Wedding Blog

Today I started working on the details of our rehearsal dinner. We will be having our dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant which has a beautiful banquet room on the second floor. The food is great at this restaurant, but the thing that really sold us was the lovely ambience. I’m delighted that we can use candlelight (unlike our wedding reception venue) and we can pretty much do whatever we want for decor. The banquet room already has a warm glow so I want to try a bolder color scheme: something like orange, magenta, and pink. I love Martha Stewart’s idea with the tissue paper decor and she gives a good example what I might want to achieve for our rehearsal dinner:

I bought some tissue paper from Target and Michael’s and several vases from IKEA. I thought just placing the tissue paper was too plain, so I added some leftover lace to each vase/candleholder. Here’s what it looks like with the lace:

Very cute indeed! I think I I’ll keep this idea! I placed two small votives in each vase, perhaps I should use a larger votive?

For the floral arrangements, I wanted opaque gold containers such as ones from Jamali Garden:

These vases are perfect for our rehearsal dinner, but I have to admit they are kind of expensive. I only needed a few (about five or six vases), and I thought I could create a similar design by spray painting vases with gold paint.

I coated several cube vases and then I added a $3 vase I bought from Michael’s.

They look great but there is one problem with the gold paint, it tends to scratch off easily so you need to be very careful handling them. I tried double and triple coating these vases and they still scratched off. The best thing to do is avoid anything from touching the sides of these vases when transporting them.

We still have to figure out what kind of flowers to use for the dinner. Roses? Ranunculus? Peonies? One flower that I rarely see at weddings but I love so much are dahlias…Too bad they are not in season around our wedding date. Any other flower ideas?