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