DIY: Edible Favors for a Winter Wedding

I have been spotting some great ideas for DIY wedding favors.  Here are some extremely cute ones, especially for a wintertime wedding.  DIY-ing lets you personalize your favors to you and your fiance and adds that extra special touch.  Do you guys love cocoa or baking together?  Do you have a favorite spice blend?  Use these inspirations to come up with something tailored just for you and your hubby to be!  Here are some of my favorite ideas:

"homemade" stamped cookies, these are so adorable and the possibilities are endless

 via Jillian Leiboff

Or, you could let your guests get in on the DIY-ing with these cookie mix jars via Wedding Window

These cocoa kits are very festive, and could be dressed up to match your wedding colors or theme via kirtsy

For something more savory, how about these infused oils?  I love the thought of giving your guests a choice of flavors! via Just Putzing

Vanilla sugar would be a great addition to your guests holiday cookies or stirred in their coffee via Style Me Pretty

Are you planning on DIY-ing your favors?  What are you making?

Inspiration 266: Snow White, Updated

After watching Snow White and the Huntsman, and it being almost Halloween, I wanted to create an updated take on Snow White as a wedding theme.  I incorporated a lot of black and some fun elements like apples in the bouquet and as dessert.  In the future, I plan to update a few of the other classic Disney princesses!

sources:  Not on the High Street, Style Me Pretty, Disney Wedding Inspiration, Note to Self, Babb Photo, Elizabeth Anne Design

Inspiration 254: Glimmering Fairytale

How about a lovely fairytale wedding for this Monday morning?  A gold and black color palette is hot right now and very classic as well.  I love the sparkler picture... talk about fairytale material!

sources:  Style Me Pretty, All You Need is Love Events, Brides, M Loves M, In Honor of Design

Monday Funday 25: Neapolitan Ice Cream

This board was inspired by the colors of Neapolitan ice cream!  After spotting this beautiful and delicious looking cake I ran with the color scheme to create a fun board using pink and chocolate brown.

sources:  Pinterest, Tamryn Kirby, Project Wedding, The White Library, String Me Along

Inspiration 235: Purple Pinwheels

I love pinwheels as details in a wedding! So I decided to create a fun board with shades of purples and lots of pinwheel elements.  Oh and a purple birdcage veil to tie in with my alternative Wednesday idea for this week... enjoy!

sources:  Contemporary Bride, Rule42 on Etsy, Charmed Events, Oh Darling Photography, Doing Documenting Dishing, The French Bouquet

Inspiration 230: Amber

Amber is a fun color to mix into a wedding, especially appropriate for fall.  I like how it is a mix between a darker shade of mustard and orange.  It would pair well with a neutral color palette or I can see it with teal, classic fall colors or hot pink.

sources:  Martha Stewart Weddings, Sitting in a Tree Events, Dreamy Vintage on Etsy, scahoon on Etsy, Hairbows Wonderworld, The Bohemian Bride

Inspiration 228: Blueberry Ice Cream

I love the purple shade that blueberries make when you turn them into ice cream or a smoothie.  For this board I combined that purple with navy for a fun color palette!

sources:  pinterest, 100 Layer Cake, The Knot, Style Me Pretty

Monday Funday 20: Confetti & Sprinkles

The Monique Lhuillier dress at the bottom of this board is just sooo pretty!  I love how the design looks like confetti, and then I remembered the confetti cake I saw on Martha Stewart awhile ago and decided to make it into a board.  I went with a navy and purple color scheme to go with the dress and added fun rainbow sprinkles to make it extra fun!

sources:  The Sweetest Occasion, Martha Stewart Weddings, Wedding Bee, Carter & Cook Event Co

Monday Funday 19: High School Sweethearts

This board was inspired by this 80s high school sweethearts love shoot.  My sister and her husband were high school sweethearts and I think this is a great "theme" for a wedding!  I love the story telling invitation and the pendants!

sources:  Elizabeth Anne Designs, Southern Weddings Magazine, The DIY Bride, Once Wed, Oh So Beautiful Paper, MaruMaru on Etsy

Theme Thursday 33: Backyard Mexican Fiesta

I am having a rough week and really wanted to create something bright and fun, and right away I thought- fiesta!  So I created a colorful and semi-DIY board to share with you.  I love the use of paper flowers, the cute bridesmaids dresses and most of all the idea of a margarita bar.  Yum!  But my top favorite element of this board is the basket of flowers for your guests' hair.  How sweet, fun and easy is that?

sources:  The Sweetest Occasion (x2), Ruffled, Blissique, Coco Kelley, 100 Layer Cake

Inspiration 201: It's in the Details

The bridesmaids looks in this board rock!  I love how they each have different color shoes and that their shoes match their accessories.  To play off this amazing look I used the colors from their shoes in all the other details of the board.  The cake in this board is pretty awesome as well, I love all the detail work on it.

sources:  Utterly Engaged, Sarah Yates Photography, Brooklyn Bride, Elizabeth Anne Designs, The Schultzes Photography

Monday Funday 16- Skylines and Rooftops: a (500) Days of Summer Wedding

(500) Days of Summer is my favorite movie, and when I saw this (500) Days of Summer wedding shoot on Sarah Yates blog I knew I was going to make a board inspired by it!  For the wedding gown, I went with something short with a blue bow to reflect the dress Summer wore to the wedding in the movie.  I love that at the shoot they incorporated a pancake buffet, so yummy sounding.  How about blue printed dresses like the one Summer wore at her rooftop party for your bridesmaids?  And don't forget the skylines and chalkboards!

sources:  Sarah Yates Photography, Christian Oth Photography, small medium large, Wedding Inspirasi, Fash Eccentric, Elizabeth Anne Designs

Inspiration 191: Parisian Spring Wedding

Oh Paris, you really inspire me.  I saw this lovely this lovely Paris inspired table set-up and sweet French macaroon cake and wanted to make a Paris inspired board.  I've made a vintage Parisian board before, but this time I went with a lavender and green spring board!  Also, I think a crepe station would be a great and delicious way to end the night.

sources:  Cymbeline, Style Me Pretty, Robert and Kathleen Photography, Catie Ronquillo Photography, Whole Living

Inspiration 189: Cotton Clouds

I love the idea of adding natural cotton elements to a wedding!  It can show up anywhere from the boutonnieres to the reception decor to the cake.  And it reminds me of a beautiful sunny day with big fluffy clouds!  For the color palette I went with light sky blue, natural white, birch, khaki and chocolate brown.

sources:  Love & Lavender, Elizabeth Anne Designs, Whimsy & Wise Events, Ritzy Bee, Edyta Szyszlo Photography, Audrey Grr, The Knot, Once Wed

Inspiration 186: Sweet Pale Pink and Mustard

This board turned out so sweet!  I was inspired by a unique source for this board, the yummy looking donuts on this board.  I thought the pale pink icing and mustard yellow sprinkles would make a great color palette, and I think they definitely did!

sources:  Butterfly Foodie, Steep Street Photography, Love and Lavender, Martha Stewart Weddings, Elizabeth Anne Designs,
The Sweetest Occasion, Amy Atlas, Pocket Studio on Etsy, Sarah Yates Photography

Inspiration 179: Sunflowers and Strawberries

Sunflowers definitely add a rustic, fun and a bit vintage feel to a wedding, and that is exactly what the bride who requested this board is aiming to create for her wedding day.  She wants to work with a red & yellow (I added some pops of pink too) color palette for her husband who loves In N Out Burger and the Redskins.  She also wants to create a picnic feel without being too country-ish.  They plan to have their wedding partially catered by In N Out and want to incorporate some games like horseshoes and ladder ball into their reception.  To incorporate strawberries (one of the brides requests) I think adding them to the cake and using them as favors are a great touch!

sources:  Love and Lavender, 100 Layer Cake, Green Wedding Shoes, Wedding Bee, Elizabeth Anne Designs, With This Ring, Style Me Pretty

Inspiration #146- Eco-Friendly Raspberry Wedding

Eco-friendly weddings are becoming increasingly popular, which is awesome! The bride who requested this board wants to have an organic, eco-friendly wedding with an raspberry and cucumber color palette. Since one of her colors is "cucumber" I thought it would be a fun, eco-friendly favor to give cucumber and dill seeds so their guests could grow and make their own pickles which I saw on Green Wedding Shoes. I think using a chalkboard for the wedding program (as well as menu and seating chart) is also a great eco-friendly touch. She also plans on including lawn games, lemonade and a parade to reception in her wedding, which are all fun touches!

sources: Green Wedding Shoes (2, 3), This Next, The Knot, Wedding Inspirasi, Brides, Recycled Bride, Once Wed

Monday Funday #7- Mojito Inspired

This is definitely a fun theme! A mojito inspired wedding, with mint boutonnieres, mint centerpieces, mint seeds as escort cards, mojito flavored cupcakes, and of course... mojitos!

sources: Good Food, Bits of Carey, Green Wedding Shoes (x2), Anna Kern, Once Wed, Magnet Street, Project Wedding

Theme Thursday #23-Soda Pop!

I was inspired by the colorful sodas I spotted at Eat, Drink, Chic to create a vintage soda shop themed board. I used bubblegum pink, bright orange and soft yellow as the color palette and made sure to include lots of fun details!

sources: Eat, Drink, Chic. Megan W. Photography. Kelli Nixon Photography via Bridal Banter.
Style Me Pretty (x2). Wed Candy. Martha Stewart Weddings.

Monday Funday #6: Blue Suede Shoes!

Well, this was going to be my entry into My Island Weddings inspiration board contest but then I got super busy and never got to post it! But, here it is now! I did a Graceland themed board, using blue (for Blue Suede shoes) and bubble gum pink (for Elvis's pink Cadillac). I also went for a Priscilla inspired dress, and peanut butter and banana finger sandwiches! What do you think?

sources: La Belle Bride, Daily Press, Marianne Wilson Photography, Style Me Pretty (x2), Low GI Cooking,
Caroline Tran Photography, The Knot, David Ford Does Earth