When Marrying A Clown...

Hey! I know what you first thought and that's not very nice! I was talking about Dan's balloon twisting when he's dressed as a clown for parades and stuff.
With his unique talent/hobby comes many unique wedding possibilities. Such as balloon flower bouquets for myself and my bridesmaids. A gorgeous balloon ceiling even maybe. Balloon whatever. Still looking for ideas on how all to use balloons. Dan is busy learning new flower styles, so I am surely to have one of a kind bouquets.

Flowers: Alternative Feather Bouquets

I saw these on IndieBride.com and fell in love, I couldn't find DIY instructions, but the picture of the set of 4 in the box were a DIY project posted by another bride. I loved these, for bridesmaids especially, and they could be altered and created smaller for grooms men's boutonnières. I also included feather centerpieces for additional inspiration.

Now, I have always wanted roses in my bouquet, well, since we got engaged and I started thinking of bouquets anyway, and I love the feathers too, but I found some amazing ideas for combinations of flowers and feathers. I think that the combination would look fantastic for the bride's bouquet and really set it apart from the bridesmaids'. I know the orange roses don't have feathers, I added that here as my own inspiration as they are the color of roses that I want. I'm trying to picture whether to go with a white feather base or a light light blue base. What do you think?

Flower Girl Baskets

Call me cheap, call me cost conscious, just don't call me someone who throws their hard earned money away. I've been thinking again, this time about flower girl baskets. Now, I couldn't even comprehend it when I saw prices ranging from $10 (very reasonable, but typically very plain, almost blah) to $40 + for anything relatively ornate. My God who can justify that? I've searched the internet for DIY instructions, but really didn't come up with anything other than find a small basket, wicker, cloth, plastic, whatever you want, and decorate it with paint, cloth, lace, ribbon, flowers, charms, beads, whatever you want. Aye Aye, Will Do, No Problemo.

Now I just have to brag for a moment, because I found a real steal, and really didn't even realize it immediately. Lol. We were out and about doing some shopping and decided to look through the Easter clearances to find some cheap toys for our puppy. Jessie will go through a stuffed toy in roughly 45 seconds, from fully intact to mountains of fluff and slobbery "stuffed animal carcass" pieces, but they are her favorite things and long after the fluff is gone to the garbage, the "carcass" lives on for quite sometime. But you don't want to buy her anything that costs more than a buck or two.

We found a few ranging from $0.24 - $0.89 in the clearance bins. Including one Bunny which was attached to a small colorful wicker basket for $0.65. So once we were home we cut the string tying the bunny into the basket, and the dog loved her new toy... briefly. But what to do with this damned basket... LIGHTBULB!! Into the closet it went and I'll decorate it at a later date for my flower girl basket.

Bingo Bango. And now I can have a basket that looks however I want it to look.

Here are some cute ones I've found in my searches for a little inspiration:







My Mood: Blank

Various Ideas from The Knot .com

I've been spending a fair amount of my downtime looking through the Real Weddings section on The Knot website. Here are some cute ideas I just had to save and come back to for reference.

My Mood: Okay