Vember & David Private Estate, Santa Barbara Photography: VINSON Photography

Vember & David Private Estate, Santa Barbara Photography: VINSON Photography

Lynette La Mere of Pure Joy Catering is always ready with some helpful planning ideas for just about any special occasion. Always generous with her talents and her recipes–be sure to check out the Pure Joy blog for more delectable and decadent, DIY treats for Super Bowl 2013! Here are just a couple of the [...]

One of the most popular posts of all time on this blog was as simple DIY post shared by Leslie Sigler of Lilly & Louise on creating beautiful, colorful, paper flowers. I recently came across a photo of these same type of flowers used on a wedding cake. It reminded me of Leslie’s great DIY [...]

Lucky in Love By porfavour Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Santa Barbara’s own porfavour is introducing their “Lucky in Love” DIY kit.  It includes 24 mini red chevron striped bags, 24 red envelopes & a sheet of “Lucky in Love stickers”. Simply add a lottery ticket to each envelope and it is such a sweet [...]

As I sat in my living room this weekend looking around at the boxes of lights, ornaments, and other holiday decor that I should be packing, I suddenly thought of a great way to distract myself from what I SHOULD be doing.  I saw a box of white string lights that never made it into [...]

Lighting design can be such a fun element in the overall look and feel of your event and there are so many options now available to brides and grooms.  Traditional chandeliers are always beautiful and impressive but how about exploring some equally impressive alternatives?  We gathered up some ideas below to help to inspire you [...]

With so many opportunities to have a spectacular wine country wedding in Santa Barbara I was recently pondering some new possibilities for using recycled wine corks for wedding decor, with some local wedding peeps.  Of course there is always the trusty DIY place card holder or Table Number holder that we have seen many times [...]

Looking for an alternative to the traditional guest book?  This adorable idea comes from Donna Romani Events and the wedding of Darby and Reece.  We featured their wedding album awhile ago but as I was looking back through some posts I had to call special attention to this charming idea.  Guests can have fun leaving [...]

The other weekend I was wandering through the C.A.L.M. Antique Show and came across this most lovely framed wedding handkerchief.  This was the second time I had seen one of these framed wedding handkerchiefs and thought it was a brilliant idea. It’s a simple thing to do and can be placed on a solid background [...]