Weddingbee Blog

With such a bright color palette, you might imagine finding bridesmaid’s dresses would be hard. It was… strike that, it is (we aren’t 100% on the BM dresses yet). If a dress maker had a pretty bright pink, they didn’t have an orange, or they had a green, but not the right green. I knew exactly what I wanted and didn’t really find it until I stumbled on Dessy.com. I personally like the After Six and the Alfred Sung lines.

Two main things that I love about the site? Hundreds of dress options in tons of colors, and dresses that have “accent” colors so you aren’t limited to one color. Seriously—I spent hours this summer, taking screen shots of dresses I liked, editing out the background in Photoshop (not always easy!) and putting them into PowerPoint so I could see all the dresses together and so I could share with Mr Pretzel. Lots and lots of hours… the result looked something like this:

Early attempts at a PowerPoint inspiration board for my maids

Not all that inspiring…

Over time I got better at making inspiration boards and started using different web tools like Snipi to organize my photos and sources. I started to leave the ‘maids out of my inspiration boards because I couldn’t quite get the images edited properly to remove the background. If only Dessy had launched the Inspiration Board part of their site then! It seriously kicks butt! Using dresses and a tie from the Dessy site and uploaded images of my own, I was able to make this inspiration board in just a couple minutes.

Kodachrome Inspiration Board made at Dessy.com

The best part? As my ‘maids tell me which dress they selected, I can update my board to reflect the actual dresses they will be wearing. *Sigh* I heart Dessy.

What handy tools have you found to organize your inspirations? Have you revisited your inspiration board frequently?