This weeks garden flowers got a little boost from the local flower market, and the yellow-purple-white combination was making me so happy I felt inspired to build a palette on it. Plus, you know, all the WEDDINGWEDDINGWEDDING around today. How about violet wedding dresses? {palette photos: Flowers, my own. Paper bag with lemon calligraphy, elizabeth anne [...]

Yesterday on Cute and Delicious – a day in the married life photo post. Today on A Practical Wedding – a letter to my wedding & on 100 Layer Cake (!!!!!!!) with some pretty, never before seen wedding shots. P.S. Hello Bay Area spring!!

The dressssss. A few people have asked for more dress detail, so here we are. It is a leeeelte bit of a thorn in my side, but I do love it. I tried on so many dresses in shops, but I wanted long sleeves to cover my tattoos for the wedding. It seems that it’s [...]

Some fun other-places treats today & updates – the Etsy Storque blog ran a guest blog about the wedding – & they edited me into sounding like a normal excited bride. Yes!! & Brides.com (!??!) selected our invites as one of the “The 10 Best Invitations of 2010″ I’ve been updating my web portfolio with [...]

Menu Veggie Plate Cheese Plate (including handmade VT brie from a nearby farm!) Meat Plate Honeycomb, Blue Cheese and Fresh Fruit Plate Fig Chutney with Baguette Cucumber, Cream Cheese and Dill Tea Sandwiches Prosciutto & Gruyere Pastry Pinwheels Smoked Turkey Tea Sandwiches with Arugula Mayonaise Devilled Eggs with radishes, chives & thyme Pumpkin and Fennel [...]

Forest ceremony perfectly and magically crafted just for us,  stone altars, birch tree stumps with crochet seats, bell-clear blue skies, shimmering ever-changing autumn sunlight, chandelier crystals in the trees, vintage paper balls, a handmade deck with a trompe l’oeil tree railing, procession winding through the woods, elderflower liqueur, licorice pipes, milk glass, archery next to an [...]

Today is my parents wedding anniversary – 40 years! My mom was a tiny wee, almost 21. I can’t believe how young she looks here. They’re still this in love and are total inspirations. It’s funny because we got our wedding photo DVD yesterday, so I want to actually post photos this weekend. Serendipity! My [...]

These photos and the ones in the previous post are by my very talented sister-in-law, but my good friend Jeremy also took a milliioooonnnn photos.  I won’t get to see Jeremy’s until the first week of November because he’s traveling, so I want to wait to do the grand mega-crazy wedding blog post with all [...]

Hey! We’re married! Everything looked exactly as I imagined, it was the most beautiful day ever, and we’re off to Ireland! Tiny sneak peek!

You can tell I’m in the wedding home stretch, the last few posts have featured other peoples photos! I feel bad about that, but I have so much work to do, no time for adventures & photos!! I’m just trying to gather all my final prep for the wedding, and gathering last minute inspiration around [...]

I know it’s wedding frenzy up in here, and I apologize, but Dori just sent the photos from her New Hampshire wedding on August 28th. The dress I made her looks SO GOOD, and she says; “I got dressed outside. it was a farm for crying out loud- there was no where else to do [...]

A quick note to say I have a guest post up at A Practical Wedding today. I’m super excited and some of the comments have already made me teary!! Though most photos on the APW post are by me, I tacked on a few by my SIL Emily – she’s a great photographer if anyone [...]