- Colors
- Bridesmaid Dresses
- Flowers
- Favors
- Hair Styles
- Cake
- Songs
- Venue
Colors
There are a few ideas in the mix. The base color will definitely be purple.
1. Dark purple and bright/burnt orange
2. Dark purple, orange, and yellow
3. Dark purple, orange, and red
4. Purples (light and dark)
Dresses
I’ve tried on a bunch of dresses and have two top favorites right now, but I obviously can't show them here since Neal has access :-).
Bridesmaid Dresses
We haven’t solidified a color scheme yet but I definitely want the BM dresses to be dark purple.
Flowers
We want to have low centerpieces, on the table. They will definitely be flowers, and the florist we will most likely work with calls it a “flush” piece. When I googled it, I could hardly find anything about flush centerpieces, so maybe I understood it incorrectly. We have a few ideas but this one below that I photoshopped is a drastic mix of dark purple with bright tiger lilies:
For the bridesmaids, I want them to carry stemmed flowers. I’m thinking either these Gerber daises (I love this inspiration pic I found on theknot) or tiger lilies.
Or this but with purple dresses (also from theknot):
For my bouquet, my (probable) florist said he would include the most beautiful bouquet I could find. I want something like this picture (I think I found on the livejournal wedding plans community):
Favors
Not sure about these yet. We were thinking of truffle boxes tied with a pretty orange bow, something like this:
Hair Styles
My main concern about hair styles is that I’ve seen a lot of brides who do something different than their usual look. It bothers me when I can’t recognize the bride or get over the fact that it’s her, because it looks nothing like her normal, everyday self. /rant. Anyway, I have curly hair but wear it straight a lot of the time, so most hair styles would be good for me. I never have side bangs or anything, so although I love the style, I don’t want to have anything like that for my wedding day. At this point, I’m thinking up-do, mostly because it’s summer so humidity may not be my friend. I also like half-up but can’t find too many of those. Here are some ideas:
(This picture is many there because of the tiger lily)
Cake
The cake is not all that important to us. We are having a Viennese Hour, so people probably will not even eat the cake with all of the other amazing desserts available. The catering hall provides one, and our florist includes flowers for the cake decoration, so we’ll probably have something basic like this:
Songs
We’re making a list of songs we like for our first dance and for the reception. The first dance songs in the running are:
Crush – Dave Matthews Band
1,2,3,4 – Plain White Ts
Music, Videography, and Photography
We’re planning on having a DJ, videographer, and photographer but have not booked one yet. I'm considering getting someone to do the base work but actually compiling the albums and video on my own. I love doing that stuff, and it's a huge savings, but it is also a ton of work so we'll see.
Venue
We’re booked! July 3rd, 2011
This is a beautiful hall, and they gave us an amazing deal. My fiancé loved the place when we first drove up. They are so accommodating that we were actually able to pick the timing of our event. Our ceremony will be at the same location, at 5PM, and our cocktail hour will start at 5:30PM. The cocktail hour and reception will be in the same room, and the party will run until 10:30.
