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Brilliant! Cakes with Bling!

ellejae — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:31:55 +0000

The bride’s aunt owns a antique jewelry store. She offered these beautiful pieces for the Cake! They look great. A You-nique way to jazzy up your cake without relying on flowers. Lovin-it!

PYT – Pretty You-nique Tablecards!!

ellejae — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:52 +0000

These awesome Michael Jackson Table Cards mad for great pictures and conversation. The bride and groom also had a Michael Jackson Impersonator perform after dinner. Great fun!

The King of Pop – The Groom’s favorite performer.

Lots of fun and an easy way to make your wedding You-nique!

I thought this would be a really cool poster for the bride and groom’s home. Personal wedding and icon memorabilia.

DIY Escort Card Tree

James — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:33:47 +0000

It’s been a little while since our last DIY post, and I know you are all itching for a new project. Well, the wait is over! Snazzy brought this fabulous idea to us for a tree of colorful round escort cards. Using colored paper and paint chips allows you to develop your own color palette, and the results are really charming and will be unique to you and your wedding.

Here’s what we used for this project:

A package of multicolored heavy weight construction paper (about $10 for 87 sheets of 5×7)
a bunch of paint chips from Home Depot (or maybe it was Lowe’s or maybe it was OSH, but it definitely was not the mom and pop paint shop down the street who we love and support)
Paper Shapers Nesting Punch, we used a round one but there are lots of different shapes out there ($15ish)
an endlessly useful fine point Sharpie, of course, you can use any pen you like
some decorative branches (prices vary depending on what type of tree, but start around $8 a bunch)
a small hole punch
ribbon or string to hang the place cards from the branches, although we opted to put them on the tree without either

Once you have your paper and/or paint chips, just start punching out shapes.

Also, at this point you should punch small holes at the tops of your circles (don’t wait until you’ve done the handwriting, lesson learned)

Hopefully, you have someone whose handwriting you are fond of to help write the guest names and table numbers on your circles.

Arrange your branches in a vase, basket, bottle… however you wish. Then begin hanging your escort cards. As I mentioned before, we just put the branches right through the little holes, but you can use string, ribbon or whatever you like. Our choice gave a more austere look to the final tree, but ribbons or twine might make it look more romantic, nostalgic, pretty…

We have a couple more great DIY projects in the pipeline here are ZG HQ, so stay tuned… or just put our RSS feed into your google reader.

Great Use for Mason Jars!

Stinkerpants! — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:47:43 +0000

via Love Notes

I adore these colors together! How bright and happy!

Zella Loves: Birds!

Stinkerpants! — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:54:59 +0000

Birds are super hip these days, and for good reason: they are super freakin’ cute. I love this adorable nest from Beau Coup.

Most people have heard of Ann Wood’s amazing cake toppers (and the many imitations!):

But have you heard of Lauren Alane’s adorable owls? I am obsessed with these. I have no idea what I’d do with one of them, but I just want one. So badly.

Beautiful Tablescapes by Huckleberry Designs and Bellissima Vita- part 2 of 5

James — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:36:19 +0000

Today we have another one of the amazing tablescapes brought to you from the minds of Huckleberry Karen Designs and Bellissima Vita Weddings Like the previous wine country table, this set up uses non-typical chairs to distinguish itself, and these chairs actually cost less then Chiavaris with cushions. I’m loving the colors- blue tablecloth, the copper place mats and the orange florals.

Unique Table Numbers

lisaz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:34:19 +0000

How great are these numbers! I found these at Paper Envy and they can be purchased here.

Vintage Scoreboard Table Numbers

lisaz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:17 +0000

I love the idea of using unique things to distinguish your tables. I fell in love with these vintage scoreboard numbers. They can be purchased here.

Beautiful Tablescapes by Bellissima Vita and Huckleberry Karen- part 1 of 5

James — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:13:12 +0000

The ladies who brought the world the Lovely Details Showcase showed off their design skills yesterday with 5 amazing tablescapes. We’ll start off with one of my personal favorite themes, a wine country harvest table. Take a look and imagine your guests under the olive trees on a warm evening…

More to come soon…