Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine Inspiration and Myths
I have been reading a lot of Bridal Magazines since everyone seems to be giving them to me. Right now I have
Giant Wedding Cakes by Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine
8 bridal magazines on my dining room table. I find some of their information really interesting since I have not planned a wedding before and have no frame of reference about cakes, flower centerpieces, dresses, bridal bouquets, or wedding decorations of any kind. Nor do I know how to get a “concept” for my wedding or choose a theme. I am not sure how the timeline works with planning all this yet either. No one really went over any of this before the engagement…
I like Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine for the style and creativity the bring to the bridal world even though some of their wedding ideas are not always practical. Martha Stewart has a small army of creative people working for her and they do all the research, design and leg work for these projects. They don’t care if it takes a week to set up if the picture turns out perfect for the wedding magazine. Most of us live in the real world though where that isn’t possible and we get married in hotel chain ballrooms and have to get things set up and taken down quickly.
Real people and real weddings have budgets too. So most of us can’t afford the fanciest matching table linnens, flowers or silver plate. This helps me understand the wedding business industry. The business of weddings seems to be about getting brides (and their mothers) to fall in love with some dream location or ball gown or flower. Then magazines like Martha Stewart Weddings they never mention the price of course. Then they know you are hooked and parents will do anything to help make the big day perfect so they fork over more money than most cars cost for the wedding and all the
perfect accoutriments. Sigh. I wish it was easier than that and that some of these perfect photos were more than a myth. I wish guests and relatives weren’t so judgemental and that weddings were more casual. Formality of dress doesn’t indicate the level of love at the ceremony.
Anyway, I still think Martha Stewart’s Wedding Magazines are informative and a bit dreamy even if they aren’t completley practical. I will enjoy the photos even though my wedding is probably not going to end up like one of Martha Stewart’s perfectly designed weddings. The thing is I am pretty sure we will be just as happy if not happier than those people who spent 40K on their weddings.
A range of colors in flowers for your wedding. All kinds including orchids, hydrangeas and roses from Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine
I recently got married and had Cold Stone Creamery in Lockport cater our wedding reception. This is the store we always go to since it is in the town we live in but when I was picking out my flavors and toppings another bride was booking her engagement party and she lives in NorthBrook and they said it was no problem to cater an event that was alittle bit aways
I choose the option of having the ice cream sundae bar atation and everyone loved it! I was going to do the option of the portabkle frozen stoen that they would mix the ice cream and candy on just like in the store but the sundae bar was a little bit cheaper.
We had our whole wedding catered for way cheaper than our cake or a chocolate fountain would have cost. This Cold Stone in Lockport is really pretty reasonable and did a beautiful job. My theme was fall with leaves and broze colors and they set their table up to match my theme for free!
At Christmas thats all my family could talk about was the sundae bar. I would go to this Cold Stone off 159th even if I moved away because they treated us so good. I couldnt decide on my flavors or she let em try all of them again and again and gave me really good suggestions.
We also had a Cold Stone Candy station setup with cold stone containers on the way out for people to et on the way home
They also do total Ice Cream cakes!