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Mrs. Ladyfingers, Saint Petersburg, FL Age and Occupation: 30, Marketing Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Sports Writer Engagement Date: December 24, 2010 Wedding Date: November 2011 Venue: Palma Sola Botanical Park About Me: I hail from Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Long Island. Fate brought us together, and now we live in a cute little rental house with our nutty dog, and our aloof cat. We both love to read, watch movies, explore our town, and laugh like hyenas. When I’m not obsessively wedding crafting, I enjoy stalking style and decorating blogs, making collages and painting, napping, thrifting, rearranging our bookshelves, and being a total weirdo with my friends. Hi!

Theme Me Up, Scotty

July 11th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm by Mrs. Ladyfingers

I wasn’t aware that so many weddings have “themes” until we started planning our own. Perusing the bookstore wedding racks one day, I found an article about developing your theme, with some examples––movies, sports, travel, birds.

Wait—BIRDS? Like, as a THEME?

Oh MAH God. Totally perfect, I thought. One, I love birds. Like seriously obsessed. And we both love music––which ties in with birds, I think, right? Songbirds, sure. My one and only tattoo, which I got just two years ago, is a music note with wings. So…yeah. And birds could signify so much. Freedom, lovebirds…um, cute stuff. So I decided that our theme would be BIRDS. We’d use a birdcage as a card box, and do lovebirds on our invitations, and stencil little white birds on glass jars and bottles for our centerpieces.

And then, as I so often do, I drifted away from that idea, partially because Mr. Ladyfingers kept screwing up his face when I would talk about it and making sideways comments about how our theme was birds because *I* love birds.

Duh. So?

So I kinda struggled for a bit on the theme thing. I saw lots of lovely examples—for instance, a movie theme where the programs listed the bridal party as members of a cast and movie posters dotted the décor.