Throughout the planning of Shayna's vintage circus wedding, there has been alot - and I mean ALOT - of attention going into my father's property, where the wedding will be held. Especially the garden, since the wedding will basically take place in the middle of it - yowzers! Since the wedding is at 8:30pm, the idea of of a moon garden really struck our fancy. A moon garden is a small place filled with night-blooming flowers, especially in white so that they give off a glow in the night. I love the moon garden featured in the Domino magazine a while ago (pic above) - it's really delicious. But because we already had an existing garden there, we didn't go totally moon-y, but basicially we have all yellows and whites, which should still be just as pretty and shiny in the moonlight! We used lots of dusty miller, shasta daisies, some grasses, and a pop of gerbera daisies amongs the yarrow and peonies that were already there. We were inspired by silver yarrow, four o'clocks and silvery maidenhair grass. The whole feat was masterminded by our dear friend and garden consultant Rebecca Perry from Becca's Garden Consulting. She's wonderful, so give her a call if you need help with yours too!
awesome tent and love the lights
the bride's wild and huge bouquet
bridesmaids' bouquets
look at the cute elephant cake!
i like the poufy orange boutonniere to match the groom's lei
one of my favourite parts was the little trinkety placecard ornaments
i like the multicoloured lanterns and matching umbrellies
again, awesome tent
look at the graphics on the tent's inside walls ... so amazing!
This dress of Jennifer Connelly's seemed to start the whole sharp shoulder thing, and I immediately rejected the style, but then I saw the runway version (below) and I can see now why it looks nice!
Do you remember Melanie's chalkboard envy a while back? I love a good chalkboard wall myself. But the other day on Apartment Therapy I saw this cool thing too: IdeaPaint - a paint that can transform an entire wall into a dry-erase white board! Just think of all the places you could write and draw...you could probably do a lot of funky decorative things with it. Not to mention all of the To Do lists I could make {yes, paper nerd is list nerd too}! Bye bye chalky dust...this is pretty darn cool.
The other day I went to the Distillery District to have dinner with my friend Jen, who took me to a whole bunch of awesome gift stores. There, I was introduced to cardboard furniture. Cardboard furniture sounds a bit crazy, I know, but it was actually quite pretty. And swell to know that it's all made from renewable resources, even using materials from waste including old containers and newspapers. Pictures all from Cardboardesigns.
I've been looking at vintage dresses for the Bloomers to wear to the circus wedding and I stumbled across all sorts of pics of Zooey Deschanel. I completely forgot that I coveted her look...I didn't think you would forget something you coveted but I did! A while back Jane magazine did a spread on her and her adorable vintage-ness...just look at the cuteness of the above picture!!
