Falling in Love with Birds
July 11th, 2008 @ 10:30 am by Mrs. Coconut
I’m totally falling for the bird trend. I just love birds. I’ve been trying to nail down a certain “feeling” for our wedding, to aid me in designing our invites and programs. This has probably been the most difficult part of planning because I’m such a stickler for tone and feeling. Who knows, I think I may have serious problems.
I’ve got the color, that’s yellow. Bright, cheery and natural. And now, I just have to have birds. I have no personal connection to birds, except when I look at them, they make me happy. Isn’t that enough?! 
(Ann Wood Cake topper)
(Mrs. Pengy’s cake topper, Photo by Sarah K. Chen)
(Can’t remember where I got this!)
I’ve tried so hard to stay away from “trends,” but I’m starting to think they’re not so bad. As long as you take it and make it your own!
Has anyone else had trouble attaching or detaching themselves from a trend?!?
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15 Responses to “Falling in Love with Birds”
Lauren Alane creates some of the cutest felted birds I’ve ever seen and will custom make your cake topper. They’re adorable! We were thinking of getting one ourselves (and we don’t have birds anywhere else… they’re just so cute though!)
Lauren Alane
The photo booth! I can’t get enough of it, and I will definitely be having one at my own. I am the girl who will sometimes purposely not doing things because they are trendy, but this is one I can’t shake myself loose from. Go with the birds. I don’t think you will ever regret it. Just like I won’t regret all of my fun pictures.
I’m in love with the bird theme too. I’m having Lauren Alane custom create my topper. You should check them out, they are the cutest!!
I sooo wanted a birth theme, but DH nixed it. =(
One thing to remember about trends is that even if every person on Weddingbee has seen the bird theme several times, most of your wedding guests probably won’t be in on the whole wedding trend thing. It will just look cute and fabulously creative to them…because they haven’t seen 1 million Ann Wood cake toppers
Cupcakes. Damask. Yeah, I follow trends! Who cares!? It’s your wedding day and if you like birds and bird related decor - go for it! I think all of those are adorable!
I love birds too b/c the make me happy 
(but FH also calls me his Birdie, mainly b/c birds make me happy though)
I was so anti having a candy bar because it seemed like everyone else was having one (even though I LOVE the look of each and every one!), but then I began to fall in love with the idea of having a cookie bar with home made cookies made by each of the ladies in our family… sigh… I think I saw cookie filled jars in a Martha recently and that’s what set me off! Who knows what I’ll end up giving in to.
Its so funny, I had so many ideas that I thought were original or just slightly used, and then I began to read wedding blogs and realized that damask, birds, vintage, and even my colors of robins egg blue and chocolate brown with cream is not original at all! but how can I resist?
birds and photo booths. we can’t afford the latter, but are inspired by Miss GB’s DIY approach - woo hoo! DIY photo booth, here we come!
Jennifer is soooo right. When I start to get frantic about being unique, I just remember… no one I know reads as many wedding blogs as I do so really, what’s ‘trendy’ to us will be a novelty to them!
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[...] blogged a while back about how much I love the bird trend. Birds will be on our cake, at our guest book table, and on most of our stationery, so it just [...]
[...] blogged a while back about how much I love the bird trend. Birds will be on our cake, at our guest book table, and on most of our stationery, so it just [...]
Mrs. Coconut, Tallahassee
Age and Occupation: 27, Soon-to-be Lawyer (once I pass the bar!)
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, phD Computer Science
Engagement Date: March 2007
Wedding Date: November 2008
Blogging Since: May 20, 2008
Venue: 1930s Historic Building in Lakeland, FL
About Me: I never thought about weddings until I got engaged. Now, I can't stop thinking about them! Planning the wedding has really opened the floodgates to my DIY side. If there's anything I can do to avoid hiring someone else, I will do it! Mr. Coconut is my financial advisor, he tries to keep me budget-conscious! We've tried to make wedding planning a team effort!
you should check out this stationery (if you haven’t seen it already!) from elum.
http://elumdesigns.com/shop/letterpress-desk-sets/aviary-desk-set/
they have matching gift wrap too, if you’re diy-ing any of the decorations.