I've finally polished off the last bit of Easter leftovers - phew, I had so much this year! Fortunately it was all my favs: ham, potato casserole (a recipe from my Mother in Law) and Scalloped Casserole (One of my mother's recipes!) Now that I'm done eating I can finally post some pictures from the occasion...Some of you may have seen my test run I did several months ago, so this is the real deal!
Originally I had planned to do a full out jelly bean bar - that is until I saw the crazy price of jelly beans! Quite costly, I couldn't believe chocolate candy, which I'm more partial to anyways, came in cheaper than Jelly Beans! So I nixed it and just focused on some of my favorites, jelly beans were involved to though! My little candy bar featured Peeps, 2 different types of jelly beans, Reese's Pastel Eggs (YUM) and Whopper's Robin's Eggs!
The centerpiece of the bar is my Cherry Blossom Branch I made using Martha's directions...but oppps I forgot to take a picture of it!
I've got a sweet nephew who is allergic to peanuts, so I had to make sure that I labeled what everything was so that people knew what he could and couldn't eat...the Reese's eggs were out (yay more for me!)
One snowy day this winter I tried to beat the winter blahs with my Sister-in-Law Heidi, the owner and head event planner at Entertain Me Event Planning so we headed off to Christmas Tree Shop and worked on the table decor. I just love all the bright festive spring colors we pulled in! The flower vases are actually soup cans wrapped in pretty paper & a ribbon...simple, cheap and oh so cute!
Each place setting had a little egg bowl with some pink grass and a yummy chocolate bunny for guests to eat.
I made the fruit kabobs as an app...for some reason they didn't fly off the tray as I would have thought - but the left overs made a great snack/breakfast for me for the next week!
I got this punch recipe from one of the girls on thenest.com message board! It was delicious and a big hit. It was a can of pineapple juice, frozen concentrate OJ thawed out, and champagne. I also added some frozen pineapple slices and cut up oranges to make it look pretty!
A week before Easter I bought a pre-packaged salad at Wegman's and I fell in love! I decided to recreate it in bulk...super easy, spinach, feta & Parm cheese, dried cranberries, and croutons. The dressing was a raspberry vinaigrette.
Other sides contributed by family was the scalloped pineapple, potato casserole and broiled asparagus.
You obviously can't forget the entree, Ham! This was a Costco ham with the honey glaze - aways a hit.
Dessert was probably my favorite part of the meal...I was busy cleaning up dishes that I completely forgot to get pictures! I made my first Cheesecake and o.m.g. it was soooo good! You can find the recipe at
All Recipes. It was actually a really easy recipe - I'm sure I'll use it again! My husband, C, bless his heart, attempted to make cannoli's - $50 later they were made...it took 2 rounds of filling attempts and several kitchen gadgets later to make them - they were good, but costly, he better make them many more times to make the gadgets worth the $$...C also made some chocolate strawberries!! Yum!
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If you can't read the creative RSVP wording it says this:
Rachael & James' colors we are working with are a smoke grey and purple. James wasn't feeling the purple booklet idea, so Rachael compromised to go with the smoke and use the purple as an accent color - it wouldn't want it to be too girlie, now would we?
They wanted to stay more traditional with their invite layer, so we made it a simple right aligned wording and emphasized their names in a Honey Scrpt! Please excuse my big blank spots - I wanted to protect their privacy so I had to remove all the personal information!
The details layer communicates all the important details: reception. hotel block info, and shuttle info!
Originally I had planned to do a full out jelly bean bar - that is until I saw the crazy price of jelly beans! Quite costly, I couldn't believe chocolate candy, which I'm more partial to anyways, came in cheaper than Jelly Beans! So I nixed it and just focused on some of my favorites, jelly beans were involved to though! My little candy bar featured Peeps, 2 different types of jelly beans, Reese's Pastel Eggs (YUM) and Whopper's Robin's Eggs! 
I've got a sweet nephew who is allergic to peanuts, so I had to make sure that I labeled what everything was so that people knew what he could and couldn't eat...the Reese's eggs were out (yay more for me!)
One snowy day this winter I tried to beat the winter blahs with my Sister-in-Law Heidi, the owner and head event planner at Entertain Me Event Planning so we headed off to Christmas Tree Shop and worked on the table decor. I just love all the bright festive spring colors we pulled in! The flower vases are actually soup cans wrapped in pretty paper & a ribbon...simple, cheap and oh so cute! 
Each place setting had a little egg bowl with some pink grass and a yummy chocolate bunny for guests to eat. 
I made the fruit kabobs as an app...for some reason they didn't fly off the tray as I would have thought - but the left overs made a great snack/breakfast for me for the next week! 
I got this punch recipe from one of the girls on thenest.com message board! It was delicious and a big hit. It was a can of pineapple juice, frozen concentrate OJ thawed out, and champagne. I also added some frozen pineapple slices and cut up oranges to make it look pretty!
A week before Easter I bought a pre-packaged salad at Wegman's and I fell in love! I decided to recreate it in bulk...super easy, spinach, feta & Parm cheese, dried cranberries, and croutons. The dressing was a raspberry vinaigrette. 
You obviously can't forget the entree, Ham! This was a Costco ham with the honey glaze - aways a hit. 
The Heidi layered invitation (named after my favorite sister-in-law) can be dressed up or dressed down to accommodate a fancy or casual event. This particular sample is featuring our casual American Typewriter design. It has a silver metallic background and a white invitation layer. The fun font is emphasized in pink and orange.
The RSVP Postcards are probably my favorite part of this design. We decided to do something a little different when it came to the reply, we opted to make it Mad Lib Style! Guests can have fun filling in creative adjectives and telling you what their favorite song is that they can't wait to dance to! This is a great way to get a fabulous play list together for your dj. Wording can be customized to suite your needs! 
The Emma pocket, named after my cutie Emma M-dawg, is a fun and functional wedding invitation. It can be dressed up for an elegant affair or go casual for a more laid back style. This sample features a unique design element, a quote or saying printed on vellum paper as an overlay of a cream ribbon. This embellishment creates a truly modern looking invitation! 
Above is a close up of our unique embellishment.
Having a weekend long celebration? Inform your guests of all the weekend activities by skipping the reception enclosure and opting instead of a celebrations enclosure. On this new enclosure you can provide guests with information on Rehearsal Dinners, Sunday Brunch, the Reception and After-party. 
