I am so detail oriented and love love love little details. One of the things that I am most excited about are the little details. The things that will make my wedding photographer die, because he too loves detail. I don’t want to give away all the surprises…. like what I have planned for my “something blue” but I do have a million and one ideas floating around my head right now.
Head Table:
So…. I hate hate hate sweetheart tables. And then I also hate head tables. If it was 100% up to me, Kyle and I would sit with our friends. Therefore…. I am tossing around the idea of one big amazing head table that has both Kyle and me at it but also our whole bridal party and their date. There date would be sitting there too because I have been in too many weddings where there are head tables and members of the bridal party have complained about not being able to sit with their date. blah blah blah, not a good time to complain but I am going to try and avoided the complaining, by doing this:
Tables:
In fact. I kind of love the idea of all square tables. I wonder if my venue can pull that off. Do they make square linens? How many people sit at a round table? I am thinking 8 at the square tables. Ugh another reason why a seating chart may work best. Goodness.
but then…. I stumbled across this picture and LOVED that idea too. Notice the long square (that would be a rectangle. duh) “head table” in the center, surrounded by both square AND round tables. and the square tables have 3 on each side + 2 on each end = 10 at each table. And I l-o-v-e the tall center pieces at the round tables and low at the square tables. I love how that makes different levels. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. ….ladies and gentlemen, we may have found the setup for my reception (minus the dark depressing linens) should the venue be able to do this and they bettter!!!
Place cards:
I am not in love with the idea of seating charts since I have heard they can be insanely stressful to put together but my wedding may come down to that. Oi. Not fun. But in an ideal world everyone would be able to chose their own seat but since we’re tossing around the idea of giving people the choice of what they want to eat we need to help the servers out a bit. So, going with the vintage, shabby chic vibe I am aiming for I thought it would be totally classy and awesome to do “place cards” and depending on what menu item they chose their name would be a certain color. Purple for option 1 and navy for option 2. AND…. how vintage and shabby chic awesome are these?!
Mantle:
When we went venue “shopping” and chose our venue I fell in love with the rustic chimney, fireplace thing and decided that is where the ceremony would take place. Since I want an early evening ceremony I want lots of candles. Theme: vintage, shabby chic, lush, romantic, anthropologie. ….And I stumbled across this and want it created on the mantle. Please and thank you. I love the tall, thing candles and candle holders and the lush white hydrangea flowers. I don’t think I want the flowers as “high” as they are but how lovely is this?! Screams romantic and weddings are romantic. Yeah!
brides bouquet:
not so fast. I am totally not going to show you what I have in mind. as I said before. there needs to be some secrets. but… I would l-o-v-e to incorporate a vintage fabulous broach on the stems wrap. I cannot decide it I want something sparkly or pearly (like the right pictures) or like a cameo broach (like on the left) it would be amazing if my mom had one in her jewelry box or stashed away somewhere. can we say “something old” …. I will be going through her jewelry box when I am home in July. and it not, I am sure I can find something wonderful on etsy. but seriously – how gorgeous does this look?
centerpieces:
I cannot decide between high or low – that’s why I think I decided today as I was pulling pictures that maybe a mix of both would be a good idea. and I don’t know about colors, but I love the idea of crisp white but I also really want to add a touch of color. light blue. light purple. something.. these pictures really aren’t that great so I apologize and I am only showing 2 … I could show you 20 but I will spare you.
vines:
no not my last name, but like wooden vines. I don’t know how I would or if I would at all, but I love how the vines were used in 3 of these pictures. the bottom middle one, would make for a fabulous centerpiece. but, I doubt you will see vines at my wedding. sorry.
hair:
I love this hair. And I love the sparkly hair thing that goes with it. the only problem with the hair pin, comb thing is that my jewelry isn’t sparkly. and I feel like if I am going to have bling in my hair, I need to have bling on my ears and neck too. Or am I wrong? But I do love the messy low bun…. and the sparkly gives it a little flair. oi.
okay. and with that I am done. for now.
I have my trial hair day in about a month so I am having to take a look at how I am going to do my hair. And I have wrestled with pull it up or keep it half up and half down. I want to look as natural as possible (I hate the fake looking brides) which leads me to half up half down, but then I remember that my hair is long and since my hair is long I play with it and I don't want to play with my hair all the time. So then I lean towards a messy curly bun (I especially like the top middle) but then I remember that my hair does not stay curled. so then I start leaning towards something a little more formal. But then I remember that Kyle and I are not really formal (we didn't even register for China!) and our wedding is not formal so that takes the formal out of my mind. Until I linger back on the 1st and 2nd of the last row because they're up up but lower and not as fancy as others. But then I go back to half up and half down and remember that my hair does not stay curled. So, then I go to messy bun. I need guidance and help and opinions. 
