^ Sunflower farm wedding

^ Bridal Bouquet Colored by Flowers

^ Friday Fresh Squeeze
^ Kim + Alex {by liz

^ Jennifer + Bill – Real Wedding with Dried & Mini Sunflowers

^ Max & Sara Mexcian Forest Wedding

^ Eco-friendly forest wedding

^ A Forest Wedding Tablescape

^ Caitlin and Josh: Bremen, Alabama

^ Magical Spain

^ Enchanted Forest Wedding Ceremony

^ Simple Australia Garden Wedding

^ Rustic Wedding

^ Forest Wedding by Bryan Rupp Photography

^ Whimsical woodland Portland wedding: Kelly + Joseph (part 2)

^ Chic Vintage Brides

I’ve been living in Georgia for about nine years now and I’m embarrassed to say that I have never been to Stone Mountains until this past weekend!  It was a beautiful weekend, just about 70 degrees (in December.. that’s crazy!), with a good amount of cloud and cool breeze.

Unfortunately I only have pictures after we got up there to share because we were so busy enjoying the walk up the mountain.  It only took about 30 mins I believe, might be less.  There’s a few options to parking and enjoying view:

1) Park by the cable car entrance, walk about half a mile to the entrance of the trail and then take the cable car down (or take the cable car up, walk down the the trail and back to the car)
2) Park by the trail entrance, walk up the trail and walk down the trail
3) Park by the cable car entrance, take the cable car up, and down.

We did option #1, not really by choice but due to lack of research. haha!
We didn’t do anything else other than the trail and enjoying the view up there, but the park itself is very nicely done, and it seems like there’s a lot more to do.  Especially if you’re with kids, and also around this time of the year when the Snow Mountain is open.

Perhaps a good place for your guests and family to enjoy before/after your wedding.

Thank you Favor Tag/ Cupcake Topper Templates:

• Yellow Thank You Tag
• Turquoise Thank You Tag
• Orange Thank You Tag
• Pink Thank You Tag
• Mint Green Thank You Tag
• Gray Thank You Tag

How to make a Favor Tag:

1. Print the template out on a white card stock paper (12 tags per sheet, 2″ wide)
2. Using a 2″ Paper Puncher, punch the circles out.  (Or cut them out with scissors/xacto knife)
3. Using a 1/4″ hole puncher, punch a hole above the heart (Or a regular hole puncher)
4. String a ribbon through the hole, and tie it to your wedding favor!

How to make a cupcake topper

1. Print the template out on a white card stock paper (12 tags per sheet)
2. Using a 2″ Paper Puncher, punch the circles out.  (Or cut them out with scissors/xacto knife)
3. Tap/hot glue a cupcake topper stick to the back.
4. Stick it in to your cupcake!

^ Nautical Cork Wedding via Brosnan Photographic

^ Nautical Portuguese Wedding via RuffledBlog

^ Beach Wedding Inspiration via Wedding Wire

^ Sail Away With Me Inspiration via Ruffled Blog

^ Colorful Nautical Invitation via InvitationCrush

^ DIY Nautical Wedding via AdoreWeddingBlog

^ Coral Aisle Decorations via JL Designs

^ Coastal & Casual Southern Wedding via Elizabeth Anne Designs

^ Nautical Inspiration via Grey Likes Weddings

^ Malibu Wedding via Style Me Pretty

^ via Lovelyness

>>> Click here for “Nautical Wedding Theme” Pinterest Page <<<

This is The Little Canopy’s signature handmade paper flower wedding backdrop!  It’s 9 feet wide by 18 feet tall, and it has about 600 handmade paper flowers on a fabric.  The variety of flower shapes and sizes gives it much depth and texture, and the lighting that’s shooting from below and above give its dramatic finish.  It took about 4-6 weeks to make since I only had after 5pm and the weekend to work on, and probably about 20 bags of hot glue sticks.  You can find it in my etsy shop.  Unfortunately since it’s so big I don’t have a shipping method for this, so it’ll have to be picked up in Atlanta, or you can buy the DIY listing where I ship out the flowers + fabric and you have to glue them yourself.  Anyways I thought I’d dedicate this post to brides who would like to make themselves a handmade paper flower backdrop and find some useful tutorials.  A lot of it is improvising, cutting petals in different shapes using the tutorials below, and just lots and lots of gluing!  If you have paper scrap left over, cut it into a leaf shape and glue it at the bottom too.

Tutorials for DIY Handmade Paper Flowers:

^ How to make recylced paper flowers via How About Orange

^ Video: How to make a paper rose

^ Simple Paper Flowers

^ Kusudama Tutorial Part 1

^ Tissue Paper & Paper flowers Tutorial

^ Let me make you some giant flowers

^ Tutorial for Newspaper Flowers

^ Paper Flower Tutorial

^Paper Flower Centerpieces Tutorial

^ Fairy Tale Paper Flower Tutorial

^ Two methods to craft paper flowers

I have put together all these cute boutonnieres from Etsy artists from all the colors of the rainbow.  Unlike a bride who needs a veil, tiara, earrings, necklace, bracelets, rings, brooches, shoes, inner skirts, etc, a groom only have a few things to jazz up their style with.  Ties and bow ties, cufflinks, earrings, and maybe handkerchief? So a boutonnieres has a big impact on their look, even though they’re so petite.  It makes a groom look like a groom!  Pick wisely, ladies!

^ Red Boutonniere & Hair Clip MATCHING by SewSmashing

^ Orange Calla Boutonniere by ysoriginals

^ Yellow Felt Boutonniere by ThursdayCraftLove

^ Rick Rack Rose Bud Boutonniere – Pink and Gray by roseandbirch

^ Boutonnieres Wedding Country Groom Groomsman by FairyfolkWeddings

^ Tea Green Flower burlap Boutonniere by BrightBride

^ White Rose and Lime Green Pom Boutonniere by KateSaidYes

^ Artsy Vintage Handmade Groom Boutonnieres boutonieres by roundtherosies

^ Boutonniere For A Blue Wedding GlobeThistle Salal Queen Annes Lace by donnahubbard

^ Rustic Wedding Boutonnieres -Set of 5 Blue Feather by CherubinoCrafts

^ Rosette Brooch Pin Rose Broach Pin Navy Blue by Brydferth

^ Eggplant Purple Satin Boutonniere with Pearl and Spotted Feather by BloominCute

Look what we have in our etsy shop now!  These awesome cute yarn pompom flowers that looks like craspedia billy balls.  Perfect for vintage, artsy wedding tables to brighten up everyone’s mood.   I like having these everywhere in my house on shelves, bathroom, on my nightstand etc. These vases are from Michael’s, but it will be much cuter if you have miss matching vintage vases that you find from antique stores.  I had a lot of craspedia billy ball flowers in my wedding bouquet, I only wish I made these sooner to incorporate them into my wedding.

You can find these here

With Winter coming up, I thought I’d collect the perfect accessories to go with winter wedding themes.  Feather bridal hair accessories!  Feather hair accessories give brides this romantic, soft and fragile look that reminds you of fresh snow.  In fact feather bridal accessories go with any theme, from classic to vintage to even to achieve bold wedding themes with strong a feather color.  Not to mention that it makes the bride’s head+face look tiny. lol!

^ Once Wed

^ Love it So Much

^ Feather Bridal Hair Accessories by ChicWeddingHairStyles

^ Hair Style Trends For

^ Glamourous wedding hair accessories feather bridal cap by Once Wed

^ Deep ivory feather fascinator wedding hair accessories by Once Wed

^ Jennifer Behr Collection by Green Wedding shoes

^ Bridal Hair Piece by LoBoheme

^ Bridal feather flower by myrakim

^ Palm Springs Boudoir: Miss T Sarah K Chen

Cute, fun brides!! Short wedding dresses seems so fitting when it comes to outdoor weddings, DIY weddings, beach weddings, backyard weddings etc.  For starters it keeps the brides in a light, fun mood since they don’t have to hurl around tons of fabric all day long.  Wedding dresses can be heavy!  By the end of the day I felt like I was training for a marathon dragging a tire behind me.  Secondly it won’t attract all the dirt, grass, grease and sand onto the bottom of the dress.  Less cleaning bills.  Thirdly you can show off your awesome heels and legs!  Fourthly I think everyone in every shape and size looks good in a mini dress.  You can accentuate parts of your body with a big poofy wedding skirt, or hide awkward proportions that you always have trouble with, and feel good looking petite and cute!  I would make all these cute brides into a miniature figurine and display them on a shelf if I could… not in a creepy way. lol.

^ A Sweet Mountaintop Wedding Once Wed

^ Wedding Bee Pro

^ A Fantastically DIY Backyard Wedding from Offbeat Bride via My Wedding

^ Artsy day-after session by Tara Welch Photography via Pretty Little Weddings

^ Wedding dress short lace vintage bride via Once Wed

^ Eclectically Beautiful Wedding: Chic & Unique Bridal Style via bridal Musing

^ Boomin’ Vintage Circus Weddign via Bloomerism

^ A DIY Beach Wedding via Rock n Roll Bride