Pulling It All Together…Wedding Decor.
January 17, 2012
I find that one of the hardest parts of wedding planning for me has been making sure that all these items we’ve chosen fit together in a cohesive way. I’ve been collecting vintage items for the wedding from antique stores and flea markets. I’ve also found tons of cute things on etsy, and I’ve been doing a little DIY here and there. So, now I’m just trying to piece everything together and make sure they ‘fit’ in with our overall theme. For our gift table, we have vintage suitcases to hold the cards and milk glass bud vases to decorate the table. My plan is to buy a burlap or fabric bunting that spells out ‘cards’ for that.
We also have a teal vintage typewriter that I snagged at a thrift shop for $25! Although the exclamation point doesn’t work so well, I think it’ll look great on our guest table.
We got these great (and funny) mad libs quizzes from etsy for our guests, as an alternative to a regular guestbook. I’m really excited to read their replies.
And my maid of honor and I DIYed a pegboard with washi tape covered clothespins (DIY project from Handmade Weddings!) – that I’m pretty excited to display. I’ve seen it in a few other gorgeous weddings, and I hope ours photographs just as well as this one below!
We also have two soda crates, they look vintage, but they’re from Pottery Barn :) I’d like to fill them with succulents and a few old soda bottles I have thrifted. I think they’ll look great stacked together on either the guest book table or gift table. Our florist also has huge collection of rental items, so I’m excited to see what we can incorporate from her as well.
I plan of having a bunch of cute signs at the ceremony & reception – I love a good sign, both cute and informative! Our day-of coordinator designed our invitations, and will be doing the programs and signs for our wedding as well. I love the invitations so much that I can’t wait to see what she’ll come up with. I love all things kraft paper, so that will be a strong presence at the wedding, as well as fun and quirky wording.
Is anyone else worried their vision might be a little too eclectic? I know our day-of coordinator and florist are both really talented – so I’m not worried about them executing my plans, just worried that my plans will be a bit disjointed. Has anyone else worried about this? Am I just being silly? I mean this is the biggest party I’ve ever planned, so I expect to be a little nervous. But I just hope it doesn’t look like I have a bunch of random stuff sitting around. Do anyone have any tips for putting things together?
I am so impressed! Your details are all lovely and I think they mesh together well, don’t worry! I can’t wait to see how it all comes together. Your wedding will be beautiful :) I especially love the soda crates- yay Pottery Barn!
Kate, I think your vision is just gorgeous! You seem to be pulling it all together very nicely and I like that it is (a little) eclectic- I can’t stand when things are too matchy-matchy : )
First off, I am pretty darn impressed with you! Your ideas are so very awesome! The peg-board?? OMG I want that. I think you have a really good basis with which to go as far your decor goes. I will tell you, I was ALL over the place with a billion different styles and so many different ideas. FInally my planner sat me down and I just had to cut, cut, cut until it all made sense. Definitely doing a layout of your table near the wedding will definitely help you visualize it too. Best thing I ever did was that!
Thanks ladies!! I hope you’re right! :) And doing a mock-up of the tables is a perfect idea, thanks Allison!
I worry about that too, so much! But really, when it comes down to it, if all the things at your wedding reflect you and your fiance, people will see that and it’ll all flow well together! I’m planning my own wedding too (July 27, its getting close!) and sometimes it seems like its a hodge podge of random decor, but really, my (and my fiances) style in general is kinda hodge podgey so it doesn’t matter! All your decor looks great too by the way! I love the succulent crate.
This is all so cute! And I’m sure it won’t look mismatched. If you’re worried, maybe try incorporating your flowers or something in your colors in to these elements so that ties it together. Or, have the same font (or couple of fonts) on all the printed materials. Cohesive certainly doesn’t need to be matchy but those things might help pull it all together.
Plus, you seem to have consistent vintage-esque theme. I’m trying to make sure all the things we include are textural in some way (my dress has this amazing velvet swiss dot texture, the guys will be in linen suits, the flowers will have texture which you will see in tomorrow’s post ;) ). That helps me filter out elements that might not be quite the right vibe of the wedding.
Looks great!
@Katch: So true, I just want people to think it’s ‘so us’ ….so if hodge podge is us, then I’ll take it! :)
@Kim: Thanks! We are using one consistent font on our save the dates, invites, signage…so that will help for sure! And I totally love your texture theme, sound amazing!
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