Wedding Details

After months of looking forward to our wedding and honeymoon, it all went by so fast.  We've been back home for almost two weeks now and I looked back at some of our pictures.  I thought I would share some of the things that made our wedding special to us.  

We decided to have a small wedding so we chose the Honeybee Inn in Horicon, WI.  We had a wonderful time there.  The home and the rooms are beautiful and we enjoyed a delicious three course breakfast every day.  Barb, the innkeeper, also planned the details for our wedding which we were very happy with. 

This is my bouquet.  I got the idea from looking at bridal magazines and websites.  It is very special to me because our families helped make the flowers.  You'll also notice that we found two antique honeybee pins that were included.  

Jason and I enjoy looking at antique stores and finding treasures.  After we were engaged, we started looking for a bride and groom cake topper and found these.  They are actually salt and pepper shakers, but we really liked them and they worked well as our cake topper.  Our cake was made by Barb at the Honeybee Inn and it was layers of chocolate and white cake with butter cream frosting.  The tablecloth is also an antique store treasure.

We asked my parents to use this piece of wood to make a sign for our wedding.  Krista helped and they surprised us with this honeybee themed sign that turned out so great. 

This quilt was a gift from my parents, made by my mom.  It is so beautiful and it has a honeybee theme as well.  There is honeybee fabric and words to a song are embroidered in it.  The first line is "If I was a flower growing wild and free, all I'd want is you to be my sweet honeybee".  It's from the song "All I Want Is You" from the movie Juno.

We had a Polaroid guestbook and we had fun taking everyone's pictures to include.  Jason's mom found this honeybee frame so we included a past picture of us by the guestbook.

These honeybee cookies were made by my mom and she also got us this honeybee serving tray.  The cookies were so cute and so delicious!

I made fabric bunting for decorations at the Honeybee Inn.

We couldn't resist these honeybee and bug chocolates we found.

Jason and I made a few chalkboard signs for decorations. 

We enjoyed some of our favorite drinks (Izze and Sprecher Rootbeer - made in WI).

Our families surprised us and sang to us!  The song was "Anyone Else But You", also from the movie Juno.

I wore a headpiece that I made, with my mom's help.  It was made of crocheted flowers. 

My earrings were made of pearls and crystals from Jenny's bridal veil and my necklace was remade from a vintage necklace we purchased at a flea market. 

My bracelet was also made from pearls and crystals from Jenny's veil.  Our rings were handmade by a jeweler in San Diego, Alexandra Hart.  Jason worked with her to design them based on a ring of hers that we saw at a shop in Milwaukee. 



Our favors were sugars and spices from The Spice House, outside of Milwaukee.  We like to shop there and we always find something fun to try.  We also added some recipes and heart shaped measuring spoons.   

Our welcome bags included honeybee and Wisconsin themed goodies.

We have so many wonderful memories!

Kauai

Here are a couple of photos of our travels on the Garden Island.

A Few Wedding Favorites

Thanks to Josh (my brother-in-law) for being such a great wedding photographer!!  We'll post more when we return from our honeymoon...

Owl Quilt

This is my latest project.  I call it "Smart Little Hoot".  I don't know who it will be for, but I had to make it because the fabric is so cute!



  

Mooooo...Marriage License

Our wedding is less than two weeks away!  We're getting married in WI so we had to go to the county where the wedding will take place to get our marriage license last week.  It was the last major item to take care of before the big day.  Since we were in WI, we stayed in Milwaukee for the weekend and visited some of our favorite places there:

The Milwaukee Public Market, http://www.milwaukeepublicmarket.org/index.php

We get this for breakfast every time we go (pumpkin cheesecake muffin and chocolate scone, yum). 

Kopps for custard, http://www.kopps.com/

I don't think we've made a trip to Milwaukee without stopping here...

On the way back, we stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle, http://www.marscheese.com/

Here is the old Mars Cheese Castle:

And, the new Mars Cheese Castle.  I'd say it's quite an improvement!

Weekend in Harbor Country, MI

We met my parents in Southwest Michigan this past weekend and had fun exploring an area we had never visited in the past. 

We found a very cool old Ben Franklin store.

We went to Warren Dunes State Park and climbed the sand dune.

Here's Jason at the top.

Since it was Easter weekend, we had a good brunch and shared a chocolate easter bunny.

Harbor Country is eight little towns along Lake Michigan.  This is in New Buffalo, by the water.

New Dessert Plates

We picked up the plates that were hand painted by my friends and me last weekend and they turned out so great!  What a wonderful gift and memory.  We're looking forward to serving many delicious desserts on these plates.  Here are a couple of pictures.