That Dress is So Fly: Claire Pettibone Bridal Spring 2009

Ooooo girl, I'm so excited I'm typing real fast! I just stumbled across Claire Pettibone's Spring 2009 Rock n' Roll Bride collection. Check out these numbers:


pic courtesy of Claire Pettibone

James Bond Wedding Cake

Ummm... Honey, you're only allowed to do that to the groom's cake.

pic from Mike's Amazing Cakes via David Malki

Taking the plunge...

I was talking to friend the other day who attended a wedding in upstate New York. The ceremony took place at the top of a jumping cliff on their bride's family farm. At the end of the ceremony, the bride and the groom invited the rest of their guests to "take the plunge" with them quite literally. They jumped off the cliff into the water along with many of the guests. Not yo' momma's wedding, but gangsta indeed.

pic courtesy of Drew Hood at Throwing Light

This is how I feel...

Sorry I havn't blogged too much this past week. You can imagine how many things I have to do right now.

Poster Art Invites from Unless Someone Like You

I know that most of ya'll of probably seen wedding poster invitations, but I adore these ones. They send them out in poster tubes and you can also set them out for people to sign and have some original art. So gangsta. You can pick 'em up on esty here.

Songs to get yo body groovin'

I've decided to start a new category dedicated to gettin' yo body movin'. These are gonna for diy-ipod-late-night-reception-soundtracks that help you get yo swerve on without offending some of yo guests.

Chromeo- Fancy Footwork

Mexican Wedding Traditions

My cousin just got back from the myan riviera and took this picture of a wedding. For this wedding, the doors to the cathedral were wide open. Unlike many modern weddings, the ceremony doors are kept open for anyone to come and join in the celebration. The reception is generally kept for invitees-only. Ehat a fantastic tradition.

You can use this tradition into your own wedding by keeping an open door policy for your ceremony (as long as your venue has the capacity) and allowing all those invitees in limbo to be part of your celebration without eatin up all yo skrilla!

Here's some other ways to add some mo' mexican tradition to your wedding.

• A wedding lasso- it is made of flowers and beads and is put around the bride and the groom in a figure 8 shape to signify unity
• Mariachi band- who can resist their charm?
• Mexican wedding cookies- delicious, and actually served at mexican weddings
• Thirteen Coins- presented to the bride from the groom for trust in all material things
  
• A wedding dress with ruffles, or a mantilla veil
  
• Pinata- I recently went to a birthday party with a pinata and it was really fun.
  

Does anyone know of any others?