So for my own memory, I wanted to post about why I chose what I did for all things wedding related! I love two very different styles- sparkly/crystals/moss/class and vintage/shabby/rustic... it was so hard to define exactly how the wedding would be because these two styles aren't too easily mixed! Once I chose shabby/chic and specific elements of that, I really found myself being drawn to things that wouldn't fit that and had to seriously reel myself back in, "no, Hannah! That will totally not work!" Ha.
So here are the pictures that I followed and really used to help define the style of the wedding...
So, pretty late in the game I decided that Karl & I would incorporate a map theme! Our whole relationship has been long distance, we have lived in and been influenced by so many people in so many different states, and it just made so much sense! So, this picture totally inspired the map theme! Our invitations, escort cards, kids place settings, programs, thank you notes... we tried to get a lot of map into all of it!
This is the front of our reply postcard. I knew it would totally set the tone for a fun, vintage, map-y, Texas, yellow wedding!
I loved this invitation! The different fonts, funky layout, and bold date and colors inspired me to go a little crazy with our invitation!
This was the first invitation I fell in love with... I saw it super early in our engagement and immediately knew I wanted to use a lot of ampersands (&) and had a big pull in my choosing grey and yellow!
In keeping with my reminiscence of paper... I definitely knew from day 1 that I wanted a non-traditional guest book, less of a guest book and more of any kind of record of who was there. I found this picture and loved the idea! I knew that K & I would LOVE advice from our wedding guests and to get a picture of how others perceive love. I'll share some of the responses we got in another post- they are awesome, funny, wise, smart aleck...good stuff!
So, instead of paper squares we had our guests write what 'Love is' on paint chips (maybe borrowed from several trips to Home Depot...) in several shades of yellow. We hung them on strands of jute along an old wooden door and I just loved how it looked! I can't wait to find some creative way to use the sweet notes our guests left us!
So I saw this and knew I wanted the tables set. Like, walk into the room and everything looks complete. I just loved how finished this table looked; simple and finished, despite the fact that I wouldn't be decorating at all like this picture.
This picture gave me confidence that my choices would work- yellow, cloth napkins... it also inspired me to tie something to my cloth napkins! I ended up assigning each table a state that was meaningful to Karl and I so to each napkin we tied a card that described why that specific state was significant to us (who lived there, what we had done there, our plans for that state...). It ended up being one of my favorite details about the wedding!
I loved this picture and immediately fell in love with the idea of baby's breath. It's a super affordable flower, its full, a little goes a super long way, and it has a huge impact when used by itself! Baby's breath also just has this whimsical, rustic feel that I fell in love with! I knew it would be my main flower for the ceremony and bouquets so now I just had to find creative ways to use it!
I loved the baby's breath bouquets that these bridesmaids carried but I knew I wanted mine to have a center of something else, which led me to...
COTTON!! I love, love, love the use of cotton in bouquets so I ordered cotton in the boll from the cotton man and was so, so pleased with what we got! It was a super affordable addition to every bouquet (including mine) and it was the only component of the boutonnieres!
I loved the vintage feel of this bouquet but already had the baby's breath and cotton components to incorporate. All I had left to figure out was where color would come from for bouquets and the reception... I have loved craspedia (or "Billy Balls") for a really long time! It is that deep, mustard yellow so it was the perfect fit!
This picture was definitely inspiration for my reception flowers- I wanted an airy, wildflower feel that carried over from the ceremony that the bouquets would fit perfectly into. I LOVE this picture... like blow it up, gallery wrap it, and put it on my wall!
So, what to put the flowers in? I wanted eclectic!! Wood, glass, old, new...
I loved this picture of the wood vases and thought that it mixed so well with glass. When my sister & her fiance went to Colorado with his family they brought me back lots of Aspen wood that my sweet friend/officiant/mentor/mayaswellbefamily Shane made into vases for me!
I love the feel of this picture and always have. I really wanted my decor to feel like this picture does. I used a lot of medicine bottles and old spice jars. A lot were gathered from family and friends but a lot were bought from Canton- like the hugest most wonderful flea market in the world!
In keeping with my desire to have lots of wood, I was dying for Karl to make us this wooden cake stand! I also knew that I didn't have a strong interest in a traditional wedding cake, which led me to the idea of bundt cakes for my cake!
Like, is this bundt cake display not incredible? Totally my inspiration! Sentimental value was added by using one cake stand from my dad's mom, one made by Karl, one from my mom, and one from my mom's mom!
I loved the use of the window pane in this picture... which made me remember that I had 2 old window panes that I bought at a Catholic High's junktique sale in Little Rock last year. I thought a good way to repurpose them would be to put table legs on them and use them as our dessert tables! It ended up being absolutely perfect, precious, and wonderful! Thanks to Shane for making that happen! Once we got to South Carolina, Karl chopped some of the height off the legs and now one of the window pane tables is our coffee table!
This inspiration board is wonderful and totally perfect. It's where I got my inspiration for the guys boutonnieres and also what inspired me to make lots of signs! I knew I wanted everything labeled... that's where a lot of the detail comes from. People like to know what things are and you can make it a lot more interesting by putting time into making those labels cute and fun! BUT to put fun words, phrases, things onto wood- I fell in love with that idea! I used old cabinet fronts to label rows of seats at the ceremony, the escort card display, the 'Love is,' display, and "Mr" and "Mrs" chairs.
How food was displayed and served was a really big deal to me. I was probably really annoying to my wedding coordinator and my caterer on what to use and what to not use... I love drink decanters, food with height, using different textures on food tables, the list goes on!
So, although I didn't have a candy apple bar, I was obsessed with this picture through my whole planning process. The wood, the display, the different heights, the labels... its perfect.
Oh, I should say that all of these ideas and pictures came from...
and random google searches :)
Until later today (because I'm making up for my lack of post yesterday),
Hannah BURTON
Hannah,
ReplyDeleteAll of your ideas were perfectly executed in your wedding, but I must say they were far more excellent than the pictures you based your ideas off of! There were so many great details about the wedding that were great! Love you!
-Whitney