Comments on: Lauren & Derek’s Budget, DIY, Camp Style Wedding

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:20:18 +0000

Yeah, the cake is fabulous! Looks way fun.

By: Eco Candles

Eco Candles — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:09:42 +0000

I am in love with that cake. The mushrooms, and how real the wood looks, is just amazing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:42:10 +0000

My beautiful future bride also found the “perfect” shoe but alas, the heels would sink into the grass. Trying to help her find a solution, I thought I had just came up with a million $ idea, but, they already exist. Mostly in the UK but here is a carrier in the US. I found this blog by googling “prevent heels from sinking in the grass” and thought we would post. Who said guys no nothing about weddings?!

http://www.thesolemates.com

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:42:59 +0000

I’m going to say she probably wore the heels CAREFULLY. For serious though, I’d do wedges. Sinking into the grass just sucks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:43:06 +0000

Hi,

I thought this was a great wedding. I was wondering if you know how the bride handled wearing those heels on grass – my wedding is also outside, and I would love to get shoes that I could wear again (e.g. stylish stilettos, nothing too bridey) but I’m worried about sinking in. How did she do it? I’ve heard about some little disks you can clip onto the heels to prevent sinking, but haven’t found them anywhere. Any tips on buying shoes for an outdoor wedding? Oh and I’m short, my fiance is tall, so I’m trying to go for 3-4″ in height :)

By: jessica lynn

jessica lynn — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:00:10 +0000

when I saw the flowers this bride used, my heart stopped a beat. i LOVE THEM (and the rest of the wedding too)!!

By: Jessamyn Harris

Jessamyn Harris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:20:03 +0000

exactly, it wasn’t overly “themey” at all, it just gave their overly-creative and cool minds some boundaries for coming up with awesome details and making the most of a fun location. it was VERY “them”! the wedding flowed just like you want it to (mingling, short and sweet ceremony, cocktail and simple hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing, cake, etc) and all of those fun woodlandy elements were just there if you felt like playing horseshoes or whatever.
The wedding was at a time when the bride and groom lived in NYC, but they love nature and are both from the SF Bay Area, so these elements were a nice way of getting back to that as well.
To sum up, it was cute without being cutesy, and forest-y without being weird.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:12:09 +0000

Nikki- I don’t think the actually wedding was very theamy, just that those were the details that they picked to tie it together because they are craft/ design people. My understanding is that the wedding was just a big *ss party.

By: talda

talda — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:34:21 +0000

i love the idea of the patch favors. what a neat and unique idea. it makes me wish i had stayed in brownies long enough to earn even one.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:48 +0000

I love this wedding. After we got engaged, it was the very first one I saw that made me say…”now THIS we could do!” Our wedding will be very different, of course, but theirs was the first that let me see that what we wanted was very do-able. And yeah, those flowers were the first thing on my board! Dahlias, dahlias everywhere!