Announce your big day with style by sending save the date cards from Storkie.

Storkie offers a wide variety of save the dates and wedding invitations that are completely customizable – allowing you full control over wording, fonts, colors, layout and more. Storkie’s “Dynamic Designs” allow for unprecedented design creation for real-time customization of color combinations and graphics.

I love the look of this whimsical save the date card.

Check out this gorgeous save the date. Perfect for a spring or summer wedding!

What an eye-catching design! Sophisticated, but still fun!

Storkie offers a line of unique wedding invitations, including letterpress invitations.

This stunning letterpress invitation would be perfect for a winter wedding.

Another beautiful invitation for a winter wedding.

As if a great selection of gorgeous designs wasn’t enough, Storkie also offers exceptional turn-around times; you can place an order Monday morning and receive your custom-printed invitations on Wednesday.

Want to see more designs? Go to Storkie.com

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There are barns all over the picturesque Ontario landscape, but barn wedding venues are not always easy to find. Even though the popularity of barn weddings has skyrocketed in the past couple of years, the trend is still fairly new and many recently converted barn venues aren’t advertised in mainstream bridal publications. Sometimes you have to rely on work of mouth or even Kijiji to find an Ontario wedding barn.

Or you can feast your farm-lovin’ eyes on the ever expanding list of Ontario barn wedding venues on the Intimate Weddings barn venue finder. Here are just a few of the barn venues listed:

Belcroft Estates, Bradford, Ontario

Gambrel Barn, Milton, Ontario

Fields on West Lake, Bloomfield, Ontario

Herb Garden, Ottawa, Ontario

Weddings in a Barn – Cambridge, Ontario

Hernder Estate Wines, St. Catharines, Ontario

Find more Ontario barn wedding venues on the IW venue finder.

Photo One Montage and Photo Two: Renaissance Studios: Photo Three:Uschi and Kay; Photo Four: Herb Garden: Photo Five: Weddings in a Barn: Photo Six: Dustin Hall Photography

It looks like a cake pop, it smells like a cake pop and it tastes amazing – but don’t be fooled dear readers; it’s a fake. Underneath that pretty shell of chocolate and sprinkles is a Timbit (aka donut hole.)

These fake cakes, as I call them, are not only just as adorable as cake pops – they take only a fraction of the time to make!

The idea to use Timbits instead of baking my own cake pops came to me while I was driving home from Christmas shopping. I’ve always loved the idea of cake pops as DIY wedding favors, but after making brownie pops and realizing how time consuming they are, I had no desire to attempt a DIY on cake pop favors.  I figure that brides are frazzled enough without having to add the stress of homemade cake pops.

So, there I was with my two girls in the backseat hankering for something sweet, when I saw a Tim Horton’s sign in the distance.

“Timbits!!! I can use Timbits.”

Instead of making a beeline for the drive-thru, I headed straight home and Googled Timbits + cake pops; I quickly realized that I am not the only one who has thought of this ingenious idea. But that didn’t stop me. A few days later  I bought a 40-pack of Timbits, some cake pop supplies, and I got down to business.

Here’s how I made my first (but not last) batch of Fake Cakes or Cake Pops for Cheaters:

You will need:

• Timbits, or donut holes (I used chocolate glazed and plain. The plain ones were easier to work with because they are denser and the lollipop stick stays in place better. The chocolate ones are REALLY delicious though.)
• wafers for melting
• sprinkles
• lollipop sticks

Melt your wafers over a double boiler.

Put your melted chocolate wafers into a dish. Dip end of lollipop stick into chocolate, then insert into Timbit about half way through.

Dip donut in melted chocolate, making sure it is completely covered. Let excess chocolate drip into bowl. Carefully shaking or tapping the stick will help this process along. This is the most time consuming part of the project.

Add sprinkles.

Poke holes in a piece of styrofoam using a bamboo skewer.

Insert cake pops into holes. Let chocolate set.

Place the ends of individual cake pops into small boxes (as shown) and give as wedding favors.

Wedding stress. How do you deal with it? Yoga? Running? Chocolate? Ice cream? Late night martinis?

What about a website that simplifies the wedding planning process?

Wedding.com was created on the principle that couples should actually enjoy their wedding planning process – not stress-out about it.

Wedding.com makes it easy for couples to connect to the right wedding vendors. The innovative website uses a new wedding planning software that allows vendors to view brides profiles and submit them bids. Brides may connect with local wedding photographers, videographers, wedding reception venues, florists, DJ’s and more. Tools such as a wedding website, wedding checklist and wedding budget helps brides to stay organized.

Founder Brett Reynolds got the idea for Wedding.com while he was planning his own wedding to his high school sweetheart of 15 years. On top of both of their 9-5 jobs, the process was time consuming and stressful; they both felt that there had to be a way to make the process easier.

“There is a strong need in the wedding industry for a platform that allows brides and vendors to directly connect and collaborate” says Reynolds. “By using our website, we are seeing brides save up to 40% on their special day by connecting with multiple wedding professionals.”

For more info go to www.wedding.com

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Looking for a wedding bunting to hang at your reception or ceremony?

My mother-in-law has been busy creating some gorgeous new buntings for our Etsy shop. All of her handmade buntings are truly a labor of love!

Take a look at her latest creations (all are available for sale in our vintage bunting Etsy shop).

Earthy colors, great for a rustic wedding:

Aqua and dark brown – my favorite color combo!

Soft, peachy bliss:

For more vintage buntings, check our our Etsy shop!