"Must Have" Photograph on your Wedding Day

The day will be here before you know it, and your photographs will be an important part of remembering your day.  Make sure you have a "must have" photo list for your photographer.  We thought this would be a great shot to include on that list.  Your rings on top of a newspaper with your wedding date on it.  Well at least it would be one way to remember your anniversary...lol.

 

Source: projectwedding.com via EVCreations on Pinterest

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EVCreations Photo Contest Winner

Congratulations to Jeff & Hannah our current photo contest winner. Thank you for sharing your photos with us, you have won a $25 gift card to Target! Thanks for everyone who participated, and enjoy being newlyweds.

XO EVCreations

Must-Take Wedding Photo

Must-Take Wedding Photo!

Check out this adorable wedding picture...it's a picture of a bride and groom holding pictures of their parents on their wedding day.  Love It!  We are not sure who to credit for the photograph, but we wanted to share because we thought it was such cute idea.

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Who Feels Like Chicken Tonight?

This recipe just looks too good not to share...thank you to "My Kitchen Apron" for posting it.

Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken

Source: mykitchenapron.blogspot.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Ingredients

• 3 lb. bag of frozen chicken breasts

• 1 bottle Frank's Wings Buffalo Sauce

• 1 packet Ranch Dip Mix

• 2 TBSP butter

Few Easy Steps
1. Put frozen chicken, wing sauce, and ranch dip mix into crock pot.
2. Cook on low at least 6 to 7 hours
3. Using two forks, shred chicken & return to crock pot.
4. Add butter.
5. Cook on low for an additional hour.

We haven't tried this yet, but we are looking forward to it.  We plan on making a blue/cream cheese spread to go on the inside of  a deli roll or maybe a panini and eating that way.  Of course "For Our Mom's" we will have some kind of veggie accompanying it.

XO EVCreations

O.P.I. Fall collection 2011

Loving the OPI Fall 2011 Nail Polish Colors
The Collection is called Touring America.

Source: petitelefant.com via Red on Pinterest

As always OPI doesn't dissapoint in naming the Nail Polish Colors....

♥ Green: uh-oh roll down the window
♥ Green grey: Suzi takes the wheel
♥ Grey: French quarter for your thoughts
♥ Brown: a-taupe the space needle
♥ Red brown: I brake for manicures
♥ Dark brown: get in the expresso lane
♥ Navy purple blue: road house blues
♥ Deep purple: honk if you love O.P.I.
♥ Red: color to diner for
♥ Hot pink: I eat mainly lobster
♥ Orange pink: are we there yet?
♥ Sparkly pink: my address is “Hollywood”

Which one is your favorite?

XO EVCreations

Alternative to the Traditional Wedding Guest Book

Wine Bottle Guest Book Kit
A Unique Way to Remember your Big Day

Your guests will sign your favorite bottles of wine instead of a traditional guest book, and on your milestone anniversaries you can drink the wine and read your guests' well wishes. It is a great way to be able to reminisce about your day and have an eternal keepsake, as well.

EVCreations creates personalized labels to adhere to your wine bottles, provides you with an instruction sign for the guest book table, and gives you a special pen that will permanently write on the wine bottles. You will have everything you need to have a unique guest book at your wedding...all you need to do is add the wine.

Contact us at www.evcreations.com if you have any questions.

XO EVCreations

Owl Themed Wedding

Photo Credits: Top Row – Owl Cake, Owl Soap; Bottom Row – Wine Bottle Guest Book Kit

EVCreations "I Got Married in July" Photo Contest Winner

Congratulations to the EVCreations "I Got Married in July" Guest Book Photo Contest WINNER.

John & Tiffany
Wedding Date: July 23, 2011

John and Tiffany have won a $25 Target Gift Card

Thanks for everyone who participated and shared your photos with us, and enjoy being newlyweds.

XO EVCreations

Etsy Wedding Find

Wedding Welcome Card

Having out of town guests? Let them know the timeline of everything with this super cute Wedding Welcome Card.


You can have these custom made for you by JLDesigns718 on Etsy.com.

XO EVCreations

EVCreations is having a PHOTO CONTEST and you could Win a $25 Target Gift Card!

Enter the “I Got Married in July” Guest Book PHOTO CONTESTPost a photo of your EVCreations Wine Bottle Guest Book on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/evcreations or send your pic to us in a email to evcreationsllc@gmail.com for a chance to win at $25 Target Gift Card. Make sure you include your name and wedding date.

1. Entries must be from EVCreations customers who were married in July of 2011.
2. Entries must be submitted before September 30, 2011 (11:59 p.m. EST)
3. One winner will be selected out of the entries
4. The WINNER of the $25.00 Target Gift Card will be announced on October 4, 2011

XO EVCreations

EVCreations "I Got Married in June" Photo Contest Winner

Congratulations to the EVCreations "I Got Married in June" Guest Book Photo Contest WINNER.
Jamie & Hunter
Wedding Date: June 25, 2011 Jamie and Hunter have won a $25 Target Gift Card

Thanks for everyone who participated and shared your photos with us, and enjoy being newlyweds.
XO EVCreations

EVCreations is in a Contest and Needs Your Vote!

Fine Tuxedos.com is looking for the next BIG product to sell on their site, and we are in the running for it...how exciting! We need to get the most votes to be the winner, and we hope we can get votes from our customers (past & present) or anyone who thinks the Wine Bottle Guest Book is a great alternative to a traditional guest book.

We are Product#1: The Guest Wine Bottle (Make sure you mention it in your votes)

How to Vote (You can do one or all)
1. Visit FineTuxedos.com Blog and leave a comment with your vote : Product#1: The Guest Wine Bottle

2. If you have Twitter just tweet "I vote for Product#1: The Guest Wine Bottle #FineTuxedoVote"

3. Write your OWN blog post about the contest and give finetuxedos.com the link in the comment section!

Thanks for all of your support and wish us luck.

XO EVCreations

EVCreations Photo Contest Winner

Congratulations to the EVCreations "I Got Married in May" Guest Book Photo Contest WINNER

Sara & Peter

Wedding Date:  May 29, 2011

Sara and Peter have won a $50 gift card to Target. 

Thank you for everyone who participated and shared your photos with us,

and enjoy being newlyweds.

XO EVCreations

Show off your New Last Name

Once you’re married and have a new last name why not show it off with this Personalized Name Print.   Alphabet Art Photos sells this 10x24 print for $29.95.  You choose the letter images you want from the gallery of letters and create a special keepsake that will be cherished for years to come.

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Any Poker Loving Grooms Out There?

I found a great ring on Etsy for any groom that loves playing cards. ZandersCreations makes these great Sterling Silver Poker Punched Bands. The ring is 2mm thick around and displays the playing card symbols all the way through. These rings are custom made so ZandersCreations can make the ring any size you need, and it will only take 2-3 weeks to complete.

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Dance The Night Away

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Want to get your guests on the dance floor without any excuses of tired and aching feet? Incorporate a flip flop basket to be part of your reception decor.

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You can buy flip flops to match your wedding colors at Old Navy, The Dollar Store or even Michaels (Arts and Craft Store)....just make sure you get them in several different sizes to accommodate your guests.

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You will also want to buy a basket to put the flip flops in. Decorate it yourself or if you have the money to spend you can buy a flip flop bucket from The Macbeth Collection.

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As an added touch you should create a sign to attach to the basket letting your guests know that the flip flops are for the taking. Have fun with it...but if you have any trouble thinking of something clever to say just google it, I am sure you will find something that you like.

Photo Credit

XO EVCreations

A Romantic Pink Wedding

A Romantic Pink Wedding
Thank you to White Thistle Design Bridal Designs for including my wine bottle guest book kit, and putting these great items together.

XO Vicki

Things I Wish I'd Had at My Wedding

A collection of gorgeous things from Etsy Wedding Divas!!
Thank you to A Precious Memory for including my wine bottle guest book kit, and putting these great items together.

XO Vicki

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there, and especially my Dad. I know a lot of people say that their Dad is the greatest, but mine really is :). He has always been there for me. I remember being a kid and having him rock me in the rocking chair in the middle of the night when I was sick. Along with my Mom he came to my gymnastic meets, and he cheered me on at my basketball and soccer games. He exposed me to many different things to find out what my passion was in life. He introduced me to photography (one of his biggest passions), and I still have the penny collection that he had me start when I was 8. My Dad taught me how to ride a bicycle and drive, but most of all he always made me feel loved and cared about. I couldn't have asked for better parents, and on Father's Day I just want to say "I Love You Dad!"

XO Vicki

Writing Your Own Vows?

If you are planning to write your own vows what would be cuter then to have them in this personalized engraved notebook?

Writing your own vows is such a sweet idea, but when the time comes to say them most people need to have them written down. Instead of having your vows on a crumpled up piece of paper or a plain old index card, how about writing them in this personalized little notebook? The Etsy shop braggingbags personalizes a 3"x4" notebook with the words vows and your initials inside a heart and arrow. It's such a great place to write down your vows for your ceremony and keep them forever. Both adorable and useful...I just love it :)

Photograph courtesy of:
http://www.annieagarwal.com/

XO Vicki

Calling Wine Lovers!

Check out this Etsy Treasury if you are looking for unique wine items.
Thank you to The Charmed Glass Shop for including my wine bottle guest book kit, and putting these great items together.

XO Vicki

Our 1st Anniversary

My husband and I just celebrated our first year wedding anniversary on May 8, 2011.  I can't believe a year has gone by since our wedding day.....I still feel like we are newlyweds.  So question to all of you blog readers......how long are you considered newlyweds?

On the morning of our anniversary I was woken up to the smell of bacon.  When I went into the kitchen my husband was making pancakes...yum.  We had pancakes, bacon and of course a special breakfast wouldn't be complete without mimosas.  We even got to dust off the champagne flutes we used on our wedding day.  I should have surprised him and came out for breakfast in my wedding dress....lol.  Hey I would wear that dress every day if I could :)

After breakfast we just relaxed and my husband and I each bought each other an anniversary gift...so we got to open up presents.  I stayed true to the 1st year traditional anniversary gift and I got him something to do with paper.  I found a great shop on Etsy called myarttocherish who takes your pictures and edits them and then add words or poems to them.   I got my husband an 11x14 picture of our first wedding dance and had her put our wedding song lyrics on it...It turned out really cute.   My husband didn't follow tradition, and I didn't mind when I opened up a beautiful necklace that matched the earrings he gave me at our rehearsal dinner last year.

We had made reservations for dinner at The Capital Grill.  They knew it was our anniversary and when we got seated there was a nice card stating Happy Anniversary at our table....I kind of felt like I was on my honeymoon again because they would do that kind of thing in Jamacia.  The Capital Grill was great, we got complimentary champagne and free dessert.  I tried not to eat to much of the dessert because I knew I had the top of our wedding cake defrosting for dessert when we got back home.   When we got home we cut our cake, and we both had a piece....let me tell you it wasn't bad at all.  The frosting was just as good as ever and the cake itself was not bad at all.....I really expected worse.

 After dinner and after the cake cutting we opened our 1st bottle from our wine bottle guest book collection.  We read all of the guests signatures, and they were really funny.  You can definetly tell who signed in the beginning of the night and those who signed later after a couple of cocktails...lol.  It was a nice moment and a great way to reminisce about the day and who was there.  After we finished the wine bottle, I rinsed the wine bottle out and now it found its place in the wine rack in the dining room.  Even though the bottle is now empty, I'll never throw those bottles out they have too much meaning. Wow now I have to wait 4 more years to open another bottle for our 5th Anniversary. 

We are now selling Wine Bottle Guest Book Kits, since there was a lot of interest in them after our wedding.  Please check out our shop on Etsy if you would like to have this unique guest book option at your wedding or if you have any questions.

XO Vicki

Lisa & Matthew's Wedding

I love when customers share wedding pictures with me of their wine bottle guest books in action.  Thank you to Lisa & Matthew for sending me a picture from their April 23, 2011 wedding.
 

Congatulations to Lisa & Matthew and enjoy being newlyweds :)

XO Vicki 

Happy Cinco de Mayo

My husband and I got married on May 8, 2010, and I can't believe our 1-Year Anniversary is quickly approaching....where does the time go? In honor of getting married so close to Cinco de Mayo and the fact that I love love love margaritas, we had a margarita machine at our wedding. We had a double margarita machine and on the one side we had "Mr & Mrs" Margaritas and on the other side "Matrimonial" Mudslides.....they were delicious.

Here is a picture of my husband enjoying a Matrimonial Mudslide :)

This is No Ordinary Wedding

Looking for wedding items that will make your special day unique? Take a look at this great collection brought to you from The Etsy Wedding Divas.

Click here to get all the information you need about these wonderful items.

Happy Wedding Planning.
XO Vicki

Bunny Cake Pops

So I wanted to get creative for Easter this year and instead of dying eggs, I thought I would make these cute little bunny cake pops I saw in a recipe book by Bakerella. I started this project at 4:30 in the afternoon. 

You bake a cake, crumble it up in a bowl, add the frosting and mix it in so it is more like a cookie dough consistency.  Then you mold it into the shape you need...that part took me a long long time.

Then you take the molded cake and dip it into colored melted chocolate.  Here I am using white and pink.  This part took me a long time too.  You have to let the chocolate drip off so it looks smooth.

Once you have the cake pops covered in the chocolate, then you can start decorating them.  Unfortunately for me, the molding and chocolate dipping part took me close to 5 hours.  I would assume the more you do them the easier it gets.  I had so much fun decorating the pops and watching the bunnies come to life :). 

I bought candy eyes at the store, and I used candy corns for the ears and a jumbo candy heart for the nose.  The pens I am using are edible as well :)

Here is a pic of some of the gang.

What the bunny cake pops look like close up.

I felt bad putting the pop covers over the bunnies heads, I felt like I was suffocating them. 

I just like this picture, it looks like the two bunnies like each other, doesn't it?  LOL

So my little project ended up taking me, and the help of my husband until 3am.  But they turned out so cute I am happy I did them, and they taste really good too :).

XO Vicki

Great Giveaway For A Bride-To-Be

The Etsy Wedding Divas would like to announce another Amazing Giveaway and this time it's a treasure hunt! Every day a new item is revealed until all 16 items worth $1200 is shown. What an amazing prize to win for a "Bride to Be". Please follow the link below to enter the contest before March 12, 2011... You could be the next lucky Winner...Good Luck!


Etsy Wedding Treasuries Link

Breakfast at Tiffany's Bridal Shower Theme

Today Breakfast at Tiffany's was on television, and I just had to stop what I was doing and watch the movie.  This is one of those movies that no matter how many times you have seen it, you can watch it again and again. 

To make the movie even better for me is the fact that I am a huge fan of Tiffany's jewelry.  I can just imagine that if I lived in NYC I would walk past their window on fifth avenue a couple of times a week to window shop. 

A good friend of mine had given me my first piece of Tiffany jewelry for being a bridesmaid in her wedding 7 years ago.  I still remember that day, I was so excited.  She had given me the Venetian Link bracelet which she had as well.  The card that came with it said that this piece of jewelry now links us together forever.

Since then I have given the same bracelet to my mom and sister, so we are all linked together.  I have also purchased and received multiple Tiffany items and I just love them all.

Last year when I was planning my wedding my mother and bridesmaids had thrown me a bridal shower with the Breakfast at Tiffany's theme.  It couldn't have been more perfect for me.  Everything was decorated in Tiffany blue with white ribbon.  My sister who was the Matron of Honor thought up all the little details from the Tiffany inspired invitations that her company Designed by M.E. Stationery created to the cake that looked like a Tiffany box.  All the planning that went into my bridal shower made that day very special for me.  Here are some pictures of the fabulous items that were part of my shower. 

 Guest Book, Outside of Invitation, Homemade Heart Shaped Soap, Favor Box, Invitation, Daisy Centerpiece, Chair, Cake

Keep Calm

Sometimes you just need to Keep Calm and......

Photo Credits: Top Row - left, middle, right; Middle Row - left, middle, right; Bottom Row - left, middle, right

Enter To Win - The 2nd Etsy Treasuries Giveaway

Thank you to all that joined our 1st treasury giveaway, and congratulations to Krystal L our lucky winner.  If you didn't win the first time, don't be discouraged because the Etsy Wedding Divas are sponsoring another giveaway, and one lucky Bride-To-Be will win sixteen fabulous items.  The giveaway is valued at over $1200.00, and the actual items that will be won are featured in the image below.  This promotion begins February 7, 2011 - February 11, 2011 so visit http://www.etsytreasuries.com/ for entry details. 


Good Luck and Happy Wedding Planning :)

EVCreations
Etsy Wedding Diva Member

Inspiration for Las Vegas Weddings

For those brides who are tying the knot in Sin City, we put together items to give you some inspiration. Viva Las Vegas!

Photo Credits: TOP ROW: left, middle, right; MIDDLE ROW: left, middle, right; BOTTOM ROW: left, middle, right

Win over $1200 of items for your Wedding from the Etsy Treasuries Giveaway

The Etsy Wedding Divas are sponsoring a giveaway, and one lucky Bride-To-Be will win sixteen fabulous items. The giveaway is valued at over $1200.00! This promotion will begin January 31, 2011 - February 4, 2011 so visit www.etsytreasuries.com for entry details.

Good Luck and Happy Wedding Planning :)

EVCreations
Etsy Wedding Diva Member

Need a Cute Gift Idea for your Bridal Party?

I was on Etsy and came across these adorable personalized hand painted bridal party wine glasses by Etsy Seller SAM Designs. These beautiful and unique bridal party wine glasses can be personalized with any style of dress, color, flowers, names and dates, or other personalized sayings. They make the perfect thank you gift to the girls who took part in your special day - Or give them to your bridal party as an invite to be in your wedding!

A Great Alternative To The Traditional Wedding Guest Book

Looking for a fabulous alternative to the traditional guest book for your wedding? We offer this unique item-

Our wine bottle guest book kit includes four custom wine bottle labels created just for you, an instruction sign for your guests, and a special pen that will write on your wine bottles.  Just replace the labels of yor favorite bottles of wine with your custom wine bottle labels. (Each of the 4 labels is customized with a special anniversary date - ie. 1 year, 5 year, 10 year, 20 year.)  At your wedding, your guests will sign the wine bottles and on each milestone anniversary, you can drink the wine and read your guest's wishes.  What a great way to reminisce about your wedding.

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