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?

Monday Funday 27: Feather Boho Wedding

Today I have a pretty feather filled bohemian wedding inspiration board!  I went with a neutral color palette with some gold mixed in.

sources:  Elegala, Green Wedding Shoes (x2), Style Me Pretty, Intimate Weddings, Once Wed

Inspiration 258: My Wedding Inspiration

I haven't announced it on here yet but I'm engaged!  We are planning for a 2014 wedding, probably May... so there will be lots of time to plan.  I will probably blog about my wedding planning here a little bit but most of my wedding planning will be documented at my new blog Perfectly Ours!
Anyway, here is my current inspiration board:

sources:  Southern Weddings Magazine, Pinterest, Ruffled (x2, x3), Jodi Miller Photography, A Paper Proposal

Theme Thusday 45: Quilts

how about some inspiration to include quilts in your wedding?  It could be a vintage quilt you inherited from your dear grammy or if you use one as guest book... quilts add a very personal touch to your wedding day.

sources:  Martha Stewart Weddings (x2), Elizabeth Anne Designs, Etsy (x2), Atypical Type A

Inspiration 255: Burlap and Tea Tins

I think burlap and teatins really compliment each other well!  The soft vintage feel of the tea tins and the rustic feel of burlap would be great for a barn or outdoor wedding.  What do you think of this board?

sources:  Martha Stewart Weddings, Indigo Meets Violet, Intimate Weddings (x2), Emmaline Bride, SweetCarolineJams on Etsy, whichgoose on etsy

Favorite Photo Friday 34: Sitting In a Tree

Happy friday everyone, hope its lovely!

Snippet & Ink

Lovely Links:

Sweet DIY Mountain Wedding

Very cute vintage love shoot

Thank you to Elle Rose Photo for mentioning me in her monthly round up (check it out for some other great sites!)

Unique engagement rings

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

Real Wedding: Stephanie & Josef's DIY Fall Wedding

I love the orange color palette Stephanie & Josef chose and how it really compliments Stephanie's red hair!  Maybe that's a bit of a weird statement but oh well, I said it anyway.  I'm also loving the leaf pins they used in place of boutonnieres, what a great idea for a fall wedding!

{photography:  RPM Photography via Two Bright Lights}

Cute DIY Centerpieces!

I love these cute and simple DIY wheat grass centerpieces!  I spotted them on the K.I.S.S. blog and I think they would be great for a wedding.

go here for a tutorial --> K.I.S.S. Wheatgrass Centerpiece Tutorial

Inspiration 220: DIY Mint & Antique Coral Wedding

Lovely, lovely, lovely!  I love the combination of soft mint, vintage coral and aqua... and it really works well for a spring wedding.  This board has a lot of sweet DIY elements that are just to die for.

sources:  One Wed, La Partie Events, Snippet & Ink, Style Me Pretty, Seesaw Designs, Green Wedding Shoes

Favorite Photo Friday 30: Cuddle

How sweet is this shot?  I love how candid it is, seems like they are just chatting in bed like nothing is going on!  Have an amazing weekend everyone!

Green Wedding Shoes

Lovely Links:

Indie Bohemian Styled Shoot

Love these bridesmaids look!

Really cute DIY chalkboard paint plate from Fancy Frugal Life

Real Wedding: Chris & Kendra's Cute Green Gingham Wedding

I was stuck on gingham this week and this wedding really shows how to incorporate it without going over the top.   Plus, you know that I have a true love for mismatched bridesmaid's looks and now I'm noticing that more weddings are incorporating a few colors in the bridesmaids dress selections.  This raspberry, pale pink, red and green color palette is awfully lovely too.  I love all of the amazing DIY details too, see the rest of the wedding here on Steep Street Photography's blog.

and of course, the amazing details:

All photos by Steep Street Photography

Inspiration 188: Cross Stitch & Cable Knit

I love spring and summer more than anything else, I despise the cold!  But I have seen some amazing winter wedding inspiration and just had to share this board I made for you, before winter is over.  This crafty board combines cable knit details with cute cross stitch touches.  I really love the centerpieces that combine small balls of yarn and pinecones!  Of course, the cable knit covered vases are really a fun idea as well, I didn't use too many flowers in this board but I think they would be a great addition to your cake or guest book table.  This monochromatic color palette of lime and kelly green is really pretty, and the addition of a few pops of red is a really nice touch for a winter wedding in my opinion.

sources:  Once Wed, JL Designs, All the Beautiful Things(x2), Style Crush, Flickr, Cherry Tree Occasions

for more cable knit inspiration check out my Favorite Photo Friday post here.

Alternative Wednesdays #12- Farmer's Market Wedding Favors

I have a fun and eco-friendly favor idea for you today!  Edible favors are definitely a hot trend but why not go with some local produce?  It's affordable, easy to DIY, good for the environment and supports your local economy... plus it gives out of town guests a taste of your hometown.  And if local produce isn't available (which is possible for cold weather states in the winter months) you could always go with locally made jam or honey.  I think the last example I posted is really cute, a small jar of honey and some homemade or locally made granola!  Also loving the third option where they offered strawberries, locally baked bread and fresh cut flowers with a handmade tote to carry them all in!

Wedding Resource

Green Wedding Shoes

Black Eiffel

Botanica Floral Designs

Tailored Engagements

Smart Bride

Inspiration #150- A Small DIY Backyard Wedding

I love it when brides request boards for two different color palettes that they are deciding between!  The bride who requested these boards is having a small backyard wedding that she plans on having a romantic and artsy feel with DIY details.  The two color sets she was deciding between were a more vintage pastel yellow, green and robin's egg palette or an artsy lemon, cherry red and turquoise combination.  I truly love both of these boards and the fun elements they contain, I would have a hard time picking between the two!

Pastel Sources:  Dana Grant Photography, Wedding Chicks, 100 Layer Cake, Apartment Therapy, Green Wedding Shoes (2), One Love Photography

Artsy Sources:  Green Wedding Shoes (2, 3), Once Wed, 100 Layer Cake, Ruffled, K Holly Studios, Martha Stewart Weddings (2)

Monday Funday #8- Starry, Starry Night

Hope everyone had an awesome weekend!  Today I have a board for a bride who is trying to combine her fiance's likes with hers.... he's into space and science fiction while she is into art and retro things.  She wants her wedding to be classy, unique and a bit DIY and was thinking of going with an artsy star theme.  So I took her ideas and came up with this board, inspired by Starry, Starry Night by van Gogh.  I used a blue and yellow color scheme but you could definitely add different shades of blue and green in as well.

sources:  West Aussie Weddings, Paloma's Nest on Etsy, Ashita on Etsy, DIY Union, Wedding Wire, Southern Weddings Magazine,  Ritzy Bee

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Inspiration #142- DIY Coral and Yellow

This is one of my guest blogging boards. There are a lot of cool DIY elements on this board :)
I've received a lot of great ideas for boards in the contest entries so look out for those coming up in the next few weeks! The color palette for this board is coral, yellow and craft paper.

sources: Style Me Pretty (x2), Elizabeth Anne Designs, Etsy, Martha Stewart Weddings (x2, x3, x4)

Fun, Affordable DIY Centerpieces

Some people are so crafty!  I would never imagine making a centerpiece out of egg cartons and vintage buttons.  After seeing it done though, I'm in love!  Now I would love to make these for my own wedding. These centerpieces are affordable, customizable (you can make the colors any shade of the rainbow to match your color scheme perfectly!) and you're recycling on top of it!  See more pictures and the tutorial at Intimate Weddings (the link will take you directly to the tutorial).