Thirsty Thursday: Winter Spice Sangria

This just looks great!! It would be super cute as a signature drink either served out of a pitcher or a punch bowl.

Winter Spice Sangria

Ingredients:1 bottle of Sandeman Founders Reserve Porto
4 oz cinnamon Schnapps
3 clementines, quartered
6 oz cranberries
18 oz sparkling clementine juice or soda
6 oz cranberry juice
4 cinnamon sticks
Ground allspice to taste

Directions: 

Combine Sandeman Founders Reserve, cinnamon schnapps, clementine pieces, cranberries, cranberry juice and cinnamon sticks in a large pitcher. Cover tightly and place in refrigerator for at least 8 hours. Right before serving, add sparkling clementine juice/soda and sprinkle allspice on top, to taste.

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Wowing your guests: Guest Transportation

This is always the best part of planning weddings and events, coming up with new and exciting ways to WOW your guests.  The Knot has come up with 30 of them to be exact but I'm going to share a few this week that I just loved. First up is Guest Transportation.


Guest Transportation

I love the idea of giving your guests a fun and unique way of getting to the festivities.  You can't tell me that you wouldn't love riding a trolley to a wedding.

Style Me Pretty

What type of guest transportation have you seen?


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Real Wedding Wednesday: Dallas Wedding with Amazing Bolero

I am in love with this wedding that was on Style Me Pretty today.

I love the dress for starters.  It just looks amazing on her and I especially like how the bolero fits her so well.  Bolero's can be so versatile, they can be worn during the ceremony but can then be taken off later in the night.  I just love them.

I also love the chandelier for the reception. They create such an ambiance but it just astonishes me that they are hanging from a tree. Love it!!!


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Wrapping Paper + Table Decorations = Amazing

Now that Christmas is over what do you do with all the wrapping paper. Here is a great idea from a past post.


I got this great post from Preston Bailey's Blog.




I love this! We created a beautiful elegant table all made from wrapping paper, ribbons, and small embellishments. You can do this so easily bust out your scissors and glue guns.


We glued ribbon along the edge of our favorite wrapping paper and add some beading to the ribbon to give it a nice finished look. You can see we made our placemats and table runner like this. Then we cut out images of poinsettias and put them on our candles with some ribbon as well. You don’t need tons and tons of money to have a beautiful table this year.



Who would have known that you could create such a beautiful table out of wrapping paper. It is great!!!

What do you do with your left over wrapping paper?



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Twelve Days of Christmas courtesy of Plum Pretty Sugar Loungerie and Elysium Productions

Every Diva needs to have some great lounge wear and this loungerie (love the play on words) from Plum Pretty Sugar Loungerie is amazing, not to mention the video is super cute!!!


Twelve Days of Christmas from Plum Pretty Sugar Loungerie on Vimeo.

Video is courtesy of Elysium Productions

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Thirsty Thursday: Citrico Snowflake

Citrico Snowflake

1 1/2 oz Cuervo Citrico
Splash of sour mix

Add all to shaker. Shake and strain into a shot glass. Add lemon wedge and sugar on rim.

Photo and Recipe courtesy of Drink of the Week

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MagnetStreet's 12 Days of Giveaways

I love the concept behind MagnetStreet's 12 Days of Giveaways, it is such a great thing. Check out all the details below.

Our 12 Days of Giveaways is underway! We’re very excited to announce that every day thru Christmas Eve, you’ll get a chance to WIN $100+ toward your wedding stationery from MagnetStreet Weddings … Save the Dates … Invitations … Thank Yous … Embellishments … Simply answer the 2 questions of the day and you’ll enter to win {see rules below}.

The Christmas season is all about love, generosity, compassion & goodwill towards others! It’s also a great time to celebrate and give a much-needed shout out to those amazing organizations doing amazing things for those in need every day–both locally & globally. At MagnetStreet, we have a heart for Feed My Starving Children–a Christian non-profit organization that through the help of volunteers, hand-packs meals to ship to nearly 70 countries around the world. In fact, to celebrate our 20th year as a company, all of us here at MagnetStreet donned our hair nets and packed meals for a mere two hours. So easy. So fun. So gratifying! If you’re in Tempe, AZ, Chicagoland or Minneapolis areas and you’d like to learn more, check out FMSC today! 

Now, for the Giveaway …

Head over to MagnetStreet  for  today's Questions and how to enter!!!

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