Wedding Blog
If you were wondering what we are up to, what color our nails are, what we are eating or wearing or where we are …. then follow us on over here @weddingchicks on Instagram. If you want to get a little more personal with us, you can follow us @amysquires and @joceybella.
We are also curious what you are up to and always looking for new friends to follow, so leave your handle below and we will look you up. xoxo Jocey & Amy
Categories: Tips
After all that decorating, we wanted to sit down with one of our favorite salads as of late made by Amy. Not only is this Pear Salad recipe delicious and beautiful, it’s really easy to whip up. You just need to pick up are a few things to make one tasty salad.
Pear Salad Ingredients: 3 Red Anju Pears, Baby Spinach, 1/4 cup Gorgonzola Cheese, 1/4 cup Almonds, 1 tablespoon Olive Oil, 1 tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar, 3 pinches of Sugar in the Raw, salt and pepper to taste.
Step One:
Start off by cutting the pears into bite size pieces.
Below are a few tips on how to ensure your pears are ripe:
• Leave firm, unripe pears at room temperature so that they can ripen.
• Check the neck of your pear for ripeness everyday, by gently applying pressure to the neck, or stem with your thumb. If it yields to the gentle pressure, then it’s ripe and ready for your salad
• Once your pears are ripe, you can refrigerate them if you are not ready to make your salad. This will slow the ripening process up to five days.
Step Two:
Put almonds into a ziplock and use a mallet to crush them into tiny pieces.
This salad is a great appetizer, but if you want to make it a meal simply add some chicken. All the plates and silverware are from West Elm — including the cute air plants! Sip on Izze Sparkling Grapefruit and you have one tasty meal.
Categories: DIY Edible Projects
The wedding has ended, and it is time to move in together and combine your lives. Time to create a cohesive space that reflects both of your personal styles. You may just end up like my husband and me — filling each and every space of our home with furniture and knickknacks galore … except our bedroom. Oddly enough, our bedroom is where we spend most of our free time. Sadly it was boring and in dire need of a splash of color and whole lot of pizazz as you can see below.
Since we are both busy bees, we did not have the time to devote to making our bedroom a special space. Luckily, we live super close to Kirsten of Simply Grove, and enlisted her services in our bedroom redesign. Thankfully her process was extremely simple, and mostly done online. Love that! Read on to hear about the entire process and how all of you can have Simply Grove redesign your new bedroom or any room for that matter. You can see all the photos in the full gallery here photographed by Boise wedding photographer Amanda Cherie Photography.
The heart painting behind our bed was tremendously easy — with a few supplies and three short steps we had an eye popping piece for about $30. Everything for the painting was purchased at Michaels. Including: canvas, gold glitter spray paint,red acrylic paint and brushes.
1. Spray the canvas and let set overnight. Be careful the glitter scatters.
2. Print out a heart and center it on the canvas.
3. Paint your heart and let it dry. We did about three coats of red paint to make it look extra pretty.
On Simply Grove‘s Process:
Kirsten assessed our style (ok, mostly mine), then made a Pinterest board where she added products for us to review. From there I would say yay or nay. You can see the board here, and actually find all the products that made our room come to life. Below are a few of my favorite pieces that made the room come to life, including my favorite piece that tied the room together — a grape and indigo zig rug from Sernea and Lily. We are ecstatic on how everything turned out!
1. Brass Ring Table Lamp from Serena and Lily
2. Michelle Armas Halcyon Print
3. Sand/Navy Diamond Sheet Set from Serena and Lily
4. Magical Thinking Feather Curtain Tie-Back
5. Grape and indigo zig rug from Sernea and Lily
6. TOO by Blu Dot Sideburn Lounge Chair in Gray Botanical on sale for $139
7. Hanging Light Bulb Glass Terrarium
As you can see, we love plants. For those of you who do not have a green thumb, a resurrection plant might be a great fit. We bought ours from a little shop in Boise, Idaho called Bricolage. These little plants can die and come back to life with a little water.
 |
 |
 |
 |
Photographer: Amanda Cherie Photography
Styling: Simply Grove
Categories: Things We Love
One of our very own Hand Picked Venders, Cedarwood Weddings, submitted this orange and yellow wedding bouquet recipe for you to enjoy. With splashes of pink, orange and yellow, this colorful bouquet of wildflowers is a definite statement piece. Beautifully photographed by Rylee Hitchner Photography. Be sure to learn more about Cedarwood Weddings by visiting their Hand-Picked page here.
You too can create this orange and yellow wedding bouquet yourself using the following florals — 5 stems orange marigolds, 3 ‘sarah bernhart’ peonies, 5 crocosmia, 5 yellow ranunculus, 5 ‘wirley gig’ zinnias, 5 yellow zinnias, 3 sunflowers, 5 bupleurum & 5 red freesia.
Venue: Cedarwood Weddings
Categories: Bouquet Recipe
Colors: orange, pink, yellow
