Amanda + Stan {wedding}

My shoes are Cole Haan (marked down to $20 from $295) which I found at an outlet in Las Vegas when we went there for my bachelorette party. 😀

My pearl necklace and earrings were borrowed from a friend.

My dear dear friend Carrie made 200 cupcakes from scratch- and they also happen to be vegan (recipes inspired by the vegan baking genius of Isa Moskowitz). They were coconut lime macadamia and chocolate cinnamon.

The groomsmen wore white shirts and dark slacks and shoes, and we bought them matching ties from solidcolorneckties.com (I think they were something like $10 each) and the yellow socks from welovecolors.com.

The bridesmaids wore Gap (outlet!) cardigans and my sister made skirts using fabric from fabric.com. They are both conservative moms and I wanted them to A) be comfortable and B) truly be able to wear their outfits again.

My mom made the little flower girl dresses- five of them!- with fabric from a quilting store here in town.

For the little boys, she got yellow polos and white shorts. She also got them little white beachy shoes, but at the last minute Collin got a blister and refused to wear them, so they walked barefoot- which I thought was just as cute.

The guest book is a leather journal from rustico.com (which is Orem- based). We plan to record other little quips from trips we take, etc. since, as most guest books go, only about the first five pages got filled up.

I made the lollipops and stuck them in some foam in a basket and put some dried peas on top of the foam.

Stan’s dad made our adorable cake topper! I just had him google “wooden cake toppers” and he took it from there.

Ring “pillows” were rocks we found in Moab (Stan’s a geologist so it seemed fitting).

My talented mom made the headpiece. She made the big flower with some felt and some white ribbon, then used Russian netting and tweaked it until it looked right.

The food was of course from Cafe Rio, which I would recommend 1000x! Their food is usually pretty crowd-pleasing. We really wanted people to leave with full bellies, and their cost was the same (or less) for a full meal as normal caterers charge for hors’de’ouvres (however you spell that!).

The only decorating we did at Cactus &Tropicals (they let you use their potted plants for centerpieces and basically anywhere you’d like to put them- plus it’s just gorgeous in there) was our photo clothesline, which we liked instead of doing a slideshow. We liked that we didn’t have to fuss with any electronic equipment, and also that it got people up and walking around to look at it. We scanned in old pics and printed them at Costco.

Our top three priorities for our wedding were 1) a cool location (and we really do love plants, gardening, and nature- as you probably heard the Bishop say during our ceremony 🙂 ) 2) that people would get plenty to eat and drink and actually WANT to hang around and 3) that we would have an awesome photographer to capture it all! (And not necessarily in that order!)

We feel very blessed that we had so many people contribute to our wedding. We’re pretty frugal people, and fortunately where we lacked the $$ we made up for with people’s generosity and hard work. We had so much fun that night, and we keep hearing how awesome our wedding was. We couldn’t have done it without so much help.