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Wedding Reception Ideas and Photos

November 6, 2012 By Meegan 31 Comments

Whew!!  We made it through our son’s wedding and reception this past weekend!!  It was beautiful, and sacred.  Our son was so handsome, and his new wife was just gorgeous.  It was a great time with all seven kids and 17 of the 18 grand babies.  The time is always too short when we are together.

 

I thought it would be fun to share a sampling  of a few Wedding Reception Ideas and Photos.  I hope you enjoy all of them…

This was the area for the reception line.  Do you recognize my coffee filter wreath??  I also wrapped a chipboard E and K with twine to add to the vignette.

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  My daughter and I found the cute bird cage, and we knew it needed to be placed with the coffee filter wreath.

The frames used in the gift area were from my empty frame wall gallery in our TV Room.  And of course, the blue bottles were perfect for this table, as well.

I hand painted and sanded the french doors.  (I will have a tutorial soon).  One of my talented daughter’s designed and decorated the candy bar and dessert table.  Don’t you just love the whole look with all the textures??  Remember the 2500 dyed coffee filters??  There are just a few in the pic.

 Here is a view of  the whole room and set up.  Coffee filters everywhere!!  Just the way my new daughter-in-law pictured it!!  Also notice the table center pieces.  My daughter made those as well.

The lights were low and the twinkling lights came on when guests arrived.

Even though I can’t take credit for this table design, I painted all the jars for this wedding and I made the coffee filter garland.  (There will also be a tutorial for that soon)  Isn’t the table just gorgeous??

Don’t you just love this barn wood box I used here?  It works perfectly for the food trays and plates.

I didn’t get to help decorate with the reception as much as I would have liked, because I was over decorating for the Wedding Dinner.  Those pics are for tomorrow.  Until then… I am also on Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk and Stumble Upon.  Come join along with me as I share what I love, and love what I do.

Make it a terrific Tuesday!!

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Wedding Open House Tour

November 20, 2012 By Meegan 12 Comments

Good Tuesday to all of you!!

Before I forget-You can now stayed connected with me through LinkedIn!!  I just signed up-so I am hoping you will become one of my links, too!!

I am catching up from the Wedding Open House.  We said good-bye to our family and friends yesterday, and now I would LOVE to share a few {well, a lot} of pictures with you from our day.  I can’t take all the credit from how fun and creative everything looks because I had SO many talented and fun friends there to help me.  And, the bride her own creativity going on as well.  Don’t you love it when you are surrounded by those who love creativity as much as you do???!!

I am going to walk you through the tour so you can see what it would have been like had you attended the Open House. Sound good?

 

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As you walk up to enter the home, to your left were these pots and sign to welcome you.  Yes, I made the frame for about $4.  (By the evening the pots were filled with blue pansies)

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This chair seat was red.  The bride covered it with blue fabric and used pillows from my bedroom as a warming accent.  There were also mason jars along the walkway lit up with tea lights.

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Don’t you love these “Mr and Mrs” signs hanging by the front door??

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My coffee filter wreath hanging on the door.  I just love these 2 birds!!  We also used this at the reception.

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The sign in table.  Yep, you got it-the bride drew this picture, then each guest left their thumb print (for a leaf look) with their name around it.  She is SO talented!!  I thought this vignette came out perfectly.  So many details to see.

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As you made your way through to the back yard this was on your right.  We loved using the poster size pictures.  Again, the elements here were also used at the dinner and reception a few weeks ago.

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The gift table.  I made the card box before I had a blog.   (I hold sweet cards and notes from my family in it)

*We are half way through the tour*

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As you walk out to the porch and to your right, you saw the “Hot Chocolate & Candy Bar”.  I shared the dresser with you yesterday.  The frames, book page banner,  and the cardboard chalk board were from our home.  This dresser made me smile!

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This is the “Sweet Things” table. We used barn wood boxes, various cake pedestals, a coffee filter banner, chalkboards, my Fall jar, frames, fabric flowers, a tulle wreath (Tutorial to come soon), our front door wreath, mercury glass candle holders, and I added a doily mobile (tutorial to come soon).  I had so much fun putting and layering all the textures and elements to this table.  I literally jumped up and down when it was finished!!

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As you walk past the pizza oven, the tables and chairs were set up on the grass.  We used a lot of the same elements on the tables from here and here.

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 Instead of using the pages as a banner, we used the book pages from here as runners for these tables.  Cute, huh???

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As you sat at your table you could see the pizza oven!!  How cool is this!!  There were several kinds of pizza.  Thai chicken, black olive & mushroom, pepperoni, supreme, etc…Nummers!!!

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My friend Tracy had just bought this wrought iron tree.  It was staring at us all day.  We didn’t know what to do with it.  Should we put gifts, drinks, or treats on it??  We looked at each other and said, “Book Pages!!!””  We still had a few coffee filter strings, book pages and clothes pins-we went to town hanging everything on here.  Thanks to Lori and Tracy it came out looking great-AND a wonderful conversation piece!!  All night long people would ask me what it was and why the dictionary pages.  I loved it-we had achieved our goal!!

I hope you enjoyed your tour from the Wedding Open House.  The evening was filled with family, friends,food, laughter and love.

I need to give a HUGE thank you to our friends Greg and Tracy that let us borrow their home, yard, and pizza oven for the day and evening!!  It was absolutely fabulous!!

To mys dear friends-Lori, Barbara, Alayna, Sherida, Tracy, Rosie, Page, Linda, and Michele: Thank you for all of your creativity and help throughout the night and beyond!!

We seriously have the best friends ever!!  We have a lot to be thankful for, that is for sure!!

Make it a terrific Tuesday!!

I will be seeing you on  Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk, Google +, Stumble Upon, and now LinkedIn!!  Woo Woo!!

 

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Easy and Thrifty Spring Centerpiece with Fresh Flowers

March 13, 2019 By Meegan 8 Comments

Well, Spring is just within days. I can already feel it coming on. With the spurts of rain and the temperature slowly rising, I created an Easy and Thrifty Spring Centerpiece with Fresh Flowers.

I am always in the mood for fresh flowers, aren’t you?

I was having a particularly hard day when my husband brought home some flowers to lift my spirits.

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My Weekend Bridal Flowers

August 27, 2013 By Meegan 21 Comments

My Weekend Bridal FlowersI really haven’t been doing bridal flowers for very long.  My first interest and duty was to decorate for weddings and/or receptions.   Through watching and learning from my sweet friend, Wendy (she was my maid of honor when we got married), I moved on to doing the bridal flowers and bouquets.

My Weekend Bridal FlowersI became interested because I was paying almost $20 for a boutonniere that I knew I could make myself.  So, I was eager and anxious to learn.  Since then, I made all of the boutonnieres and corsages for our kids’  and their dates.  It was a fun thing for the kids because it was personalized and exactly what they wanted. (This picture was taken in our bathroom aka the floral cooler.  I kept the flowers in ice water for 2 days before the wedding)

My Weekend Bridal FlowersI learned to work with several types of flowers,  Each is unique in their care prior to the placement in the bouquet. For more tips on floral care on my blog visit here.

My Weekend Bridal FlowersIt takes practice and lots of broken stems before you get it right.  I loved these colors to work with.  (This is one of the 4 bridesmaids bouquets. There were tiny hints of mint green throughout the wedding party, so it was fun to add the small peeks of green.)

My Weekend Bridal FlowersStyles change, and each bride has their own vision of what their bouquet should look like.  Sometimes it’s a challenge. But, my goal is to make that happen.

My Weekend Bridal FlowersI would have to say my most recent love to work with would be succulents.  They are hearty, but very delicate.  Their root is so strong, but the petals could end up falling apart in your hands while you are working.

My Weekend Bridal FlowersPeople ask me all the time if it takes a long time to make bridal bouquets.  My answer is: Yes, it does.  You wire the flowers, place them where you want them,  and wrap them with floral tape for security.  If it isn’t what you want or picture, you unwrap them and start again. Sometimes again and again.

My weekend bridal flowersYou do this several times until it’s what you want.  I LOVED the burlap, ribbon and vintage lace for this particular bouquet. For the bride’s “something old”, I added my great-grandma’s lace.  I knew it would make the bride and my great-grandma smile.  Also, see the brown edges on the roses?  Those petals are left on until just before I hand them to the bride-so they appear at their peek of freshness.)

My Weekend Bridal FlowersI love, love, love the variety of flowers for this bouquet.  It was vintage and trendy at the same time.

I hope you have enjoyed my weekend bridal flowers today.  It was a beautiful wedding with many other flowers that I will share with you later in the week.

Thanks for stopping by today and joining me on my blog.  It is always a pleasure to have you here!

Make it a terrific Tuesday!

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