I know I am not alone when I say I LOVE ETSY!  What an amazing outlet for creative people who want to own a business but do not want a website or brick and mortar store!  As the retailer of a wedding product – my amazing wedding sparklers – I love that you can find sparkler tags to suit your taste and theme all with the click of a button.  I just thought I would do a round-up of all my favorite sparkler tags on etsy!  Please share with me any of your favorites!

Lollipops and Pussycat

PGH Papercraft

Marrygrams

KAD Designs for Love

Marrygrams...again!

Jacquelyn Vaccaro

Fine and Dandy Paperie

What does that mean?  The Original Sparkler Company?  It’s simple, really.  10 years ago, we were the first company to offer sparklers online to the wedding industry – or any industry for that matter.  How I wish I had a screen shot of that original website.  Most people had never heard of using sparklers at weddings and it was my mission to make this a valuable option. Clearly, it worked!  It was in 2003 that I remember scrambling to get my wedding sparkler website – www.SparklersOnline.com up in time for my super expensive advertisement in Martha Stewart Weddings.  The photo on the home page was of my husband and me on our wedding day in 1999 using sparklers.  He is wearing seersucker pants that are soaked – really soaked – as a drunk friend spilled the two beers on him she had gotten for the busy couple.  We could have cared less!  Thank you for visiting our site.  I hope you are mesmerized by the amazing photos sent in from brides all across the United States.

Below is the photo of my husband and myself.  Good thing he did not forget his suitcase.  When we say this was our send-off, it was our send-off.  Surely one of those wedding guests could have offered to help us with our luggage!  His sister is pinching him on the bottom.  13 years later, we are true BFFs.  The guy sitting on the steps lives in Russia with a Russian wife and baby.  And it looks as if other guests were ready to leave too.  I can see one of my husband’s Navy friends holding is polyester whites.  (It was 97 the day of my wedding in Nashville, TN).

P.S. – we Photoshopped the pants so they would not look so wet.

It all started this night...

I married my high school boyfriend and starting planning my long before we were engaged.  Thank goodness for my wedding bible, Martha Stewart Weddings, my go to source for everything chic and stylish!  Who knew that 4 years after my wedding, I would be placing an advertisement for a wedding business in that same magazine I had relied on for so many years.  It has been a lovely journey being with Martha Stewart Weddings and getting that very first order because someone had found my ad in the back of the magazine.  Sparklers were something few people had heard about back then so through photographs, I tried my best to introduce the idea.  And boy has it caught on!

Martha Stewart Weddings

Our 10th year with Martha Stewart Weddings!