Flavors included chocolate with hazelnut buttercream, “wine” velvet with vanilla buttercream, and graham cracker cake with s’mores.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Chymbidium Orchid Wedding Cake
Bees in an autumn cake?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Caribbean Tropical Wedding - be your own cake designer
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Purple Flowers for a dramatic touch
Cost Plus World Market $100 Gift Card Giveaway!
Sent from my Droid
Sunday, September 26, 2010
More chocolate wedding cakes
Who said you can't have chocolate wedding cake?
sneak peak at Top Chef wedding cakes
Friday, September 24, 2010
Vintage Wedding with a touch of Jane Austen
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wildly Imaginative Wedding Cakes
How would you like to be your own wedding cake topped? What happens to you once everyone's eaten your dress? Do you have to come up through a trap door to get in? This cake inspired a lot of questions and debate in my house. But read the rest of the article from Mental Floss for 30 truly weird, or just plain geeky, wedding cakes. Sushi anyone?
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Vote for your favorite wedding cake
Monday, September 20, 2010
Blurb Gift Certificate Giveaway!
Blurb.com
Creating the perfect wedding album should be just as rewarding as planning your perfect wedding, but much less stressful. Enter Blurb. Blurb allows people to create beautiful photo books of their own design -- and to have fun doing it! Whether you want to create your own grand wedding album or something smaller like a personalized album for the parents or wedding party, Blurb has everything you need (except the photos of your wedding, those need to be stored on your own computer). Two lucky Aisledash.com readers are going to win gift certificates to Blurb and then they'll be making photo books in no time! Enter Now! Here's how you can win the Blurb gift certificates:
- To enter, complete the form below with your name and e-mail address.
- You must enter before 5 p.m. ET on Friday, September 24, 2010.
- You may enter only once on this post.
- Each winner will be selected in a random drawing.
- Both winners will receive two $40 Blurb gift certificates (in the form of site codes). The total value in gift certificates per winner is $80.
- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 or older.
- Click here for complete Official Rules.
We'll notify the winners by e-mail and you'll have 24 hours to respond. If we don't hear back, we'll pick a new winner, so remember to check your e-mail.
Bridesmaid Dresses that make enemies for life
‘The Moment You Knew’ Williams-Sonoma Sponsored Post and $250-Gift-Card Give...
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Funny Wedding Cake Toppers
Williams-Sonoma is definitely “the one” in terms of couples’ favorite wedding registry destinations, and now they are turning the tables on us. They want to hear about the moment you knew that your partner was the one for you!
Personally, my favorite “moment I knew” stories tend to be the quirky or silly ones, as my husband and I have a hard time taking anything too seriously. In fact, I knew he was the one the first time we had a few drinks together and he got super goofy and lovey-dovey. It was about four months after we’d started dating, and we were hanging out with a group of friends, just having a good time. I still have a photo of him from that night, standing on a chair and doing his weird version of the Robot!
We all have our own stories and own journeys to love, and Williams-Sonoma wants to know yours.
Giveaway rules:
Beginning at 12:00 pm PST Monday September 20, create a registry at Williams-Sonoma. If you’ve already registered with W-S, simply add another item to your registry. Once you’ve created your registry or added a new item, leave a comment on this post with your “moment I knew he/she was the one” story. You’ll receive an extra entry if you include a link to your public registry in your comment. One lucky reader will be selected using our random generator.
You have until September 26 at 12:00 pm PST to enter—so good luck!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Simply Elegant Wedding Cake Design
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Truly Elegant Outdoor Wedding
These inspiring pictures come via StyleMePretty.com. They are the ultimate definition of elegance for an outdoor wedding, with a French classical touch. Enjoy!
www.stylemepretty.com/2010/09/13/french-outdoor-wedding-inspiration/
Friday, September 17, 2010
Beautiful wedding gowns for 2011
Peruse these unique gowns for something truly exceptional. The photos come to us via the Italian blog, Simple Wedding (simplewedding.myblog.it/archive/2010/09/16/ball-gown-wedding-dresses-silhouette.html).
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Free giveaway for the Eco-conscious bride
Sharyn
Preston Bailey - Designer of Dream Weddings
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Lots of Vintage Wedding Photos
Rustic wedding aka Princess and the Frog
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Greenhouse weddings and visions of Springtime
Out West and Down Under Engagement Shoot
Vintage limo?
How would you like to drive off in true vintage style in one of these babies? Just be aware that they're not quite as weather proof as our modern limos!
Rolls Royce Wedding car from www.vintageweddingcar.com
- Sharyn
Monday, September 13, 2010
Yummie Tummie Camie Tank and Pantie Giveaway!
This is definitely not just for weddings so go for it. I own several and love them. For the wedding though? Go for Spanx.
http://www.aisledash.com/2010/09/13/yummie-tummie-camie-tank-and-pantie-giveaway/
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wedding Package Giveaway At Glass Jar Photography
I love to share news of giveaways when I see one, so here you go.
http://www.thebridescafe.com/?postID=988&wedding-package-giveaway-at-glass-jar-photography
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Lace and Flower Wedding Cake
Wedding guest fashion
We’ve seen some great guest fashion in recent weddings and thought we’d end the week with a fun post on what peeps OTHER than the bride and groom are wearing to weddings. Stylish guests make for such great photos, don’t they?
Photos below from Andi and Jarrett’s wedding shot by Max Wanger of course
Photos below from Eunice and Daniel’s wedding (Hello Lucky)
photos below from Alix and Emmanuel’s wedding (Cherry Blossom Girl), shot by Marianne Taylor
Have a super happy, always stylish weekend all!
Friday, September 10, 2010
A Different Take on DIY (and DIT)
Two different complaints about the DIY culture of weddings came up in the comments last week. I thought they were interesting, and I thought it was high time (again) to talk about the cult of wedding DIY.
The first complaint was, in sum, “F*cking brides, man. Why are they always asking you to DO SH*T TO HELP THEM. It’s such an imposition and so uncool. You shouldn’t expect your guests to care about your wedding as much as you do.” The second was, in sum, “F*cking DIY, man. Why is there so much pressure on APW and other indie websites to DIY everything for your wedding? I hate crafting. This is so uncool.” Both of these comments made me pause, because they highlighted the dissonance between the way I view DIY and the way wedding culture views DIY.
I grew up in a semi-hippie, very community focused micro-culture populated by a lot of artists without a lot of money. The macro-culture I grew up in was a very conservative largely poor suburb/city (cityburb?), populated by a lot of friends without any money. Both of these sometimes diametrically opposed cultures viewed big life event the same way – every one pitches in to get it done. That was just the end of it. When you don’t have a lot of money, ‘making it work’ becomes your cultural default. You just don’t waste a lot of time thinking that ‘it can’t be done,’ because obviously, objectively, you can’t do whatever-it-is without money. But you don’t have money, and you are going to do it, so you just have to figure it out.
Because of the way I grew up, I’ve been able to sew since I could reach a sewing machine. In High School I would throw beautiful backyard parties with old sheets, a string of lights, and flowers I managed to pick from hedgerows, and cake and tea I made in big quantities. I knew people who lived more or less on the road in these amazing plywood shelters that they made to look like magical gypsy caravans. My friends throw these crazy anti-homecoming parties (when people couldn’t afford homecoming tickets) at bowling alleys. And, when it comes to weddings, I’ve gone to my share of potluck weddings, dish in hand. I’ve helped set up or tear down weddings and parties. Hell, I even went to one wedding where the bride paid for it by stripping for a year (Yeah. True story…. And one of the most fun weddings I’ve ever been to, actually.)So make it work? Got it in my genes. But crafty? Not me. The first time I picked up a Martha Stewart Weddings (years ago, I actually really like MSW), and came across one of their monthly craft projects (make a basket for your flower girl!) I was really confused. I kept looking at it thinking, “Weddings are pretty stressful. Why would you want to add making a basket for your flower girl to everything else you have to do? You could buy this for a dollar.” Ha. Clearly I had not yet entered the world of wedding DIY.
So what happened when we threw our wedding? Well. We made some stuff. But I wouldn’t say we crafted anything. Not because crafting is bad, just because we’re not so good at it. When I fell under the thrall of indie wedding blogs, I totally had plans to craft some things (photo booths, screen printed tote bags, photobooth backdrops). But in the end, my laziness, which I like to call pragmatism, won out, and we scrapped all those projects.
So what did we make? We made A) Things that we couldn’t afford to buy (our flower arrangements, for example) and B) Things that had dreamt up, that we couldn’t buy (our huppah, our invitations). And it was rad. It was hard work, but in the end it was this joyful, kinda-grassroots feeling wedding.
So did we craft to be indie cool? Heck no. Do I think you should craft to be indie-cool? Heck no. I think you should craft if you’re a crafter, and that’s your thing. I think you should make stuff if that’s part of what you need to do to afford your wedding (and that’s part of your ethos), and I think everyone else should simplify like crazy, and throw DIY out the window.
But what about Do-It-Together? Well, know your audience. If you are blessed with a community that pitches in to make magic happen, don’t dream of trying to stop (or control) them. You will loose, and that will be the best thing that ever happened to you. If you have a community that hates pitching in to help out, don’t try to make them (it will suck for you… trust me, I had my moments with that). So instead simplify, simplify, simplify, hire help when you can, and know that everyone else will get the h*ll over all the stuff you left out.
And wedding guests? Friends and family? If a bride asks you to help her out, HELP HER. It’s a mitzvah, first of all. And second of all, even thought we’ve spent the last few decades in a world of professional weddings, as times get harder, we’re all being called to community. And sometimes what sounds like a ginormous pain in the ass turns out to be a pile of fun:
Yeah. That’s our friend who took Polaroids for us at our wedding. I think she’s having a pretty ok time.
Pictures from low DIY high simplicity weddings: Kate Baker, Eve Event Photography (yeah, that’s a REAL photobooth, not a rented or crafted one), and One Love Photo.
For more DIY free wedding inspiration, please see: Nancy & Sean, Anna & Daniel, Marissa & Nick, April & Thomas, Lyndal & Stephen, Susie’s Las Vegas throwdown, Maddie’s cheap & lazy wedding, Leah & Omid (just to name a few…)
Rustic Pink Inspiration Board
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Sheer Awesomeness: xkcd-Themed Wedding Cake!
This cake has been going around the Interwebs this week because it’s awesome. It must be celebrated as much as possible. Aside from just being cool because it’s xkcd-themed, I love the algorithm metaphor “you can’t qualify love.” Perfect for a wedding cake! In the words of the baker:
“The top of the cake includes cutouts of the comic characters with a red heart on a wire between them. The entire cake is covered in white fondant with black thin bands at the base of each tier. Equations inspired by this comic decorate the remaining tiers. We also included some unusual flavors including banana cake with coffee & chocolate mousse and vanilla with raspberry & strawberry mousse.”
YUM!!
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Source: Pink Cake Box Via: I Heart Chaos