Buy Butterflies – Learn how to plan a live butterfly release event

Sep9

The guide to live butterfly release from ordering, receiving the live butterflies, preparing them safely to the release.

The full butterfly guide will help you experience the butterflies and what to expect.

Watch the butterfly video as I unpack the monarch butterflies and prepare them for the release in my backyard.

Buy live butterflies. You can also purchase the milkweed seeds that are host plants for the caterpillars. Help their environment and help the monarch butterflies thrive.

Monarch butterflies

one monarch butterfly stayed a little longer

 

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Flower Girls Power and A Plan for A Perfect Walk Down the Aisle

Sep2

Flower girls adorn the wedding aisle with such young beauty. Find out the best ways to help them with their flower girl duties and looking up with smiles on their faces instead of a hard stare towards the floor. Look at all the many options of items your girls can carry down the aisle and how the shy ones can have help. Videos are cute and help you see the difference of when they look down or up during their walk. Use it as part of your wedding planning to ensure things go well with little girls. Makeup and hair tips too.

Plus get some perfect ideas for gifting your flower girls for doing such a great job.

Davids Bridal Image of the flower girl dress and carrying one large flower is a great way to keep her chin up and smile noticeable by all.

 

 

 

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Twitter to Find Your Wedding Professionals Videos and Ideas

Sep2

Twitter can get your wedding ideas (links to our how to guide on using Twitter for videos and more detailed steps) off the ground and help form a decision on wedding colors, the trend that suits you and many other tips.

Find Wedding Decorations and Reception Table Styles in your Theme

You can even Pin your Pinterest images via a tweet on Twitter and share with other wedding couples and wedding professionals. It is a treasure full of wedding resources.

 

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Stained Glass Windows as a Wedding Theme and Art Deco Wedding

Aug27

Stained Glass Windows are such an amazing wedding theme that will depend heavily on a venue with stained glass in the building, church or museum. There will be a lot more planning involved because it is such a special theme. You may need time to find stained glass or commission an artist and for any DIY projects to create real or faux stained glass for your wedding decorations.

Stained Glass Museum at the Navy Pier in Chicago

Review the Stained Glass Window Theme Wedding Guide for some great ideas and follow our Stained Glass Wedding board on Pinterest.

 

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Makeup for Girls and Flower Girls

Aug14

Need help with girls makeup? We have the article and videos for you!

This will give you a better idea of at what age and how much. You will find some budget cosmetic tips and natural cosmetics.

Visit our eBoutique Mark Store and check the great article out, perfect time for back to school!

$1 cosmetics from Dollar Depot. LA Colors brand.

My daughter Erica shopping for bargain cosmetics

Where can you find the best deals? What age can girls wear makeup? How do the girls apply makeup? Get your answers in time for school. My 15 year old daughter is headed to high school in style after we get done shopping! Flower girls may need a little extra glow or rosy cheeks too. The article will share some tips to help you out with wedding day flower girl(s).

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Pinterest Wedding Dress Shares on July 31, 2012

Aug1

I found 3 of the most lovely wedding dresses and equally elegant wedding day hair styles. My shares today:

I am in love with this dress. I think it is the softness of the front and the white picket fence like back of the dress that has my attention. It has so much modern floral style. Love….

Source: somethingturquoise.com via Brenda on Pinterest

The shoulder cut lace is amazing. The outer lace is a show stopper!

Source: xoxo-pinkandgreen.tumblr.com via Brenda on Pinterest

This lace dress looks so perfect and her wedding day hair is very sweet with curls and small hair accent.

Source: stylemepretty.com via Brenda on Pinterest

Enjoy the wedding dresses of the day. I hope they inspire your wedding day and wedding dress shopping experience.

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Pinterest Shares on July 29, 2012 – Just Bouquets

Jul30

I was so impressed with these 4 florals, I am sharing just flowers today.

The lush white hydrangeas and rich white large ribbon is so elegant and perfect against the dark wood of the pew. I love the simplicity and how this could suit so many wedding styles. I am working on a wedding favors and decor collection using hydrangeas. I grow them around my house too. They are so showy.

 

This little pink rose was so perfect. Wonderful fluffy layers and perfect pink and yellow center. It would ideal for a boutonniere pin.

 

The next two are for wedding reception decorations. A few original ideas that do not stand so high, guests are unable to see one another.

This is so adorably put together. The white roses look so coordinated between the other florals and are a treat in ice cream glasses as vases. They won’t overwhelm a table, but so lovely they will demand attention. I think they not only suit the summer, but these colors and style look like a winter theme with a warm feeling.

 

It is not too often I find a floral arrangement in a box of some sort and just really feel like it will adorn the top of a wedding table. This one looks like a garden. The wine crate is a thoughtful reuse and well suited to the winery theme, outdoor mountain wedding or garden style wedding. The colors are subtle but with great variety. Add a complimentary container holding bottles of wine at each table with this crate and your guests are set!

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Pinterest Wedding Shares July 28, 2012

Jul28

I want share 3 beautiful finds today that are fresh new wedding ideas.

I just love this “Save the Date” pop up card with the engaged couple kissing. So sweet. I would be so impressed to receive such a card in the mail. Brilliant design idea!

Amazing rings. I only pick a few that I think are truly spectacular and compliment each others as this set does.

Source: weddingstylemagazine.com via Brenda on Pinterest

A sweet coolness at a time we are all so overheated. I love winter weddings with imagery outdoors. Her hair is spectacular and I just adore the wrap that compliments her dress so perfectly.

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10 Ways to Narrow Down your Wedding Theme to 1

Jul28

Wedding themes are as endless as there are people and their interests, hobbies, passions and loves.

Take our Quiz: What is My Wedding Theme? to get a personalized result on a possible theme suited to your personality.

How do you narrow it down to just one? The best way to start is looking at all the things that are apart of your life everyday or nearly everyday?

Travel? Tropical? Beach Theme, Palm Trees, White, Green, blue. That is how you get ideas out of a picture. Write down all the things it makes you think of, the colors and the season.

Galveston, Texas

Traveling

Do you love to cook? What do you cook the most? Treats, Italian, American, Chinese? If you focus is food, your guests are really going to enjoy their gifts and the reception!

Passion for food or cooking

Do you ride a motorcycle?

Are you surrounded by butterflies?

Monarch Butterfly from a live butterfly release

what do you collect?

Do you travel a lot? On Elissa sailboat in Pier 21, Galveston Texas. Nautical themes are very personalized themes.

Beach, Nautical. Galveston Texas

Books, reading and writing your passion?

How do you narrow down from the number of things you do to just one that represents you both as a couple in your wedding?

  1. Make a list  using images to make a visual list on your table (yes, Pinterest is perfect) (or your album on Facebook) of the things that are apart of your life the most or you love and enjoy the most.
  2. With each picture, write out what it makes you think of, the colors you see, the season it is items in the picture, the place it was taken.
  3. Work on crossing out the ones on the list or removing the pictures you find negative reasons for keeping. (people may not like it, I can’t find what I am looking for with that theme, it doesn’t fit my wedding colors, etc)
  4. Ask yourself, “Can I turn this into my wedding theme? Are their items available to create it? If not, can I find them or do them myself?”
  5. Do you and your fiancé both like it?
  6. How have other couples incorporated this theme? (hint, look on wedding blogs, youtube and photographer website galleries and wedding magazines.)
  7. What season do I enjoy the most? What color or colors show up the most?
  8. What activity do I or we participate in the most? (going to concerts, swimming, sporting events, going out to eat, etc.)
  9. Finalize the decision or narrow it down to just 2 or 3 possibilities. Now is the time to do your research. See if you can find the items, decor, flowers, cake and paper goods. Do you like what you see? Is it going to make your wedding everything you want it to be? Or at this point, discuss your ideas with your wedding planner and allow their professional opinion and what they can produce for you from their pool of wedding professionals.
  10. One theme! Plan your wedding and colors around the theme.
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What is your wedding theme? Need help to plan your wedding around a theme?

Jul28

Need help deciding on your wedding theme? Our Quiz: What is my wedding theme? can help.

Complete our Quiz and receive a personalized response for free. It will take about 5 minutes to complete.

Copy your results and email them to aweddingtheme@gmail.com

nautical or beach theme – Image of Elissa from Pier 21 in Galveston Texas

 

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