Jenna Bush Wedding Pictures

The White House released official photos of the May 10th Henry Hager and Jenna Bush wedding. Here is one of those pictures courtesy of the New York Times.

Las Vegas Week: Chocolate Candy Bars

Our last item for Las Vegas week is personalized chocolate candy bars. It’s another item you could ad to your welcome bag.

The back of each chocolate bar says “Thank you for sharing this special day with us.” You can substitute the words “Thank you for sharing this special day with us” with “Life is Sweet” or any other saying but there is an extra charge for that. They also offer personalized candy wrappers without the chocolate bar. The personalized candy wrappers will fit a 2.6 oz chocolate bar or equivalent to a Hershey’s king size chocolate bar.

Enjoy putting together your wedding guests their welcome bag for your fun Las Vegas destination wedding.

Las Vegas Week: Deck of Cards

If you are preparing a welcome bag for your guests for your upcoming destination to Las Vegas, your bag would not be complete without a deck of playing cards. Each deck is individually packaged in a translucent plastic case and each case comes with a non-personalized “Two of a Kind” label to match the cards inside. There are nine design options available to choose from. You can have the cards personalized with your names if you desire as well.

Las Vegas Week: BlackBook City Guides

If you are getting married in Las Vegas and putting together a welcome bag for your guests, here’s the perfect item for your bag. BlackBook city guides are getting a lot of buzz these days. They have several different cities including a Las Vegas BlackBook.

They are sleek looking guide books which contain carefully researched information on the best restaurants, cafes, nightlife, the best jaw dropping views and maps. You can personalize your guidebook by custom printing your names and the wedding date for an extra special gift.

Las Vegas Week: Vegas Personalized Mint Tins

Today we wanted to share these adorable personalized mint tins. They’re pocket sized for convenience. You can provide them for your wedding guests in a goodie bag or as a wedding favor or you can mail them out to your friends and family to announce your wedding has taken place.

There are several design options to choose from.

Las Vegas Week at Something Blue & Featured Wedding Photo

Las Vegas, the “Wedding Capital” of the world is a popular wedding venue every year and has become a hot destination wedding spot. Vegas is said to be the number one city in the world with over 100,000 weddings each year. You might be one of those brides considering this location for a 2008 or even 2009 wedding. This week, Something Blue is going to provide you with Vegas wedding products each day this week to help you in your wedding planning process so check back each day to see the Vegas goodies Something Blue has found for you.

Today’s featured wedding photo can definitely get you excited if you are thinking about a Vegas wedding. This great photo was taken by a Dallas area photographer, Leslie Spurlock Photography.

Food Network: Duff Cakes Wedding Week

By shaping cakes with drill saws and blow torches and staffing his bakery with fellow rock musicians, Duff Goldman is not your typical baker. Yet he’s one of the most sought after cake makers in the country. Duff is the owner of Charm City Cakes.

This week on Dufff Cakes it was wedding week. The first cake started off with one of Duff’s favorite sports…Hockey. The cake was a replica of the hockey rink complete with the bride and groom skating, and a real Zamboni machine with an LED light.

Their second cake was a four-tier cake featuring the Baltimore Skyline. The couple are both realtors who were born and raised in Baltimore. The couple met in junior high and went to the jr. prom together. It was a four tier cake with over 110 buildings in the skyline.

To round out our Wedding Week, the last cake they called Monster Cake was a very traditional floral tiered cake. This cake was a white and ivory base with lots of floral imprints. I guess they called it monster cake because of it’s height.

I guess at Charm City Cakes this is all in a week’s work. Obviously, there are many brides out there skipping the traditional wedding cake and going with something fun, crazy and unique to their personalities. What type of wedding cake are you doing? Let’s here from you.

Food Network: Surprise Engagement Cakes

I watched Food Network’s Surprise Engagement Cakes show. Four pastry chefs competed against each other to be selected by the newly engaged couple and win the prize of $10,000. The three designers were: Joshua John Russell of Joshua John’s Cake of Atlanta; Jennifer Matsubara of Shelby Lynn’s Cake Shop in Springdale, Arkansas; Marina Sousa of Just Cake of Monterey, California; and James Rossell with Notter School of Pastry Arts in Orlanda, Florida.

The requirements for the competition was at least a 3 foot tall and enough to feed 150 guests. They had 30 minutes to come up with a design after talking to the engaged couple. Then they had seven hours to make the cake.

The winner of the Surprise Engagement Cakes was James Rossell. Here’s a drawing of the middle of his cake which showed the names of the couple. The couple liked the flavor of the cake, the flowers James made for the cake and the personalization of their names on the cake.

James has won one other Food Network competition, the Sweet 16 Contest.

Featured Wedding Photo:Leslie Spurlock Photography

         

This week Something Blue is featuring the work of Leslie Spurlock Photography and we are showing you two great photos. Here’s a bridal session where the photographer, Leslie Spurlock did a mix of traditional and modern. I love that. Something to make every bride and mom happy. It’s great to have a wedding photographer with a eye for both elements. This beautiful bride, Shelley Storm is getting married on June 7, 2008, at a winery near Ft. Worth. After the wedding the bride will be cutting all that beautiful hair off and donating it to, “Locks of Love”. What a great cause and what beautiful pictures!

Coming Soon:Wedding Week at Food Network

Next week, the Food Network channel will be having “Wedding Week”.

Stayed tuned next week, the Something Blue blog will be sharing with you the highlights of the shows shown on the Food Network.

Star Telegram Bridal Show this Weekend

The Star Telegram will be sponsoring a Tarrant County bridal show this weekend, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The show will be held at the Arlington Convention Center from 10am to 5pm. Pricing and a map with directions can be found on their website.

Adorable Flowergirl Dress

It is so exciting today that there are so many options for a bride to choose from.  This gives each bride the opportunity to have her wedding be unique and set apart from other weddings.  I stumbled across these flower girl dresses from Annie Girl and thought they were very cute.  There are many color and fabric options so you don’t have to just choose a plain white flower girl dress anymore.

Check out the many options and make your flower girl and your wedding stand out. If you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you can see these dresses at Patsy’s Bridal Boutique. All of their information is listed on Annie Girl.

Wedding Contest for Dallas/Fort Worth Brides

Gabrielle Tucker of Faire La Fete’ Productions ™ has a contest in celebration of their first anniversary. Faire La Fete’ Productions ™ will gift one lucky bride with a free “day-of” coordination package valued at $850.00. To enter the contest, simply post a comment at their blog with your wedding date, and the reason why you should win this awesome offer.

The winner will receive the following: Unlimited communication via phone or email, on-site coordination and management throughout the entire wedding day, contact of all service providers for times of arrival and set up procedures, design suggestions to refine and shape your wedding day, decoration of your Honeymoon Suite and more.

The contest ends Friday, May 2, 2008 at 2 PM/CST. The winner must reside in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Check out Faire La Fete’ Productions ™ blog today and leave your compelling reason to be the winner of this great prize.

Featured Wedding Photo: Your Perfect Wedding by Di Fiori

Something Blue is excited to share with you a new feature on our blog, our first Featured Wedding Photo. We will share our featured wedding photos on Mondays.

This beautiful floral arrangement was done by Robin Brogan, owner of Your Perfect Wedding by Di Fiori for a spring wedding at the Dallas Arboretum.

The iron candelabra arrangement contained pink coupe tulips, pink Majolika, lovely lydia, and Ilse spray roses, pink stock, peonies, pink wax flower, hot pink hydrangea, Sophie, Attache and Esperance Roses. The elements in the iron candelabras and throughout the wedding were palest pinks to hot pinks.

This is a gorgeous floral! If you are looking for your wedding florist, check out Your Perfect Wedding by Di Fiori.

Badgley Mischka Bridesmaid Dress

Badgley Mischka offers bridesmaid dresses along with fabulous wedding gowns.

Here’s a beautiful chocolate brown floor length strapless taffeta gown with godets bottom, style number 950104. This Mischka dress is also available in other colors.

Badgley Mischka also has many styles in a cocktail length.

Bridesmaid Dress from Charsa

Another option for a bridesmaid dress is from Charsa. They carry a wide range of dresses from floor length, tea, and knee length.

Here’s a Charsa dress in very popular colors in today’s weddings. This dress is called Betsy Charmeuse. It is an a-line silhouette, empire waist and scoop neckline in silk dupioni.

Lazaro Sea Blue Bridesmaid Dress

Here’s another great bridesmaid dress that Something Blue found. This is the perfect color and style for a destination beach wedding or just someone who loves this blue color.

In the Spring 2007 collection, this Sea blue silk shantung A-line dress has a gathered bodice and side button detail that are just gorgeous. It is style LZ3831.

Lazaro Black Bridesmaid Dress

Over the years, black has always been a popular dress color for some bridesmaids dresses but now since the black and white wedding is so popular Something Blue thought we would share some bridesmaids dresses with you.

The best thing about bridesmaids dresses these days is they are wearable after a wedding at many other functions. They aren’t just dresses stuck in the back of your closet anymore.

This dress, style LZ3726 is a black iridescent taffeta and tulle knee length dress, fluted tulle skirt accented with ribbon trim at hem. It is in the Spring 2007 Lazaro collection.

Brides, have fun shopping with your girls and picking out that perfect dress!

Bridesmaid Dresses for Your Wedding

Brides, this is your year to make all of your girlfriends happy. Those who are doing you the pleasure of being your bridesmaid, will be delighted to see the great dress options out there for 2008.

No more suffering through a wedding wearing a ugly bridesmaid dress. No more every girl needs to wear the exact same dress. Let your bridesmaids have a style that compliments them and goes with your color scheme. They will love you for it.

Something Blue will share some options for your upcoming wedding this week on bridesmaids week on Something Blue. Today’s dress is from the Melissa Sweet Collection with Priscilla of Boston.

It is a cotton lace and silk crinkle chiffon knee length V-neck dress with a tiered skirt. The skirt is available in several colors although it is classic in the pictured black and white. This is Style MS212.

Wedding Vendor Specials Offered

Brides, if you are a regular reader of the Something Blue blog or if you are brand new, we wanted to let you know about a new page on the blog called Current Vendor Specials. On this page, we will keep you updated with current specials being offered by the wedding professionals listed on the Dallas Wedding Planner Local Resource Directory.

We know how easy it is to become overwhelmed with the choices and the cost of your wedding items. Everything seems to cost more than you had anticipated. So, check out these specials. They can provide you with assistance on your wedding budget and help relieve some of that tension.

Here’s what is currently on the page, but be sure to check back for updates!

FAIRE LA FETE PRODUCTIONS
Save 10% off of any coordination service through the month of April.

JOSH MURRAY PHOTOGRAPHY
Mention Dallas Wedding Planner and inquire about their special.

PARTY TIME PRODUCTIONS
Our April special is $100 discount on our DJs and Bands if you book and confirm your event this month. Offer expires April 30, 2008.

POINT & SHOOT PHOTOGRAPHY
Mention DWP when booking and receive a Free 20 page Coffee Table Book.

SERENATA STRINGS
Complimentary wedding rehearsal CD.
Complimentary recording will be provided for vocalists.
Ask about their Special $100 discount.

YOUR PERFECT WEDDING by Di Fiori
Ask about a Free Bridal Bouquet when you Book Your Decor.