So a while back NEPA Groom sent me this:

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Sigh. Yes, those are zombies. The boy, he loves them. I’m fairly confident he’s joking about the zombie cake. We’ve made a game out of searching for the most ridiculous wedding pictures we can find and send them to each other over Facebook. I think our friends are still amused. At any rate, a lot of our friends have told us that I ‘just have’ to let him do the zombie cake. Um. Sure.

Though I’m thinking maybe we should make some concessions. We are prepping ourselves for married life, right? He can have the zombie cake if I can do this:

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Two of our favorite inspiration sources are Wedinator and Awkward Family Photos. Do you have any favorite sites that you go to for some wedding laughs?

I really love looking at purple decorations for the reception. It’s kind of hard to find the right shade of purple -  you know, NOT lavender. But I ran across quite a few today so I want record these ideas for when the time is right. Also, I’m not sure how people feel about renting vs. buying some of the bigger decorations. It seems like you can get chair covers and table runners for fairly cheap. I’m surprised, but it might be worth it to do this and then try to sell them (sites like WeddingBee.com have a classifieds section just for this kind of thing).

Can’t you just imagine chairs wrapped in this with a matching table runner:

Then have a cute little favor boxes filled with, um, something tasty, lol, at each setting. I wasn’t sure I was really into the polka dots until I saw those boxes. I like the idea of using them sparingly with the purple and black theme. The rest of the table would be pretty simple, maybe some tulips in a small square vase with some tea lights around it.

And then (get ready, I’m almost foaming at the mouth over these), I’d scatter these around the table:

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