Weddingbee Blog

I blogged a couple weeks ago about my lighting indecision. About how I was unsure if I wanted light trees aimed at our dance floor. Super fun and dance-inducing…but would they ruin the vintage vibe I’m going for?

Well, thanks to you guys, I was turned on to some awesome alternatives. Danielle and an Excited Bride introduced me to the mighty Gobo. I was all over this idea. I even had invitation goddess Tara of Ephemera knock together a ridiculously cute design:

But a) I still wasn’t sure a rotating light would complement the aesthetic I want, and there’s really no good place to project a single, stationary Gobo; I’d have to buy a pair (which I think would start to look too special effect-y)
and b) last-minute decisions involving money stress me out.

So we killed that idea. Instead, we’re picking up another awesome idea offered: uplighting. For $15/light, we can do something like so:

This photo is off the website of our dj. Obviously, we wouldn’t want to go HOT PINK with this. So Luke, the music/lighting maestro, directed me to this website, which has 6 pages of colors to choose from.

Well, we chose a pair of soft pink gels, which will be projected onto the walls projecting out on either side of that middle mirror:

…right behind where the dance floor will be.

Hopefully they’ll be a nice, soft effect that won’t compete with either the candlelight or the chandelier lighting (which is on a dimmer - yay!). It’ll only cost $30, and if we hate it, we can always unplug it.

But some of the names of the colors of gels are so hilarious, I had to share. Just so you don’t think I’m making them up:

So, is yours more of a Salmon-illa kind of wedding? Or a Bludgeon Red? And I wonder what color you get if you cross Spanked Pink with Submissive Lavender??