles here will be longer feature-length stories with lots of pictures.
As you flip through the pages, you will arrive at a Letters to the Editor section with wedding blessings and notes to the bride and groom from friends and family. These will be collected prior to the reception.
The Photo Stories section will tell the story of our relationship through pictures. We’ve done a good job documenting our relationship in photos so this will be an all-extensive gallery of our best and favorite moments. Some stories I’m thinking of including are: The convention where we met, our first trip to the beach, our many walks at the dog park, our vacations to Oregon, Seattle and Armenia, our engagement dinner.
The comics section is one I am very much looking forward to making. It will be an illustration (by me) of all our major funny moments together. Each event in our relationship will be told through a short comic strip of at least 5 photos: Some funny events I will draw out include: My marriage proposal going wrong after she got a bad case of food poisoning, the first wedding we attended together when a waiter spilled a gallon of yogurt on me at the reception, and the awkward moment we shared when a belly dancer showcased herself in front of us during our first date at a middle eastern restaurant.
A master copy of this paper will be available at the entrance to our reception for guests to sign and leave comments, while a copy will be waiting for each guest at their tables.
So this is basically my plan for making our wedding a truly unique experience for both us and our guests. I hope she doesn’t see this blog. Because It would be one hell of a surprise for someone who is almost impossible to surprise.
My fiance and I have been together since middle school and are finally getting married after 14 years together. We are planning on honoring my grandmother who was one of the most important and influential people in my life. She passed away 3 years ago before she could see us get married.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother used to collect the buttons off of old shirts and pants and left a huge collection behind when she passed. We are planning on including grandma in our wedding by using buttons in our decor. Buttons are going to used to decorate the cake, on the guest tables as a different type of confetti, as napkin rings and making buttons shaped cookies on our dessert table. Best of all I'm going to fill a large mason jar with some of her buttons and place it in a seat at our wedding so a little piece of her will be with us.
well, i wont be your typical cake topper bride....a white wedding dress, with a leather jacket? oh heck yeah. instead of pouring boring sand, why not take Polaroids of one another, as well as together during the ceremony and have a frame hanging that you put the pictures in. instant decor in your new home together! instead of your typical chicken and mashed potato dinner, although super delicious, have a sushi chef come and make basic sushi rolls for dinner. dang i cant wait until i get married :)
ReplyDeleteMy fiancé proposed to me in one of the most sweetest ways. On his birthday we had an evening backyard BBQ. We did something extra special and had a construction buddy build us an outdoor movie screen, to show movies during the party. After everyone got situated with their overfilled plates and ready to start a movie, my fiancé let the film start rolling. Before the movie came up, he showed a few humorous cartoon clips. The last clip of the previews, was from the popular Pixar movie, UP, one of our most favorite movies together. This is the tear jerker part where the Old Man goes thru the Adventure Book him and his wife made while they were younger. He is about to close the book, but notices that there is something more towards the end. He reopens it and this is where my fiancé added pictures of the two of us. Every time the Old Man would turn the page, it would be a new picture of me and my fiancé. At the end of the book, where the wife puts “Now go and have your own adventure,” my fiancé put “Steffani - I love you, will you…?” When I turned to look at him he was on one knee and asked me to marry him! It was an unforgettable night and even more special to share with our friends and family.
ReplyDeleteWe are having an outdoor vineyard wedding during the summer of 2011. It will be under a tent and we thought it would be a really fun and original idea to do a movie under the stars theme for our slideshow. It would be a chance to connect two of the most important days in our life together; our engagement and our wedding. We will have an outdoor movie screen and a projector for our montage. We plan on placing different patterned blankets & textured pillows, that coordinate with our wedding décor on the grass area for our guests. We will serve fresh gourmet white truffle popcorn from one of the most delicious food truck vendors (who will be serving our late night sliders and fries). Our dessert bar will feature a variety of concession stand candies and our guests will scoop their candy in our personalized monogram goodie bag. After we show our slideshow and the same day wedding edit, we will play our favorite black and white silent films in the background. This area will remain our lounge area for the rest of the party, where people can kick off their shoes and relax or lay down and stare at the stars. Couldn’t be more excited to recreate that special night and add small details to make it special for our guests too! :)
We wanted a happy day, so we bought our favorite Etsy print "happier than a bird with a French Fry" to put on display ('cause is there really anything happier?!) Then we're serving pommes frites, mini burgers and lime Ricky Pop Shoppe pop with twirly straws during happy hour! For favors we're giving our guests mini Heinz ketchup bottles personalized with "Oh happy day! 10.09.10" and "Erin + Matt's big day!"
ReplyDeleteWhen my fiance told me Hitched was sold out, you can imagine how bad I felt as she was pretty excited for it, but then I came across this and figured, why not, let's give it a shot.
ReplyDeleteWe are getting married in the student chapel at the University of San Diego where I attended college. For anyone who hasn't been there, it is a small, intimate, beautiful space that has a real classic and peaceful essence about it. We were both raised Catholic and feel it is important to get married in the church, but also feel that the day should be a mix of classic and contemporary. That's why we are having our reception in Pacific Beach at small modern hotel right on the sand.
Like most grooms to be, I have spent many an hour watching wedding show after wedding show with my fiance on WE, Bravo, TLC, etc etc. I can't say they are my top choice, but I think I have learned a thing or two about floral settings, groom cakes, and day after photo shoots (see I do pay attention). One of the shows we used to watch was Jeff Leatham : Flowers Uncut on TLC. I'm sure most of you have seen it, but if you haven't, he is extraordinary at creating unique floral displays using a variety of flowers and colors. Well since we are trying to keep the theme of the day classic meets contemporary, we are thinking of doing our flowers in a "secret garden meets beach" theme. We want to spread sand across the rectangular tables we will have and put the flowers in little clusters in the center of the tables with lots of small candles spread across the tables to give a real intimate feel, instead of just doing your classic flower in a vase of water. It will feel like the beach was overtaken by a beautiful garden. We want to use peonies and roses as they are my fiances favorite flowers. In fact, I just so happened to give my fiance peonies on our first date 8 years ago when we were only juniors in high school, so it will be awesome to bring something back to our wedding that reminds us of when we first met.
I know it's not anything spectacular or earth shattering, but it's something that makes her happy, and to me, that's the greatest thing in the world.
Who won?!
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