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One of my favourite vendor crushes, Beth Helmstetter, wrote a blog post a few months back that really resonated with me. It’s called “It is NOT Out of Fashion If You Love It” and you can read the original post here.
As you can probably guess from the title of the post, Beth argues that when it comes to your wedding, you shouldn’t worry about whether something you love is in fashion or not. She points out that for those of us obsessed with wedding blogs (which I suspect includes many Weddingbee readers) very creative and interesting ideas can seem really overdone and overused really quickly. However, Beth argues that this is not reason enough to exclude something if you really love it. Most wedding guests don’t spend a couple of hours a day reading wedding blogs and most likely will not even be aware that more than one person has thought to use a typewriter as a guest book (for example).
This really resonated with me and I think it’s so true. I’d definitely been a bit concerned about a few of my choices being a bit too trendy or overdone, but this calmed me right down. Of course, these things are completely awesome and in fashion if Mr. Knitting and I love them. They certainly belong in our wedding, anyway!
Here’s a few of the “popular” things we plan to include:
Adorable jars of jam as favours (more about this soon):
Cupcakes (although mine will be DIY):
The Paloma’s Nest ring bearer dish:
I don’t know for sure that I’ll be having one of these dishes, but before reading this post I had decided I wouldn’t because I thought they were too popular. After reading the post, I don’t care if they’re popular or not. Whether I end up with one now will depend more on finances than anything else. They aren’t expensive, but when you’re a budget bride every little bit counts!
So, those are the popular items I’ll be embracing. I think ultimately as long as I’m true to myself and my style who cares if all my ideas aren’t the most original things ever. All I want in the end is a wedding that really reflects Mr. Knitting and myself and I’m pretty sure the best way to do that is to include things that we love, no matter how popular they are.
What’s your favourite popular wedding trend?
I love the ring bowls! Nobody in our bridal party (or family) had heard of them before, and they thought it was such a cute, sweet keepsake.
Wow, I read Weddingbee alot but I haven’t seen a ton of these ideas yet.
If you love it, go with it! Who cares. We’re having sparklers tho it’s been done to death but we don’t care.
Photo booths! The MOMENT I read about this idea, I was in love!
This is so true!! My main flower is billy buttons- way done. I love mason jars- they’re happening I don’t even care that they’re all over the place, and the latest- my invites are going to be super trendy typeset font party mish mosh. (My mom doesn’t get it, but I keep thinking this trend is a couple years old! lol)
@kessyud: me too! I knew I had to have a Photo Booth. I even cut my dress budget in order to have a real one and not a faux-to-booth.
Also, we’re doing cupcakes. I read a post a few months ago on a wedding planning blog about how Cupcakes are SO OVER… Not for me! They fit perfectly with our wedding vibe.
I got my bowl on etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/50130036/personalized-starfish-bowl
seller elmstudiosonline
they’re only $18 dollars, I looove mine!
Thank you for posting this! It’s really just an extension if “It’s my party, I can cry if I want to,” but we need to remind ourselves of this sometimes. =) I am doing the 1000 paper cranes, which I thought was fairly unique, but since joining the wedding blogging world, I have come to realize it’s actually quite overdone. But at least I’ve never been to a wedding with them, and a lot of my guests probably haven’t, either — we have to remember that it’s not like our guests go to a wedding every weekend, or read wedding blogs, either! =)
if only someone could get this idea into my mother’s head! she is OBSESSED with what is “in style” and i absolutely could not care less.
I am with you 100% on this! I have always felt that it doesn’t matter what’s trendy, as long as we love it!
There’s an Esty vendor who has bowls for $10. I found them through a topic on Weddingbee Tech Boards. Check it out. It’s the same, but cheaper.
I want a photobooth, but I have no one to snap the pics!
Although I don’t like a lot of the trendy ideas because I have trouble understanding what many of them actually have to do with a wedding, I’m totally with you on doing whatever you want, whether you’ve seen it on a million blogs or not. Most people don’t go to as many weddings as current brides read about…so even if people see something a couple times in a year, it won’t seem tired. I think the important part is doing something because you honestly like it and think it reflects you rather than because it seems like every wedding on a blog seems to include a particular thing.
Our wedding color is super popular in the town we are getting married, but I love it so I dont care if its trendy
I agree! One “trendy” thing that I love is the photobooth - i haven’t been to a wedding with one yet and i’m just waiting and waiting for one!
I completely agree! It’s my party and I’m gonna…have all of the non-trendy cupcakes I want!
That article sounds spot on, and like a good read, especially for those of us blog-obsessed. I think Beth is right though. My future sister-in-law was shocked when she saw cupcakes on my blog as I was writing abotu whether or not I wanted to have them. She thought the idea was GENIUS and had no idea it was trend.
Hopefully this doesn’t discourage you, but we’re doing jam favors as well. We really, really wanted to do something homemade and that our guests would actually use - those are our reasons and I’m sure yours are different…
Also I love the ring bearer dish. Believe it or not I have never seen that before!
I’m big into the chalkboard menu, the tissue paper pom poms, andddd a donation in lieu of favors. Lol all are kind of trendy, but most of the people I know don’t know that and will think that it’s really cool and unique.
I will be the first and only bride I know (in real life) to rock the colored shoes under my gown. I’m wearing dark purple heels in the ceremony to match the BM dresses. The day I bought them, I excitedly told the clerk at Kohl’s “These are my wedding shoes!” and she promptly asked, “Is this your first wedding?” Go figure!
If someone has never seen the trend before and isn’t in the wedding world right now, they will find it unique and be surprised. I know certain things at our wedding will be shocking (no wedding cake, much?) but I can’t wait to have it feel like ours instead of every other wedding (including his first, uber traditional ultra huge expensive wedding and marriage that lasted 2 months!!)
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate Engagement Date: October 2009 Wedding Date: December 2010 Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
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