Cakes! Cakes! Cakes!

I have been a lot more excited in helping find my clients the best cake idea for their wedding and personality! There are so many different ways to express a couple's personality in their wedding and the cake is just one more way to be unique..or traditional...even if you don't like cake!?

Here are a few traditional ideas for cakes as well as a few not so traditional ideas. Some of these cakes have been from weddings past while others can be found at Martha Stewart Weddings online as well as Creative Ice. Get Inspired...

Pretty in Pink Tiffany Blue

Black and White - Multiple Cakes on Different Tiers
Cost Effective yet Elegant

Cake Made of Ice

Mellow Yellow

Croquembouche - French Styled Cake Made up of Cream Puffs...oh la la!
Miniature Cakes for Each Place Setting
Literally, A Mountain of Cupcakes!

Meet Rebekah & Jonathan

Rebekah and Jonathan are getting married this October and it is going to be a spectacular wedding filled warm colors and fall festivity! I don't want to share too many details but I want to share a few of their engagement photos taken in Ballard and Fremont by the talented Gerald Pope with Gerald Pope Photography. You can just feel the love in these photos--the wedding pictures are going to be awesome! I can just hear Rebekah's contagious laugh in the last photo! :-)

Feeling Sentimental?

With all of the hustle and bustle on the day of the wedding it can become so chaotic and nerves can start to get the best of you. Well, one of the grooms I worked with was ahead of the game and ordered a very LARGE bouquet to be sent to his bride the morning of the wedding. They had spent the night before the wedding apart and when she awoke there was a delivery man at the door in hand with her favorite flowers and a card reading, "Forever starts today my love."

I just thought this was a sweet idea for the groom to do for his leading lady the day of the wedding--it even had me holding back tears!

That just started their day out perfectly--no matter what went wrong after that, the day started perfectly and at the end of the day they were married. I am happy to report that the wedding went very smoothly and the bride's calm demeanor helped relax the ceremony and reception atmosphere...I am pretty sure that starting off with somthing sentimental had somthing to do with that!

Ladies--don't forget your men have nerves and upset stomachs too. Send him a little hand written note to be delivered by your maid of honor or wedding planner while he is getting ready!

Meet Stanford...

I was working away one day and had a bunch of wedding magazines open on the floor of my office. To my surprise, I looked down and saw my little pug Stanford laying over them as if he were looking through the magazines for inspiration. My camera was in reaching distance to I just had to snap a few shots. I thought I would post a little bio for him too...

Name: Stanford Blatch Lindeman
Type of Dog: 24 pounds of pure Pug
Favorite Time of Day: meal time and nap time
Favorite Food: chicken, cottage cheese and green apples
Favorite Toy: teddy bear
Hobbies & Interests: sleeping, watching tv [especially the discovery channel or Beverly Hills Chiwawa], going to the dog park, eating [anything], chasing ducks along the Kirkland waterfront, attacking the vacuum cleaner, snoring, reading through magazines--helping mom pick out the latest wedding trends

The Groom and His Little Buddy

This fabulous photograph was taken by the lovely Jamie Abenroth. It is from one of my weddings back in February--as the groom was getting ready his little sidekick stood by him while he put on his sox. So much anticipation before that walk down the aisle!

Spring is Here!!

Passionate kisses under cherry blossom trees=LOVE!

I am a huge sucker for cherry blossom trees in the spring time. They just make me smile whenever I see them. I want to share a few photos from one of my 2009 couple's engagement session. Kristen Honeycutt is the incredibly talented photographer behind these photos and she is truly awesome to work with! I can't wait until the wedding!

Meet Laura and David...

Time Saving Trick for Address Labels

So there are a lot invitations going out right now or at least being prepared to go out soon...and a lot of you aren't paying someone to do it for you. A lot of brides take on invitations to save money or just because they love being crafty. Either way...as you look down your list of address you might think you have a whole weeks worth of work cut out for you just typing all of those address onto labels...then place cards, then thank you cards...ahhh!

Don't stress...I am here to tell you that you can move hundreds of address on to a label template in Word in under 2 minutes! I would suggest going through and proof reading all of them for format and spelling errors but at least you have the hard part out of the way!

The secret is a Mail Merge in Microsoft Word. Depening on what version of Word you have it can be different...so go to your paperclip helper and type in Mail Merge for further directions. It might take you a couple minutes to figure it out but once you do...it will go very quickly! You should have all of your address in Excel or Outlook first and then import them into your mail merge.

Good luck to you all and Happy Merging!