Oh how I love the readers of this blog. Last week I inflicted this photo on you all:
and three of you intrepid souls waded in to answer the challenge.
Alas, there can be but one winner and this time that winner is Sarah for coming up with a stupendously tacky version of a legend about the original of this piece of art fitting for the lunchmeat composition and general ‘what have they been smoking’ level of taste evident in what we can see of the affair:
You have to eat the nipples or else they just follow you around the room.
Congratulations, Sarah! And thanks to those who played.
For wedding DIY, you can’t beat ink stamps. The end result of dipping a little rubber into a pot of ink can be professional wedding invitations, save-the-date cards, and ceremony programs. I found a wonderful tutorial on the Martha Stewart Crafts web site that demonstrates how to make lovely stationery, seating place cards, and napkin rings for a bird themed wedding (or any other wedding, really).
The end result is shown above, in a pretty milieu that shows how elegantly pink and white can be paired with a subdued bronzish brown. For instructions, keep reading.
I’m a total sucker for Nintendo wedding cakes, even though my own gaming is limited to weekly sessions of World of Warcraft. I especially like video game wedding cakes that look like they are poised to fall right over, like the Super Mario Galaxy cake I blogged about in July. This time, the wedding cake I’m digging on comes from Oh Chris!, one of my favorite dorknerds ever.
This cake was served at the wedding of Frank and Paige Hackett, two serious gamers who must have a thing for the beach level of Super Mario Galaxy.
The cake’s base is inspired by the beach level in Mario Galaxy; the middle layer (just underneath the castle) is a kind of spiral bas-relief drawing on the scenery in the Super Mario Brothers worlds; and the massive castle at the top, Frank says that came from a phony screenshot back when people were talking about the “Nintendo Revolution” as the third-gen console.
I’m guessing there are some serious dowels in there, because the castle looks as heavy as it does delicious.
A few months back, I noticed that everyone I know seems to be obsessed with bacon. In the recent holiday gift issue of New York Magazine — which I began receiving for free about two years ago for some bizarre reason — plenty of their holiday poll respondents mentioned bacon as the perfect holiday prezzie. I don’t get it. Even before I stopped eating meat, I’d always choose sausage over bacon. To each their own, I suppose.
If you are a true bacon aficionado and looking for a perfect (perfectly dreadful?) wedding favor that highlights your interests, how about giving your wedding guests maple bacon lollipops to take home after the reception?
Okay, I just shuddered thinking about it. I’d much rather have one of Lollyphile’s wasabi ginger pops, though I’ll pass on the absinthe flavor. Of course, there is no one wedding favor that will please all of your guests. I do wonder, however, whether bacon sweets like the aforementioned lollies, bacon jelly beans, and bacon cookies will delight even half your wedding guests.
I want to know how much you think this open backed, sized-to-order silk chiffon wedding dress costs. It could be $5,000…it could be $500. I don’t have a lot of details other than that it is available in white or black, it’s tight fitting, and it comes with a short bustle, though I do know how much it costs. If you can’t even begin to guess how much the above wedding dress costs, answer me this: How much do you think is should cost?
Flower girl baskets and ring bearer pillows…baskets and ring pillows…when it comes right down to it, there aren’t that many options out there for the non-DIYer. It’s not that there aren’t cool crafters making awesome wedding accessories, rather it’s that the mass-produced generic ceremony accessories get so much more play than the one-of-a-kind stuff.
That just means you have to look a little harder if you want your wedding ceremony accessories to stand out. EasterYu is on Etsy and Muscari, fighting the good fight by creating unique flower girl baskets and ring cushions out of birch wood, seashells, artificial moss, miniature birds, and velvet.
Hint hint: She also makes fabulous boutonniéres and lovely hair pins created from beautiful feather flowers.
Prices for everything from baskets to boutonniéres range from $7 to $50, and you can’t beat that!
Yes, it’s time once again to play Twistie’s Sunday Caption Madness. You all know the rules. I post a picture, you send in your best captions via the comments, and next saturday I declare a winner. The image this time is brought to you thanks to our own Never teh Bride. I have no clue where or how she found this…unique image, but she sent it on to me and now I inflict it on all of you:
Have you recovered yet? Okay. On your mark…get set…snark!
One of my all-time favorite blogs to follow is Cake Wrecks. Every day (except sunday when she posts brilliant pieces of cake art as a wonderful palate cleanser) Jen exposes us to the dark underbelly of professional cake decorating. The misspellings, the unfortunate misuses of air brushing, the ideas that sounded good at the time, the ludicrously literal attempts to follow orders without completely understanding them, and the just plain inept efforts of undertrained minions in many a grocery store bakery. Good times, my friends. Good times.
Well, a few days ago, she posted this video from YouTube. I’m going to issue a food and beverage warning right now. Trust me, after seeing this exercise in cake destruction, you won’t be hungry anyway. Mostly you will thirst for justice for the poor souls who have received this monstrosity.
Oh, and what does it have to do with weddings? Listen closely. Sandra says she’s made this ‘decorated’ cake for weddings!
You all know I’m big into the DIY vibe, but if you’re going to DIY, then DIY all the way. Or at least don’t plop discount grocery store cupcakes on your discount grocery store cake without removing the wrappers. And don’t attempt to make a multi-tier cake without any sort of support for that upper tier. The upper tier will sink. And remember, if you’re buying two cakes and half a dozen cupcakes and a bunch of frosted sugar cookies in different designs, and what looks like Fruity Pebbles…really, it’s going to cost pretty much the same as just buying a regular grocery store celebratory cake, but it will never look like it did.
And if you really can’t afford a decorated cake to serve to your guests (or just don’t want to), you can always give them a different dessert. Individual fruit tarts went over well at my wedding to Mr. Twistie. Or how about making a few batches of chocolate chip cookies? Brownies and Blondies, anyone? Heck, I’d go for the Krispy Kreme cake before this one. See?
I’ve been poking around Oscar de la Renta’s Spring 2009 bridal collection recently and, more often than not, I’m absolutely blown away by what I see. There are gorgeous, chic long wedding gowns and pretty, feminine short wedding dresses. Playful accents like belt buckles, big bows, and blossoms made of silk and lace give the collection character that might otherwise be lacking. Overall, the wedding gowns and dresses that appeared in the runway show are right up my ally.
The single bridal pantsuit included in the collection, however, is most decidedly not.
I cannot think of a single person in my life who would look good in this white silk bridal pantsuit. Heck, the runway model doesn’t even look particularly good…especially when viewed from the back. That could explain the expression on the model’s face — if I were asked to walk the runway in this suit, I’d look a tad pissy, too.
and three of you intrepid souls waded in to answer the challenge.
