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Come celebrate the holiday season with the Southern Weddings gals! We’re putting on our aprons and busting out the frosting for a good ole fashioned gingerbread building competition. The twist? This ain’t your regular gingerbread house — we’re building gingerbread barns, y’all! Bring your best friends, your partner in crime, or your sweetie to compete to build the best gingerbread barn below the Mason-Dixon Line! The winner even gets a special holiday prize: a $100 gift certificate from our sponsor, Minted! Perfect for holiday cards and save-the-dates, no?

We’re partnering up with our awesome event sponsors, The Carolina Inn, Sugarland Bakery and Hammond’s Candies, to spread the holiday joy (and some friendly competitive spirit). We’ll be building at The Carolina Inn’s Hill Ballroom on November 30 at 6:30. Stations will be full of gingerbread, Sugarland’s yummy icing, tons of peppermint from Hammond’s Candies and lots of other sweets! The fabulous Nancy Ray will be on hand to photograph all the festivities, too!

To keep the sugar highs at bay, light snacks and refreshments, courtesy of The Carolina Inn, will be provided. Get your creative caps on and start thinking up your plans, because the Southern Weddings girls will be building, too, and we’re going to be raring to go! As you can tell from the photo above, I’ve been practicing. Don’t be fooled by its modest appearance, guys: I’ve got foundation setting, frosting piping and M&M eating down to a science.

RSVP by sending an email to me at nicole {at} iloveswmag.com with the subject line: Attending with Bells On! See you there!

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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  1. avatar Katie reply

    Sounds like fun!

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You might recognize today’s Southern Fab Find from V4! We love Paloma’s Nest and were happy to include their bouquet text tiles in our Fab Finds section.

The customizable little charms are made from white porcelain clay and rimmed in silver leaf or gold leaf. We think they’re an adorable way to include your favorite quote, new monogram, or wedding date on your pretty blooms. Our bouquet tile says, “Going to the Chapel” and is rimmed in silver leaf!

You know we love to give away our favorite products! You can win this sweet bouquet tile, just follow the directions below.

To Enter: Leave a comment below telling us about your beautiful blooms! We want to know all about the flowers, colors, and wraps your including in your big day. Want an extra entry? Tweet “I entered to win the @palomasnest giveaway on @iloveswmag!” and then leave another comment here telling us you did so! Make sure to leave two separate comments if you tweet!

Win: The Paloma’s Nest bouquet tile featured in Southern Weddings V4!

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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  1. avatar Madelynne Miller reply

    In my bouquet, I want lots of yellow with some green, white, and a tiny bit of red mixed in there! I want billy balls, cabbage roses, succulents, spider mums and big yellow peonies. I also want some poppies for a splash of red, and cotton, cuz I’m southern, of course!

  2. avatar Erin reply

    I’m so excited about my flowers because I went into my floral appointment thinking “I don’t know much about flowers, I hope this isn’t going to be a disaster,” and it was GREAT. The woman I worked with totally helped me out and my green, black, silver, white wedding will now include: big white hydrangea, white enemones, white roses, silver brunia berry, dusty miller, and black privey berry with camellia leaves. A lot of this is still over my head, but I’m BEYOND excited about the mix in texture and the coordination with what I thought might be a difficult color scheme!

  3. avatar amanda reply

    omgeeee! so excited about this giveaway. my bouquet is going to be whites and off whites of ranunculus (my fave), garden roses, spray roses, hydrangeas, lambs ear, berries, lisianthus, and peonies if the lovely ladies at tre bella can get them! i am too excited about this! i really love the nature of the white bouquet..

    for my maids though, they will have an orange and peach mix of the same type of flowers, which i am also totally excited about. gotta love a little extra color!

  4. avatar amanda reply

    oh and i tweeted for you lovely ladies!

  5. avatar Sonia Marie reply

    These are so gorgeous! My flowers are all whites & light green! Hydrangeas..tulips…white roses and ranunculus! My bouquet is being wrapped in twine..My bridesmaids are just simple light green hydrangeas wrapped in twine!

  6. avatar Cami reply

    Oh my goodness gracious! I am SO excited about this giveaway and I’m crossing my fingers {and toes} that I win! {eek!}
    My bouquet will be peach cabbage roses, white peonies and hopefully a few of those adorable tiny wild flower daisies, that I picked on the side of the road when I was little. I’m hoping to wrap it with some lace from my grandmothers dress or veil and finishing it off with a big satin bow. :o)

  7. avatar Allyson L. reply

    My bouquet is going to be made up of local flowers from the farmer’s market. There will be sunflowers, because those are my favorite, and hopefully milkweed will be available still. I also want to incorporate purple. It will most likely be wrapped with either burlap or black ribbon with a brooch. I would love to add a bouquet tile to honor my grandmothers.

  8. avatar Megan Fyffe reply

    I am doing all peonies. with grey bouquet wraps. I had an adorable pictures of my grandparents put into a charm to attach to my bouquet. I love the idea of adding something special that you can keep and treasure long after the big day.

  9. avatar Amanda Noel reply

    Just wanted to say god luck to all and that Paloma’s Nest is AMAZING! I was lucky enough to win the Southern Wedding Ring Bearer Bowl contest from them and it is one of the details I am most excited about for my wedding.

  10. avatar Emily Franklin reply

    I am so excited about this give away! I adore Paloma’s Nest! My fiance and I are even using one of the ring bowls by them! My bouquet is one of the things I’m most excited about! I will have white hydrangeas, tied together with burlap and twine! But the best part, in my eyes, is what I’m including on the bouquet, which is small picture frames of loved ones of mine and my fiance’s who have passed, so that they will be able to walk me down the aisle on my wedding day! I wouldn’t have it any other way! I wil definitely be crossing my fingers that I win this gorgeous bouquet tile!
    -Emily

  11. avatar Emily Franklin reply

    I also tweeted about this giveaway! So, so excited!
    -Emily

  12. avatar Brittany reply

    Wow! In love! with Palomas Nest! My bouquet was inspired by SW and my family! I am having peonies, david austin roses, billy balls, Lisianthus, Ranunculus, mixed succulents and dusty miller! All tied together with beautiful ribbon and lace that my grandmother (who passed away last year) collected for me, that she wanted to make my wedding dress out of. I know she would be proud :)

  13. avatar Brittany reply

    Just tweeted from all the way Down Under :) love xxx

  14. avatar AmandaR reply

    Well, well, I do think this Palomas Nest bouquet tile is exactly what I need to complete my bridal bouquet! My daddy passed away when I was 16 so I have known for a long time I would include a “charm” on my bouquet in his memory. I have two items in mind: 1) a gold locket he gave me for Christmas the year before he passed; and/or 2) the angel pin every member of our family wore while he was sick. I think the bouquet tile would be a great way to put in words what those “charms” mean to me. My dad’s cousin is doing my floral design (all the way from Birmingham!) and we have decided to use big, fluffy white peonies, with a few pale, pale coral garden roses, and Queen Anne’s lace from my mom’s farm. I also think the Palomas Nest bouquet tiles would be cool on each of the bridesmaids’ bouquets, with their name or a quote or a bible verse or something of significance to me and that BM. Hmmmm…..I like where this thought is going….!!

  15. avatar Lucy Clement reply

    I tweeted it! @lucyclement

  16. avatar Winner :: Paper, Cotton, and Flour Giveaway « Southern Weddings Magazine reply

    […] We have some AMAZING giveaways coming up, as well as one going on right now: don’t forget to enter to win a Paloma’s Nest bouquet tile! xo Emily November 18, 2011 | view Emily's blog 0 […]

  17. avatar Beth reply

    These are beautiful and sweet! .I have been excited about my flowers from the beginning and cannot wait to see it all come together. My overall vision of the flowers we have decided to call: natural, “organized randomness” and modern romanticism. I literally cannot wait to see them. I am having a late Feb wedding so the flowers are those that are available at the very very early part of spring. It could snow…it could be warm. We will see! My colors are navy, white, and chartreuse but mostly whites for the flowers. My bouquet will have white anemones, white sweet peas (my favorite!)), white duchess peonies (amazing!), fever few snowballs, white “Football” Mums, and some green foliage. I think it will be a sweet, a little whimsical, and completely romantic. We are wrapping them in simple Navy ribbons so these tiles would be perfect to add! My bridesmaids have bouquets that are similar but with a little more of the green in them. Bells of Ireland, mini hydrangeas, viburnum with some kale for that natural part of my vision.

  18. avatar Kathy reply

    I plan on having an all pink bouquet with soft, romantic flowers like peonies, garden roses, and sweet pea! My wrap is going to be a piece of kimono fabric that I brought back with me from Japan where my fiance and I spent several years during our dating years.

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    […] When we post giant winner round-ups! We announced the winners of our Peachtree Lane giveaway, our Paloma’s Nest giveaway, our giant V4 Bow Tie giveaway, and our V4 Southern Exits giveaway! Click here to see who won. […]

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Hello dear friends!! All of the SW girls are patiently (but anxiously!) waiting the arrival of Lara’s baby Grace. We’ve tidied up our desks, ate all the rest of the Halloween candy, and gave out lots of hugs in case she comes! So many exciting things are ahead, in our lives and on the blog. We can’t wait to share all of them with you. (You can get a sneak peek in our video update from Wednesday’s staff meeting here.) We’re still riding the V4 high and we have to thank all of you again for your incredibly kind words! We’re sending lots of love your way! Now, let’s take a look back.

Taking a cue from Emily’s Southern Gothic inspiration board, I pulled together some of my favorite and slightly eerie Color Palette Finds for you!

Then, we jumped right into V4 buttery amazingness! This feature from our latest issue shows off our favorite Southern carbohydrate and a few yummy new ideas to make them shine.

Tuesday was ALL about one of Emily’s favorite features, our Paper, Cotton and Flour shoot! We couldn’t wait to share this behind-the-scenes video from Inkspot Crow with y’all.

Then, we jumped right into all the flour-y and fun photos from Joey + Jessica.

And we ended the day with an awesome giveaway! The bouquet featured in the shoot was made from paper, y’all! Go to the original post for the chance to win your own!

Yesterday, we took you behind the scenes of our South Carolina polo shoot and shared fun video from Leigh Webber. Yes, that’s our bride climbing over a fence in a huge white gown!

Then, we shared Bryan Johnson’s gorgeous images from the feature!

Emily’s heading to Engage!11 in the Cayman Islands! If you’re not familiar with the luxury wedding summit, then take a look at Emily’s post here and be on the lookout for live tweets from the event next week!

This week’s featured Real Wedding Gallery is Yeri + Adam! We’re still gaga for their punchy-fun color palette and paper products!

We heart Real Weddings!

Melissa + Matthew’s colorful and intimate wedding was a Southern dream. A homemade pie receiving line? Sign me up. See it all here and here.

Fun things coming up!

Bella Figura is giving away 25 free letterpress invitation sets as a part of their Election Day sale! Votes can take advantage of the offer when they order 75 or more. Take a look at their details on their blog. The sale runs through this month.

Jennica Jo Photography is doing a wedding photography giveaway! You can get 8 hours of coverage, a private ordering gallery, and $150 in print credits. Take a look at her blog for details and to find out how to enter!

Are you a military couple? Simply Designed, along with several other sponsors, is holding a contest for engaged military couples. They’re giving away up to $2,000 worth of custom designed invitations! Take a look at their blog for more information.

November Lily, a luxury boutique bridal styling-house and design atelier, is launching today! If you’re in the Dallas area, join them for cocktails and couture at the L’Acqua Spa Lounge from 6 to 8!

If you love pretty china like I do, this sweepstakes is for you! NewlyWish is giving you the chance to win $4,500 toward china and crystal if you create a registry with them. Check out more details here.

Didn’t I tell y’all? Big, exciting things are coming! Take a look at some of the new features we’ll soon be introducing to the blog!

Have a splendid weekend!

nicoleyang Written with love by Nicole
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