good ideas for seating cards!

I sure love a creative idea. I just peeked through all the pics I've collected and I realized that I've sure managed to collect a lot of seating card ideas! So, since I'm only getting married twice {heh heh} I thought I'd share them with the rest of you brides out there...I guess I can't really use them all for myself!!

1. Hi-Plains Drifter's Photostream

2. Abidavewedding's Photostream

3. Tushina's Photostream

4. i-Weddings Photostream

5. Love Luck and Angels

6. Love Luck and Angels

7. Love Luck and Angels

8. Robin + Matt NYC {Martha Stewart Wedding}

9. I seem to have misplaced the link to this picture - if anyone knows where it comes from please tell me!!

purty table inspiration

Whenever I have friends over for dinner, I try my best to make my dining table look as pretty as possible. But table setting is a lot harder than it might seem...it really is an art! I always worry that nothing matches, or that everything matches too much, and I make a mental note that I need a new tablecloth, new serving plates, new, new new! I do realize that I'm a perfectionist, and I also know that having a dinner party doesn't necessarily need to be a fancy affair. But I just can't help the need in me to make everything look pretty {doesn't a meal just taste a lot better if it also looks good? Or perhaps subconsciously I'm trying to disguise my sub-par cooking skills?}. So I have found a bunch of tabletops that have provided me with some inspiration...they all are fairly simple and non-stuffy, and don't necessarily require an onslaught of new stuff, although maybe a bit of craftiness. Hopefully they inspire you too! Have a wonderful weekend...

from Blueprint magazine {may it RIP}

from Quick and Easy Decorating by Better Homes and Gardens

from Home Base Collections

from Darling Dexter

From Real Simple magazine

from Canadian House and Home magazine

{unsure of the source of this pic unfortunately}

from Martha Stewart {love the painted cans used as vases!}

the brooklyn bride features inBloom!

inBloom was really excited to see an outdoor wedding that our company planned and designed on one of our favourite blogs ever, The Brooklyn Bride. The Brooklyn Bride features inspirational 'modern weddings' and we are so honoured to be part of Vané's repertoire! Thank you for recognition!


Here's some of the pics again:

the ugliest wedding cakes!

A friend of mine sent me a link to a funny blog dedicated to the ugliest cakes and cake disasters. It is pretty entertaining, you should definitely take a peek. There was a funny post that made me giggle called "Big Day, Big Wrecks" which documented some huge wedding cake disasters: what clients ordered, and what they got in the end. Look below for a couple of doozies. These ones definitely take the cake ... hardy har har.

Christine C. ordered this cake:

And...Christine C. received this cake:

She calls it the "bampoo" cake! Haha...

An anonymous submitter asked for this cake:

and received this cake:

{all photos from www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com}

Ahah! So THAT'S why wedding planners are useful my friends!!

wee things part 2

Today's wee posting is about wee lil' houses!

{For more info all wee houses can be found here!}

feeling silhouettey

Silhouettes have been a huge design trend in home decor lately. I love the idea of a couple incorporating their silhouettes into their wedding stationery - a nice, personal touch! Sometimes silhouettes can look a bit creepy, but I thought the below silhouettes were done beautifully {by KC and Sara as featured on Once Wed}.

And take a peek at this beautiful silhouette cut out of a leaf...exquisite! This is by silhouette artist Jenny Lee Fowler.
I was shocked to find out that some of these silhouette artists cut the silhouettes directly from paper {or leaves!} without even drawing them first. This boggles my mind...how can they be so accurate?! Check out this Silhouette artist from the U.K. who attends weddings and events and cuts silhouettes on the spot. {For a bit of a chuckle, below his YouTube video, see the comment left from his embarrassed, over-critical teenaged daughter perhaps?! Just a guess here, but it made me laugh}

wee things

So once again I was reading my fave new blog Something's Hiding in Here, and I have to say, they never fail to entertain me! Look at this teeniest tiniest letter ever that was sent to them by the World's Smallest Postal Service! So then it got me wondering...what other wee things exist out there that would just make my day? So sorry to digress from the usual design and decor talk...I really needed to share all the adorable wee things I found!

{Tiny Pies}

{Tiniest Egg}

{Tiniest Monkey...awww!}

{Tiniest Purse}

{Tiniest Tomatoes}

{Tiniest Snail}

Stay tuned...I've got more wee things coming!

a perfect little barn venue

{picture from Massey Barn Events}

We've always, our whole lifelong, been searching for the perfect little barn event venue, and in the GTA it was nowhere to be found! Until my good friend Brooke (who has fantastic taste and a keen eye by the way), sent me a link to a cute little barn in Cobourg that she had heard about once before. Called Massey Barn, it has a lot of a history behind it, built by the Massey family in 1837. And it is REALLY super cute - the renovations are a perfect blend between rustic but still a little upscale. It's like a pretty canvas just waiting to be made even more spectacular! Our clients (and friends...clients sound so harsh, doesn't it?) Ryan and Tahlia asked inBloom to help decorate the venue for their wedding...and inBloom says a resounding OK! We'd be THRILLED to help...we've been waiting a LONG time for this!

I'm a little fascinated by this chandelier. Such a perfect contrast between rustic and upscale decor.

The barn in all it's beautiful glory - just waiting for inBloom's personal touch!

this is the view behind the barn. apparently there's a clearing in the forest for a ceremony. tahlia loves the idea of using this trail as the aisle.

Ryan and Tahlia - they look happy ... obviously!

ketubah crisis!

I've been scouring the web for a Ketubah {Jewish marriage contract} design that suits my fancy. Its not an easy task! Most are kind of hokey and would most definitely NOT be found gracing my wall. It took me a looong while but I was able to come up with some designs that definitely better suit my style. I can't tell you how happy I am right now to know that there are at least a few others out there designing Ketubahs with the modern couple in mind!

Tsilli Pines was a bride just like me who was not very happy with her choices out there. I guess being a graphic designer helped because she made her own really awesome one! Her friends liked what she did and a new biz was born! You can order her creations from her online store New Ketubah. Here are some examples from her collection.

This home-made Ketubah was posted on Something Old, Something New. Me likey...

I also like the idea of just having plain Hebrew text on some nice paper. Some of the old text is so beautiful...it is art in itself. I found this simple one from The Design Lab that was kind of what I was thinking of but I would like to put it on some beautiful paper. You know how you can spend hours drooling over paper in stationary shops but you can't quite justify it because you don't really know what you'd use it for? Well I'd use it for this!