a handmade wedding (with chickens)

Beth & Bill's photos are up. Here (and here).

Gahhhhhhh. I don't know why I'm so geeked out about this wedding.

Yeah, I do. It's the chickens. But Beth's jellies are pretty cool too.

(Photos by Gary Carter, Sean McArdle and Chelsea Coleman)

admitting that wedding blogs are the new wedding mags

Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Homogeneous Bride* have folded. And even Martha Stewart seems to be phoning it in lately. I mean... Fabric-inspired wedding cakes? Rly?

But, um, some of the wedding blogs have been kicking ass lately. Much as I have ranted about wedding photo shoots in the past, and much as I still believe that real wedding photos are better than the fakes, I have to admit there's a place for editorial when it's not advertorial.

This Once Wed feature inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz with photography by Charley Star, Event Design/Styling by Bash Eco Events, and Flowers + Event Design/Styling by Yes Please Design is truly magazine worthy. Or should I say more than magazine worthy?

(See more here and here and the inspiration board here.)

*Oop! My bad. That one is still going.

Blog of the Week: six orange carrots

I don't get the whole chicken craze.* I really don't. It may have something to do with the fact that my dad had chickens when I was a kid and I was scared of them. Until I figured out that they were really pretty boring.

And vegetable gardens? Again, ho-hum.

BUT, a blog dedicated to a very small chicken named Pocket? And a blogger who claims that vegetable gardening will redeem her wedding?? That is just good reading, people.

(Custom image by paperjo)

*This article by Susan Orlean about her own chicken fixation is actually a lot cooler than the Times Magazine one, but you have to subscribe to the New Yorker to read it.