Friday Faves

I wanted to share a few of my faves from the wedding blog world this week before I embark on a lovely, sunny and warm weekend filled with gardening and home projects (and Pioneer Woman's chocolate sheet cake). Also, don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a pink silk wrap necklace and hair flower from Stella & Dot!

Hope everyone has an amazing weekend :) xo Annie

DIY Wheat Grass Seating Card Display from Project Wedding Blog

A Nautical themed wedding shoot via The Wedding Chicks

Love this dress and these pictures taken by Feather Love Photography

via Handful of Treasures

A retro mint and black inspiration to reality shoot on Style Me Pretty inspired by sweet Colette

Printable Alaphabet bunting free download by Two Brunettes on Ruffled

Don't forget to enter my giveaway contest for a Stella & Dot necklace and hair flower!

Giveaway: Stella & Dot Necklace and Hair Flower

If you haven't heard of Stella & Dot, the oh-so-cute and fun jewelry company, this contest is the perfect chance for you to get acquainted! We're giving away an adorable Uma pink silk wrap necklace and matching hair flower that can also be worn on the necklace or as a lapel pin. It would be perfect for a bridal shower, rehearsal dinner and for on the honeymoon!

How to Win:

1. Go to the Stella & Dot website of Independent Stylist Amy McCann, and take a look around.

2. Leave a comment below saying what your favorite Stella & Dot item is.

3. Then you're entered to win!! One entry per person please :)

Winners will be drawn next Friday, May 21st.

Stella & Dot has been featured in magazines such as In Style Weddings, Modern Bride, Lucky, In Style and Marie Claire. Here's a few of my personal favorites:

Stella & Dot has some fabulous jewlery options for the bride on her wedding day...Be sure to check out the Bridal Boutique

Great ideas for bridesmaids gifts, too! Good luck! Can't wait to see what your favorite Stella & Dot pieces are!

*Contest open to US residents only.

Inspiration Board: Foodie Inspired

So many couples these days are discovering the joys of being "foodies" together. I'm a food lover myself - I have a love of restaurants, cookbooks and cooking gadgetry. (I also may or may not have watched Julie and Julia twice in a row last week.) So I thought, why not translate a couple's love of all things food into a casual wedding theme? It could also make for an amazing bridal shower for your foodie fanatic girlfriend.

Some fun ideas for a foodie themed event:

• Use stacked vintage cookbooks as centerpieces/table numbers.
• Use kitchen utensils as decor: vintage tin pie plates as wall decor, vintage looking tin cans with colorful labels as centerpieces, egg cups for bud vases, jars of wooden spoons that can serve as favors that will definitely get used again.
• A vintage mirror with red writing on it for a bar or buffet menu - very French bistro.
• For a shower, do a kitchen/cookbook theme where every guest brings a cookbook for the bride with their favorite recipes marked.

Sources: Clockwise from top left - tin can vase arrangement by Blush Floral Design via Style Me Pretty, cookbook photo from Dinner With Julia, egg cup bud vases and pie tin wall from Better Homes and Gardens, blue macarons from Cocoa + Fig photo by Red Ribbon Studio via Style Me Pretty, red cordial bottles photo by Emily Steffen Photography via Style Me Pretty, mirror photo from Country Living, girl in kitchen photo via We Heart It.

Sponsored Post: Flower Girl Dresses by David's Bridal

Having little ones in your wedding? You probably already know that in addition to the challenges of getting them to cooperate ("No, no, don't cry...Walk down the aisle!") there is the whole other issue of outfitting them. Finding the right flower girl dresses that fit with the style of your wedding and the budget of the parents (or your budget depending on who is paying) can be difficult. That's why I love what David's Bridal has to offer for flower girl dresses and accessories. They have a great selection of adorable dresses, all of them refreshingly affordable.

Your bridesmaids wear colors, so why not have your flower girls wear colored dresses also?

Some of the colored flower girl dresses at David's Bridal come in as many as forty colors so you can match them to your wedding party, while parents will love that these dresses can be worn again!

Sweet little flower girl baskets can be customized in twenty seven different color options.

Looking for a traditional white flower girl dress? David's Bridal has great options that are super stylish and at a fraction of the cost that some flower girl dresses can run.

Bride Style: Veils and Hairpieces by Austie

I was lucky enough to recently have gotten to work with Austie Eckley, the designer of a line of fab bridal veils and hairpieces which have been featured on Martha Stewart Weddings and Glamour.com as well as in Oregon Bride magazine. Austie's Etsy shop is full of the most gorgeous couture looking creations - and most of her pieces are under $100. Austie also loooves to work with brides on custom pieces. Here's some of my faves:

The Sienna, $58

The Elenore, $185

The Sunny, $28

The Marilyn, $125

The Amelia, $98

Tea with the Queen, $385

For any brides in the Portland, Oregon area Austie is also an amazing makeup artist available for weddings!

E-Session: Gingham, Wildflowers and Coca Cola

I was so excited when I came across the work of Wesley and Emma of W + E Photographie - an awesome soon-to-be husband and wife team based in Birmingham, Alabama. I was even more excited when they sent this e-session my way. What's better than a vintage inspired e-session in a field full of wildflowers? Maybe these pictures, which captured the couple's sweet love for one another so perfectly.

From Emma of W+E Photographie: "shaina + courtney are such cuties! not only are these two beyond adorable, but they share a pretty great sense of style too! wesley and i are such suckers for plaid, so their red, white and blue gingham theme was right up our alley. shaina + courtney were acquaintances for quite some time before their love blossomed into what it is now... and let me tell you, these two are completely and totally smitten! they finally fell for each other when they happened upon a chance meeting at the library. and not to mention their completely sentimental proposal - courtney took shaina to every spot where they, throughout their relationship, had shared a special moment, with the last being the lake where they would get engaged! too sweet!"

Thanks so much to Wesley and Emma of W + E Photographie for sharing this session with me!