On a paper kick...

It's becoming all paper, all the time around here. But I couldn't not share this paper porn! I love these Smock pocketfolds! So much better than boring ol' solid color ones, IMO. Anyway to add more color and letterpress goodness is my first choice, of course. I {think} that they're letterpress, but they may be offset. I know that the inserts and invites are letterpress. Also, I'm digging the two sided look of the last piece. I am a sucker for any geometric and/or pattern. 

Hope you enjoy...Anybody want to venture a guess if this is all letterpress or a combo print job? I'm still learning!

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Venue Sneak Peak...

More to come...

{a bryan photo}

Look what I found...

Kate was gracious enough to allow me to post her fabulous cake on here. It just what I would want with a few minor changes. Doesn't it look yummy?  I think it would look great with three small tiers and a few ranunculus or garden roses. We can't all be lucky enough to have a date during peony season. They're so beautiful on there. I'm pouting just a bit...

So simple, yet so chic. Just like Kate! ;)

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It's all in the details...

I've always been a bit enamored with Cheree Berry's work, but she hasn't had a ton of her custom work on her site until now! I finally saw more and it's all fantastic! I LOVE the little details in each of her pieces {like #1! How darling is that?} and she has a nice preppy style that appeals to the JCrew side of me. What else do you expect from a former Kate Spader?

Enjoy the paper goodness...

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{all images from here}

My kind of porn*...

Shoes. Beautiful, expensive, possibly uncomfortable, classic black shoes. How I love thee! I must have 15 pairs of black heels. They are all mostly mid-range brands {JCrew, Banana Republic, a few department store brands} , though I have a few pairs that cost more than the average pair. Nothing that is of porn quality...until now. I've decided to use the rewedding as a handy way to justify the purchase of grade A, top quality shoe porn. 

Behold...

{all shoes from here, except #3}

Part of the justification is that since I'm going with black shoes {great with a grey dress I think}, I'll wear them a ton. Thanks to an InStyle article from a few years ago, I always divide the price by number of times I think I can wear something. It totally erases the guilt with some pieces and helps with most of the others. Now, I have more than a year until our date and I know new shoes will come and go, but these are the ones I have my eye on...in case they actually go on sale for some odd reason. That's the only issue with black evening shoes...they don't go on sale very much. Oh and the Manolo's are Carrie's shoes in SATC Movie. 

*I really would rather see shoes then naked people...

yummm...cake.

I'll be explaining the evolution of the rewedding in a post soon, but for our new plans we need a much simpler dessert plan then I had before. I was looking around my inspiration files and on Maaartha and found these simple, yet yummy looking cakes. I'm hoping to have the cake made by the restaurant that we've chosen as a venue. They have a wonderful pastry chef and she makes wonderful orange cake, banana cream cake and out of this world chocolate cake as well. I'm not sure they really do "wedding" cake type cakes though, so I thought the simpler, the better. 

#1 is some sort of flourless torte I believe and would look pretty neat with a W on it. We could serve the venue's spectacular vanilla gelato with it.  #2 looks like it's one hell of a yummy chocolate cake and it pretty cute, but maybe too rustic? I'm leaning towards #3 with a few fresh ranunculus or garden roses instead of sugar flowers. We'd only need 2 tiers, maybe 3 at the most, but I still think it would be a beautiful cake. It could be orange cake on one tier and chocolate on the other, making something for everybody! #4 is just too cool looking to pass up, but I'm not sure how good it would really be. I keep thinking it would dry out. 

So, which would you choose?

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Isn't she* lovely?

This is the dress I sent her as my inspiration. Isn't it fabulous? It's 2007 J. Mendel and it makes me soooo happy to look at it.

{*she being that stunning dress...}