Little things make me really happy, especially when a lot of thought goes into little details.
Like one wedding I did, they had this hilarious story about their first date. They were at a bar, starving, and the kitchen was closed. But the bartender served them tater tots and pigs in a blanket in beer pitchers.
So at their wedding they had us carry around beer pitchers full of tater tots and pigs in a blanket. All their guests probably just thought it was the best wedding food ever, but really it had this whole back story.
Or I had a bride who used raspberry filling in her cake because once she got a big raspberry stain on a fancy dress during on of their dates and it was mortifying, but later became a huge joke.
Those little things make my heart melt like buttah!
And I love those little details so much that I try to put them into everything I do, and this wedding is giving me the opportunity to go BIG with it. Our theme has given me the freedom to make it consistent from the decor to the party favors, and I'd love to share some of those little details with you!
First off, I'm delighted about our favors.
Kawaiiiiii!
They're cute little air mail packages that we'll be filling with a variety of different candies from around the world.
Most people end up leaving dozens of favors around after the wedding, but in this case I won't be upset if I end up taking some home!
There's also this stamp:
Which, this one of course doesn't have our address on it. But we had one made with our's for our invitations.
They're pre-inked stamps, so you don't have to re-ink it every stamp which makes life a whole lot easier when you're stamping 200 envelopes. Plus, it has a gorgeous vintagey feel which is exactly what we wanted!
(If you'd like to purchase your own stamp in any style, you can find their Etsy store here. )
I also had the help of the lovely and talented, Lynn Justice (And my bridesmaid, Christine too!) to emboss my invitations.
That basically just means we make it shiny. We did the plane on the front and the stamp on the back, and it is literally the most time consuming thing you could ever do to something BUT SO PRETTY.
If you'd like to see how to emboss, you can check out the pins on my blog board that have tips and videos on how to do it.
Another super exciting find was these vintage luggage tags to use as place cards. Obviously we won't have that butterfly logo, but we'll put guest's names there instead. We're probably going to take off the tacky blue string, but these were the most realistically affordable luggage tags for our guest counts, and they matched our invitations.
Last but not least, we found our send off car! This is a 1960 Chrysler New Yorker hardtop. It's beautiful and we are PUMPED that we get to ride off in this beauty.
Not to mention the guy that owns it is a complete doll and has been a delight to work with.
He has some amazing cars, and from what I've seen the best price on rentals in the area.
If you're looking for classic cars for anything, you can see his stuff here.
We have more exciting details to come, and I'm so thankful to be getting things knocked off the list.
If you'd like to see any of the stuff I mentioned, the jewelry I picked out for the wedding, and more good stuff check out my blog board and follow me on Pinterest!
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