Me and my fiance decided to have a cupcake tier and a mini. cake on the top. The thing is we are making it ourselves. The baking part will be easy but decorating is another thing. I want to have flowers or maybe butterflies. Especially since the place we are getting married is famous of monarch butterflies. We have thought much about the decoration of the cake and cupcakes. But I have no idea where to start. I know it would be hard to do, but I want it to look somewhat professional. Any one knows a website that shows how to make fancy looking flowers or any kind of fancy cake/cupcake decorations?? Or maybe can just explain how to do the fancy looking decorating?

Since you are saving money doing it yourself — why not purchase some butterflies from a cake decorating store. Here is one:
http://www.bizrate.com/partysupplies/oid628665245__start–20.html

This also popped up in the search - check out this for your wedding program:
http://www.advantagebridal.com/mobuwepr.html

For the mini cake on top I would cover it with white icing making sure it is as smooth as you can get it. Then, using the pastry bag and a small circular tip, make polka dots all over the sides. Keep them random and cover the top with some beautiful flowers. Talk with you local florist and order some flowers that do not have pesticides on them and have a friend or the bakery insert them directly into the cake just prior to the reception. If you use a hardier flower (not white roses) it should last. Or, look into silk flowers. Either way it will be beautiful.

As far as icing the cupcakes, I would use a pastry bag again with a star tip. This will give you some beautiful texture to the icing but you won't have to worry about it being perfect, the butterfly will cover most of it.

Oh, I have another idea — for your table arrangements, you can fill a flower pot (the inexpensive terracotta ones with a matching saucer) with soil and plant grass seed (2 weeks before the day) . Using hot glue, attach more of the same butterflies to different lengths of wooden skewers and insert them into the grass. Tie a beautiful satin ribbon around the flower pot.

I hope that gets your creative juices flowing. Congrats and good luck with the arrangements.

Every bride to be starts with an inspiration or thought as to how their wedding can be not only beautiful, but unique. Inspiration may be found in day to day activities, magazines, hobbies, or even romance novels or fairtales.

To help out brides along, we’ll be publishing great wedding ceremony and wedding reception ideas to help inspire you to create the wedding of your dreams - whether you just needed a few new tips or find yourself loving one of our complete wedding themes and just need to make it yours.

One of our all time favorites is the Cinderella Fairytale Wedding. Read on to see how one bride made her fairytale come true.

A Cinderella Fairytale Wedding

A pure white dress, flowing down to the floor, a train of endless length following gracefully behind, the veil placed strategically under a crown fit for a queen. This is our Princess, and this is her fairytale wedding.

Just imagine walking into a ballroom draped in exquisite gold fabrics and a red carpet leading down to two thrones in the middle. Gold and silver chairs on both sides of the long red carpet. The carpet comes to an end at three steps leading up to a platform of gold and white, two tall thrones, decorated in jewels and dark colored cushions, sitting side-by-side, the prince standing before the left throne. A grand organ in the back right corner of the ballroom plays the wedding theme as the princess makes her way down the carpet, her long train following behind.

She is wearing a flowing gown, a long veil, a gold crown on top of the veil. She is simple, yet elegant, with a gold necklace around her neck, decorated with a charm, or maybe she prefers a stunning Victorian inspired pearl necklace set. The dress is white, maybe with a gold trim, white strapped heels decorate her feet. A gorgeous bouquet of white roses (bridal white signifies happy love), a small gold ribbon keeps these roses bundled together.

The bridesmaids to the right are dressed in light colored Victorian ball gowns, long gloves matching their gowns, and each one is holding a single yellow rose in their hand (a yellow rose means “I care”, and signifies friendship), the groomsmen to the left in white gloves and tuxes, all standing in front of the platform, but not blocking the stairs up. Victorian style jewelry would be perfect for these gorgeous bridesmaids. The prince is dressed in a tux as well, with white gloves on, but unlike his groomsmen, he has one white rose pinned to the front of his tux.

The couple give their final kiss, and turn to their audience. As the ceremony comes to a close, the couple walk side by side down the long red carpet, white rice being tossed into the air, not at our couple, and they go outside to be greeted by two white horses, and a round white carriage. The couple ride off in this Cinderella style carriage.

For the after party of the happy couple, the fairytale can be carried over to the wedding reception. The room can be costumed in a Victorian ball style; gold, deep red, and white would be the ideal colors. The tables can be draped in deep red cloth with gold trim, white plates on top, a bouquet of white and red roses (these two colors combined symbolize unity) in gold vases in the center of each table.

The tables all surround a dance floor in the middle of the room, white and red rose petals scattered across, this will be where the couple shall share their first dance as a married couple and it should be special. A small stage beside the dance floor would be perfect for a small band.

Most importantly, the couple, as well as their guests, should enjoy themselves, so dance the night away! Don’t forget to thank your guests with Fairytale Wedding Favors so they’ll always remember your happily every after fairytale wedding.

Your best friend since grade school is finally tying the knot and has, of course, asked you to be the best man. During the ceremony, you’ll be at his side with all eyes on the happy couple, but at the reception, it’ll be your time to shine in the spotlight. A tradition steeped in history, the toast given by the best man is expected to be a heartfelt, but not overly sappy, speech honoring your friend and his new wife.

Here are some helpful tips on how to give a memorable toast as the best man.

Preparation is of the utmost importance when asked to be the best man in someone’s wedding. You’ll have several responsibilities ahead of you, such as the ever-important wedding toast, so preparing early will allow you plenty of time to edit or re-write if need be. Even if you’re at ease in front of a crowd, a wedding reception is a completely different environment than most are used to, so don’t rely on the hopes that “something will just come to you” when it’s that time.

A wedding can often be an emotional time as well, so you don’t want to find yourself scrambling for something meaningful to say at the last minute in front of the crowd. Begin preparing your speech by writing down whatever comes into your mind first. Let the words flow without worrying about whether they would really make complete sense yet or not, you know what you’re talking about, and there’s plenty of time for revisions since you started planning early.

Practice can really help with perfecting a wedding toast. It’s helpful if you time yourself in front of a mirror, this way you’ll get an idea of exactly how long it takes you from start to finish. Then have a friend, not the groom-to-be of course, listen to the speech and offer their constructive criticism if needed.

Be sure you speak clearly without being too fast or too slow. You’ll want the people in the back of the room along with those that may be hard of hearing to understand what you’re saying too.

If you don’t already know the bride-to-be, make it a point to get to know her sometime before the wedding, or ask your friend some thoughtful questions about her. Enlist the help of her friends and family for anecdotes or stories from her childhood that perhaps you could tie in with something about your friend. An amusing or meaningful story about the groom’s youth would also be well received in a wedding toast as it shows who he was, not only who he is today.

Save the jokes and one-liners for amateur night at the comedy club and focus on the happy couple instead. Remember who your audience is, a good number of people will either be the elderly or young children so use your good judgment when giving your toast.

A little humor is always fine of course, but profanities or wild stories about the groom or the couple will make your speech remembered for all the wrong reasons, not to mention embarrassing the newlyweds as well.

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Wedding Makeup
I used …

Face:

Primer from sephora
MAC NW20 SFF mixed w/strobe cream
MAC NW20 select cover
Sue Devitt bronzer for contouring
Lorac snake charmer blush
Bobbi Brown Apricot shimmerbrick
MAC Shimpagne MSF
MAC Translucent powder to set

Eyes: all MAC

Untitled paint as base
Woodwinked on lid
Patina on crease
Satin Taupe on crease
Shroom on brow bone
Embark on outter v
Embark wet to line lid
Blacktrack fluidliner on waterline

Lips: all MAC

Stripdown lip liner
viva glam lipstick can’t remember which 1.
Big baby plushglass

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Eric Richter, Marketing Manager, Delkin Devices joins host Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI 2008 Booth to share some tips on using their ImageRouter CompactFlash/UDMA card reader and software. ImageRouter allows you to mount multiple cards and easily download them into your digital workflow. For more information visit: http://www.delkin.com/

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I'm planning my own wedding for Sept. 2009 and I would like some tips. Advice from those married in Georgia are greatly appreciated - I'm looking for a venue to host both ceremony and reception. I have decided to have a small, informal wedding, about 50 people, considering a Friday evening. Any thoughts would help.

Thanks!
We were both born in Atlanta, but currently live in the Clayton County area, so we would like to find a venue in Fulton or Clayton county.

Here are some places I found quickly online:
http://www.hazlehursthouse.net/
http://www.pinehursttearoom.com/
http://www.atlwc.com/
http://www.canongateoccasions.com/locations.php
http://www.canongateoccasions.com/locations.php

Good luck!!