As I said in my first "wedding bonanza" post, I must give a shout out to all my lovely friends and help, and give credit where credit is due. All photographs you are about to see were taken by the lovely Sarah Alston, and her best friend and second shooter for the day, Jesse Phillips.
Sarah is an absolute darling to work with, and I am proud to not only call her my photographer, but also now my friend. I just love her!
I would also like to thank my lovely Mom, Dad, Husband, Mother in Law, Father in Law, Sister in Law, Husband's Aunts, Bridesmaids, Groomsmen and Groomsmen's wives for helping out with all the set up! As well as my wonderful vendors!
And now, away we go with round two!
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| I forgot to add this one on to the accessory post, but I just wanted to show off the beautiful peacock hairpieces that La Plume Ethere from Etsy made. :) |
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| My "marquee" that I made to place out in front of the old box office at the Opera House's entrance. I used a frame, some stainless steel "tiles" and paint markers like they use on restaurant menu/boards. It has a "starring" section and everyone's "role" in our "performance." :) |
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| Here it is from a different angle, and a little closer. |
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| My parasol I bought, along with the candelabra (which belongs to the Opera House) and the feather arrangement I made in a metal vase by the entrance. |
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| Since we got married at an old opera house, I made "tickets" instead of programs for our wedding. Since the marquee served as somewhat of a program. I found a website online that lets you make these for free. |
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| My large "starring" frame, each picture is a member of our wedding party or family, along with a couple pictures of my hubby and I. Easel holder was made courtesy of my Dad :) |
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| We put our tickets in a metal/ rod iron looking basket with butterflies we used throughout our wedding decorations. The butterflies were painted and made out of feathers that matched our colors! |
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| I had a lot of paper lanterns! Here are some close ups of their patterns! |
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| Holy Lanterns! |
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| Peacock faux candle, with a peacock placemat under it for the entryway decorations. |
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| This was our "guestbook" or wedding tree. I ordered this off of Etsy from funnysideoflife. The guests signed color coordinated leaves. After my wedding I attached them all and made a full tree. It looks wonderful :) |
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| Stage decorations, these were up during our ceremony and reception it's a paper parasol, a feather arrangement in a metal vase by me, and a branch arrangement in a glass vase by me. Also with the iron candelabra from the Opera House. You can also see white doors with tulle. Those doors are the original doors from 1911 when the Opera House was built! |
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| After we signed our certificates and papers! :D |
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| Wedding Tree Leaves! |
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| the faux candle, and peacock goodness with our initials in metal letters :) |
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| I made signs out of card stock and ribbon and put them on bird cages to hold all our cards from the big day. |
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| Fortune cookie favors put in apothecary jars I picked. We put them in matching patterned bags. |
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| Our "tablescapes." A hanging metal moroccan lantern (with faux tealight in it),simple photo frame I put our pictures in and put decorations on,and crystals/beads with a floating fake water lily, and a blue waterproof LED (so it glows!). Along with a royal blue table cloth and royal blue and white damask print runner. |
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| Since there was no alcohol, and we were doing breakfast for dinner (!!!!) I made sure there was a fancy punch/flavored water station. Pomegranate punch, cucumber water, and lemon lime water. |
Drum Roll Please... Let me introduce you to the FOOD! :)
Our fabulous breakfast-for-dinner-buffet extravaganza was provided by Portage Bay Cafe/Organic Table Catering from Seattle. As their mottos goes: "Eat like you give a damn!" They are DELECTABLE! :) And their food is organic, sustainable and locally raised. Please take the time to check out their Philosophy on their site as well! And they made a special order vegan pancake meal for my vegan bridesmaid. LOVE!
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| The picture wall idea we made for downstairs by the food. The curtains are just on spring loaded rods, so we just suspended some photos in mats on ribbons so that it wasn't too heavy! |
PHOTO BOOTH TIME! :)
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| I stocked up with lots of feather masks, props, paper masks and props and had my photographer bring her fun directors "cut" board and big frame (and wigs too!). It was a BIG hit! |
Let them eat CAKE! Er... well, cupcakes!
Our fabulous cupcakes were made by The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co. in Seattle. We selected three flavors: Salted Caramel, Raspberry Macaroon, and Simple Vanilla. The Salted Caramel and Raspberry Macaroon were filled. *droooool* They also fancied up our cutting cake for usand used caramel as a filling. They set up the beautiful cupcake tower for us, we had them put a filigree paper I bought around each tier. Tony and Mike (and their staff) are AWESOME (and funny!)
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| Thank you for coming everyone! :) |
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| Had to put on my dancin' dress! The end of our first dance. We danced to "The Best Is Yet To Come." |
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| I also forgot to show this earlier. We added blue feathers to Ryan's boutonniere, so he could be special :) |
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| Father Daughter dance, with my dad... the ham. :) |
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| Daughter like Father, I suppose they say. ;) |
RING PHOTOS! Just for kicks, I had to include all these cute pictures the creative Sarah came up with!
Bouquet Toss! (All the single ladies?)
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| Tossin' the bouquet off the stage! I made this bouquet as well out of feathers and a few fancy fabric flowers and adornments! |
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| There she goes! |
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| Action shot of my wedding dance party. Just what I had hoped it would be <3 |
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| Okay, so I'm slightly obsessed with this parasol... I made it from a plain white one with acrylic paint and a silver paint marker (and a lot of time). <3 <3 <3 |
TA-DA! The end!
(And of course, they lived happily ever after!)
Until next time, stay crafty my friends!
- Shelby
