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When people ask me what our color scheme is and I tell them, “lots of colors!” they usually give me the same doubtful look. Sometimes the look is followed by a statement like, “usually we recommend that you stick with one or two main colors…” I generally shrug and say, “yeah, that’s okay. I’m not doing that.”

On Friday, Momma Puff and I met with the coordinator through our caterer, Thomas John Events. Dana (our coordinator) is totally awesome. I love her. She has been on maternity leave for the last few months, so I hadn’t seen her since July. Obviously a lot has happened since then. Like, our entire wedding has (more or less) come together. In July, I had no color scheme, no theme, no nothing. So when Dana asked me what our color scheme was and I told her, she gave me that same look that everyone gives me. But when I started pulling out our favor boxes and our table markers, she started to get what I was going for (I think).

The point of our meeting was to figure out our tablescape and rentals. My goal was simple: as cheap as possible.

Originally, I wanted our napkins to look like this (from the knot real wedding of Aristea and Enzo):

But the table was looking kind of crowded with the favor boxes, napkins and place cards. We also had a hard time deciding on a napkin color. I was opposed to anything cream-colored–I thought it looked too bland. My mom thought that there would be too many ribbons with the favor box and the napkins as above. After working with our table, Dana came up with this genius idea:

As you can see, we went with an upscale linen (I blame Mama Puff’s bad influence for that one) and a napkin that matched the ribbon on this favor box. We’re actually going with six different napkin colors, and Dana has generously taken it upon herself to make sure that all the napkins alternate in colors and look totally fantastic on the day of.

Here are our other colors:

The remaining napkin colors with boxes:

And the whole table (with obviously too few settings):

I am so excited!! The whole thing is starting to come together! By the end of it, Dana totally got excited. I said, “you gave me a funny look when I told you our color scheme was ‘lots of colors.’” She said, “that’s because it’s never really been done before!” It was really exciting to have her so enthusiastic about the final look. Whoohooo! Things are coming together!