One hundred and thirty five

Posted on | Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

Days, that is.

Since my last super-long wedding post a bunch of stuff has changed. I should not be left in charge of such important choices, I'm so fickle I can never make up my mind. I seriously have no idea how some people can plan weddings so effortlessly. As some may remember from this post we had our colors set to be blues and purples since the blue was going to match Alex's tie.

Well. There was a problem with that. The light blue didn't match. It looked AWFUL. And the purple didn't match the blue. It was a total disaster.

So we brought his tie with us to Men's Warehouse and picked a vest color that matched. So now he's going with a dark navy vest that blends with the tie's colors fairly well. Afterwards we went to David's Bridal to find colors that would work with it and I found that Apple Red was really vibrant and bright while still not over-powering the dark blue. And! It matched with Alex's tie. After fiddling around I really liked gold as an accent color (especially since my dress is a champagne/ivory and that is basically a soft gold color) since that would tie my dress to the other two main colors.

It was a very busy experience. But at least now we have pretty colors and that's one less thing to stress over.


Flowers. To make things easier we're going to use that palate for the flowers, too. Have varying shades of blue and red/dark pink along with off-white for flowers or other decorations in the church and the reception hall. I looked around on the internet for bouquet arrangements and found an idea that I've become really attached to. I really love the look of this bouquet in general --



It's very simple: white roses, freesia and stephanotis, and blue hydrangeas. We can alternate some of the flower colors but according to Google all these flowers are fairly common year around and have a lot of different colors. So it shouldn't be too hard to make smaller bouquets or bouts out of these flowers either.


Church. I have a good ideas for decorating the church. I want to keep it relatively simple since it's such a large area to decorate. I really like the idea of having some bows or floral decorations on the pews like this --



I really wanted to have my wedding at the smaller chapel but due to Sharon inviting 100+ people (she for some reason thought a large chunk of them would decline the invite, ha.) and my own people that are coming there's no way we will be able to fit everyone. Which really stinks because I wanted to have my wedding in that small chapel. But instead we are moving to the larger sanctuary. It's still pretty, but it's a lot bigger.





I'm thinking that in the sanctuary we can add some greenery, candles, and some floral arrangements in areas if needed, although I don't think we will need much. We won't be there for more than an hour (including people being seating, the procession, the ceremony, and then leaving for the reception) so there isn't too much of a reason to decorate the crap out of it.


Reception. The idea for the reception has stayed mostly the same. We are pretty set on the 1950s theme. Our reception hall has lots of open space and it can esaily lend itself to the theme we want. It'll be a cinch to get the decorations, I think. An added bonus is that the reception hall has BUNCHES of tables and chairs included with renting the building, so that will save us some money.



I really like the table arrangement in the above picture. How the candles are of differing heights and offset the center pieces, and also the red overlay to the white table cloths. Since we are aiming for 50's theme our wedding planner had the idea of having the tables emulate how diners looked (red tables, black seats). I know both Alex and I are set on the glass milk jars/carafes to put flowers in. I really like this idea of having several jars/jugs with different kinds of flowers



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I don't know if we'd want to do all white for the flowers or to add splashes of color. With the red table cloths and checkered floors a lot will be going on already. It'll definitely have a 1950's theme to it, that's for sure!

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