13 Adorable Flower Girl Basket Alternatives

Posted in Wedding, Wedding Accessories, Wedding Ideas by Cherryblossoms and Faeriewings

Give your flower girls something unique to carry! Let’s twist the flower girl basket tradition a bit and give the basket of petals a rest by making the cuties carry something that’s equally pretty but more fun and whimsical. If you want to do away from the conventional flower girl staple – the flower basket, here are 13 adorbs alternatives from which you may choose from.

1. Rustic Flower Hearts – These are perfect for your rustic / autumn inspired wedding. Tie up with ribbons in your color motif for that extra dose of pretty.

1 Rustic Wooden Hearts

photo source: One Fab Day

2. Faerie Wands – Make your flower girls feel like faeries for a day with these glittered and sparkly wands.

photo source: Jac Photography

3. Flower Teapot – Fill up an old teapot with blooms for a perfect vintage alternative for your little girl.

3 Flower Teapot

photo source: Intimate Weddings

4. Kissing Balls – One big ball of sweet smelling florals that you can also pair up with a flower crown.

4 Kissing Ball

photo source: Style Me Pretty

5. Japanese Parasol – Having an outdoor wedding? What could be better than having them carry something that will protect their soft skin from the sun too?

5 Japanese Parasol

photo source: The Knot

6. Flower Coconut Husk – Perfect for your tropical-paradise-of-a-wedding, fill up a coco husk with loose flowers or petals and have your little sweetie throw them out as she walks down the beach-perfect aisle.

6 Flower Coconut Husk

photo source: Style Me Pretty

7. Flower Wands – Giant flowers a-top a wand in the most vibrant colors will surely catch everyone’s attention.

photo source: Style Me Pretty

8. Heart Balloons – Just because it is a romantic day. 🙂

photo source: Style Me Pretty

9. Rustic Firefly Lantern – Fret not, you won’t be using live fireflies for this one but a string of lights inside a ball of intertwined rattan.

photo source: Bragging Bags

10. Flower Cart – Have them push a flower bedecked mini cart or wagon. This is perfect for the littlest ones.

photo source: Style Me Pretty

11. Ribbon Baton – Wand, flowers, and tassels of ribbon in one perfect basket alternative.

photo source: Elizabeth Anne Designs, Martha Stewart Weddings

12. Pinwheels – Giant pinwheels and flower crowns in matching colors are not just less expensive but over-the-moon adorable too!

photo source: Sayher Heffernan

13. Bubbles – Just how brilliant this idea of flower girls blowing bubbles as they walk down the aisle is? Very!

photo source: Josh Snyder

2Aug2013

Cute as a Bout: Whimsical Boutonnieres by {etc} Handmade Goodness

Posted in Wedding, Wedding Accessories by Cherryblossoms and Faeriewings

A boutonniere is to the groom as the bouquet is to the bride – BUT, an alternative bout is to the more dapper groom as the alternative bouquet is to the fun, experimental bride.

{etc} Handmade Goodness is the go-to supplier for your whimsical, alternative bout needs. I have searched far and wide, and I must say nothing does boutonniere alternatives like them. Personalized, unique, whimsically-creative and indeed, handmade with love, each bout they make is a prized piece. Using a wide variety of quality materials, in all kinds imaginable, they can create bouts-of-your-dreams that are very coherent, very apt to your wedding theme. I love how they never seem to run out of fresh ideas and whimsy designs — oh dear, I tell you I haven’t seen anything alike! Here are my best picks. Enjoy! 🙂

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Photo source: all photos lifted from {etc} Handmade Goodness Facebook account

24Jul2013

Ring Pillows and Ring Pillow Alternatives

Posted in Wedding, Wedding Accessories by Cherryblossoms and Faeriewings

Imagine this: You have just chosen the cute tot who will be carrying your rings on your wedding ceremony. To go with your rustic theme, you decide to dress him up in a cute little bow tie and suspenders, khaki pants and white shirt with rolled up sleeves, and perhaps have him wear a newsboy cap too. Oh! Will he be the cutest! The tacky, white satin covered ring pillow suddenly pops up in your mind. You think, ooooh, it’s going to be a little soo off from your theme if you let your ring bearer use this.

Don’t fret, detail-savvy bride. You’re not alone on this. You’ll go crazy-happy to know that unique ring pillow designs are now available, and there are tons of ring pillow alternatives – just in case, you don’t want an actual “pillow” – you could choose from. Scroll down and view my best picks. Enjoy! 🙂