Wedding Anyone LOVE planning weddings??

[Gypsy]

Ahh... here we go. Chocolate and apricot again. But this is the bridal bouquet. SO gorgeous.

 

[Gypsy]

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[Gypsy]

I like these too.

 

[Gypsy]

Last one. That was a lot of fun! Thanks!

 

[doodle]

hahaha, gypsy, i knew you'd come sweeping in with about a million ideas! you and italia need to go into business together. give colin cowie a run for his money!

nani, i'd definitely check out some of the wedding sites, like theknot, weddingwire, and projectwedding for more inspiration pix. also, this site had some neat fall-inspired wedding invitations. i just googled "fall in love wedding" and got a bunch of hits that way.

 

[Italiahaircolor]

this is an example of the tree I was thinking of...prehaps more "tree" less crystal...

 

[nani565]

Hey everyone!

All your ideas are great! but now this is the point that i get overwhelmed, I love evertything and want to incorporate everything! but it would be too much going on to incorporate everything! When i get to this point i usually forget everything i had liked and try to start over! what should I do?

 

[Italiahaircolor]

I would buy a simple sprial notebook....keep notes of the things that made/make you go "wow"... this can include but is not limited to: colors, flowers, themes, favors, quotes...

Also, buy a small pair of scissors and a glue stick that way bridal magazines can become your best friend and not your enemy.

It sounds like you get extremely overwhelmed easily...and the key to managing that will be nothing short of organization. Plus, instead of trying to plan an entire wedding in one sitting, or conceptionalize the whole event...take it in baby steps...make one aspect of the wedding your center for that day, or week, or even month. If you''re thinking about flowers, focus in on flowers--and ignore bridesmaid dresses, and cakes, and blah blah blah.

Slow and steady wins the race...I''ve never understood these brides who have long engagements yet feel like they want to plan the whole wedding in a week, breathe and take it easy.

 

[Gypsy]

Well. I would mentally go through the lay out of the wedding, in terms of space.

The ceremony-- how many attendants? What type of decorations do you want/ need to make your space festive.

The reception... what, in terms of decor, will give you the most bang for your money? Would colored linens and simple arrangements do it, with chair sashes? Or are the standard linens and chairs fine and you want high and low arrangements?

Your venue is very modern on the outside... but from the pics looks traditional on the inside. You said you want some tradition, but also want a party vibe at night... so that tells me that some lighting would be a nice addition, so I would look into that.

That will give you an idea of where you want to spend your money. That's really important.

In terms of colors... There have been a few options presented:

Traditional Fall (harvest colors)

Deep red, medium and dark orange and green

Light orange and brown

Yellow orange and red

yellow orange and green.


I would organize the pics of each color scheme so that they are all grouped together, then show them to my FI and someone else I trust who knows me and has seen the venue. Get their impressions. Begin process of elimination.

Then I'd look at invitiations to see what's out there, in my budget, in the colors I am trying to chose between. What strikes your fancy the most.

By then you should have a feeling of preference. And I'd go with that.

But that's just a guidelines. I'm a person who decorates in my head, knows what I like, and rarely consults anyone except my husband... and even when I consult him, it's to the tune of "This is your chance to veto, speak now or deal with it"... or "I like these two do you have a preference" Sometimes he has an opinion, sometimes he doesn't. There were a lot of people who I talked to that conceptually couldn't see my color scheme working and tried to talk me out of it (my mother)... but then they saw it all come together the day of and really loved it as much I had known I would. Sometimes you gotta just be stubborn when something feels right.

I'm in the camp the Italia was talking about though... I think of everything at once. BM dresses, tablecloths, flowers, invites. It's all "decor" for me... so I work with it all together. But that certainly doesn't work for everyone. It's just my thought process.

 

[nani565]

I went to see the place and I took these pictures so I wanted to share them with everyone helping me plan

 

[nani565]

The bar which I am in love with

 

[nani565]

setup

 

[nani565]

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[nani565]

this is outside, I want to add something out here because it seems a little boring to me

 

[nani565]

so I was looking at this and I think i really like the white and brown, so maybe I can use that idea and then just add the color with the flowers. I would love the chivari chairs because I feel they give the reception a much less cluttered look. I attached a picture.

italianhaircolor: I did what you suggested I went to barnes and noble and I bought a wedding planner book, it has pockets for thinks i like and also space to write things and a bunch or budget guides and suggestions, I have already started clipping some magazines, I found some lanterns that look beautiful and I want to incirporate those, maybe outside of my venue to make it more exciting.

Gypsy: The ceremony is the easy part lol I am getting married in the church, and there are so many guidelines and rules that they basically planned it all! I can only have 4 couple 1 ring boy ( but im going to try to sneak two cause i have twin cousins) and 1 flower girl. We are also not allowed to drape anything across the seating area, all we are allowed is 2 flower arrangements on the altar.

As for the reception, Since I loved how the brown and white looked i thin im going to go with simple linens and high and low centerpieces. You keep talking about lighting, what do you mean by that? like add candles and sometimes turn the lights low and sometimes bright??

I like your idea of arranging the colors and asking what people think, such an easy idea yet it never crossed my mind lol! i think im going to go to a paint store friday and pick up some color swatches.

 

[Gypsy]

I like white and brown. If I can suggest? Those chivari chairs come in a lovely mahogany color that would be amazing with your color scheme. If you can, I''d do brown runners on the tables.

As for bringing color in with the centerpieces... I think that''s a great idea.

Since you''re getting swatches, I wanted to throw out an idea I think is really cool as another option for you. Solid green arrangements would be really wonderful. You can do some seriously cool solid green arrangements-- green hydrangeas, green orchids (cymbidium and dendrobium), and jade green roses, green cockscomb, bells of Ireland, and green kale (if you like the look of kale) would be some of the flowers to chose from.

Your BM dresses could be brown, with solid green bouquets or green and white bouquets. And your flowers could be green and white, with a brown satin ribbon around the stems, or solid white bouquet with brown ribbon.

Invites with brown and white only or brown and white with green accents.

It''s a very clean all season look.

You could do granny smith apples as placecard holders (someone on here did pears, and it was amazing)

Picture this as all green:

 

[Gypsy]

Green and white BM bouquets... imagine those pink dresses as brown (I think it would look wonderful). This is from Sna''s wedding.

 

[Gypsy]

Thought I'd post this pic too. Blue is the accent, but you can easily imagine the blue replaced with green, those roses are white (despite appearances to the contrary). This is what I meant about the satin ribbon. I also love the collar of leaves at the base of these bouquets (my bouquets all had collars like this actually).

 

[Gypsy]

Oops! You asked about lighting. I meant a lighting designer... designer lighting... here''s an example I just picked off off google.

http://www.luminousld.com/

 

[Gypsy]

Sample of green, brown and white wedding invites.

http://www.invitationconsultants.com/invitation.aspx?p_invitationitem=FNN42PM

They are a expensive, but you could TOTALLY DIY something similar for less.