Weekly Wrap Up + A Winner!
What a whirlwind of a week it’s been! So many amazing weddings, and so little time… Not to mention one amazing giveaway from Minted, the winner of which we’re announcing in this post!
This week’s picks from Recycle Your Wedding is…
1. Wooden boxes (and oodles more rustic decor for sale)
2. Vintage wooden toolboxes
3. Watters sash
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In case you missed any of this week’s features, check out…
This Washington foodie wedding
A bride who made her own floral wedding gown
A magical secluded forest wedding
This DIY tutorial for birch hanging lanterns
A woodsy winter wedding inspiration shoot
This breathtaking Colorado mountainside affair
A Florida ranch wedding adorned with bountiful Spanish moss
A California wedding atop a misty mountain
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One of our dear Blue Label vendors, Daughters of Simone, is holding a trunk show this Saturday! Be sure to check out their Facebook event for more information.
We’re throwing our very first Daughters of Simone trunk show and we’d love to see your shining faces there! We know, we know. Why should you go to a bridal event if you aren’t a bride? We’ve got you covered. There’s a little something for everyone:
-Friends, come say hello… FREE champagne, sweet bites and hugs
-Brides, view select Daughters of Simone gowns in person and talk to us about scheduling a fitting!
-Shoppers, RGB is a design-inspired clothing boutique that houses thoughtfully curated clean + functional pieces. If you aren’t in the market for a bridal dress, you’ll be in the right place to score a killer party dress.
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Drumroll, please…the winner of Minted $1000 gift certificate giveaway is comment #110…
Kate! Congrats! We will be in touch shortly!
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Whimsical Mountain Top Wedding
This wedding exhibits perfectly how to let the sheer beauty of your location shine through. Frances and Ben chose to have their wedding on the top of a mountain — need we say any more? Delbarr Moradi was there to capture the day, with Emily Read Bentley of the ever darling event design and planning company Enjoy Events Co. aiding with day-of coordination with invites by Printable Press — and gosh, we are so smitten!
From the bride, Frances: We let our locations do a lot of the work for us. Mt. Tamalpais, where we had the ceremony, is probably the most epic place in the Bay Area. The amphitheater was perfectly suited to a Zen ceremony. Jeffrey rang a bell as we walked in, which was haunting and beautiful in the mist of the forest-quiet. Our guests couldn’t believe how magical it was. The tiny, secret coastal village of Bolinas, where we had the reception, was also pretty memorable.
My very favorite part was the little gold animals we put on each guest’s plate. My awesome new sister-in-law spray painted about ten thousand plastic animals for me. My lovely husband used a laser cutter to carve escort cards out of wood for everyone. We love Lord of the Rings, so we used a hobbity font, and then he stained them all fuchsia. He also designed and made the table number cards, the programs, and the menus.
Some of our other DIY elements were: the ribbon curtain behind our table, which I made myself; all the brass animals and vases on the tables, which we collected from the flea market over the course of many months; and the table runners, which my awesome mom sewed for me. We go to estate sales and flea markets pretty much every weekend anyway, so I started picking up things I thought I could use for the wedding—vases, little objects for the centerpieces, fancy plates for the desserts.
One of my favorite memories of the whole weekend was actually setting up and decorating the hall the night before. All my wonderful Michigan family and some friends did a midwestern barn-raising. I just remember one of my aunts saying, “okay go!” and then within seconds 40 people were everywhere working, uncles were up on ladders hanging Christmas lights, little cousins were assembling foil stars, aunts were ironing tablecloths… it was like an instant beehive of totally focused activity.
View all images from this wedding in the photo gallery
Wedding Vendors (San Francisco Bay Area, CA):
Location: Mt. Tamalpais / Wedding Photographer: Delbarr Moradi Photography / Day-of Coordination: Emily Read Bentley of Enjoy Events Co. / Wedding Dress: Coan Couture / Bride’s Headband: Mignonne / Bride’s Earrings: Renna / Bride’s Velvet Bed Jacket: Lacis / Groom’s Suit: Maxwell’s Clothiers / Groom’s Shirt and Tie: Sean / Makeup: Paige Howie / Hair: Diane Beaver of Solid Gold Salon / Wedding Flowers: Ingrid Shoemaker of Blume Designs / Wedding Caterer: Sage Catering / Wedding Cake: Susie Cakes / Stationery: Printable Press
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Florida Ranch Wedding
Kimberly and Justin’s wedding has one of my all-time favorite natural decorations: Spanish moss. There’s something about it that’s just so undeniably romantic, don’t you think? This wedding, shot by Stacy Paul, took place at Cross Creek Ranch in Florida with some seriously amazing scenery. Get ready to fall in love!
From the bride, Kimberly: I envisioned my wedding to be simple, romantic and one with nature. I love rustic/vintage inspired things so I went with that idea and expressed it through the color and tone of our wedding. Romantic, charming, simple, one with nature describe our wedding day. As far DIY, my in-laws made all the candle light favors. My husband and I made the signs/pendants that said thank you and just married, along with our initials.
Any advice for brides planning their weddings now? Don’t stress or perfect every little thing. Remember what the day is all about.
View all images from this wedding in the photo gallery
Wedding Music:
Processional: “Where is My Love,” Cat Power
Recessional: “All You Need is Love,” The Beatles
First Dance: “First Day of My Life,” Bright Eyes
Wedding Vendors (Dover, FL):
Wedding Venue: Cross Creek Ranch / Wedding Photographer: Stacy Paul / Wedding Planners: Emilee Rumore of Cross Creek Ranch and Erica Rexroat of One Love Weddings / Wedding Flowers: Alta Fleura / Wedding Dress: Demetrios / Wedding Shoes: Blow Fish / Wedding Hair: Mary Phillips / Wedding Makeup: Sarah Phillips / Groom’s Suit: Zara / DJ: Bil Mitchell – Bil@TravelingSoundandLight.com / Wedding Caterer: Hungry Harry’s Bar-B-Que / Cupcakes: Alessi Bakeries / Wedding Invitations: The Papery / Transportation: The groom’s grandfather’s 1957 Chevy Truck
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Minted Stationery + Giveaway!
Anyone keeping an eye on spring fashion trends (or even on pinterest!) knows that neon is in, and it’s here to stay. When you put together neon and the phenomenal stationers at Minted, you have what we like to call a win-win. This month they’re adding an expansive collection of wedding invitations and more with bold pops of orange, hot pink, and yellow. To say we’re smitten is an understatement. They’re also running a fab giveaway, read on for the deets!
Good-bye lemons, hello oranges! Honeysuckle has gone the way of 2011 and the New Year is all about Tangerine Tango, Pantone’s 2012 color of the year. Luckily, Minted has plenty of wedding stationery from their stable of indie designers from all over the world that look great in orange. Minted hosts monthly design challenges that any designer can enter so they really have dozens and dozens of aesthetics—there really is something for everyone, but everything is exceptionally fresh and current!
And of course any bright colors (think neon!) are super in right now, thanks to the runway’s influence on wedding stationery. Those bright colors, or whatever colors you choose, will look even more stunning on Minted’s thick, luxurious paper stock. Here, ‘The Happy Couple’ by R Studio, out of Syracuse, NY, color really takes the cake, capitalizing on clean design and lots of empty space.
The great thing about Minted is that their save the dates and wedding invitations are fully-customizable so even though you don’t see loads of orange on their site, every save the date and invitation is available in any color under the sun and you can also change things like fonts, icons, you name it—they’ll do it—ensuring no one sends out an invite that looks anything like yours! This Seaside Design by Dallas-based Palm Papers couldn’t be a cleverer invite for a beach wedding!
This Hold the Date Save the Date by Florida-based B. Wise Papers really lets your photo shine and leaves aesthetic options nice and open for the upcoming wedding.
One lucky Ruffled winner will receive one fully-coordinated, wedding suite with all the bells and whistles. Minted is giving away a wedding stationery suite valued at nearly $1,000: 50 save the dates, 50 invitations and RSVP cards with envelope liners, coordinated backers, reception and RSVP cards, as well as programs, and thank yous. They really are a one-stop shop for a perfectly coordinated wedding.
Simply leave a comment below and mention your favorite favorite wedding trend or color for a chance to win. Only one comment entry per person, please! One winner will be selected at random, and will be announced tomorrow, Friday Feb 3 in our Weekly Wrap Up!
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