Favor Bag How-To

Brooklyn Bride has a great tutorial on Etsy today on these super cute favor bags.

Tea Tins

I would love to use tea tins for flower centerpieces at the wedding. I think it goes really well with the garden and bike theme. I have a small collection of tea tins at home that I sometimes put flowers in. This site has a great assortment of colored tins.

Photos: I Suwanee

DIY

I love this idea...Jen from Purl Soho (one of my favorite fabric and knitting shops in the city) recently got married. Since she has an AMAZING fabric hook-up, she began collecting fabrics to make linens for all the tables at the reception.

She became worried at one point when she realized she was going to be left with several orange and green napkins after the wedding. Luckily many of her guests wanted to take theirs home with them, and with the ones that got left behind...she made this amazing quilt! What a great momentum from the wedding!

The pattern for the quilt is available in Joelle Hoverson's book, Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts

For more details on Jen's wedding, check out the latest issue of Martha Stewart Weddings.

Photos: Purl Bee

I really like the idea of having candles everywhere at the reception. I think this is a great way to spice up the look of glass hurricanes and if you are going with the whole monogram thing, it gives you a great opportunity to use it!

Photo: Bhg.com

It's an Etsy wedding...

I am all about a handmade, diy wedding and what I can't make myself I am definitely going to search for on Etsy. They offer so many beautiful, handmade goods.

Photos: Palomasnest; SilverGarden; EmmaGordonLondon; Chprfan

Flowers

I definitely want to do my own flowers...this is something I have known since I got engaged. Florists can be sooo expensive and I think I'm capable of arranging flowers myself, apparently a lot of brides are doing this now because when I went to look up wholesale flowers online there were many who seemed to cater to do-it-yourself brides.

I have the luxury of having the flower district here in NY but because we are most likely doing a destination wedding, it would be too difficult to transport fresh flowers myself so I found a few online that I really like.

Growers Box
Blooms by the Box
Fifty Flowers


Photo: flowersandsupplies.com