Yikes! It’s been a long time since I’ve done a linky love post. I’m always amazed at the great sites I find who’re linking in and it’s my pleasure to share these awesome people with you.
The month of May will be devoted to all sorts of cakey goodness at DIY Bride. I have a fantastic bunch of step-by-step tutorials, delicious recipes, inspired designs, and all sorts of expert information coming online for you. It’s going to be a lot of fun!
As part of the celebration I’m bringing in some experts to help answer your most pressing cake-related questions. Please submit your questions & dilemmas about baking, decorating, transporting (or anything else cake-related) to me via the contact form. We’ll be answering them throughout the month.
[Edited 03 November, 2008 to add: Please do not leave comments to this post or email me regarding the contest. I am not David Tutera or WE TV nor am I associated with the production of the program. I am not holding this casting call nor do I have any influence on who is chosen. David nor the producers check this site for submissions. Please READ THE ENTIRE POST and contact the appropriate people (clearly listed in the directions below) and do note that the deadline was May 16, 2008. Thank you.][Edited 12/01/08 to add: Any emails sent to DIY Bride regarding this contest or addressed to David will be immediately deleted. I can't make this any clearer, folks.]
Are you uninspired? Totally planned out? Overwhelmed? Don’t worry, my friends. WE TV and celebrity planner David Tutera are coming to the rescue of lucky NYC-area couples.
Here’s the scoop:
LET CELEBRITY WEDDING PLANNER DAVID TUTERA ENHANCE YOUR WEDDING ON WE TV!
Making your dream wedding a reality can be almost impossible. And if you or someone you know is getting married THIS SUMMER, then there’s very little time left to make that dream come true. That’s why “My Fair Wedding,” the newest lifestyle show from the Women’s Entertainment Network, is offering a few lucky brides a chance to have celebrity wedding planner David Tutera ENHANCE and UPGRADE their weddings before it’s too late!
In 2006, Modern Bride Magazine honored David as one of the Top 25 Trendsetters of The Year. With a few thousand dollars and his extensive knowledge and skill, David Tutera can bring some last-minute elegance to your fast-approaching nuptials.
If you or someone you know has spent months planning that dream wedding, and something STILL isn’t quite right, contact our producers TODAY! Email Wedding@pilgrimfilms.tv with the wedding date, a picture of the bride and why she needs David’s help! Weddings should take place within an hour of New York City in July or August, 2008!
I’ve been contacted by a reporter who’s looking for current NYC-area brides to interview for a piece about how the economic downturn is affecting wedding planning. She’d (ideally) like to get together for an hour or two sometime in the next week.
If you’re interested or want more info, please contact Katia Bachko at katiabachko AT gmail -dot-com.
[Update: I'll be there on Sunday, May 04 at 3:00 pm.]
Attention Bay Area DIYers! I’ll be at the 2008 Maker Faire at the San Mateo Expo Center in San Mateo, CA during the weekend of May 3 & 4. I’ll be presenting some DIY wedding goodness and doing a book signing. Once my schedule is set, I’ll let you know.
In the meantime, check out the Maker Faire video podcast from CraftZine.com. It’s going to be so much fun!
I know, I know. I’m a week late announcing the winners. Sorry! To make it up to you wonderfully patient peeps, I’m giving away 5 copies of the book instead of the 2 announced.
The winners, chosen by random.org’s integer picker thingie:
#83 is Charlene
#7 is jenny
#5 is Meredith
#120 is courtney
#19 is Kristen
The winners have been notified via email.
Thanks for participating, everyone! (And a heartfelt thank you for all of the well-wishes on the move. I appreciate it!)
We have an interesting dilemma in the forums and I’m hoping you creative divas might have some suggestions. User virtualvoice writes in with this predicament:
Our wedding ceremony is going to be outdoors in an amphitheater- the seats are all stone and somewhat dirty. We need to have blankets or fabric or something so that the guests don’t get their clothes dirty when they sit at the cermony.
I have thought of asking guests to bring towels from their hotels to sit on, but they might forget and it may be a bit strange of a thing to ask people to bring. (Would that be tacky? I could see it possibly working…) We could ask them to bring blankets, but the majority of them are traveling and won’t want to lug blankets across the country.
I have been trying to think of other cheap ways to fulfill our need for fabric or blankets. With $150 guests, that’s a lot of fabric needed!
Thoughts so far:
- Aisle runners ($30 for 100 ft some places online)
- paint drop cloths? I think the fabric ones are expensive
- $1/yd fabric at Walmart. I think we can find a better deal by thinking creatively
- cheap cloth tablecloths or sheets
Color- it seems like it would be nice if we could get white/off white, blue, gray, peach-ish, or black (or a mix of the above) colored blankets/towels/etc so they match the wedding colors at least somewhat, and aren’t an array of gaudy prints and things (otherwise I could collect random garage sale blankets, etc.). I could bleach them… Any thoughts on that? Would it really matter if the colors clash?
It’s moving week! I’ll be pretty quiet until next Monday while I finish packing and schlep all of my stuff to the new digs.
The good news is that I’m not leaving you without some utterly delightful crafty goodness. For the past few months I’ve been writing for a new craft community called Craft Stylish. I’m the contributing editor for the paper crafts section. It just launched last week and I have to admit that I’m pretty proud to be a part of it.
Please check us out for ideas, information, and inspiration for paper crafts, beading/jewelry-making, knitting and crochet, quilting, sewing, embroidery and oodles of other nifty crafts.
