O Canada! It has been awhile since we visited one of your pretty fetes. This particular beauty is a tad bit vintage mixed with a smidgen of modern and is completely bringing it with killer bridal style and a two-seater bike. Honestly, what more does one need? Cute couple, stellar photography courtesy of Mango Studios and lots and lots of billy balls = seventh wedding heaven. Enjoy Toronto’s latest installment just for your viewing...

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Love doesn’t even come close to expressing how much we adore J.Crew. Their gorgeous gowns and adorable bridesmaid dresses have graced the pages of SMP countless times. But today we’re very proud to announce that J.Crew has officially become more than one of our obsessions, they’re the newest members of our...

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Nothing screams sweet summer love like a Volkswagen bus and a glowing couple. We happen to adore this combination in all of its laid-back glory. Shot by Erin Jean Photography, this wedding is equal parts DIY (even the groom got involved in the crafting!) and lovely Wisconsin woodsiness. And the best part that is sure to make all of the grooms out there insanely envious – it was held at the...

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Autumn, a native Texan, and Simon, a British professional tennis player, met while Simon was playing in a tournament at Autumn’s university. She showed him some Southern hospitality, and when she returned to Bath, England to study abroad the following summer, he returned the favor. They married in a gorgeous ceremony at Villa Antonia overlooking the rolling hills of Austin, Texas …

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It’s been a really great few days on SMP. I hope that through Libby and Patrick’s wedding you were able to see how a wedding is really built…from soup to nuts. Or as I should say, from inspiration to reality. I really feel like this little project has given me more motivation and excitement than I have ever had to infuse SMP with hands-on, really exciting features. Ideas and inspirations that will resonate with even more brides out there. Before we wrap things up, I thought...

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Even though Libby and Patrick’s wedding was in the late Spring, because it was on a rooftop garden, the temp could get pretty chilly. So we found some simple, white blankets at IKEA for $3.99 and adorned them with cute tags and pink ribbon. Instant adorableness without making much of a ding in our wallets. This is the easiest DIY on the planet and we’ve provided templates to make it even easier!

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Since I write a wedding blog for a living, the easiest way to come up with ideas for our DIY projects (which every wedding should have) was to scour our own archives! We have some of the coolest stuff tucked inside our DIY category, so finding inspiration was beyond easy. And although it looks like an incredibly lavish wedding, we found a MILLION ways to cut costs and to stay within our budget. Take for example our linens. Rather than purchasing expensive table linens, we chose to highlight...

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One of the other SUPER cute DIY flower projects that we did was the bracelet that Libby’s mother wore. A single stem wrapped sweetly around her wrist. It turned out so completely adorable and is a pretty simple, straightforward project to take on. Particularly when it comes to DIY flowers! We have both the pictorial instructions that Justin and Mary captured, as well as the video that Elysium filmed…so there is something...

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So, you’ve met the couple, seen the inspiration boards and the design guide, devoured the crazy gorgeous details, heard about...

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You’re definitely going to need to grab a couple of tissues for this next feature. You know what? Grab the whole box. Libby’s wedding photographs were truly gorgeous but to see the wedding really come to life thru the film is like being there all over again. Elysium did an absolutely beautiful job capturing the spirit of the day, the charm of Libby and Patrick’s personality and the total style that went into every last detail. I’ve literally watched this clip 20 times...

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Ahhhh. I am still reeling from yesterday’s From Inspiration to Wedding feature. Of course because it was one of my besties tying the knot, but also because going through all of the photographs again, brought it all back…the crazy, crazy adventure and the insane amount of fun Sarah True and I had bringing Libby and Patrick’s dream wedding to life. So, since you’ve already feasted on all of the behind the...

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There are SO many things we love about this wedding! We LOVE the charming couple … we LOVE Gracie’s gown … we LOVE Jackie’s photography … we LOVE the bundt cake favors … shall we go on ??

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Libby and Patrick’s wedding story is one of those that will go down in SMP history. From the amazing designers that took part in the day to the flooding that nearly stopped all of our plans from happening…it’s a story that I’m sure Libby and Patrick will be telling their grandkids. So I’m kind of thanking my lucky stars that Julie Hill, the INSANELY talented cinematographer behind Elysium, was there to...

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There is so much that I want to tell you about this wedding…about how even though not everything turned out exactly as we envisioned, it was still complete perfection. About how we had to let ideas go to the wayside, we had to comprise, we had to think really creatively…and yet it all still turned out beautiful. But you know what, there is no better way to tell the story than with the photographs that...

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Now for the REALLY good stuff. I’ve probably looked at these images a thousand times. And every time I do, I see something new. Something great. This is the wedding of Libby and Patrick. The wedding that Sarah True designed and styled, that we spent hours and hours on the phone dreaming about, that we built with love for two very special people. And despite the fact that we were literally faced against a...

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