It’s time to announce our fourth From Inspiration to Reality Challenge winner and I am SO. STINKING. EXCITED. I am completely and totally obsessed with the idea of transforming your gorgeous boards into a real life photo shoot and I am even more excited to see this one brought to life. Designed by more...

Guess what! It’s time for another From Inspiration to Reality Challenge. We have vendors lined up from now until March who are so excited to turn your inspiration boards into a real life photo shoot, complete with stealable ideas for your own big day. I love this feature, completely and hopelessly, and really can’t wait to see some of these amazing boards come to life. For those of you that...

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AS promised, we have a great DIY project for you inspired by Cara and Spencer’s incredible tablescapes. I love, love, love the organic elegance behind the wedding day design and aside from perfect flowers, it’s the table runners that give the tables texture and style.

photo by Carrie Patterson

My mom’s a pretty amazing seamstress. She learned to sew in her teens, which means she’s been sewing...

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OK. This could be one of my favorite posts EVER on SMP (I know, I cry wolf with that statement all the time). It falls under our From Inspiration to Reality feature that we are doing, appropriately titled “From Inspiration to Invitation.” Dreamed up by one of the best invitation designers ever, Sarah Drake, we decided...

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Menswear is tricky. To get a perfectly tailored suit, it takes a little bit of cash, a little bit of patience and a really great tailor. But that is for a perfectly tailored suit. Not all weddings require this (despite what your etiquette book says) so this next feature is for all of you girls out there that simply want your hubs to look good without killing your wallets. Perfection, not necessary. Hotness, completely necessary.

First up, a classic suit.

The classic suit just...

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We have a surprise for all of you that entered the From Inspiration to Reality Challenge #2! We’ve decided to turn a second board into a real life photoshoot! This one will be headed up by the FABULOUS Millie Holloman and Jennifer from Salt Harbor Designs. They...

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So. We are currently doing a survey on SMP (that you can fill out for us right here) to see what we can do better, what features we can highlight, what we can do to make SMP an even better place to visit....

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Before we get into all of the wedding goodness we have for you today (and I mean serious goodness) I wanted to announce our From Inspiration to Reality Challenge #2 Winner! If you remember, our next team to transform one of your boards into a real life photo shoot is the FABULOUS photographer Agnes Lopez, the lovely event...

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This is not so much a DIY project as a really simple idea…using brown bags filled with fruit as either a table number OR as seating cards. Depending on the size of the bag that you buy, you can use these little treats in different ways. Either approach is just a really adorable way to bring a bit of charm to your table. This DIY is for seating cards, but really…it’s super easy to translate this project in lots of different ways.

Please note, we kept our bags without...

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Okay! Now on to the pies themselves. This was probably the easiest thing that I have ever done and coming from the world’s worst baker (I swear, I’m not exaggerating)…that really says a lot. I fully admit that I cheated and bought pre-made pie dough. For one round, I made the filling myself but then I discovered that they actually make pre-made pie filling, so you know I jumped right on that bandwagon. Sad, I know. But they turned out so stinking cute, who cares!

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