All the pretty cakes....

Sure I said I didn't want a girly "wedding" cake, but I'm a girl! It's so hard to avoid all the super girly details that so many weddings are overflowing with.... and, as we all know, I'm in love with ruffles!

Our ideas of what kinds of cake to have, and their general style, hasn't changed since we thought we were going to bake them ourselves.

We're still wanting 3 9in round, 3 layer cakes in 3 different flavors.
♥Yellow cake with Chocolate frosting for Dave
♥Carrot cake with Cream Cheese frosting for me
♥Any flavor cake with Lavender colored frosting to tie our wedding colors together in cake!

As I troll the boards of the wedding planning sites that the internet seems to be overflowing with, I see so many cute ideas for frosting designs. I've made a little inspiration board below to share the ones that I think are adorable! In my mind, our cakes will be monochromatic (chocolate on chocolate, lavender on lavender, etc.) and the frosting would add a fun dimension without screaming WEDDING CAKE!!! I ♥ the ruffles one, but I also think it would be too girly for all 3 cakes and (not even considering how David might feel about it) I wouldn't be able to handle that much girly! However, if our baker is able to re-create any of these designs, and could bring the ruffles to life, I wouldn't be opposed to having 3 different designed frostings (after all the color of the frosting will be 3 different colors) and one of them possibly ruffles.

What do you think?? Are you loving any of these designs, too??

PS-The bottom right is potentially what our cake pedestals will look like.

Burlap and Ruffles! Oh my!

As you may already know, David and I plan on DIYing our own table runners or tablecloths from burlap that I will be sewing and he will be screenprinting with something swanky. Well, I've just been overwhelmed with more awesomeness that I want to include too! Burlap runners with.... RUFFLES! Gah! I'm pretty sure I could do this, you know, sew the ruffles on our table runners. I'm at least going to attempt it, when we get to that point. Classes will be done in 5 weeks and I'll have a few weeks before summer session begins. So my plan is to do all the DIYing that we will do here during that time.

Yay! Burlap with ruffles!

Accessorize!

For weeks I've been visiting a purse at Ross (for those that don't know Ross, it's like TJ Maxx or Marshalls) that I adored. I think I loved it so much because of the ruffles. The big white ruffles in the shape of a heart. It was a big, white purse with big white ruffles. I kept telling myself it would be wonderful for the wedding, but I just couldn't commit to the $22.99 price tag. I know, that's not really that much for a purse but I also know full well that I'd never use it after the wedding. =D

Today, while visiting my glorious white ruffly purse I fell in love with a different purse! Who knew there was a more perfect purse for me for my wedding! Not only did this have wonderful ruffles, but it also had tough-looking grommets, a chain and was nude color - the color of my wedding shoes! I felt it was too good to be true and so I cautiously looked at the price tag, $12.99! This was my purse. Not only did it have everything I wanted for the wedding (ruffles!) but it's a neutral color that I will use and it's got a bit of rock n' roll edge to it! Dave even likes the chain strap. =D

I know I have to buy this bag, so after a bit of browsing in shoes I head to the check-out line. While waiting in line I see the cutest white cardigan, with ruffles! Again, it's only $12.99! I definitely didn't want to get out of the long line to try it on, so I decided to buy it, try it on at home with my dress and if I didn't love it, I could return it. Well, I've since tried it on, and it's perfect! Some pics below of them... So in love with the ruffles!

Making my own wedding dress....

I plan on sewing my own dress. My sewing skills aren't great, but I think it will be a lot of fun to attempt to do. If it doesn't work out, I'll just buy one!

The dress will have a similar shape to these. I'd like to sew 4 wooden buttons, about the diameter of a 50-cent piece, down the right side. One panel on the front will button to the other and the top button will stay unbuttoned with a flap that hangs over. The dress will be an off-white or biege linen or cotton material and the inside of the dress will be a lavender color, similar material, that flaps over. I've considered making the dress in eyelet material, too. I'll be barefoot for the wedding service but plan on wearing nude flats for the rest of the day.