Traditional Wedding Cake? NO THANK YOU!

First of all I don't like frosting (never have) second there is no way in hell I'm spending $500+ for a cake.  NO WAY! It's all about a cheesecake for our wedding cake.  I called Eileen's a really cute shop in NYC and  spoke to Eillen herself. She was so helpful and told me to come on in! I'm  going to show her my cake toppers (see two blog post before this) to make sure they stand tall and pretty on the cheesecake. I can't wait!!

Say it simple

I love these wedding thank you postcards using photos from the wedding. I'm thinking black and white would be really cool. Martha Stewart says to glue photos to a piece of paper and then make a photo copy but I think it would be much easier to just get postcards made however postcards wouldn't have that cute edge around the corners. Check out the blog here that explains how to make your own DIY thank you postcards.

Vintage Place Card

How cute are these wooden spool place cards? I found them on the knottybride blog. I love the burlap and the customized name!! Who's going to buy her own stamp kit? I am!  This is so the look and feel of my wedding. 

         

To make this simple DIY project you need the following items:   

*Vintage Spools (ebay or etsy)

*Custom stamp kit, you can find one here.

*Black ink pad

*Burlap

*Ribbons in your specific wedding colors

*Scissors

*Super Glue

For directions go here. Happy DIY making!! 

Cake Toppers

I wanted to do something special for our cake toppers. Something personal and something that meant a lot to us. So, we're getting custom made cake toppers for our cheesecake wedding cake made by our friend Craig. He's a graphic/ art genius not to mention a pretty damn good clay animator.

We met today for brunch and margs to go over the look of the little clay figures. He's going to make one of Lola too.



Here's an example below of something he made that is in our store.



I can't wait to see what he comes up with!!

Specialty Drinks!

To stay with our vintage and rustic theme Robert and I decided to have specialty drinks at our wedding. PLUS it very cost effective. Since I'm not a huge drinker and when I do it's usually a vodka/soda I called my friend Brett who is a bartender/mixologist at The John Dory. (AMAZING restaurant) 

He was trained by the guy who owns Milk and Honey which is a little secret bar here in NYC that serves the most amazing drinks you've ever tasted. Any how I told him the feel and colors of our wedding and he made us two drinks that were fabulous!! The first one I'm calling the ML. It's muddled blueberries and blackberries with Vodka, lemon juice and some other stuff. The other one I'm calling the James and it's a bourbon base with a whole lot of goodness. Wedding specialty drinks CHECK!!

Personalized Water Bottles

My friends at Purist (they are owned by Specialized Bikes) are making me 100 personalized water bottles for my wedding...can we say SO NICE!! (Who's turning in to Star Jones? HA!) 

You go on the site and pick out your bottle, choose your cap and pick out your colors.

Then you can upload a graphic or write something..

Robert is going to design the art for our bottle. So excited. BIG THANK YOU goes out to them.

Check out the site here.

Woody

I went on eBay and found these wooden spools of thread for our vintage feel wedding. They sent me the little stand too. I got the idea of using thread spools from Brenda Robert's sister who put them in a mason jar for decorations. So excited!!