This is a wedding cake I recently did for a good friend, Jen. I made the burlap flowers and had the suitcase is my personal treasure chest! I LOVE how it turned out!! Don’t you?!
The burlap flowers up close!
xoxo, Bird
wedding planning
Burlap Wedding
My beautiful and talented step-sister started her own ETSY store A Southern Bucket
Since then Nate Berkus, House Beautiful, Southern Bride and many others have featured her and her amazing creations with burlap. I want it ALL!!
I am helping plan a “barn wedding” this summer and I am SO excited to share with you some of the fab ideas to make Jen & Brian’s day perfect!
How great would these look at the bar?
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and for the cake table a runner that they can use for years to come!
what a sweet gift idea
Don’t you just wish you were getting married again?!
I just love all of this don’t you?!
Hope Jen & Brian do to!
Go visit A Southern Bucket!
xoxo, Mama Bird
Q & I { I DO! }
What a super fun couple. What a great WEDDING!!!!
Where do I even start?
Location Carrigan Farms in Mooresville, NC is just breathtaking. I highly recommend this location to anyone looking for a special place to host an event.
The amazing Jessica Ofalt of Morehead City was the photographer and she was just a joy to work with!! Check out this amazing pic. The scenery is to die for!
*All photos that follow we taken by ME! Just to document the day. ENJOY
Our good friend and DJ Phish did an excellent job! Keeping the music and beat flowing! My girls at the Hickory Farmer’s Market did all the flowers and they were stunning!
The cake was so fun to make! The happy couple LOVES red velvet, but she didn’t want red cake in the pics so I surprised them with Blu Velvet topped with fresh strawberry,topped with chocolate! YUM
I can not tell you how much fun I had! These are two very special people who were surrounded by their very special friends! I love this pic of all the maids hiding the bride!!
The amazing couple!! I was so honored to be a part of this very special day!
The Killians
xoxo, Mama Bird
Jenga Guest Book
This is the most Fantab idea from Divine Party Concepts, I have seen in Ages!!
In college we had a Jenga game, which I still have and played a few months ago!! That was a “drinking” version! Why or How I have not thought of using it for a guest book! It is genius! In place of the boring book that no one picks up again, ask all your guest to write a message! You could do this for a wedding, shower, even a baby shower with a game theme could have words of wisdom for mom and dad or what about the teenage child!! LOVE, love, love….
Now, who is getting married? Gotta get someone to do this!!
xoxo, Mama Bird
MAY {poles}
I do hope the old saying “ April showers bring May flowers” is true! Let’s WELCOME MAY with an ode to the May Pole!!
Chris over at Celebrations at Home did a fantab post on Maypoles and all the fun, festive things you can do with them! I had to share that I created my very own “maypole” for my God daughter to carry in my wedding! I LOVED the idea of her waving beautiful ribbons as she walked down the isle!
SO, wish I had this still! Wonder if my sweet Olivia still has it hanging in her room?
Happy May Flowers!!
xoxo, Mama Bird
{My} Wedding Cake
Several of you have asked what did MY wedding cake look like? Now that I make cakes I look at them so differently! Thanks to my sis’ MIL Here it is….
and here is what I would do if I were doing it tomorrow:
Next week it may be different!
xoxo, Mama Bird
Cupcake Wedding Cakes
I am in love with the idea of a cupcake wedding cake. In fact, I really wanted it for my wedding, but my cake was a gift and the sweet lady who made it didn’t want to do a cupcake wedding cake. Said it was “too labor intensive”. Oh well, such as just one other thing to add to my DO OVER LIST!
I am so excited to have two brides that I am working with and I have been looking at tons of cupcake and wedding cake ideas and these are a few of my fav cupcake wedding cakes!
Love the simplicity and whimsy
Adore the dots and the swirls of frosting!
BIRDS! Ahhhh, I just LOVE!!! the sweet simple flowers and the birds just look fun! FAV!!!
Carrie Underwood picked 1 of my favs for her own wedding cake!! Who knew?
xoxo, Mama Bird