I get so excited when brides want to share their wedding with me. I love seeing all the different ways a wedding can come together.  So when I posted a Facebook status asking brides to share their wedding day with me and Complete Music Video Photo’s newsletter and Candice Combs responded with a whole bunch of photos I couldn’t help but let out a squeal of excitement!

Candice and her now husband  Daniel Walker were married at Amber Springs in Montgomery, TX on January 6, 2012. Candice told me her wedding was very heavily a do-it-yourself wedding, and it is apparent that Candice is a really great DIY-er!

This is Candice and Daniel:

Their  reception hall, I love the lighting and all the wood work! Their colors were moss green and chocolate brown. I love it!

Candice made her own brooch bouquet she found all the brooches online and then put the bouquet together like a normal flower bouquet. Candice also told me that: ” It also saved me a lot of worry and hassle by not having to deal with real flowers.”

Her centerpieces…went well with her venue’s wood working and colors!

Moss covered letters!Oh yeah she made them herself!

And this is how her guests had to sign in….the FBI may come borrow this from them sometime! Thumbprint trees have really become a great new trend and such an awesome keepsake.

Instead of flowers, Candice made pomanders, and I love the bright look on the white chairs!

Their wedding date! Love this, they can have this in their home after the wedding as well!

Earthy tones, and woodland centerpieces made it a perfect not-so-winter, winter wedding that I really wish I could of attended. At least Complete Music was there as their DJ! (I may have to pick up a side job).

Thank you to Candice and Daniel for sharing their amazing wedding with me and everyone else!  Bride on the Rocks and Complete Music Video Photo wish you many years of happiness. And thank you to their photographer: Endless Exposures Photography who did all the photos you see in this post!

CHEERS!

I’m headed to Vegas!!!  WOOO HOOO! And while the whole point of this trip is to get my nerd on with the Marketing Sherpa people (aka people who are A LOT smarter than me)  What I really will be doing is embracing my alter ego… Frankie Four Fingers VIVA LAS VEGAS!

GIFSoup

In between mass gambling, drinking, late nights, early morning sessions in intellectual superiority I will be fitting in WEDDING SHOPPING! I mean it’s Vegas, the marriage capital of the United States, and I plan to make full use of it. My goal is to find dresses like this:

Ian Stuart bridal gown

But only cost like they look like this:

I’m a champagne taste beer budget girl, so stay tuned for a vast array of Instagram shots from Vegas with all the latest wedding fun, trends, styles I can find while one-eyeing my iPhone. I’m boarding the plane as I post this…sooooo

Cheers,

Cake…it’s so damn deceptive looking, so beautiful with swirled frosting, enticing colors, and whimsical decorations. Hiding layers of gooey, sticky, chalky, dry, crumbling, doughy yucktastic-ness. My body convulses while my brain says “God that looks good” and my brain always wins out, I force myself to walk over to the cake; taking the polite “oh just a small piece please”  and as I sit down taking the tiniest bite, I instantly regret it. My body shakes, I try to force my stomach to calm down, my head shakes while my face contorts, the reaction is much like someone with Aspergers or Turrets. That damn cake gagged me again, I thought for all of it’s beauty I’d be set free, able to enjoy something that by all rights should taste as good as it looks.  It’s much like the hot guy, he’s hot until he opens his mouth and you can’t for the life of you remember why you thought he was good looking or what you were thinking.

So I’m dedicating this whole blog post to all the other desserts out there that don’t look as pretty as cake, but taste a whole hell of a lot better and are probably cheaper and have less attitude.

Pie…what you think pie is just for the pilgrims or Village Inn? ohhhh think again, look what you can do with pie!

A pie table with mini pies!!! pic from project wedding

You like cake pops?  Why not some pie pops? I mean who doesn’t want pie on a stick?

I have no idea how your guest will eat these

And whatever this tower thing is, it’s amazing!

found via that vixen named Martha Stewart

Don’t like pie? No problem, here are a few other ways that cake does not have to make an appearance at the reception:

salt roasted pears with cajeta

Doesn’t that just look so elegant? I don’t know what cajeta is but it looks like caramel and there is nothing wrong with caramel.

Cheesecake bites

Cannoli ...You don't eat cake? That's okay I make you Cannoli

Cookies…you can’t go wrong with cookies, there are over 101 cookie recipes out there, there possibly could be more but I’m not sure, I have five cookie cookbooks that implicitly say “101 cookie recipes” I dare not question the cookie gods.

Do you get my point now?  There are so many other things you can do for desserts at your wedding.  ”Let them eat cake” is just so Marie Antoinette, you can do better when feeding your “masses”

Cheers,