Something Sweet: Candy Bar at Our Reception.

I'll admit it...we love sweets! Again, not wanting to be traditional, we had to have more than cake at the reception. Okay, well we did not have to, but we wanted to....so we did. We wanted a Candy Bar/Candy Buffet Station for our guests to enjoy. How fun! We had candy sticks, Gummy-Rings, Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, Chocolate Malt Balls, Chocolate Covered Almonds, Lifesavers, Rock Candy Sticks, M & Ms with our picture on them (Clyde found those and surprised me), Mini Candy bars (wrapped in labels that had our wedding name and date and cute designs), Chocolate covered Fruit flavored dinner sticks, and Gummy-Sharks. We used clear scoops for all candies that needed them. The guests really enjoyed this at the reception. We had Chinese take out boxes with our monograms for the candy to go in. It was a hit! This was just another way of Clyde and I personalizing our wedding day and making it unique, different and one to remember!

Peace, The. Mrs

Our Spectacular Wedding Programs by Papered Wonders, Inc.

The amazing ladies at Papered Wonders, Inc. has a fabulous gift of creating Papered Wonders that are out of this world Phenomenal. We received so many accolades on our wedding invitations that when it came time to decide on the design of our wedding program, that I left it up to Lisa Zachery to have her way and design us something uniquely fabulous. As usual, she exceeded any expectations that we had. She ended up combining a number of program designs in order to come up with our PERFECT design creation pictured below. Of course the color scheme was Tiffany Blue and Chocolate with accents of Ivory. She incorporated a beautifully tied chocolate satin bow and our monogram on the front.
She also added one of our engagement pictures as a see through cover for our inner cover page.
The inside had an explanation of the Sand Ceremony and Jumping the Broom ceremony. Additionally, our ceremony details, wedding party information, reception venue information and Thank Y0u's were included. We receive SO MANY compliments on these! I loved hearing people say "We've never seen anything like this before!" Gotta love being unique and non-traditional.
The team at Papered Wonder, Inc. can do all things paper/stationary. If you are in need of invites, announcements, greeting cards, or anything else that is made of paper please contact them and tell them that I sent you. Their website is http://www.paperedwonders.com/


Peace, The Mrs.

Nubian Queen Hair...African Inspired.

Every bride wants fabulous hair on her wedding day! With cameras flashing the entire time....looking perfect from every angle is key. Yes, even in hair! There are updo's, half up and half downs, chignons, buns, braids and a million other options to select from. For me, I looked at a million hair styles trying to find the perfect one for our wedding day. I could not find one. It was not until I was in Ghana, Africa in April 2009 that I found THE must have hair style. It was perfect! The woman wearing it was nice enough to let me take a picture after I told her how I loved her hair and wanted to replicate the same style for my wedding day. She was flattered adn excited to be able to help me out...specially since it was for such a special event. I changed it up by incorporating a "Nubian Braid" into the look. The original style had straight hair wrapped around the bun. It was cute, but I wanted to take it up a notch. You know me :) So the stylist braided hair around that bun to give it a more regal look. I also incorporated adding several pearls in the "curls & loops" in the back as well as adding a brooch on the left side for BLING! Gotta have bling right!?!

Below are several pics from the wedding day and in different angles of my hair. I received so many compliments on my hair style. It was perfect and complimented my overall look. Enjoy!

Peace, The. Mrs