Oh, Amy Atlas… I couldn’t have afforded an event planner to handle my wedding, much less one highly sought-after in New York City like yourself, but when it comes to dessert, I can certainly aspire to be you. Atlas, you see, specializes in creating perfect dessert tables for high-end events, and perfect they are.

Here, custom yellow and black chocolates, licorice mints, and lemon cupcakes complement a graphic tiered cake. This table of sweets was designed for a company party, but would look utterly smashing at a modern wedding with a yellow and black theme.

Beware dieters! The close-up shots of the various sweets are gorgeous enough to make a girl salivate for something sugary, and there are more colorful candy pics from Amy Altas’ portfolio after the cut!

Amy Atlas designed this bold, patterned dessert table for a bride and groom whose wedding invitations featured a cherry blossom theme. In addition to raspberry truffles, chocolate, and mini cupcakes, the table features custom lollipop trees. I love it when everything is edible!

This green dessert table complete with a sophisticated tiered cake was created for a Mother’s Day brunch, but would nonetheless be perfect for a springtime wedding. It was rounded off with custom cane cookies, fondant-covered petit fours, and French macaroons. There was also a kid’s dessert table featuring Jordan almonds, malt balls, taffy, and jelly beans.

A classic candy shop dessert table like this illustrious specimen designed by Atlas for a bat mitzvah can augment your wedding cake or replace it altogether. You can kill two birds with one sweet stone by leaving favor bags out so guests can snag some candy on their way out the reception venue door.

Is anyone else hungry? Because suddenly, I’m hungry.

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that most brides and grooms have shared a kiss (and possibly a whole lot more) before their weddings. With cohabitation going mainstream and s-e-x all over the p-l-a-c-e, the wedding of Melody LaLuz and Claudaniel Fabien is definitely unusual.

Melody and Claudaniel teach abstinence in the Chicago public school system and apparently practice what they preach. Prior to saying “I do,” the couple had never once locked lips. In fact, they’d never even been alone together in a house!

Their first kiss — begun only after their wedding officiant gave his permission — lasted a full two minutes and was punctuated by the stamping and hooting of onlookers.

“It feels like such a gift,” said Melody. “When you value a kiss, it becomes something of worth.”

The couple will leave for a honeymoon in the Bahamas today, but planned to stay in Chicago on Saturday night.

“We got business to take care of tonight,” her husband said, doing a little dance in his white suit while his new bride giggled.

Um, ew? I’m all for waiting if that’s your thing — in fact, it rocks that you’re so dedicated to your convictions! — but there’s something kind of creepy about the new groom alluding to the evening’s bedroom antics in a newspaper article. It makes me wonder if he announced at the reception that he and his new bride would be unavailable because they’d be “getting jiggy with it” from 8-10 p.m.

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I was all excited about these wedding invitations from Ink Love until I saw that designer Cassie Leedham is located in the UK. While I doubt that she and her staff would have any problems shipping to the US, I do imagine that it might add a bit to the finished prices, which start at 100 for bespoke wedding stationery.

I do wish these quirky and fun invitations had been around (or on my radar) when I was planning my own wedding — not that I’m a pretty-in-pink kind of girl, but the templates are really rocking my world. The invitation on the bottom left is my absolute favorite, and if I received it today, I think I’d save it in my crafting materials box for future use.

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It’s Monday (again), and perhaps you took the weekend off from the rigors of wedding planning so you and your sweetheart could have some quality time. Now that you’re back at your desk reading wedding blogs and thinking about all the things you still have left to buy for your nuptials, it’s time for some inspiration. On the chance you have not yet bought your bridal jewelry, here are six looks from Haute Bride in San Francisco that may get your creative juices flowing.

The question, of course, is which to buy or emulate or craft! Most brides choose their bridal jewelry after picking out and putting a deposit down on a wedding gown, but if you’ve fallen in love with a certain style of necklace, there’s no reason you can’t base your wedding day look on your jewelry. While almost anything goes, there are some bridal necklace basics of which every bride-to-be should be aware.

Short Looks
Neck hugging necklaces are lovely when paired with strapless bodices (and long-necked brides), though don’t discount chokers if your wedding gown ends just below your collarbone. A substantial choker will look smashing sitting just above a boat or jewel neckline.

Insubstantial Looks
Simple, minimalist strands worn close to the throat (think y-drop or princess style necklaces) complement bateau and scoop necklines beautifully. Thin necklaces are a practical choice for brides who don’t want their jewelry to outshine their wedding dresses and/or want to wear their bridal necklace again.

Layered Looks
Necklaces can be heaped one upon the other or made to look that way, but almost all layered looks will pair best with simple, unadorned, low necklines. Layers of thicker necklaces can lessen the jarring impact of a plain strapless neckline, while thinner layers can add softness to a square neckline.

Long Looks
Necklaces with enough length to hang loose on both sides of the bride are best worn with wedding gowns that plunge in the back as well as the front… so the necklace itself can take center stage. This look is even more dramatic when the necklace is augmented with a jeweled brooch.

Personally, I opted for a loose but rather thick one-strand choker paired with a off-the-shoulder neckline. Now I’d love to know what you chose to wear or are planning to wear around your neck on your wedding day.

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You all know how this works. I pick a picture and post it here. You send in your best captions via the comments section. Next week I pick a winner and we all laud said winner with songs of the great Tribble hunt…er…well, maybe not Tribble hunting songs, but a couple woos and hoos to celebrate, anyway.

Are you seated comfortably? Then we’ll begin. Take a gander at this and hit me with your best shots:

Ready…set…snark!

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