A Few of Our Favorite Things
September 9th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm by Miss Dumpling
When you read the title, did that song totally pop into your head? HaHa. The Sound of Music is one of my favorite things. Actually, I have a lot of favorite things. They range from reading a great chick-lit novel (Anything from Emily Griffin or Lauren Weisberger is fine by me!) to my TiVo - which captures Jon and Kate Plus 8 and Office re-runs all week! Mr. Dumpling shares my love of The Office, Thai food, reality shows and sleeping late. We’re a good match!
When we thought of what kind of wedding we wanted, we knew it had to be uber personalized. I wanted Mr. Dumpling’s family members that I hadn’t met before to walk away feeling like they knew a little something about me and vice versa for my family and Mr. Dumpling. The first thing that I knew I wanted to personalize was our music. Namely, the song I would walk down the aisle to.
Heres my short list of aisle songs:
1. Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles
2. Here, There and Everywhere, The Beatles
3. Something, The Beatles (accoustic instrumental version)
4. God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
5. To Make You Feel My Love, Garth Brooks
Winter Wedding Inspiration Part 2: The Classic Snowflake!
September 5th, 2008 @ 5:49 pm by Miss Champagne
One of the most popular and classic winter wedding themes is the icy blue, white and silver snowflake theme. Although this isn’t the route that we have decided to take, there are so many beautiful touches that can be added to a wedding using this color scheme, from the invitations to the favors. My favorite below are the mittens—adorable!
Mad About Damask
August 4th, 2008 @ 5:34 pm by Miss Champagne
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.
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Another Day, Another Palette
July 24th, 2008 @ 10:00 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
I’m a terrible liar, dear readers. I show you pictures of gorgeous Dutch painting-inspired tulips and bright colors, only to snatch them away and go in a completely different direction. I did, however, make the disclaimer that the last board contained my initial inspiration, and that I made it just after getting engaged in December.
Basically, I described to Mr. Sweet Tea my love for Art Deco, peacock motifs, jewel tones and brights, and a funny thing happened. As I was describing it, it sounded like way more than I wanted, and Mr. Sweet Tea likewise was not feeling the love for the color scheme either. We talked about trying to make it work for a while, with more and more disagreements (I loved the blues and greens, hated purples; he wanted nothing to do with green, etc.) Then, I kind of just blurted out: “Well, what about black and white, with red accents?”
And a new color scheme, and inspiration board, were born:
My Inspiration Board: A Blend of All Things Blue, Brown and Bird-Related
July 10th, 2008 @ 11:00 am by Miss Candy Corn
After seeing all of the gorgeous inspiration boards on Weddingbee, I realized I’ve never made one of my own. The colors we chose for our “theme” came together after visiting our venue and seeing all of the blue decor, particularly in the large archway at the Chinese Rotunda, where our ceremony will be held. Since Mr. CC and I are big fans of brown, the trendy combo of blues & browns seemed like an obvious choice for us.
Monogram Madness
June 12th, 2008 @ 8:29 am by Mrs. Pomegranate
The design of our custom monogram was developed over many, many conference calls at work and devoured a ton of legal pads in the process. In fact, my coworkers must have thought that I was taking notes in a new form of shorthand that resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics - or perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright stained glass windows. I designed the center square with the intent of adding flourishes that I eventually purchased from iStockphoto.
I love how the back-to-back “K’s” combine to form both sides of an “M.”
Ode to Damask
June 10th, 2008 @ 12:36 pm by Mrs. Cookie
SourceO Damask, thou popular bridal pattern;
Your maze of flourish is mesmerizing.
Teal and Brown, or Black and White,
Another Damask Bride
June 6th, 2008 @ 4:01 pm by Mrs. Pomegranate
Boy do WE have a lot of catching up to do!
I’ve been planning our wedding for almost 9 months now and only have 4 months to spare. Fortunately, I’ve been a bit of a procrastinator with my Do-It-Yourself projects and will have a lot to share with you in the proceeding months. Let’s talk color scheme, okay?
When I first discussed colors with Mr. Pomegranate - I’ll admit it was the day after the proposal - I had thought that a bright modern wedding would be a blast! My first color palette included a nice black and white damask* paired with a persimmon orange and a subdued lime. I wasn’t able to find my original inspiration photos from 9 months ago, but the wedding below captures the complementary color scheme idea quite nicely (they added raspberry as well).
Images via the Knot
Wear Palettes
May 31st, 2008 @ 12:35 pm by Mrs. Pineapple
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Sometimes wedding inspiration comes from unexpected places. Today I stumbled upon the blog: Wear Palettes. The blogger, a Swiss graphic design student Daniel, takes color palettes from The Sartorialist clothing. This blog is a great place to find unexpected color combos. The best part? The attire selection for your wedding is already halfway completed for you.
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You’re the Inspiration…
May 28th, 2008 @ 5:30 pm by Miss Coconut
Mr. Coconut and I have been engaged since March of 2007. Initially I thought to myself, wow we’ve got a ton of time to plan our wedding, this is awesome. Little did I know what a long engagement really meant: loss of social life, increasing stress, and LOTS of time to change yo damn mind. Oh yeah. No one told me how many times I, “Miss Decision Maker” would question and 50-guess my decisions!
The hardest part without a doubt was choosing our color scheme. I’ve been asked a ton of times, “What are your colors?” My reply, “ummm, I don’t have three colors, I have like 7.” Yes, I got strange looks. Eventually though (like this week), I’ve finally come up with some solid elements of our wedding.
This is the first element I KNEW had to be at our wedding. Lots of branches and romantic lighting from the ultra-fab knottie mrs.anayisnin (photo by Laura Novak):
