I have been searching for silver sanding sugar for our signature cocktails for MONTHS! It’s been making me crazy and today I found an awesome web site I wanted to pass along if any of you Chattys are looking for color specific food products. NYCake.com has a variety of sanding sugar and edible dust, along with other backing needs. Just wanted to pass this along if anyone was doing a specialty cocktail they needed this kind of product for!

Have a wonderful wedding day and let us know how it all goes!!! Many Congratulations from all the Chatties to you and your future husband this weekend!!!!

Happy Thursday Girls. And JeanJacket, good luck w/ your wedding this weekend!

Okay, onto my post :)

It's certainly no secret to us, there are so many great details you could totally splurge on to make your day that much more perfect, things you may think are necessary, obsess over, etc. The possibilities are endless, but unfortunately for some (aka: me), the budgets are not so endless. So I've been doing some thinking, researching, running circles in my mind, etc to come up w/ spectacular yet affordable details that our guests are sure to remember. Mr K & I attended EIGHT weddings last year and I'm happy to share a detail of ours that we have yet to experience as a guest.........sparklers!

Photo via Stylecollective.com.au

Lately I’ve had a real obsession with dupioni silk, which is silk with that raw look to it which adds texture ( I love anything with texture to by the way!). I ordered an amazing card box off of ETSY.com in that material and it started me on this silk theme! Who knew you could have a silk obsession about a particular type of silk? Honestly with a 6 month old baby and a full time career I do not know how I have the time to drool over fabric but I can’t stop! I’m shooting for silver dupioni linens for the reception and out of all the fabric samples for my dress of course I loved the dupioni!
Chatty’s what is your wedding obsession?? I need to know I’m not the only one!

I appreciate everyone's comments to my last post about looking for a venue. I do LOVE Easton's Beach Rotunda, but the catering costs concern me. I did get a proposal from one caterer already, and it would basically eat up my whole wedding wedding.

I also just looked up Gooseberry Beach in Newport. It's definitely a contender, but I'm just trying to find more information about it.

Does anyone have any budget-friendly recommendations for caterers? My wedding will have about 125-150 guests and we're hoping to spend around $5000 for the food.

I think I found my bridesmaid's dresses! Not only is it super cute, but it has pockets and it comes in 3 or 4 shades of blue that I like. My only problem is that I don't have a dress yet and people keep telling me to get my dress before I get their dresses, but I have too much weight to loose to start looking at dresses for me.

Three days left ladies!!! I can't believe how fast it has come up. It has been an absolutely crazy month as I have left everything until the last minute since I am off from work. This last week before has not been quite as stressful as I thought it would be, just really busy. We are moving too so that also makes it rather difficult! I am so excited for our day, we are going to have an absolute blast!!! I'll let you know the details after we get back from the honeymoon! Thanks for all your help.

Here are some engagement pix (our photographer is james hazelwood)

PS: Did anyone take Tylenol PM or anything like that before their wedding, I cant seem to sleep more than 5 hours!

Today in my infinite frustration I googled "budget beach wedding RI." I do not really remember how many pages deep I went, but I did stumble upon one of Style Me Pretty's inspiration weddings which just so happened to have taken place in Rhode Island.

Photo: Studio Foto

Mia and Torin met the summer prior to her entering Law School at Boston University, while Torin was playing basketball for Notre Dame. A few months later, Torin returned from Notre Dame and the two developed a romance made in Boston! Two years into Law School, Mia and Torin had a daughter, Maliya, and after graduation Mia moved to Italy where Torin was playing basketball. They also had a baby boy named Kaden just 3 months ago (WOW, I never would have guessed that! Mia looks GREAT!), while Mia lived in NYC and Torin was playing basketball in Greece! Boston was a great homebase for this globetrotting family to say their vows, as it was where they fell in love. Torin, orginally from Boston, and Mia who spent her law school days in Beantown, picked the Marsh Chapel for the ceremony since Mia walked past it daily en route to class and dreamed of her wedding day there. The Colonnade Hotel was the perfect backdrop for the reception for guest to enjoy a poolside cocktail hour and an elegant night of dinner and dancing.

All Photos by Jill Person of Person and Killian Photography