A little something Sweet...

Candy! Is there anything better than a sweet little piece of candy? The delectable little morsel that melts away on your tongue giving you an oh so sweet sensation... Well what about an entire candy buffet???? Yes Please!!! Wish granted!!! At our little shindig we will be providing our guests with a fabulous candy experience.

Candy buffets have been slowly catching on at weddings or so that is what I am seeing. Often brides use it in place of a wedding cake, now if you know me, you know that would NOT happen at my wedding. Instead my goal is to give my guests an Amazing experience!!! I want them to drink out of swirly straws and kick off their shoes and dance the night away in flip flops, snuggle with each other under the stars and most importantly... I want them to over indulge on delectable sweets :D I am having a 3 tier white wedding cake, caramel cupcake wedding favors and most importantly a white candy buffet!

I have seen candy buffets done in so many ways, they can be playful and silly or elegant and sophisticated. Many brides match their candy colors to their wedding colors, however as you may or may not know my wedding colors are black and white. This doesn't leave much room for color on the candy buffet and for some reason to me black candy sounds a little repulsive. Therefore we will be featuring an all white candy buffet!

This was my inspiration for my candy buffet, but I warn you mine does not look this amazing.

These were some other inspirations

Creating a candy buffet became more of a challenge to create than originally planned... The containers were costly and I had to think about what candy was going in which containers before I purchased them... Also since I will not be setting up the buffet on wedding day, I had to some how convey my vision to my wonderful aunties and wish them luck ;) I am doing my best to make it easier on them though, I made a chart with numbers explaining which candy goes in which jar and I drew an elevation and a plan view of the jars. Hahaha I knew all this design schooling would come in handy some where ;) I would show you this drawing but it isn't very exciting, however to further assist my aunties I set up the entire candy buffet at my momma's house and took pictures. Hahaha I know this probably sounds a little extreme, but I wanted to make sure I had purchased enough candy to fill the jars. Nothing looks worse on a candy buffet than anemic candy jars...

Here are my pictures, I think it turned out great! I cant wait to see it all set up on the big day :D

Shower Time!!! Bows and Cupcakes and Cotton Candy.... Oh my!!

Hello my dear readers, I am so sorry I have abandon you for these past couple of weeks. Things have been very hectic!!! The wedding is now a mere 23 days away, eeek! There is so so soooo much to do still. I hate to tell you though, I wasn't just working on wedding stuff the whole time I have been away. I managed to squeeze in a little bit of fun at my bridal shower on St. Patricks day :) The shower turned out better than I had hoped. Now you are probably wondering why I said the shower was better than I had hoped.... Well I know traditionally a shower is thrown for the bride by other people, but as most of you may know, I am a bit of a control freak. Also I came up with some ideas of things I wanted at my shower so I couldn't very well demand my wonderful family do it while I sat around doing nothing now could I. The most fabulous thing I wanted was a Ribbon Wall!!! I have seen these during my wedding blogging and just fell in love with them and I being the crafty person I am thought they seemed very simple to make. Here are some examples of the ribbon walls I had seen... Take at look and let me know if you fall in love with them like I did ;)

Pretty great huh?

Well I feel like our ribbon wall came out just as great and it hardly took much time at all. My mom ordered 3 colors (Black, Pink and White) of 2.5" ribbon in 10 yd rolls and she got a 10' piece of PVC pipe. We measured the wall that it was going to hang on to make sure we cut the ribbons to the right length, this was the part that took the most time.

Once we had all of the ribbon cut to the same size we began laying the ribbon out on the floor, alternating the colors. This is just how I wanted to do it, but I have seen it where there is no order to the colors and they are just placed randomly, this looks just as cute :)

Here are the ribbons being laid out in our pattern, pay no attention to the black one on the end that was clearly placed out of order... haha :)

Here are the ribbons all laid out

We used double sided permanent tape to secure the ribbons to the PVC pipe, it seemed to work rather well.

After we got it all taped to the PVC pipe it was time to stand her up and see how she did...

And what do you know, it turned out B-E-A-utiful!!! Just as I had hoped it would and it really made an amazing focal point at the shower, I was so happy with it!!! Here are some of the fun pictures from the shower.

Didn't it just turn out perfect???? :) And so Yummy!!!

Published!!!

Hello all, today is an Fun day for Chart and I. Our photographer finally put our engagment shoot on her blog! I know that may sound lame to all of you, but we are pretty excited!!! We selected our photographer, Allyson Magda Photography after seeing her beautiful pictures on my favorite blog Style Me Pretty. Her pictures are just stunning, the way that she plays with the sun in her pictures and her ability to capture all of the important details. Every detail is important to me so this just made me want her even more. Allyson has been featured multiple times on Style Me Pretty, as well as many other magazines. She is an Amazing photographer and we couldnt be more thrilled that she is the one that will be capturing our special day!!! :)

Click on the picture below to view a couple of our pictures on her blog!!!