With Thanksgiving tomorrow, I guess it is time to post some fall wedding ideas! Check out these beautiful fall inspired flowers. I love the idea of using natural materials. The bark covered vases are gorgeous. The boutonniere with the kumquats and eucalyptus pods are super cute too.
I spent sometime this morning playing with the COLOURLovers website. Wow. If you like experimenting with color, you can spend a good deal of time on this website. I think it would be really helpful for someone planning a wedding (along with decorating, floral design, you name it). Say you are struggling with which colors to use for your wedding. With this website, you can take a favorite painting, photograph, or whatever; throw it into the COLOURLovers picture palette inspiration tool; and ta-da! - the colors that were used in the picture pop up on the screen. From there, you can create a inspired color palette for your wedding.
One of my favorite paintings is the Girl in the Window by Dalí. So, I took a weblink for that painting and came up with this palette.
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Check out KenzieKate's guest post on Design*Sponge for a more detailed description of how to use this website.
One late night last week, I received word that some of our wedding photos were going to be featured on Elizabeth Anne Designs blog. When I opened up the link, I was blown away with the super nice comments and photo selection for the post. Today, I finally had a chance to poke around the blog some more and let me say that I am amazed by all the gorgeous weddings and decoration ideas posted on their site. Be sure to check out their blog regularly for wedding inspiration! We are SO honored that they posted some of the photographs from our wedding. Check out the feature on their blog for some pictures by the very talented W. Scott Chester. Thank you Elizabeth and Anne and thanks to Cristen of W. Scott Chester photography for forwarding along our photos. Also, you can see some of the floral arrangements created by KaBloom of Sandy Springs! Thanks Don, Linda, Michelle, and Tim for all your work that day!
No wonder Preston Bailey is tops when it comes to floral design. This stunning bouquet just says it all. Perfect for the modern bride!
This bouquet was made for J.J. Philbin (Regis Philbin's daughter) and is filled with white cymbidium and dendrobium orchids, white peonies, and mini calla lilies. (via InStyle Weddings)
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Here are some beautiful arrangements from the summer issue of Martha Stewart Weddings! I love the bright colors, especially the yellow. Click here for more pictures and arrangements.
Orchids, orchids, orchids. Delicate, elegant, and interesting. For a small wedding or even a bridal shower, I love the idea of using these orchid cones as escort or place cards that double as favors. Just add the guest's name to the ribbon or cone with some more ribbon and a little piece of paper. A water tube is placed inside each of the cones to keep the orchids hydrated. [via Martha Stewart]
I chose a simple wedding cake with fresh flowers as decorations. It came out beautifully! Using fresh flowers to decorate your cake is, often times, a good cost saving option. Here are some beautiful cakes featuring fresh flowers!
[photos from left to right, top to bottom: Wedding Channel, Better Homes and Gardens(BHG), Wedding Channel; second row: Knot, Knot, BHG; third row: Wedding Channel, Wedding Channel]
This picture from the Wedding Style Guide, a new wedding inspiration resource from Australia, is just so adorable. I love the green boots, fresh flowers, brown paper wrapped around the bunches, big mason jars, and brown twine. Wouldn't it be cute to throw a flower arranging shower in your backyard. I know bridesmaids are always looking for fun activities to do at bridal showers. This would be a great way to get the guests involved and it would give them a little favor to take home with them. Buying a few bunches of flowers would be less expensive than a few center pieces too! To take it a step further, talk to your local florist and see if you can schedule one of their designers to come and give a short little lesson. This could be used for more than just wedding showers too - think local garden club meeting, girls night out, new neighbor welcome, any number of events.
Check out the Wedding Style Guide blog too!
LaDonna and Darnell, an Atlanta couple, won the Today Show's Race to the Altar! They will get married in two weeks with Today Throws a Wedding. All next week you can vote with other Today Show viewers to help make the decisions for the details of the wedding.
For more wedding articles from the Today Show, click here. I am sure they will update their site with all the wedding choices too.
Better Homes and Gardens has a tutorial for making floral cones to hang on the chairs lining the aisle. Making your own allows you to personalize them to suit your theme and color! Click here for instructions.
As promised here are some pictures of centerpieces that use hydrangea. Hydrangeas look great all on their own or combined with any number of flowers - roses, lilies, peonies, and hanging amaranthus, just to name a few.
[photos from, left to right, top to bottom, Wedding Channel, Wedding Channel, Knot, Wedding Channel, Wedding Channel, Knot, MS Weddings]
I have seen some AWESOME hydrangea blooms lately. The big balls of little, delicate flowers just make me smile. And, as they are great flowers to use in your wedding, I thought I would post some wedding hydrangeas :) Above are some beautiful bouquets featuring hydrangea. Hydrangea come in a variety of colors - as you can see! I love the mini-hydrangea in the last photo. [photo credits, from left to right: MS Weddings, Wedding Channel, Wedding Channel].
Here are some pics of hydrangea decorating the aisle and chairs for the ceremony [photo credits, from left to right:Wedding Channel, Wedding Channel, Knot].
You can even use hydrangea for the men of the bridal party - check out these hydrangea boutonnières [photo credits, from left to right: Knot, Knot, Knot].
Last but not least, some details - entrance decor, cakes, wreaths [photo credits, from left to right, top to bottom:. MS Weddings, MS Weddings, MS Weddings, MS Weddings].
Stay tuned for some centerpieces using hydrangea, coming tomorrow!
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I stumbled across the Southern Wedding Style blog last week. This site has tons of beautiful pictures of southern weddings. Take a look!
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Founds some new (at least to me) beautiful pictures of unique bouquets on Martha Stewart's Wedding website today. Gorgeous Inspiration!
I have seen more and more of these beautiful roses. According to MS, this is Michael George's signature bridal bouquet - the Couture Rose. It is made by removing the petals from a bunch of roses and then wiring them into one bloom - 6 to 7 inches across.
Some unique additions in the bouquets above. In the first one, herbs - thyme, rosemary and sage - compliment the lily of the valley, grape hyacinth, scented-geranium foliage, and lamb's ear. And in the second one, small shells work their way into pink bouquet.
Succulents, succulents, succulents! They are everywhere, and I love them! What a beautiful combination with the orchids and ranunculus.
One flower bouquets here - carnations, anemones, and calla lillies!
Better Homes and Gardens has an article on their website about throwing a "Good Advice" shower. I really like this idea for a bridal or even a baby shower, because it is a great way to involve the guests. Plus, coming up with one line of advice, can't be too hard! Here are some suggestions on how to match the advice (from BHG) with the present:
Advice: Take turns cooking for each other.
Gift: Favorite cookbook and kitchen tools.
Advice: Experience new things.
Gift: Travel accessories.
Click here for the article - the main point is to include a cute card along with the invitation (maybe a pocket envelope invitation), provide some instructions on what to do with the card, and have the bride read each card aloud before she opens the present!
Another great suggestion, if you are doing your own food, buffet style, is to use square vases as containers. This makes for a nice uniform, modern look.
Go check out the article for some more great suggestions!
Flowers do not have to be limited to bouquets, centerpieces, and ceremony decorations. There are tons of ways of bringing flowers into other elements of your wedding. Below are just some random ideas I have run across recently.
I love the idea of using a flower to accent each place setting. And I adore the little ranunculus cuff in the first picture below!
[pictures via In Style Weddings and brides.com]
Another unique idea is to use a little bud vase with a single flower for your place cards, which could double as a favor. I especially like this idea for bridal showers, which are often smaller, making the idea more budget friendly! Or just add a creative flower arrangement near your escort cards to add some more color.
[In Style Weddings and brides]
And I love this idea of using mums to decorate the swizzle sticks for these lemonade drinks!
Corsages are used to recognize the special women at your wedding - mothers, grandmothers, readers, stepmothers, or any other immediate family members who are not in the wedding party. Here are some corsage options to consider. The traditional corsage is pinned just below the shoulder and near the collarbone. Typical pin-on corsages can be made of multiple flowers or made of one bloom, maybe a cymbidium orchid or a rose.
Another option is a wrist corsage.
[image from brides.com]
[image from KaBloom of Sandy Springs]
You may want to recognize your mothers a little differently. Two ideas that I like are giving them a corsage that attaches to their purses or giving them a small bouquet or a few stems to carry instead of wearing a traditional corsage.
A few things to remember: Try to use a flower that matches the rest of the wedding flowers. You can personalize the corsages by using the wearer's favorite bloom. Click here for instruction on how to pin a corsage.
I really wanted to have flower petals lining the aisle when I got married, but alas due to restrictions, we couldn't. However, there are tons of ways to decorate the aisle for your wedding ceremony. You could have two aisle markers made of big, beautiful arrangements that make a statement when guests walk in. Or have them lining the entire aisle. You could put pomanders or pew markers on each (or every other or the first and last) row. You could line the aisle with candles or a flower garland. Here are some pictures to provide you with some inspiration.
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[click on each of the pictures for the original - from the the knot, wedding channel, and brides.com]
