Peacock Purpose

Peacock Purpose

September 23rd, 2011 @ 7:26 am by Miss Porcupine
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My friends, family, and bridesmaids keep asking me what is up with the peacock thang? I am not overly into “themed” weddings, but I have been incorporating peacock accents into the wedding. But why?

Well, the answer is simple: I don’t know.

Image via National Geographic / Photo by Medford Taylor

After getting engaged, picking a venue, and beginning to iron out the details of our day, Mr. Porcupine and I easily agreed on doing a “blue thing.” We both love blue. Mr. Porcupine objected to “girly” colors—whatever those may be. Since I never thought much about my own wedding, I was cool with that. I don’t want a pink wedding (one of said girly colors Mr. Porcupine objected to), and I always flock to blue. Easy, simple, done.

Then I started my foray into wedding blogs. Peacock weddings were popping up everywhere. The blue/green-ness (and yes, sometimes purple—but we’re skipping out on that color) matched up with the colors I love to wear. Even though I will be WEARING a white dress on the big day, I still flock to a blue color palette. It’s bizarre. If you look into my closet you will see far too much blue. Sometimes I come home with new clothes, hang them in my closet, and curse at myself for buying something seemingly the same exact color as 90 other things in my closet. Apparently I also have wardrobe memory loss.

So, why peacock? I dunnoz, I LIKE IT! Sometimes planning a wedding makes people too obsessive with finding the freakin’ meaning in all the details. Yes, I want a meaningful wedding, but everything doesn’t have to go with a story. (Once upon a time Miss Porcupine met Mr. Porcupine while walking through a beautiful field. In the yonder distance they saw a peacock strutting its stuff down a hill. They knew right then and there they were meant for something huge…err, no.) Sometimes you forget a wedding is also about having fun and celebrating the start of a new family. You can’t find more meaning than that.

So, we’re doing this peacock thing. Because I said so. Because it’s fun! It will look darned pretty, and everyone will like it. And, if they don’t I will never know, because I certainly don’t think anyone will tell me to my face. Winning all around.

Did you pick your wedding colors or theme on a whim, or do they hold more meaning for you?

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17 Responses to “Peacock Purpose”

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chemere (message) 240 posts, Helper bee

Wow! Thats my theme and the exact reason I picked it… cause I like blue and peacocks are pretty. Cause I said so!

9/23/11 @ 7:34 am (reply)

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amarissak (message) 52 posts, Worker bee

teehehe, go on wit your bad self!

this post made me smile, thanks.

9/23/11 @ 7:55 am (reply)

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MrsCrazyGardener (message) 36 posts, Newbee

I am doing the peacock thing too! I stumbled onto though. At the beginning of planning our wedding I couldnt think of a good color palette for us. It went from blue and yellow, or purple and green, to purple blue and green. and those are our colors. Purple. blue, and green. Its perfect for us. I couldnt chose just two, so I picked all three! and peacocks just GO with those colors so here we are! Having a colorful/peacock wedding! (my colors are more like royal blue, emerald green, and plum/eggplanty purple.)

9/23/11 @ 7:56 am (reply)

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julis120 (message) 115 posts, Blushing bee

Same here!!! I picked up on the peacock and am using feathers as accents, but have no idea why. Glad to see I’m not nutso!

9/23/11 @ 8:05 am (reply)

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Miss Ladyfingers (message) 1,119 posts, Bumble bee

I love peacocks. No shame!

9/23/11 @ 8:09 am (reply)

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Miss Ticket (message) 475 posts, Helper bee

My young cousin would have a squealing fit of spaztacity if she read this. She’s obsessed with peacocks, and I must say I think that the colors are quite beautiful for weddings.

9/23/11 @ 9:21 am (reply)

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miss.qwerty (message) 895 posts, Busy bee

“I dunnoz, I LIKE IT!” - love your attitude about this! I also happen to like blues and greens a lot, too, so there’s that. And I totally do the whole wardrobe memory loss thing, also.

9/23/11 @ 9:50 am (reply)

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Amanda

lol strutting its stuff. I love it! Good for you. Sometimes you can’t put a special meaning in every tiny detail. Why over-exhaust yourself like that anyways!!?!

Congrats! It will be beautiful!

9/23/11 @ 10:58 am (reply)

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silvergal

Haha you are too funny… I just imagine you guys meeting and a peacock strutting by. I like the colours, it’s pretty elegant and fun, and people can assume whatever they want about it.

9/23/11 @ 11:32 am (reply)

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PuzzleBee (message) 33 posts, Newbee

I’m going to do a peacock theme too. I can’t say peacocks have some deep meaning for us either, but every summer we go to the renaissance faire and they sell peacock feathers at one of the shops there. I always buy some to put in our pirate hats. There’s also this place we vacation at in Michigan every year that has a pen of peacocks so we always take pictures of them. And of course they are just pretty colors, although I haven’t decided which of the colors to use yet!

9/23/11 @ 2:34 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Pony (message) 4,171 posts, Honey bee

Love those colors, can’t wait to see what you do with the peacock theme!

9/23/11 @ 2:42 pm (reply)

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MsRobyn (message) 17 posts, Newbee

Not very helpful but I have the same problem with clothes. Everything in my wardrobe is black, blue or purple. I need more red and yellow and green, but every time I try to buy something like that I come home with black, blue or purple.

9/23/11 @ 3:41 pm (reply)

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