Weddingbee

While editing photos for my post on groomsmen’s attire, I accidentally adjusted the color from this:

…to this:
Read more…

Deciding on a theme was a difficult decision for my meaty man and me. We both wanted to love the Moroccan idea, but it felt kind of limiting to us, and we wanted something more unique and whimsical… more us. I searched and searched for inspiration, and then I struck gold.

This is what I’m talking about, people! This is the kind of whimsical, vibrant, unexpected, romantic and quasi-eastern feeling we want our wedding to exude!

(image source- click to enlarge)

I love it so much! I love the whimsy of the artwork and its echos of the east. I love the sensual swirliness, the juicy, fruity color deliciousness! I mean, c’mon! The colors here totally echo our bright color board and gorgeous bridesmaid dresses! How fortuitous is that?!

So, yes, I’m still inspired by Morocco. I’m still lurving its magical palettes and tiles and exotica. But, I am also loving India, Indonesia, and beyond! So, taking a hint from the wonderful left side of that amazing picture above, and seeing as our style love crosses country borders (and even continental ones), I hereby submit to you our new wedding theme:

Read more…

Our “dream wedding” went through many incarnations over the seven months it took us to find the right venue. We agonized over decor for several styles of potential weddings: an enchanted garden party, a Mexican fiesta wedding, a rustic wheat-y winery wedding, and a rustic Spanish adobe wedding… but none of them really felt right. I was starting to get really nervous.

Finally, we settled on the perfect location, and suddenly the decor became a no-brainer… lo and behold, it was perfect for us! Our reception venue has a bit of a Moroccan feel to it, so we’re riffing off of that theme to create a magical, moody and mysterious bad-ass party!

Check out the BEAUTIFUL inspiration board that the incredibly talented and loverly ladies at Elizabeth Anne Designs made for me:

(source)

I just love the colored glass votives and the sexy room at the bottom left.

Read more…

Just when we thought we had our colors all figured out—the gals at Elizabeth Anne Designs have really thrown me for a self-questioning loop with this gorgeous board!

(image source)

I mean, I could still use this as a base, and have some purple, fuchsia and peacock blue thrown in here and there, right? Hmm….
Read more…

When I showed Mr. Dumpling the color palette I was thinking about, he said it looked like Neapolitan ice cream. Ha! We both like ice cream, so this was a good thing. This picture accurately shows the exact colors we are using. It’s making me hungry just looking at it!

Image source.

I was browsing through The Knot the other day, and I found more great inspiration from some very stylish brides. Check these out!
Read more…

Deciding on a color scheme is difficult. We know roughly what we want, but we keep jumping between specifics… this shade of blue versus that shade of blue. Y’know… typical wedding indecisiveness.

Our venue has a quasi-Moroccan feel to it, with a lot of burgundy, gold, beige, and tan in the venue already. I want to punch up the color a bit, and have long been in love with a “many colors” concept rather than just two or three theme colors (thanks to Miss Cream Puff). So, right away, I knew I’d like to have my four ’maids in four different but complementary colors, like so (except different colors):

(image source)

We haven’t sorted out whether we want them all in the same dress or not yet—but that’s for a later post.

So, after much debate, we came up with these colors for our scheme:
Read more…

After changing our color palette several (hundred) times, we have chosen a final palette of bright orange, pinks, and white. I, like many future brides, love pink and white. I was never a big fan of orange, but I just love how the colors look together.

Here we have my attempt at an inspiration board:

Photos from The Knot and David’s Bridal

How did you choose your color palette?

For some people, it’s chocolate. For others, it’s bad boys, or tequila. My vice? Paper. I love it. I love it so much that I live above a Paper Source. Seriously. In the same building.

[Image source]

Anyway, this is all just a set up to telling you about the fun little freebie I picked up at the Paper Source the other day:

Read more…

When we first got engaged, I figured we had the color scheme thing in the bag. I mean, I have a very unique engagement ring that happens to have a colored main stone. Thus, we defaulted to a color scheme of aquamarine and platinum. Done and done.

Um, not so fast there! After about two days of research, we started to realize that what most companies and vendors call aquamarine or aqua is really more of the ever so popular Tiffany blue. Now, don’t get me wrong—I love me some Tiffany’s (my little sister and I collect their silver), but we really did not want to theme our wedding after a store, especially since the ring isn’t from there. In case you’re wondering, it was made by a guy named Yanni who shares my faith and lives in Brooklyn.

At this point, we really had no idea where to go next. Pink was out of the question—while I am a girly girl (one of THE girliest) I have a feeling Mr. Lemonade isn’t, and my love affair for all things pink passed a few years ago. We tossed around the idea of NO color for a while with the idea of a totally pure, all white and ivory palette. This too wasn’t doing it for us. We were stumped. That is, until I went to Neiman’s.
Read more…

When I started looking at linens for our tablecloths and napkins and such, there was one pattern I couldn’t get out of my mind. Now I didn’t really know what it was called- but I explained to our coordinator, Joann, that I knew the pattern had swirlies and flowerly patterns but not really flowers. Pretty lousy description, but she sent me back some fabric swatches from bbj linens and cloth connection, and I found my second (wait, doggie Champ is my second- so this is my third) love… damask.
Read more…