Wedding Wednesday: S'more Bar

It didn't show up in most of our wedding pictures because it was dark & late once we all got to it, but we actually had a s'mores bar at our wedding! Our venue had a GIGANTIC fire pit, and so we took advantage of it.

Our bar included baskets of:
-Marshmallows (regular, strawberry & chocolate/white swirl)
-Graham crackers (regular, cinnamon & chocolate)
-Chocolate (milk chocolate, dark chocolate & cookies 'n cream bars)

We also purchased some actual smore's sticks so our guests didn't have to forage in the woods for sticks, hah ;)

Here's some photos I found around the web for a little wedding s'mores inspiration. It can actually be really fun and even look super cute!

Love the various homemade mallows!

Don't have a fire pit? Look at those little burners! So cute!

I also found a great tutorial for making s'mores kit as a wedding favor here, super adorable!

Wedding Wednesday: Some Details

I'm going to start blocking out Wednesdays for wedding posts, some DIYs from our wedding and such. I think it'll be a weekly feature for me, as I have had some friends ask me to help them with designing their weddings! Yippeeeee!

Our wedding was featured yesterday on Love & Lavendar, which is a super adorable wedding blog I wish I had been reading months ago! There's some great photos of some of the things I made for our wedding.

I wanted to share how easy it is to make your own chalkboard signs! For the table top signs, I bought some various sized pictures frames at places like Goodwill. I bought chalkboard spraypaint and simply sprayed a few coats on the glass part of the frame, and also bought a bronze colored spray paint and painted the actual frames (if needed). Super easy, and there's no real tricks to it..it's so simple. For the the large sign (which we used for our seating chart), I bought a cheap posterboard frame (with a coupon!) from Michaels. I ordered some chalkboard markers (like they use at Starbucks) in our wedding colors. I enlisted the help of my sister and her boyfriend to do the writing for the signs :)

Our other wedding signage were directional signs that were made from scrap wood that a friend gave to us. I gave the boys the job of putting them together. I think they actually stained them a darker color! Another friend of ours painted the wording on the signs.

Ceremony Favorites

We also had a short and sweet ceremony. Since it was so short we didn't really do much decorating at all. Not that anyone would need to, look out beautiful the scenery is!

I guess the flower girl (she's actually my cousin!) got a little scared and started running down the aisle. Those are white feathers in her basket - she didn't really throw them I don't think, hah!

This picture of my parents is sooo sweet.

I'd suggest you watch the video I made of the wedding to see more ceremony pics + music.

The bridal party walked down to Love and Some Verses by Iron and Wine, I walked down to Ingrid Michaelson's verson of Can't Helpt Falling In Love, and we walked out to New Soul by Yael Naim. I loooove all our wedding music, we put so much work into not only those songs but our entire playlist for the whole thing. I'll share more about that later too :)

Wedding Party Favs

And here are some of my favorites of our wedding party. We had a super small group for our wedding party, I'm not really a fan of having half of my guests in my wedding party ;) Small and sweet is our style.

It also cracks me up how less photogenic guys are compared to girls!

Us: Favorites

Here are some of my favorite wedding photos of Chris + Me (but really, honestly..wish I could post them all, there so many good ones. But I'm afraid you all would abandon me)

A little wedding diy: favors

Alrighty! I am back in the blogging mode (I think), as I have tons of fun stuff to share both wedding and not wedding related. While I'm waiting to receive our official photos (this week, yipee!!!!), I wanted to share a DIY or two. I'm not kidding when I say we did everything ourselves for our wedding. And I am so glad we did. Everything turned out perfect, exactly our style.


I had a few different ideas for favors, but my sister and I came up with this great idea to use the many bags of coffee she has been able to accumulate from her job (helloooo Starbucks!). Each guest was able to take home a cute little bag of yummy Starbucks coffee, and oh, it smelled SO GOOD! You can do these easy favors for many other kinds of gatherings, too, and customize to your liking of course.

The VERY few things you'll need:

1. Muslin baggies. I used 4"x6", which held about a cup of coffee beans.

2. Alphabet/number stamps. I borrowed this rolling stamp from the lovely Morgan. An alphabet/number stamp set like this would be just as good.

3. COFFEE!

4. Stamp pad in your color of choice.

So as for the DIY, just use your stamps to decorate your bag! If you are doing a bulk amount, I recommend doing one word/line one each bag, then switching to the next word/line. (for example, I stamped "CHRIS" on all the bags, then switch to "ALYSSA", etc.).

I happend to find the cutest little coffee mug stamp among my Mom's stamp collection, it was PERFECT for this. Fee free to use any decorative stamps, or none at all. Here's some adorable little stamps that would be perfect. I also had to use a brown Sharpie to create the "+" sign and the hearts in between our wedding date.


After all of your stamping is done, fill each bag with coffee using some kind of funnel (I made a ghetto funnel out of paper so coffee beans could fit through easily). We used one cup ber bag.



And last of all, tie your baggies so you don't lose the coffee (because that would just be sad!). So,voila, your favor bags are done! They shouldn't take very long and they are oh so cute :)


Oh and the best part, I only spent about 20 bucks to create 75 favor bags since all I had to buy were the muslin bags and the stamp pad. Score!

Weekend

I had such a great long weekend. I am thinking the fact that it was extra long (yay for 2 days off work!) made it much greater :) Some highlights:

I found a super cute deer in a local antique shop that was an awesome deal (I saw it for $30 more on ebay!).

I got baby fever, again.

One of my very very bestest friends, and one of my oldest, got married! YAY! They got engaged the day after Chris and I :)

I hope yours was as good as mine :)

DIY Save the Date - Viewfinder

I am so excited to share this DIY with you! I just finished up our Save-the-Date cards and I am pretty excited about how they turned out. Since I am pretty sure all of my guests have received them, I want to share it with you all.

I got the idea for this in a book I purchased a few months ago called The DIY Bride. Their card was ultra simple and a lot smaller than I wanted to so I had to basically design the whole thing. So here goes! Enjoy!

Viewfinder Save-the-Date

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Materials:

Cardstock (colors of your choice!)
Colored brads (I purchased mine at a scrapbook store)
Fiskars Circle Cutter

Cutting mat
Paper cutter
Scrapbooking tape
Avery Sticker Project Paper

I'm too lazy to add any extra tips/information right now, so I think I will make a Part II here pretty soon! Hope you like them! :)

**Edit: For some reason my pictures won't enlarge in a new window...will try to fix asap, sorry :(