My favourite Christmas songs

I'm taking a departure from wedding-related posts today and thought I would post a "seasonal" blog post instead. With only 10 days to go until Christmas, I thought I would share my top 10 Christmas songs with you.

10) Mary Did You Know by Natalie Cole

9) Mary's Boy Child - Boney M.

8) Happy Xmas (War is Over) - Celine Dion

7) What Child is This - Josh Groban

6) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Glee cast

5) Sending You a Little Christmas - Jim Brickman and Kristy Starling

4) My Grown Up Christmas List - Kelly Clarkson

3) Where Are You Christmas - Faith Hill

2) O Holy Night - Christina Aguilera

1) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

Nine mistakes your guests hate

Avoid the common mistakes guests complain about by avoiding these common wedding downfalls from theknot.com

Guest complaint #1: Your timing stinks

Guest complaint #2: You picked a bad day

Guest complaint #3: The food isn't great

Guest complaint #4: You're boring us

Guest complaint #5: We can't believe you sat us here

Guest complaint #6: You're making us pay for drinks?!

Guest complaint #7: You didn't give us a plus one

Guest complaint #8: You didn't say thank you

Guest complaint #9: You put us to work

For a full description of these common complaints, visit The Knot website.

Bright and bold bridesmaids

I love love LOVE bright bridesmaid dresses for spring and summer weddings. Yes, I realize that winter has barely started here in Alberta, but I just had to post some of the dresses I came across while browsing the internet. For you bold brides, here's some ideas for your bridal party:

Alfred Sung bridesmaid dress

{photo from http://www.dessy.com/}

Mori Lee bridesmaid dress

{image from www.morilee.com}

Alfred Sung coral  bridesmaid dress

{image from www.fashionablebride.com}

Alfred Sung bridesmaid dress
{image from www.fashionablebride.com}

Mori Lee bridesmaid dress
{image from www.morilee.com}

Mori Lee bridesmaid dress
{image from www.morilee.com}

WToo bridesmaid dress
{image from www.watters.com}

Tealight table decoration or wedding favour idea

Happy Friday!!!!

I created these tealights today for fun. You could use these either on your table as part of your lighting decor, or you could use them as wedding favours for your guests. I stamped the images from stamps in my collection, so the best part is, all of your wedding stationery could match the images on the tealights if you wanted. I also have another idea up my sleeves, but I will save that for another day.

Hope you enjoy these and have a great weekend!

{images and design by Glass Slipper Designs}

Digital baby shower invitation

I just bought a fun new software program and was playing around last night. Here's a baby shower invitation I created, which would be great to send out if you're looking to do a digital invite instead of snail mail.

{Image and design by Glass Slipper Designs}

Destination wedding suite

As mentioned in my previous post, my latest project was a destination wedding ensemble. The inspiration for the colours came from palm trees, so I used a dark chocolate colour and olive green for the stationery. Here are the pics:

Full ensemble - invitation, response card, accommodation insert and thank you card

Response card

Close up of the fun "choose your own response"

Accommodation insert

Thank you card

 

Tropical paradise

Just a sneak peek at a wedding stationery suite I'll be posting in the next few days. Here's the inspiration:

How nice it would be to be there right now!



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Christmas around the world

So I have a fun work-related project that requires me to stamp away. How fun is that? We have a bulletin board at work where each department is assigned a month to decorate it, and our department was chosen for December. We each decided on a "theme" to do, so I chose "Christmas around the world." Here's what I created for the first week. I'll apologize in advance for the bad photo quality - I had to take the photo on my Blackberry. I'll try to get a better one to post:

Our display is awesome, so I promise I'll take a picture and post!

DIY Cheescake Pops

Yummmm! I came across this delicious post on the Wedding Chicks website and just had to share it with you. Here are instructions on how to make your own cheesecake pops. Since this is an American site, they're obviously talking about using these for American Thanksgiving, but what a great idea to give to co-workers for Christmas. Or for all you winter wedding brides, using different coloured sugar crystals to make it look like coloured "snow" on top and having them as part of your dessert buffet. Enjoy!

Instructions:

Supplies

1. Lollipop Sticks

2. Ice Cream Scoop

3.1/3 Cup of Sugar

4. Cookie Sheet

5. Colored Sugar

6. 1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese

Preparation:
1) Mix softened cream cheese and sugar together until well blended. Gently scoop cream cheese mixture and drop onto your cookie sheet.

2) Gently scoop cream cheese mixture and drop onto your cookie sheet. Put a lollipop stick through the center of the cream cheese ball.
3) Time to decorate!  Sprinkle pretty colored sugar crystals on the cheesecake pops.  Place your cookie sheet into your freezer for 3 hours or until they are firm.  Remove the cheesecake pops from the freezer 1 hour before serving them.


{all images from www.weddingchicks.com}