Milk and Cookies Styled Wedding – Part 1

/37 Commentsby Meredith

We are super excited to share today’s post with you, not just because it totally rocks, but because we are the ones behind it! (Ellen and her husband Josh are the fabulous models).

It’s our first styled shoot, so we wanted to do something we had never seen before. We settled on a theme of Milk and Cookies, and we put almost everything together ourselves – from the stationery and flowers, to the props, cake, and cake topper.  It was so much fun to plan every detail!

Jonda Spurbeck Photography found the gorgeous alfafa field in the countryside of Eastern Washington, brought hay bales and windowpanes, and baked some of the cookies. Their photography captured everything perfectly!

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For the guestbook table we make a sign with Josh and Ellen’s  “recipe for love” detailing the highlights of how they got together in recipe form. We had cards for guest to write their own “recipes for love” and a recipe fox for them to file it away in. We’ll be posting downloads for the recipe cards later.

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For favors we filled milk bottles with layers of ingredients for chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. We designed the labels for the from and back that had the recipe. We had them stacked in a wooden crate that Aileen’s husband made.

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For the table, we decided to do a table runner that played off of the ruffles in Ellen’s dress, so we sewed strips of ivory fabric together (while Ellen was getting her hair done–yay for multi-tasking!) The centerpieces were a collection of items from Anthropologie, Pottery Barn, thrift stores, antique shops, and things we already owned. For the seating, we went with hay bales to play off the country theme (plus, cows eat hay and milk comes from cows…connection?? We decided yes!)

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We made the napkins with a variety of patterned fabrics and tied heart-shaped cookie cutters around them with twine.

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The plates were from Anthropologie, with menus on top that we made out of cedar shingles with simple paper menus nailed into them.

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We are obsessed with ringshots!

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To keep with the country theme, we had Ellen’s mom braid her hair…just like when she was in second grade! 🙂 We loved how it turned out.

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We used kale for Ellen’s bouquet, which was one of our favorite details. It was so cheap and easy too–it took us all of 5 minutes to make, and only cost $8! We used ranunculus, dahlias, and blue thistle for the rest of the flowers throughout the shoot.

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The boutonniere was made of ranunculus, blue thistle, and a kale leaf wrapped with burlap.

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La Belle Elaine’s, a Seattle bridal shop, contributed the gorgeous Jim Hjelm dress. They were amazing to work with and had a fabulous selection of dresses for us to choose from! Mai of Shop Ruche donated a pair of kick-ass boots and Krystle of Feathers and Frills donated the lovely hair flower.

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There’s more – click to see Part 2 of the Milk and Cookies shoot!

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Meredith

Despite her dreamy wedding blogger lifestyle, Meredith's day job is running ClassicVeils.com and a full-time mom to an active toddler. If she could, Meredith would spend her days taking cruises, helping animals in need, and watching Big Brother!

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  2. Megan
    Megan says:

    I love the cookies in a jar idea! I am in charge of teacher appreication at my school and would greatly appreciate it if you could find a way to email me or post the measurements of the ingredients that they put in the 9.5oz jars.

    I am looking to put a small token in the mailboxes of my coworkers around Christmas.

    Thank you,
    Megan R.

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  3. Beckie
    Beckie says:

    Love the cookie mix in the Frap bottles! What recipe did you use for the cookie mix? Do the bottles hold the same amount of mix as the quart Ball jars? Would love to duplicate this idea for my daughter’s graduation party next year as we are planning a cookie buffet instead of a cake and these would make fab favors! Thank you for the wonderful idea.

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  7. Becky
    Becky says:

    I love this idea. If I could get married all over again this is what I would want. My husband and I are dairy farmers so it would be fitting. I did laugh a little about the hay bales. Those are straw bales and straw is used for bedding not for eating:)Where did you get those big milk dispensers? I love the idea for the milk bottles brilliant. I’m thinking about doing this for a 10 year ann. party for my husband and I. That gives me two years to plan:) Thanks so much for the amazing idea. This is talent beyond words.

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    • Jane
      Jane says:

      HA! Ye olde hay is for horses bit. I was chastised about the straw vs hay for decades, and it’s not that simple, as not all hay is feed hay, so I now refer to it all as “hay.” But the set is one of the most perfect I have ever seen.

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  9. admin
    admin says:

    Thanks everyone for your sweet comments! Jennifer and Marianne, the milk bottles for the cookies were actually frappuccino bottles! We just bought a big pack from Costco (but you can get them at any grocery store) and peeled the labels off. Jessica, the location was an alfafa farm near Ephrata, WA. Jonda (the photographer) found it.

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  11. Hannah
    Hannah says:

    OH MY GOSH! I totally love it. It turned out so amazing. Wow good job you two…and Josh, so you three! I am seriously so impressed.

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  12. Jessica F
    Jessica F says:

    Oh my gosh you guys!! This turned out amazing!!! Love every single shot-just gorgeous 🙂 The bar has been set pretty high eh? 🙂 Where is the location, I would love to do a shoot there sometime 🙂

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