Smells like a wedding

Scientists and old wives with their lustrous tails like to wax on about how smells are so intertwined in the human psyche.

We've all felt it, when you smell something you associate with a good memory or bad and you're pulled back to that time and place. One of my biggest triggers is the smell of old yarn and I'm back in my grandmother's sewing closet we'd routinely raid for craft projects.

So considering how scents can cause such a nice memory flashback I figured that I wanted to have something special for the wedding (hopefully it'll be good memories). I'm not much of a perfume wearer but in sniffing all those various magazine samples I found one that I fell in love with.

I don't know if it's the strawberry notes or what but somehow Marc Jacob's Daisy makes me feel all calm and happy, just what one wants to feel when one is about to walk the aisle. But what if after buying it and wearing it I found I didn't really like it? Then I'd be out a ton of money.

So I went looking for a small sample that I could try out and save for the wedding and I found the Perfumed Court. It's a great way to try out fragrances you aren't really sure of as I got a whole 15 ml's for just 15 bucks (and thanks to my science background I understand mL's a lot better than ounces. What the hell is an ounce anyway?)

But this perfume is just for the ceremony, I was thinking that we needed something a bit spookier for the reception. One part is something I'm still waiting on so I'll hopefully have an addendum to this post later.

The other involved a special trip to Yankee Candle. Last year I just fell for their autumn leaves candle which is apparently "A vibrant medley of birch and maple leaves with pomegranate, juniper berry, and orange blossom" but to me smells like fall.

To go with it and spook it up a bit I also found myself a cute little bat lampshade that really sets the mood when we burn it at home.

How about the rest of you? Have you found a special scent that you'd just love to open up and be reminded of your special day years down the road?

The Ugliest Unity Candle In Existence

Does anyone know how to get in touch with the Guiness record people cause I really think I've got the most garish and over the top unity candle (some may even go so far as to call it eye searing pain with accents of horror)?

My mother in her endless quest to make me pull my hair out decided to make the unity candle herself. And by make I mean get a perfectly acceptable white candle and then glued so much shit to it it looks like a holy relic from the gilded age.

We were hoping for something along the lines of this one, just with blue and green ribbon and didn't even really need our monogram on it. In other words simple.

Well my mother cannot for her life do simple, so instead she came up with this, this... Words cannot really describe it so without further ado: The Ugliest Unity Candle in Existence

At first we were thinking we'll just get our hands on it, wait a while for my mother to forget what it looks like and then peel all that stuff off and add some ribbon.

But now the more I look at it the more it feels to me like something from a Catholic church. Something up at the altar with the Eucharist and some saints bone. So for a nod to all the Catholics in the church I'm thinking we may keep it this way (it will just very quickly get "lost" after the wedding).

Also if we did try peeling all the stuff that was hot glued on we're not gonna have a candle left.

Candle Addict

I'll admit it, I am addicted to Yankee Candle. My best friend and I would go out of our way to just smell all the candles and compare which ones we liked and which ones were just awful (personally any that reeked of perfume or smelled like guy soap were vetoed but the fresh grass was amazing).

I got their latest Halloween catalogue and I fell in love with some of the candle accessories.

If anyone else is planning a Halloween wedding like we are this is just too perfect.
It's a Bride and Groom taper holder. They even have some of those blood dribbling ones you can add (though I am sure you could get cheaper elsewhere, just don't tell them I said that).

As for me, I am gonna get myself the Autumn Leaves candle for a fall scent at the reception and maybe this cool thing (more for our house than anything else).