B-List Meet and Greet: Food and Details

B-List festivities were held at The Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria, VA. There have been so many great blog recaps of the event already but as a true foodaholic, I thought we’d give a little extra attention to the food and little details that were so inspirational and above all, delicious!

The menu was created by Design Cuisine and the details were executed flawlessly. All the dishes were even named after the bloggers, my favorite being Oh So Beautiful Paper’s Tuna Tartare. Kelly from Santa Barbara Chic and I made sure we knew the locations of the waitstaff carrying those sweet trays of tuna tartare at all times!

Think Splendid’s Crab Cakes

Bridal Bar’s Sliding Oyster Bar

Other bridal details included a Prosecco DIY-bar where guests could add their own flavors to their glasses.

Holly Chappelle Flowers provided the sweet floral arrangements throughout the event including a DIY Bride Pop-Up Bar, which featured a centerpiece with the names and logos of the B-List blogs. The DIY Bride Pop-Up Bar put a twist on the popular candy/popcorn bar—foods that “Popped!” were included in the bar, like buttered popcorn, caramel popcorn, Pop Rocks in sweet little cones, and homemade Pop Tarts.

DC Rentals provided all the furniture for the event and cleverly set up various place settings throughout the room that showed off some great ways to pull off their place settings and wares.

There was even a live Twitter feed on the big screen, pulling all tweets that mentioned #theBlist or @the_b_list! Clever! You could have your wedding guests live tweet your wedding!

And of course, what wedding event would be complete without a Smilebooth? I love how the booth functions on remote, so guests that use the booth can snap away without needing someone to help them out, although the Smilebooth staff was always on hand to help us crazy photoboothers. The pretty pretty booth background was designed by Ashley at Dolci Odille.

“In defense of short people”

Vané from Brooklyn Bride and me

Wow, I was really overeager to jam that mustache right up to my nose. And the cute little flowers all the bloggers were wearing were made for us by Emerson Made! Me, Anne-Marie from Perfect Bound and Kelly from Santa Barbara Chic

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If You Build It, They Will Come

Operation: Flow-y Bamboo Wedding Altar

Dolphin Dad and all-around-handyman (he can truly fix and make anything), Ray, have been working on this super secret mission. Okay… so it’s not really super secret, but it made it sounds much cooler to say so.

When Mr. Dolphin and I first started our search for wedding ceremony locations we were so sure we wanted a beach wedding (we had to since nix the idea due to logistics). When searching for inspiration I came across all these beautiful bamboo altars and fell in love with them. Lucky for us, Dolphin Dad just so happened to have bamboo laying around (SCORE!). So after discussing the design with Dolphin Dad, he quickly placed an order for extra bamboo, and he and Ray got into design development. But, before I show you the beautiful bamboo and the mock-up of the altar, check out some of my inspiration for our bamboo wedding altar.

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Mr. Dolphin and I will be getting married on the golf course down at Plantation Bay Country Club in Ormond Beach. We will be married near one of the golf holes overlooking a lake. Wouldn’t it sound so much fancier if I could tell you which hole it is? Read with your fancy voice: We will be married on the 10th hole. Fancy. But… I can’t find the papers that tell me this so you will just have to use your imagination!

So… imagine beautifully cut short green grass, white wood chairs lined up and at the end a beautiful altar made from this:

Ooh LA LA!

I love how the bamboo color just POPS off the green palm behind it. Imagine how beautiful it will look draped with white sheer material on the golf course. Love it.

Miniature mock-up of the connections for the wedding altar…

Oh, and check this out:

The altar folds up for easy moving and storage! Ingenious!

*Note To Florida Brides: It will be available after our May wedding, if anyone is interested!

I’ll tell you all, it really feels great to have to worry about one less thing. When I first mentioned to Dolphin Dad that I wanted to build an altar, I figured I would be ordering the materials, figuring out all the measurements and building it myself (with Dolphin Dad’s help) one Saturday. I was pleasantly surprised when I got an e mail one day that the bamboo had arrived. I didn’t even know Dolphin Dad had ordered it! It sort of made my day. Then when I came home one weekend, he had a mock up of the altar that Ray had built and needed my approval. How awesome is that?

How gorgeous is that sky? I can’t wait to marry Mr. Dolphin under our flow-y altar.

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Are you building something special to get married under? What will you do with it after you’re married?

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