Wedding cakes, table and aisle arrangements
I’m constantly on the lookout for flower arrangements wherever I am (my purses must now always have room for my camera), so its a habit that I think my friends have adopted. But I don’t think its that unusual — when I was working, complete strangers constantly took pictures of my work. This friend, who asked not to be named, didn’t take these pictures recently, but at a bridal shower at the Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach in 2006.
I’m not a fan of wedding magazines, since what you see in them seem so far from what real people do, and bridal shows are sort of a step down from wedding magazines. Bridal shows, after all, are where vendors put out their best to attract the most. But I like this arrangement — its pretty, and not too fancy, but still classy. The extra vases of green mums and green cymbidiums add an extra touch to what is essentially a relatively plain arrangement of white roses and white mums. By the way, does that card say “Flowers by LAPD”? Heheh.
Need a wedding website?
A website to pull together all the details, guest information and registry links (so important!) is just about necessary for weddings planned nowadays. However, that’s not necessarily the case — I have attended a few weddings that didn’t bother with a wedding website. But I figure as the population gets more technically savvy, it’ll become standard practice, the way online registries have become standard practice.
I have built, with my husband’s help, at least one wedding website. It was for free, so it was a big pain in the butt — for the work that my husband and I did (creating original graphics, processing photos, copy editing bios and the HTML work), I would have charged a paying client at least $2,500.
Is there a way around paying for a website? Of course! And I’m this close to heartily recommending this route. Let me explain.
