Power of Pattern

Centerpieces are something I love obsessing over even still in post wedding life. I may never wear a wedding dress again (OK to be fair I didn't really the first time) but centerpieces and pretty tables can be a part of my life going forward. And rightly so.

This Atlanta wedding captured by Heidi of Our Labor of Love really shows a truth of the table display. If you have a beautiful (and often way more expensive in the case of a wedding) table cloth, you need less on the table top to have the table seem full.

Round tables can be tricky. It takes a lot to make round tables feel fully decorated. Rectangular tables work well with a single flower every couple of feet. The length of the table makes it feel like a wonderfully complete design. Looking at this wedding, I'm realizing maybe it'd be less expensive to rent the ornate table clothes and then spend way less money on fancy center pieces. Because you have the lushness of pattern, you don't need as much up top.

Via: Style Me Pretty
Photography: Heidi of Our Labor of Love
Floral Design: TruSo Weddings
Bride & Groom: Virginia and Daniel

DIY Escort Cards

This idea is from those awesome women at Once Wed. Get little figurines from the dollar store and spray paint them white. Great for escort cards or for place holders at the tables themselves. Awesome.

Also, f*ck diamonds. Spray paint is a girl's best friend.

Via: Once Wed
Photography: Erik Ekroth Photography and Hatch Creative Studio

Teeny Tiny Greatness

Christmas lights are not just for Christmas. My tattoo may say this. Christmas lights are great because everyone has them in their attics. Don't be shy about asking wedding invitees to donate a strand for the party. Wrap them up in front of a pretty white piece of material and wallah. A spectacular backdrop to the dessert table.

Via: Style Me Pretty
Photography: Meredith Lord Photography
Bride: Belinda (can't find the grooms name.)

The World Needs More Sugar Hearts

There is a world where every dessert has a heart on it. (Follow the Wedding Chicks link to see the wedding cake using these bad boys.) I make a promise to you. Next Valentine's Day, there shall be sugar cookies with sugar hearts.

PS- Wouldn't "The Sugar Hearts" be the best band name ever?! Any takers? Hmmm?!

Via: Wedding Chicks
Photography: Brooke Allison Photography
Made By: Erica O’Brien Cake Design 

This is My Future Livingroom

One might ask, "The Church?" and I'd have to say no. But some day, *some* day, Zach and I will have a wall of flowering branches standing upright like trees in a wall of some house we inhabit. Or maybe on you inhabit. If you see me with giant flowering sticks, lock your doors.

Blog Trail: Offbeat Bride, via Austin Wedding Blog
Photographer: Krista Photography

The Pinot Project

OK, here's the plan. You and your friends and my friends each bring a bottle of wine to my place on Friday. Maybe they are all Pinot or Pinos Gris or Pink Sparkeling. Whatever. Then I number the bottoms and write down the numbers on a piece of paper next to their names. I peel off all the labels, and in there place I put one I've designed. (It will be block printed I'm guessing.)

Then you and your friends and my friends all come over and all the bottles are open. And everyone gets a little pad of paper and a pen, and we write down our perceptions of what we're tasting. In the end, everyone finds out what the wines were originally.

Via: Style Me Pretty
Photography: Llanes Weddings

Dessert Party

You're invited to a dessert party. First you'll get a pretty invitation in the mail. Then when you walk in, you'll get a boutonniere flag so you won't have to guess at peoples' names because we all forget them as soon as a new person says them. (Seriously, new rule: Talk bulk first THEN introduce ourselves!) Then when we've all chatted for awhile, we'll head into dessert time. And OK, maybe we have just a few too many snacks, but I think we'll all be happy to take home a dessert bag.

Via: Style Me Pretty
Photography: Kate Webber Photography
Design: Atelier Joya

Best Room Ever (via Ruffled)

I'm going to create a room and the ceilings will be made of ribbon and on the walls there will be frames filled with moss and flowers, and I will invite you over for tea and poetry, and we will spend the afternoon in quiet and delightful bliss.

Bride and Groom: Angie and Seth
Photography: Deidre Lynn Photography
Via: Ruffled

Phone Book Wall Art

I know that you can't hang candles sideways, but maybe with battery powered candles and some efforts against gravity someone could make these into a large three dimensional pattern. A giant pattern up a wall. This would be hard. Hmmm....

Blog Trail: The 3 R's Blog, via Austin Wedding Blog

Mignonne Handmade

Why don't we live in a place (or time) where people are wearing pieces like this ALL THE TIME?! This is the lovely work on Mignonne Handmade. Their Etsy shop and website are beautiful.

Paper Flower Table Installation

Can I be friends with these ladies? Yes? OK!

From the creative minds (and my future friends): Jamie of Julia’s Poppies and Aimee Strickland of MadeintheFold.

Via: Ruffled

Hanging Flowers

What an elegant set up with the draping flowers. This would take a lot of crepe paper to do without real flowers but what a fun challenge.

Via: Style Me Pretty
Photographer: Elizabeth Messina
Floral Design: Jeff Leatham