http://manolobrides.com Manolo Loves the Brides! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:50:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Aren't these just too pretty? LaVieja Tun Tun's bridal necklaces, hair clips, hair pins, and other bridal accessories are feminine, romantic, and perfect perhaps for the bride who wants a striking piece of jewelry to complement her classic, Hollywood, or vintage wedding day look. Hand formed soft fabric roses are ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/15/bridal-jewelry-by-lavieja-tun-tun/ We love weddings around here. We also tend to assume that by the time you come here, you're probably involved somehow in a wedding (I know it isn't always the case, but the majority of the time that's why people are looking for bridal blogs in the first place). We ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/14/just-jitters-or-is-it-more/ This is one of the most contentious questions in wedding planning, for some reason. I'm really not quite sure why it makes so many otherwise perfectly reasonable people froth at the mouth and arm themselves with the verbal equivalent of thermonuclear devices. It's just a question and there honestly is ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/13/do-you-want-to-invite-kids/ How cute are these itty-bitty bottles of soda with custom labels? Mike 78 recently posted an easy-peasy DIY pop bottle tutorial - with pics! - over at 100 Layer Cake. She suggests using them as reception seating cards, but brides and grooms could bottle just about anything (juice, cider, champagne, ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/12/diy-soda-wedding-favors-or-reception-seating-cards/ Yes, you read that right. I'm talking about cake hats. For those who want to top their wedding cakes with something other than the usual bride(s) and/or groom(s) statuettes, sparkle monograms, and anthropomorphic animalia, Alison Dawson of Toronto, Canada founded Chapeau de Gateau. Dawson creates custom cake hats using the ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/11/lovehate-the-chapeau-de-gateau-edition/ Remember Omnibus Driver? She wrote to ask a favor of us and it's such a little thing that I think we should all do what she says (and no one gets hurt). Please spread the word among your readers about this effort to help out a Chicago police officer who ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/10/click-to-vote-as-a-favor-to-omnibus-driver/ When I was small, grape hyacinths were my absolute favorite flower. They grew in abundance in our neighborhood, and I routinely found myself in trouble for picking them in neighbors' yards. As tiny as grape hyacinth blossoms are, I never really considered how they might be used in wedding flowers ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/10/grapity-blue/ When I went searching on this very blog for the overlap between weddings and wood (get your mind out of the gutter!), I did not think I'd find as much as I did. We all know that trees give their lives so that we can have wedding invitations that look ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/09/weddings-and-wood/ To start off the week, I wanted to feature some pics from a wedding designed by the awesome and amazingJesi Haack. I'm pretty sure that if a genie came to me and told me I could go back in time to attend three wedding, this would be one of them. ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/08/inspiration-f-u-n/ Weddings are usually expensive things. It's true that you can get married for the price of a marriage license and the fee for the officiant, but most people want to have a party, too. Most of us want to have pretty dresses, flowers, good food, photographs, music, rings, and all ... http://manolobrides.com/2010/03/07/7-quick-ways-to-save-on-your-wedding/