pomanders galore!

Pomanders, my new obsession. Love, love, love them.

For my lovely bridesmaids:

For the centerpieces (the one on the left, imagine it with a black urn):

And this is how I'll do it:

How easy is that???

our officiant

We met with an officiant today and absolutely loved her! She's an interfaith minister but practices Buddhism, she's a professor and a scientist, and had the most beautiful apartment I've ever seen! And she had really creative ideas for the ceremony so we're definitely going to book her!

st. lucia here we come!

The honeymoon was booked yesterday. We'll be in St. Lucia for a week, at the beautiful and very secluded Ti Kaye resort. Check out all the sexiness here: www.tikaye.com

dresses!

Here are some dresses that I'm loving. The first two are my favs.

the photographers!

The second I stumbled upon their website I just had to hire these photographers for the wedding. I can't even put into words how amazing their work is. Steven and Tak are a real life couple, they're young, they're super super nice, and they're artists.

From the beginning I told Matt that photography was the one part of the wedding budget I wasn't going to skimp on. Wedding photographers aren't cheap. And if they are there's a good reason for it. Basically, you get what you pay for. See for yourself: www.getstak.com

what about carnations?

Since I'm spending way too much money on other aspects of my wedding I wanted to cut costs with the flowers. I didn't even want to do floral centerpieces. I wanted to do candelabras but I can't find exactly what I'm looking for (see inspiration post). So I looked up cheap flowers and found carnations, tulips, and daisies. Tulips won't really be in season in June and I think they'll be a pain since they continue to grow after they're cut. Gerber daisies and carnations are available all year round but the carnations cost soooooo much less! I've always hated carnations but who knew they could look so pretty?

ceremony and reception venue

As everyone knows, we'll be getting married and having the reception at the Chateau Briand in NY. It's absolutely beautiful with this old Hollywood glamour style. Here's the website if you want to see what it looks like: www.chateaubriandcaterers.com

invitations

I got the invitations awhile ago (some of you have already seen them). You print them at home on your computer so I saved a ton of money buying them this way. But now I've read that they are a nightmare to do, I hope I don't have any problems when it comes time to print!

inspiration board

Completely obsessed with damask, yup that's me. Thank my mom for that, she bought me these and the obsession began:

Once I started planning my wedding it was easy to decide on what my theme would be, damask, naturally. Here are some of my inspirations: