Pictures Worth a Thousand Words...

If there is one thing I love, its pictures. The pictures you take for your wedding say a lot about your personality. If there's one thing I'd stress, it would be to make sure you spend the time/money on the photography because the pictures will mean so much to you, your family, and your friends. You should really look for a photographer who is going to get the best pictures for you, but still complements your style.

Sorry I forgot who the photographer this was that took it. And as soon as I find out who's it was I'll give them their credit where its due, and a link to their website.

Honeymoon!!!

So this is totally random. And I don't know why I've been thinking about this tonight but I've been thinking about places I'd like to go on my honeymoon. Ultimately I think the coolest place ever to go would be to Italy, but that's a little pricey. Plus let's be honest here, half the time, you don't really leave your room on your honeymoon. Which leads me to my point.

The best place to go/thing to do on your honeymoon is to take a cruise! All of your food is taken care of on cruises. There is entertainment always going on, so when you do take a break from your room there are things to do. And if you never leave your room at all, you still went on a cruise for a pretty decent price!

If it was my choice on where to go for that cruise, I would pick the Virgin Islands! Although pretty much anywhere would be cool. Happy Honeymoon!

New Author.... Bad Magician!

So... we have another author now! My dear friend Kacey has decided she wants to join in the fun of talking about things we think are cool for weddings. We were sitting at a mutual friends wedding reception this evening when I told her about my blog and she was really excited to see it. I know she'll have a lot of insightful things! Yay for that!

Oh, and while we were at the reception, just FYI, don't have a magician. He was such a weird dude. I am still not completely sure what he was there for. I guess if you have a lot of little kids that will be at the reception its a way to keep them occupied. Personally, I just thought he was a dork. Who knows!?! I would just not recommend that one. Maybe for a party, but not a reception.

*Kacey reminded me about the Italian Sodas! This was an awesome idea. They had an Italian Soda bar instead of just water and lemonade. It was delicious! Oh and Kacey made the best flavored one! Raspberry Peach! It was great! Good job on the drinks Mandy!*

Photo Booth

Here's another idea for a photo booth that I think is really cool. Its from a website called Kiss the Groom. They basically created a background with holes in it so you can go into those "pictures." I really like this. If there's some sort of theme for my wedding, this would be a really cool thing to do for the photo booth guestbook.

Val's Wedding

Man, after going to Val and Greg's wedding I have so many great ideas! They had this awesome thing called the Funky Photo Booth! It was a lot of fun. Guests were told to go get their pictures taken and then later (like before they left) to stop by the guest table and sign by their picture. But the pictures were also suppose to be funny.

They also had an awesome DJ! I will have to find out who did it because he actually got people out there dancing!

They also had some awesome places for pictures. They did pictures at the Hotel Monaco, the Utah Capital building, in front of the Wells Fargo building, and Union Station in Ogden. They were awesome! They were taken by Captured by Mikki!

Not only that, they had a great idea. Instead of doing the video of pictures, what they did was they had one of those digital picture frames and just put pictures of them with their friends and family on it. All you'd have to do is load them on to an memory card and plug it in the frame and its good to go! I think it was a genius idea!

Flowers

I may have found a blue flower... but we'll see. Delphiniums. They come in blue and they come in a light sky blue to a dark blue.

http://www.wedding-flowers-guide.com/blue-wedding-flowers.html

Quoting that webpage....

Some of the classic wedding flowers are not available in blue. These include calla lilies, tulips, gerberas, orchids, carnations, gladioli, anthuriums and roses. You can get artificially dyed roses from specialist suppliers. These are white roses that have been grown in a blue dye. But some people think that their vibrant color just doesn't look right.

You can get around this problem by the creative use of accessories such as blue ribbons and organza. You can also complement your blue wedding flowers with white varieties such as roses and calla lilies to give a more traditional feel.

Cameras

Instead of using the polaroids as a guestbook. I think I'd like to get a lot of polaroid cameras and just set them on the tables and let guests take pictures of things they think are cool. :) My only concern there is that they will take the pictures with them when they leave.

Guestbooks

I have an idea about a guest book. I saw at a bridal fair a company that took pictures of the guests as they came in and then you got a photobook of the pictures. And they were suppose to be fun pictures!

Well, instead of paying someone to do that, get a polaroid camera and take peoples pictures that way and let them write on the polaroid picture instead. You could even stick polaroid cameras out on the tables to let people take pictures with the polaroids instead of with disposable cameras. It would be really cool to see all the pictures.

Invitations

So, I was bored and I was looking through an invitation book at this store while I was shopping with my mom the other day. And I saw the cutest thing. Instead of putting a seal, or a monogram or anything on the envelope, there was a sticker of the couple kissing and it was a nice little picture to put on the back of the envelope. I really liked it. There was also this invitation that folded out both on the left and right side. There wasn't much to it, but it was the perfect blue! And it had silver embossing on it! I really liked it a lot! I don't know if I want invitations that amazing but man, if I do, I really did like them a lot!

Just some ideas...

Here are a few of the ideas I have so far of things I would like for my wedding.. whenever it may be.
1- I want my colors to be midnight blue and silver!
2- I want cala lilies and white roses for my flowers in at least my bouquet.

Something that I think would be really cool would to be able to tie in postcards somehow.
I was first thinking maybe by making my announcements as postcards but I'm not sure I like that as much. I also thought about making postcards for my thank you notes afterwards, which would totally be okay. But the best one I have so far, instead of having everybody sign a guest list, or the scrapbook pages, make a bunch of different postcards from pictures of me and boy, with them addressed to our "new home" maybe not actually send them though, although that would be cool. But that would be a way cool guest list in my opinion!