So I seem to spend more time lately swooning over pictures of butterfly wedding supplies online than I do actually buying them and doing crafts for my own wedding. But with 2010 almost here, I’m trying to get myself back in gear and start doing and not just dreaming.

BUT, before that happens, I found a TON of really great butterfly wedding favors on the site Daisy-Days.com and I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces of inspiration!

If you want a less DIY approach, I like this whole Butterfly Dreams Wedding collection. They have four popular colors and you can get all the accessories like the ring bearer pillow, flower girl basket, etc. If it gets down to the wire and I’m still missing some of these things, or haven’t found anything I really want to make, I might pop back over and pick some of these up.

Next up are some fantastic jewels you can use to dress up your bouquet. I’ve seen other brides do the little crystals in the flowers, but what about crystal butterflies? I love the idea of that extra sparkle in my flowers, and it will tie my look in with the rest of the theme.

I’m not going to do individual place cards on each table (just place cards at the door with their table number, not assigned seats), but if I was I would use these butterfly name cards. They are so freaking cute. The little pieces of glitter they have in the sample pictures on the site just add to the overall adorableness of that table!

Finally, the creme de la creme: butterfly candy favor bags. DREAMY SIGH. The candy buffet is happening, but I still need bags for people to take the candy home in (or I could just tell everyone on the invitations that pockets are required… lol). We could do them in our colors, with our names. Look how hot these are:

I can’t even handle it any more. I need to go lay down and recover, ha!

Has anyone else ever gone into wedding inspiration overload? How do you not end up buying/making every cute idea you see?

As we wind down 2009, I wanted to share one of my favorite songs, and a possible contender for the First Dance. Sorry NEPA Groom if this is news to you, lol. It’s really a beautiful and emotionally raw feeling song, and I’d like to think it captures at least a little part of what makes us, us.

I hope everyone is having a happy and joyous holiday season. It’s been a long and sometimes difficult month here at the NEPA Bride household, but I wanted to pop in and say Merry Christmas! I also wanted to share the first of our engagement photos with you now that NEPA Groom and I have had some time to sort through them and really take them in. Ready Freddy?

All photos taken by and post editing done by Tammy Martines Photography.

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I love love love this song. This ranked up there as one of our songs in the early days of our relationship, even though it wasn’t quite THE song. It has to show up somewhere in reception!

I’m a big fan of beach weddings. I know, I’m not having anything that even remotely resembles a beach wedding, but I adore them anyway. NEPA BIL and his wife were married a year and a half ago on the beach in North Carolina and it was a simple, yet breath-taking ceremony.

As per usual, I was browsing around for all things wedding and i came upon QualityShells.com. The best way I can describe them is a ready to go beach wedding in a box!  From bulk shells for decorating (think – filling a large hurricane vase with them as a base for a candle) or even large shells that could serve as the focal point of each centerpiece.

If my family could travel easily, I’d probably blow off a lot of this wedding stuff and just have everyone gather at the beach during sunset for a quick ceremony. Then we could sit at tables draped with seashells and candles and enjoy the night. As much as we all probably love combing the beach for shells, it would get pretty exhausting to gather enough shells for 20 or so tables.

What kind of ideas have you had for a beach-themed wedding? If you could just run off to the ocean and get married, would you?

This week’s choice is ABC by the Jackson 5. This is such a cute song! If we could play secular music during the ceremony, I’d want this to be the recessional!

I’ve been a bad NEPA bride.

Between the holiday and work and um, Farmville, I haven’t  a good blogger. But I’m growing some SWEET flowers and veggies:

We’re in a good place as far as wedding planning goes, which is why I’ve allowed myself some down time to get ready for Christmas, and just goof off. We have:

• Ceremony location
• Reception location
• Photographer
• DJ
• Wedding party

What’s next:

• arrival of engagement photos (and posting of them here!)
• finding a dress
• pinning down solutions for everyone else’s clothes

Is anyone else taking a break from wedding planning for the holidays, or even for their own sanity?

Sort of keeping with my Baz Luhrman soundtrack theme from last week, this is the love theme from his Romeo & Juliet soundtrack (Remember? Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooo when he was young and we all thought he was so purty). This song has a beautiful and somewhat melancholy vibe to it.