Prairie Wedding

 Last Saturday we climbed into a horse drawn carriage that carried us back to the most darling tucked away prairie. {If I can say Ohio has prairies! Not quite like the Kansas prairies!} We didn't get there early enough to snap away lots of pictures of details. The weather was cloudy, but not freezing and a storm moved north, so no raindrops fell on this venue!
Hello! Dayton, Ohio Area vendors:
Wedding coordinator: Justine Worthington
Photographer: Molly Dues
Photographer: Andrea Dozier
Music: Wakelight {amazing talent}Do listen to them today!
Clap-Clap//Bravo//

 Our boys were quite smitten with the straw bale seating and sat upon them like kings. There was fidgeting, but with a what's-next-kind of curious fidgeting.

 A rare relaxing moment for my husband.....he is grinning at our kids and that makes it extra sweet.

Fall = mad for plaid.....

Birdseed scooped into vintage paper cones to toss at the bride & groom coming down the aisle.

Miss Vivian

 Programs tied up with twine and a pretty font. Even though I've been married for 15 years, I still get Martha Stewart's Wedding Magazine. I even pin some weddings/ideas that I like. There is something about weddings isn't there? xo

Sign us Up and Away.........

Two exciting things to mention! Above photo is story board made by our friend "down South" Liz Demos. She is taking the plunge and doing events and weddings. This story board made us swa-woon with delight! She will have a website up soon for her details on all things good & lovely.

Kara will be seeing her next week as she is taking a trip to see Savannah. Read an old post here on what hilarious Darcy wrote about her. It's been since 2003 that Kara was there so she's looking forward to sa-weet tea! Kara promises everyone waves to anyone down there, truly, really it is so!

Now, TA-DA........
We scouted this event last evening on French General's blog and "whew" this event makes us dizzy just thinking about it! You should see the lineup of instructors: Kaari Meng, Amy Butler,

Wendy Addison, Marcia Ceppos, Charlotte Lyons, Matthew Mead and more. Sign up is September 1st and we truly believe it will be sold out in minutes. We hope we can make this ball of an event.

We have enjoyed working with Kaari, Amy & Wendy, Marcia but the others will be {oh, we hope we can go} new to us. The added benefit is it's in St. Louis and that's only a 5 hour drive from us. Road trip= antiquing on the way, laughs, fun, creativit-y, eating {of course}, coffee and ME studio will be open for tours. How fun is that! OK, girls let's go!

Can't wait! Who plans to go???

Meanwhile, we are plowing through pricing things for the CL fair. Please say a prayer for us; our piles of work are not dwindling very fast. Yesterday Kara was so distracted that she gave her 6 month old a Dum-Dum lollipop instead of her 3.5 year old! True Story. Zach loved it, he had it sucked down to almost nothing. He started squealing because it fell out of his mouth and he couldn't get that sweetness. No wonder he was quiet and happy for 10 minutes! Please don't tell the National Academy of Pediatrics, Kara would be on their billboard in short order on the dangers of giving sugar to babies......... that's all folks!

Have a lovel-y, beautiful weekend gals!

Kara + Darcy

Dreaming of Tents

Tent featured in The Bride's Guide

The time has come to rent our tent for the fair, however these tents are not available in the Midwest {sadly}. We're smitten "by boutique tents"! It is going to be hard to rent a plain white one after seeing these. We do line our interiors with fabric so that does help...........somewhat!

Raj Tents

We have also discovered these lovely wooden pole tents on the East Coast, Sperry Tents.
Pictures did not transfer over well, but make sure you check this family owned company.

Have a lovel-y day,

kara+darcy

Sara's Daughter's Wedding

{Our talented gal that helps us out at the store,
her daughter's wedding October 4th 2008.}

Solid colors of carnations in a beautiful amber square vase.
The tables were covered in dark chocolate brown tablecloths.
Each table had varied colors of monochromatic pink carnations.
I believe Marisa {bride} did the calligraphy number cards on tables

Entrance bouquet at the reception...
love, love the combo of red & pink.

Seating "chairs" held our table number and
had darling petite scalloped sugar cookies inside with
pink sprinkles. {made by Marisa--she loves to bake}

The cake!

Darcy, Sara & Kara
Loved Sara's dress---isn't she lovely!

Thank you for a lovely day!