Category Archive

books

There’s some overlap between our book archive and our literary weddings archive.

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This rainbow wedding combined wrestling and The Princess Bride!

This wedding is the culmination of a marriage between wrestling, rainbow colors, and The Princess Bride… oh and these two cuties. With rainbow meets books centerpieces, rainbow bouquets, and a wrestling-themed cake, where can it go wrong? It certainly didn’t go wrong during their grand entrance with championship belts. Go see!

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Use bookmarks as your escort cards and have them double as favors

Emily and Phil’s book-loving wedding had a pretty sweet book tie-in: bookmark escort cards! Take your card, find your seat, and have a little keepsake to remind you of a kick-ass wedding while you’re reading. Plus, most printing venues offer this size, so DIYing it would be pretty easy, if you were game.

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Aleah & Zach’s music meets bibliophile wedding in the forest

This pair was torn between lobster and steak and a small courthouse elopement, so they compromised with a heavily DIYed and super adorable cottage in the forest backyard-style wedding. Get ready for eclectic (and budget-friendly!) centerpieces, a sweet first look, and a couple of super cute mishaps not to be missed.

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Wendy & Colin’s bookish school house wedding

This week we’re celebrating the tea-length, the mini, and the cocktail — that’s right, it’s short dress week! Today we’ve got a couple of voracious readers getting bookishly wed in an adorable two-room school-house complete with book page flowers, “yay” flags, and a really sweet tribute to the grandparents.