Fall Wedding at a Winery

One of my friends from college, who I also worked with in the Admissions office got married over the weekend.  It was a beautiful drive out to Hood River where we caught a shuttle up to the ceremony and reception sites.

They used a lot of the local vendors in Hood River, Oregon for their flowers, cake, and more which all turned out so lovely.

Nice to see an arrangements in a black vase vs. the standard clear vase.

Lots of great fall flowers with leaves, dahias, spider mums, and more.

I thought their groom's cake was so unique and an eye-catcher. Adam and Rachel love their dog Bailey (who is always in their Christmas card too), so this cake depicts Adam and Bailey sitting together enjoying the view.

California Beach Wedding

Another trip to California, for another family wedding. This time without hubs, but I knew I would still have a great time. The ceremony overlooked the ocean, the beach, and steep cliffs at Pismo Beach. Gorgeous!

The aisle was decorated with blue puffy balls that the bride made, sprinkled with dried yellow rose petals. Blue and yellow were the colors of their wedding, which are also the school colors of both of their colleges: Michigan and University of California Santa Barbara. 

Look at that view!

 

There was an arbor decorated with shells and gauze, part of the beachy theme!

The blue and yellow bride and bridesmaid bouquets made up of yellow roses, calla lilies, with small seashells, green berries, among other fun flowers.



The yummy cake and a clever cake topper. Real seashells are on the cake.



A very creative and fun seating chart using a wooden surfboard found at a yard sale. The groom's dad spent quite a bit of time cleaning up and refinishing. So thoughtful and unique!

 The names of the guests and their assigned table, are posted on the surfboard below the Catch a Wave sign.

The head table displayed sand dollar shells with Mr. and Mrs. written on them.

A Mappy First Anniversary Present

I couldn't make up my mind on the right present for my little sister and her husband's first anniversary present. I bought their card before their anniversary, but I just didn't have any good ideas for a "paper" present. After coming across a Portland map that my mom didn't need anymore, I knew I wanted to do something with it for them.

I found some ideas on-line and originally thought I would use the entire map, so I bought a large frame for it at Goodwill. After playing around with it for a while, I decided to cut up the map and do something a bit smaller. This way, the art could go on any wall, any shelf, alone or with other frames, etc.

Here are some of the ideas I found on-line:

All super cute and really good ideas. I already had some 10x10 corkboard, so I went to the store and purchased a 10x10 shadow box and short pins. Then I got to work. I decided to cut out hearts of where they met (using a cookie cutter), where they were married, and where they live. Luckily all were in Portland. I was very careful about truly finding the right street on the map as so many of the streets in Portland are called the same thing, but don't continue through, so it is easy to think you have the right street when you don't. I even got on the computer a couple of times to check directions and the computer's map to make sure I was right. 

I gave it to my sister and she really really liked it. She shared with me later that her husband couldn't believe that I had made it. Well good, I am glad they have something to also remember where they first lived together.