I hope that everyone had a great weekend and a spook-tacular Halloween (lame, I know)! You can read all about our crazy weekend over on BACKSTAGE. Let’s just say that I am so glad to be at home, blogging about all things beautiful rather than being stuck in an airport hotel with a cranky, cranky baby! Today is a good day!

It’s time for our weekly round-up that our fabulous editor,...

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There really are no words that could possibly do this giveaway justice. Many of the vendors are dear friends of mine that just happen to be the absolute best in their field so it’s a huge honor to have them collaborate on such a massive gift…just for SMP readers to boot.

So let me just get right to it. In honor of all things Napa Valley, and destination weddings at their finest, some of the Bay Area’s insanely talented vendors have come together to gift one lucky...

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Today, we are taking a time-out to say a huge and hearty welcome to our latest and greatest advertisers. We pride ourselves on only partnering up with the brands that we love, so we hope that you’ll take some time to visit their sites and show them a little SMP love!

First up, the fabulous, needs-no-words-of-introduction…Hello! Lucky!!!

Hello! Lucky has been a longtime favorite of mine….as there is just...

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Basically, anything Hello! Lucky gets their hands on, I immediately fall in love with. This wedding isn’t any different! From the PERFECT invitations and paper goods to the cute red, white and blue palette…every little detail is heaven!

all photographs by Misti Layne

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Hope everyone had a great weekend! We had some technical difficulties on Friday so we didn’t get a chance to announce the Hello! Lucky giveaway winner. So without further ado, the winner is…

Mary! Who said…

I absolutely love the Sparrows line from the Joel Dewberry collection. It’s beautiful and perfect for our garden ceremony! My fiance is in graduate school and I just had my hours cut back, so winning this would be a blessing words couldn’t describe....

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Well, we are running a little bit late today…after an amazing weekend wedding in Laguna Beach, Monday has come WAY too fast. But, to make up for the delay, I thought we could start the week off with an INCREDIBLE giveaway by our wonderfully talented friends at Hello! Lucky!!!

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After the two absolutely fabulous DIY projects that we featured this morning (the unbelievably great homemade vanilla favors that Kathleen, our DIY guru crafted and the absolutely gorgeous centerpieces that Natasha...

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Love, love, love the sweet simplicity of today’s featured affair. Oftentimes, it’s the small, really intimate weddings that are the most beautiful. That really capture the meaning behind a wedding…close friends and family celebrating the joy of the occassion.

With that said, if your family is anything like my family…there is no way to have a small wedding! That is one of the reasons that I love today’s featured affair. So many of the ideas can easily be...

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I am really picky when it comes to the DIY projects that we feature on SMP. I want them to be chic, sweet and sophisticated, clean and modern…all together lovely to look at. I don’t want them to seem terribly homemade but I do want them to have that lovely handmade charm that the right projects always have.

That is why I love the DIY ideas that we featured earlier today, and why I love the wedding that we are featuring right now!

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Since we are featuring two really incredible DIY projects today (homemade vanilla favors and mediterranean inspired centerpieces), I thought that it would be the perfect time to feature this absolutely gorgeous, DIY inspired real wedding (DIY details to come a bit later)!

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