BRIDAL BLOG - Moo-re Wedding Themes
Today is a very special bridal blog. Because today I am the only one on in the children's department. And today, no children are reading.
This blog is inspired by my two girlfriends who are getting married this fall, one month apart from each other, on Aquidneck Island, where I am serving as MOH for both ladies. The brides and the weddings are both very different from each other - one is a hippie vineyard folk music wedding, and one is an old Hollywood Art Deco jazz wedding. One will require me to sing gospelized showtunes and dress up the dog, and one will require me to make a toast and keep the best man from running off with the band. However, they are both linked by one strange and unexpected feature.
Cows.
It's true. And it made me think, of all the things these two weddings could have in common, how on earth did it come to be cows? Is this even important enough to write a bridal blog about?
I think the answer to this question is that it is so unimportant, it requires an immediate bridal blog in which I investigate how cows have colored other people's weddings, and how you could feature them in your own.
First off, the cows that inspired the post.
Wedding Number 1 is taking place at Greenvale Vinyard in Pawtucket, which is the home of these brown cows:
Holy mother! That is a cow. There are in fact, two of them at the Vineyards, and I paraphrase Jill very closely when I relate that the cows were one of the top factors in them choosing their wedding destination.
Wedding number 2, the Art Deco wedding, could in no way feature cows, it seems. And yet, it does. I was informed the other day that the bride and groom, in lieu of providing favors, were making a large donation to this (or a similar) charity in the names of their wedding guests:
International Humanity Foundation - Donate a Cow
This charity uses its donations to provide families in third world countries with a cow, or similar farm animal, and guides them through the process of raising the cow, breeding it, to then get calves to other families, to enable themselves to feed the family and start a community that is self-sufficient. Or something like that, I don't know, I was sort of drunk/or/tired.
But there you go! Cows!
Interested in making cows a part of your own wedding? Here's how:
ACCESSORIZE:
Sat'n Spurs - HOME OF THE OFFICIAL WESTERN DENIM WEDDING DRESS
Awesome.
This site features several cow accessories to embellish your wedding with Bovine Beauty, such as confetti, cow cake toppers, cow centerpieces, and cow cookie-cutters. Moo-la-la!
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
A couple in Anchorage, AL decided to get married on Grandpa's cow pasture. The bride and guests wore wellies, they came down the aisle to a fiddler and the guests on Kazoo humming "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" and the wedding procession included a ram. (Sadly, no pictures accompany this, but I found the article pretty hilarious...and I sort of wanted to judge them, but it also seems like they had a grand ol' time! plus they had like nine kinds of pie....Not Cow Pies. You're gross.)
GET GRAPHIC!
Don't let your down-home ho-down instincts get in the way of modern technology - Dress up your wedding website with appropriate graphics, such as the ones provided by Sleeping Angel graphics. Holy cow!
MUSIC IN THE KEY OF MOO!
Picking a band that fits your theme is key - the RIGHT key, that is! Make sure you hire a band like The Flying Cows of Ventry or The Mad Cow Band to keep your guests moooovin' and shakin'!
DON'T PHORGET THE PHOTOS
Make sure your photographer appreciates your quirky tastes and includes your bovine beauties in the memories:
www.ericpowellphotos.com - The sense of humor in both bride and photographer are appreciated, even if the photo makes me go EEEEEEEEEEEW
Birdsong Photography does lovely work, even if this photo is more about the cow's ass than the bride's:
AND LAST, PUT IT DOWN IN BLOG HISTORY and let me know about your cow wedding, so next time I have more to write in my bridal blog about cow weddings.
Best Moo-shes,
Liz
This blog is inspired by my two girlfriends who are getting married this fall, one month apart from each other, on Aquidneck Island, where I am serving as MOH for both ladies. The brides and the weddings are both very different from each other - one is a hippie vineyard folk music wedding, and one is an old Hollywood Art Deco jazz wedding. One will require me to sing gospelized showtunes and dress up the dog, and one will require me to make a toast and keep the best man from running off with the band. However, they are both linked by one strange and unexpected feature.
Cows.
It's true. And it made me think, of all the things these two weddings could have in common, how on earth did it come to be cows? Is this even important enough to write a bridal blog about?
I think the answer to this question is that it is so unimportant, it requires an immediate bridal blog in which I investigate how cows have colored other people's weddings, and how you could feature them in your own.
First off, the cows that inspired the post.
Wedding Number 1 is taking place at Greenvale Vinyard in Pawtucket, which is the home of these brown cows:
Holy mother! That is a cow. There are in fact, two of them at the Vineyards, and I paraphrase Jill very closely when I relate that the cows were one of the top factors in them choosing their wedding destination.
Wedding number 2, the Art Deco wedding, could in no way feature cows, it seems. And yet, it does. I was informed the other day that the bride and groom, in lieu of providing favors, were making a large donation to this (or a similar) charity in the names of their wedding guests:
International Humanity Foundation - Donate a Cow
This charity uses its donations to provide families in third world countries with a cow, or similar farm animal, and guides them through the process of raising the cow, breeding it, to then get calves to other families, to enable themselves to feed the family and start a community that is self-sufficient. Or something like that, I don't know, I was sort of drunk/or/tired.
But there you go! Cows!
Interested in making cows a part of your own wedding? Here's how:
ACCESSORIZE:
Sat'n Spurs - HOME OF THE OFFICIAL WESTERN DENIM WEDDING DRESS
Awesome.
This site features several cow accessories to embellish your wedding with Bovine Beauty, such as confetti, cow cake toppers, cow centerpieces, and cow cookie-cutters. Moo-la-la!
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
A couple in Anchorage, AL decided to get married on Grandpa's cow pasture. The bride and guests wore wellies, they came down the aisle to a fiddler and the guests on Kazoo humming "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" and the wedding procession included a ram. (Sadly, no pictures accompany this, but I found the article pretty hilarious...and I sort of wanted to judge them, but it also seems like they had a grand ol' time! plus they had like nine kinds of pie....Not Cow Pies. You're gross.)
GET GRAPHIC!
Don't let your down-home ho-down instincts get in the way of modern technology - Dress up your wedding website with appropriate graphics, such as the ones provided by Sleeping Angel graphics. Holy cow!
MUSIC IN THE KEY OF MOO!
Picking a band that fits your theme is key - the RIGHT key, that is! Make sure you hire a band like The Flying Cows of Ventry or The Mad Cow Band to keep your guests moooovin' and shakin'!
DON'T PHORGET THE PHOTOS
Make sure your photographer appreciates your quirky tastes and includes your bovine beauties in the memories:
www.ericpowellphotos.com - The sense of humor in both bride and photographer are appreciated, even if the photo makes me go EEEEEEEEEEEW
Birdsong Photography does lovely work, even if this photo is more about the cow's ass than the bride's:
AND LAST, PUT IT DOWN IN BLOG HISTORY and let me know about your cow wedding, so next time I have more to write in my bridal blog about cow weddings.
Best Moo-shes,
Liz