Sweet Nothings

Happy Wednesday lovelies! Hope you've all been having a fabulous week. I'm so happy that we've made it to the midpoint!

I don't know about you but I've been craving a little sweetness lately. Divine & scrumptious cotton candy, marshmallow & macaroon shaded interiors and fashion. It's all so dreamlike & surreal, right? Bring on the opulent, candy colored excess! Oh it's pure yumminess, isn't it?

What have you been craving lately?

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Our Wedding - Cookie Table

Well here we are finally...the end of the recaps! Today I'm wrapping them up with the cookie favor table.

And of course, there's a story to why we chose to do a cookie bar as our favors. I've mentioned this before, so forgive me for repeating myself, but we're kinda known amongst our friends and family as being the "Christmas Cookie Experts" because we make and decorate sugar cookies every year. So we thought "wouldn't it be a great idea to make our cookie recipe in the shape of a wedding cake and enclose our recipe as our favor?" Fab idea, right? Well not really when you get into thinking about the logistics of making 200 cookies right before your wedding. Could have been a deal breaker but luckily we have our amazing friends, Court & Nat, who volunteered to take over that task for us. They seriously were lifesavers and did an absolutely amazing job!

Check out their beautiful work!

Now I'm gonna take you back to about 2 weeks before the wedding. Everything was all set as far as favors were concerned. We had a plan in action, cookie trials were complete, supplies were purchased. Truth be told, we really should have stopped thinking about cookies. But nope, not us. We came up with the brilliant idea to expand the whole cookie idea and to have a cookie table with two of our favorite traditional family recipes. Luckily our family members were game and agreed to make those cookies as well. Talk about pressing your luck!

My Yia made her amazing Greek Koulourakia. They're seriously to die for!

And Jen's sister made her family's Norwegian Krumkake. This is a Christmas staple in her family. Just delish!

And of course I couldn't stop there. I just had to get maroon colored m&ms so that our guests could top off their goody bags :)

The final product

So that about wraps it up for the wedding recaps. Hope you all enjoyed the peak into our day. And thanks so much for all the comments & feedback. I loved hearing what you all thought! xoxo

All images: Daniel Krieger

And They're Off!

I am so excited! Our planners just stopped by to pick up boxes and boxes of various wedding necessities for this weekend - OOT bags, bathroom baskets, flip flop basket, candy & candy bowls, pictures, votives, ring pillow, guest book, flower girl basket, etc. They're all out of here and I can finally breathe a little easier!

I can't believe the day is almost here. Only 3 more days to go and it looks like it's gonna be a gorgeous weekend. Keep your fingers crossed for me :)

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Crunch Time

Just for the weekend. I'm not going for good or for an extended period of time or anything...

It's the final weekend before the wedding and we have a lot of last minute things to take care of. Good thing we can do a lot of the things indoors because Tropical Storm Danny is going to make for a pretty rainy weekend.

Projects include making a photo list, ordering prints from the E session to display at the reception, putting vacation photos in frames for table themes, deciding which other photos to display, tracking down more frames, writing the sizes on the flip flop hang tags, labeling water bottles & chocolates, deciding attendant walking/standing order, write thank you notes for OOT bags, starting to assemble OOT bags & attendant gift bags, buy maroon colored M&Ms for cookie table (I know it's a cookie table but we wanted to give some candy away too :)), and possibly, if the labels and bags come in today, we'll put the monogram labels on the cookie bags.

Quite a lot to do but I know I'll feel so much better after we accomplish all of this.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

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Treats For Our Sweets

I've been totally consumed these past few weeks with all the little details that will make our guests feel comfortable, happy & extra spoiled. Be it the NY themed out of towner gift bags (I'd love to add this cute cookie favor above from One Girl Cookies. I'm totally obsessed with all things NY and I'm even going to add little Bacardi Big Apple Rum bottles), the flip flop & bathroom baskets (J thinks I'm crazy wanting to add makeup remover & cotton balls and hair gel. She doesn't think that people will really need that stuff at the wedding) or the ever expanding cookie table (originally we were just going to do our sugar cookie recipe as a favor but now it's expanded to Jen's family's Norwegian Krumkae and my family's Greek Koulourakia and we'll probably have some maroon & possibly aqua or teal colored m&ms in cookie jars on the table too).

I swear the more time you have before the wedding actually happens, the more things get added to the list! I'm just hoping that all of our guests have a wonderful time and like all the extra treats.

Sweet Favors

I've been debating what to give our guests as favors. Originally I was thinking cookies. We're known to our friends and family as being the "Christmas Cookie Experts" because we make and decorate sugar cookies every year. It's even become tradition to have a cookie decorating party with friends during the holidays and to make and decorate cookies with our niece and nephews every Christmas Eve. So it seemed only natural for cookies to be the choice favor since it's something that represents us.

Then I started thinking of the logistics of it all. I would want the cookies to be our recipe and to include the recipe on a card or label or hang tag. But it seems like a huge task to take on so close to the wedding. My planner Lindsay suggested packing up dry ingredients in a canister and attaching directions to add the wet ingredients. While this is a good suggestion, I'm still not sold on the idea.

So then I started thinking do we just have a favor bar? Offering a variety of different sweet treats - cookies & candy? I'd love to hear what you think.

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