Glog much?

In my best interest to keep all you bee hip and cool and pop and fresh, I'd like to introduce you all to something called Glogster. I first surfed onto Glogster quite a while ago, by accident, and hadn't really thought about it until I saw a post on the boards where a member was making real cute 'inspiration collages' I guess you could call them. They were like inspiration boards but with fun backgrounds and accents.

This made me immediately think of that website I had briefly seen before. Naturally I spent hours (not a waist of time, hopefully) googling things like "digital scrapbook page" and "digital collage" trying to find said page because I know other brides-to-be would just loooove to use it for planning (well, hopefully, if I had remembered the site correctly). After a while, I finally found a site that had a list of links, and one was the link which I had been serarching for! *cue victorious music*

Enter: Glogster

Gloster is a website where you can sign up for a free account and make a Glog. A Glog is like an interactive, digital scrapbook page. It has a ton of clip art-y images to use, and a ton of text boxes that can be added to your Glog and then you can change all the colors (into your wedding colors, of course). You can also link to any images on the web, and add fun frame around those images. Bonus: if you post your Glog to your blog, for example, since the Glogs are interactive, hovering over the photos will cause them to enlarge themselves for you to see.

You can also print you Glogs and make them public or private (so only the person you give the address to can see them). They can be posted to Facebook, Wordpress, Blogger, and a million other social networks.

I think it may have been destined for highschoolers because of the "emo" categories and abundance of cheesy shapes, but it still fun. I can picture brides creating Glogs to show tehir wedding "vision" and then emailing them to vendors, and printing them out to share with well, anybody that will listen, I guess

So, keeping the hive in mind, of course, I spent way to long on Glogster creating a glog to share with you all so you could see how it works.






Anybody Glog much? Really, I'm curious to know! Anybody else going to give it a shot?

Thanks a lot, Zac!

This post could also be called "Wedding Inspiration in the Strangest Places."

When I was sitting on the couch after work just the other dad, My mom walks in and told she she went to Target to pick up a couple new CDs. After I responded with, "What's a CD?", she apparently set them on the counter (so she'd remember to add them to her iTunes) and that was that. She also may have told me which ones she bought, but I, clearly being the attentive daughter, didn't really pay attention because I was busy (probably reading Weddingbee, of course).

Fast forward to the next morning, when I'm making my lunch and heading out the door for work. What stops me in my tracks? Well, the CD sitting on the counter!

You see, I've never heard of or heard the Zac Brown Band (I believe they're country though, according to Mama Giraffe), but their newest CD cover blew me away.

(source)

Oh man, the lettering, the elegant type, ooooh the swashes! It just makes me sooo happy!

I immediately thought of our never ending saga about save the dates. (And by never ending saga, I mean the fact that they need to be sent out next month and haven't even started to design them because I can't decide what I what.)

The CD cover immediately reminded me of a certain STD I saw at minted.com. Mr. G had even liked this one too . . . well, kind of. He liked the type, but didn't like the photo because he thought it looked too much like an album cover, and not a photo you'd send your relatives. Still, it's just lovely!
Large, in your face lettering, totally elegant and applicable for a tradition wedding? Check, check, and check!

Currently, I'm setting my mind on creating a photo STD inspired by the lettering on that CD cover. This could seriouly be it, guys. (I say could because of my horrible tendancy to change my mind daily about, oh, pretty much everything). Either way, I'm so happy I saw that CD cover because I really think it could inspire some good ideas.

Now... where's my sketch pad?

Anybody else find wedding inspiration in the strangest place?

Seeing Red . . . Polka Dots!

So I was looking up cake stands for no other reason besides I love them and will need a super cute one for the wedding. And I found [probably] the most adorable one of all time. I found it at Amazon, and it is so cutesy and sweet with it's lovely red polka dots.

So, naturally, I began to think. If one was to buy this cute little stand, they could have a cute little polka dot wedding. A cute little red polka dot wedding! Two words: Love it!
Inspired by this stand I made [my first ever] an inspiration board for a wedding that could be inspired by the stand as well.
An adorable cupcake display[source], to sit next to the perfect cake [source] on the perfect polka dotted stand .
A photo of a bride who did have a red polka dot wedding! [source]
An adorable bridesmaid dress, perhaps [source]? To go with the gift of a wristlet [source].
Something cute for your hair. [source]
A bag [source] to travel to the honeymoon for which you have the perfect bathing suit [source] and the perfect shoes [source] or the other perfect shoes [source].
A bride isn't a bride without the perfect garter! [source]
A (ribbon) flower for your hair [source].