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Treat your guests to home-made cookie favors

I love how Sabrina and Danny (the minds behind this cookie favorage) used colorful heart-shaped brads to seal the bags and finished off the look with custom labels.

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Cristina & Adrian’s colorful, lesbian, vegan night of fun

These two put the hot pink in pinky swear, and I mean HOT. The crafty duo included lots of personal details — duct tape bouquets, vegan noms, bright ties, toys, a puppy, and science! All to celebrate a steamy romance surrounded by family and friends… with a sweet surprise translation of a favorite love song. Aww, now they’ve put the aw in hawt, too!

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DIY Bride: an antidote for do-it-yourself overload

For those of us who love our DIY projects, they can be very fulfilling and/or very frustrating at times. To lighten the mood during those times when the projects may be crashing and burning or you’re just DIYed out, Mikala Bierma (of “Disappointing Gay Best Friend” fame) has you covered.

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Rachel & Andy’s rustic quirky interactive historical farm wedding

Get out your eagle eyes, because there’s a lot to see in this raptor-lovin’ wedding. Not only were live birds of prey there for the ogling, but guests got a chance to live in this couple’s shared brainspace for a day, with hula hoops, a drum circle, and a couple of celebrities. As if that wasn’t enough, guests got their sax on in an ultimate sax-off, and that’s after the whole party was Rick Rolled. They’re never gonna give you up….