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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.