wedding details | for fun

okay, so i realize that our wedding is like old news now. but i get to relive it every single day with our wedding photos and yes-i do look at my wedding pictures every single day. (at least i have so far) :)
anyway, I never got to talk about some of the details we had to make our wedding that much more special so I wanted to offer a fun alternative to all you brides out there for cake toppers! :)
Aric and I MADE our own...from scratch! :) well from clay. but you know what i mean.
I forever had wanted to just buy a little cursive L to place on top of our cake- but Aric was more creative than I was.
He researched online for a while, then we went to Hobby Lobby and bought ourselves some modeling clay. (It's alot easier said than done) That clay did NOT want to cooperate with me, and if it weren't for my sweet, patient husband- I would have never finished mine.
:)
There are several places where you can get custom cake toppers made- (but i'm not gonna lie, they are e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e...so if you're working on a budget and want to have unique cake toppers to show of a little more personality about you and your fiancee then try doing it yourself! :)

Here are some pictures of ours at the wedding!
(Thanks to Table4weddings.com!)

wedding invitations | and more

ah, it seems i have neglected this poor little blog for an entire week! I do apologize. Aric and I were taking full advantage of our last free weekend until our wedding (?!?!?! CRAZY!!) and then we had some family stuff come up at the beginning of the week-so I want to thank you all for your kind words and prayers- and your graciousness while giving us patience to get back to all the phone calls and emails! :)
I finally got around to taking some pictures of our wedding invitations to share with you all! :) i'm not gonna lie-it took us entirely too long to pick these out! I guess it's all the creative vibes in both of us that we simply could not decide what we wanted! (too many ideas, and still trying to keep the costs down!) so that is where Hodge Podge came into the picture. We love that little place now! we spent several afternoons there, bugging the sweet girls that work there with our indecisiveness... but they were patient, and they were so good about spending the time with us to know exactly what we wanted...
long story short-I would highly recommend going to hodge podge for any of your invitation needs! they do a wonderful job! Here are a couple pics of our invitations...they are simple and sweet-and i freakin' love them! :)




yes i do realize this is just an envelope-but its the perfect shade of sparkly green, and it turns out-it matches our flower girl dresses perfectly!


in other news, we got our last senior album in last week so I took a few pictures of that too! i love these little albums! They are perfect for seniors, kids, families, bridals or even engagements! (i'm seriously thinking about ordering a huge one for aric and i...)










and just for fun-since my parents TRIED to make me swear up and down that I would not post any pictures that I took of them on the internet-I had to show you internet world just how stinkin' adorable my parents are! i love them dearly, and i just don't think love emmulates itself in a picture much better than this... one of these days i will talk them in to letting me take them out for a shoot that lasts longer than 5 minutes-but for now, internet meet my parents. :)

wedding season is officially gearing up for us this weekend!! and we are more than excited to be kicking it off with Joe and Melanie's wedding!!! It's gonna be beautiful, I just know it!!!! So be looking for that and another engagement session on the blog next week!!

aric + casey