Yummy Collage Goodness

So instead of blogging yesterday, I spent the whole day playing around on Polyvore. Weddingbee and Minted are running a DREAM WEDDING competition in conjunction with Polyvore, where you create an inspiration board for your dream wedding, using at least one item from Minted's stationery selection. You can win a whole lot of stationery from them - a bit pointless for me, since I'm in the process of printing mine even as we speak (yeah, ok, next week or something, but it's close enough), but it was fun to do and wasted a whole lot of time...

So these are the two I came up with:

OLD HOLLYWOOD


DAZZLING DAMASK


I have to say, quite honestly, I'm not that impressed with Polyvore's functionality. They say you can just add, drop and drag, but more than half the pictures I tried to add got distorted or huge chunks went missing, and I couldn't find an explanation for this in their help tutorial. So I had to make do with pictures that really weren't my first choice for both these collages (hence the repetition of the girl with the pretty hairclip). Still, I think they turned out well. What do you think?

Bring on the black, red and white!

Originally my wedding colours were going to be crimson and white. Simple, right? I'd be in white with dark red flowers, and my girls would be in dark red with white flowers. The end. Why would I need something else? Then I got worried. Was it too blah? Did I need an accent colour? OMG, did I need TWO accent colours??

After a brief dalliance with purple, I decided that to bring in the Hollywood glamour feel I would need to add a bit of black. The flowers will still be crimson/dark red/burgundy/claret whatever you want to call it, but the black is going to come through in ribbons (bouquets, programs, etc) and borders on the place cards, menus, and other stationery.I've made an inspiration board for this colour scheme! All inspired by thetop left-hand picture of the red tulips on the monochrome damask cloth.


I am toying with the idea of getting black or black & white damask table runners (the tablecloths are white in our venue), but to be honest, it just feels like yet another expense that hardly anyone will notice anyway. I have to know when to stop! Little things add up in a horribly frightening way. Anyway, I'm using this pattern as the border to my placecards and menu:






And I'm using this look for my programs. I love the idea of it so much morethan a normal book-shaped program.



I'm also going to have the confetti cones, proably half in crimson and half in black. More paper to buy, oh dear....

Old Hollywood Inspiration

Well, at the rate I am chopping and changing with this wedding theme & decor stuff, I will probably change my mind the night before. My latest inspiration is Old Hollywood Glamour. I adore old classic films - give me Bette, Judy, Katharine, Cary, Fred and Ginger and I’m in heaven. (That’s Davis, Garland, Hepburn, Grant, Astaire and Rogers for the uninitiated).


Anyway, I luuurve the look and feel of this theme. I’ve also recently discovered inspiration boards on some wedding blogs (as if I wasn’t spending enough time on wedding websites). So I thought I’d try my hand at my own “Old Hollywood” inspiration board! This is what I came up with:

To be honest, I’m not sure where I got all those pics from. I never thought, when I started collecting ideas and inpirations, that I might need a record of where I found them! Line 2 pic 2 is a still from the film “Swing Time”, and the last pics on lines 3 and 4 are from a real wedding you can see here.

I'm loving the idea of feathers in my bouquet, as in the last pic on line 2. How vintage and romantic! Just scrumptious. Look at these other beautiful ones I found:

(Photo by Jennifer Skog)

Another suggestion I've heard is to have a classic romance playing on a big screen (silently, one assumes!) during the reception. While I like the idea in theory, in practical terms it would be too much of a hassle to set up and play, too much of an unnecessary expense, and too much of a distraction for the guests, who will probably sit and stare blankly at it instead of enjoying the damn party I'm throwing for them! So.... no classic movie in the background, much as I love the idea of sharing my obsession with everyone!