style me pretty

I have been a big fan of the Style Me Pretty blog. It's chock block full of wedding design, inspiration and pretty pictures! The wedding industry went into a bit of a buzz earlier last week when SMP launched the Style Me Pretty Magazine! If you already follow the blog, you may recognize some of the images as the first issue features the best of 2010.

Don't let that stop you though. Just keep turning those pages back and forth and ooh and aahh along with the rest of us.

vendor feature :: Hello! Lucky

(image via Hello! Lucky)

Have you heard of Hello! Lucky Stationery? If not, you should really step out of your cave and get ready to check out some of their amazing stationery designs. Hello! Lucky is a specialty letterpress print and design studio that creates wedding invitations, greeting cards and personalized stationery.

With offices in San Francisco and in London, UK, they have an amazing client list including Anthropologie, Kate's Paperie and Liberty of London. If that wasn't enough, they are also the authors of Handmade Hellos, a card crafting book featuring fresh greeting card projects from first rate crafters and have a second book called Handmade Weddings coming out in January 2011.


You can check out Hello! Lucky's portfolio here or be inspired by their blog found here. Interested in adding a DIY touch to your special day? Check out their easy to follow guides and templates as part of Martha Stewart Weddings to make your own projects such as the crepe paper flowers pictured above, donut hole bags, glass glitter crowns to name a few. Enjoy! Happy making!

wedding ideas :: buttons

photo credit: Tracey L. Heppner

Loving these button boutonnières spotted on @traceyheppner 's twitter feed a while back. Interested in finding some of your own for your upcoming wedding or just to add a little "wow" to your outfit? Check out Laurie Cinotto's website here and if you are a kitten fanatic like myself, you can also check out her kitten website here.

wedding ideas :: paint chips

via Martha Stewart

We had a bride and groom use this idea for name cards for their wedding last month at the UBC Boathouse. Their weddings colours were turquoise and red, so she picked up paint chips in different shades of those two colours.

Brillant!

wedding ideas :: photo centerpiece

found via indie fixx from Martha Stewart.com

Great idea for incorporating your family photos into your wedding decor. Black and white photos are printed onto ecru coloured vellum paper set around voltive candles to highlight the images. You can check out a full tutorial over on the Martha Stewart website found here.

make :: pin wheel love

(found via La Belle Bride)

I am a sucker for these pin wheel bouquets. Follow these easy steps here to add a whimsical DIY pin wheel to your decor!

Let them eat cake! part 2

(photos credit: Martha Stewart Weddings)



Nature themed...

Let them eat cake! part 1

Miniature cakes cut out with cookie cutters... decorated with sanding sugar and placed on individual doilies!


I always find the Croquembouche amazing, but never quite know how to eat it. Do you cut it and serve it up? I have only seen it where it is on display and people go up and pick parts off to eat.




Perfect for a garden party!

more Alycia and Chris

We have been so lucky this year to have the opportunity to work with an amazing list of wedding couples and vendors! The best part of this wedding? It was probably a tie between the surprise Polish dancers ....

... and the most awesome choreographed first dance ever!

The Park Ballroom at the Four Seasons

Beautiful sandlewood hand fans for the ladies




Orchid centerpieces with LED uplighting by Proline Trading


A two tiered head table is a perfect fit for a large wedding party

Photo credit: Daniela Ciuffa Photography

more Barb and Paul

Just popping in to show you some more pictures from Barb and Paul's wedding from last August. Everything about this day was absolutely perfect! You couldn't have asked for a better setting!







photo credit: Kim Christie Photography

melissa + chris

(photo credit: Hubbard Photography)

Simply put, Melissa and Chris rock! Seriously.



When their venue, Villa Amato, was only available for July 7th, they said "Fantastic, we are going to go with a 7-11 theme!". We had it all folks - slurpee machines, nacho cheese fountain, burrito station, gelato bar, mini hamburgers and hot dogs, fries in little cone cups and to top it al off, a candy bar with all of your favourite 5cent treats complete with mini plastic tongs!




One of my favourite components of the wedding was the handmade aspect. All of the bridesmaid dresses were handmade by Jane Bon Bon and one of the bridesmaids was actually the very crafty Rita aka Smeeta!

Cupcakes were freshly handmade by Lyndsay Sung from Coco Cake Cupcakes.



We had a top star wedding team including Kyra from Villa Amato, Flower Factory, Shannon at the Lazy Gourmet, Angela from Hubbard Photography and Tania from Chair Decor.

A different spin on the traditional centerpiece by the Flower Factory and the wedding couple.




Head over to Angela's blog for a sneak peek of more wedding photos.