I envisioned a winter wedding with snow, horse drawn carriages/sleighs, with my bridedmaids wearing those beautiful fur lined hats, and hand warmers (muffs? sp?).........kinda like the vintage looking Christmas cards.......
Well, I won;t have any snow here in Southern California. So, it's definitely going to have to become a ''winter wonderland'' through the use of colors and decorations.
I am actually the opposite of some of you other newly engaged ladies. I have been planning for years <img src=''
http://talk.jewelry/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/graemlins/default/blush.gif'' alt='''' />(especially since many of my friends got married a few years ago and I helped with their weddings). So, I've been gathering pics of dresses, centerpieces, favors, docoration ideas, etc into a binder for a while. Also, since Christmas just passed, I was constantly gathering pics of ideas from sales magazines, etc. (I always knew I wanted a winter wedding)!!!
So, here are some
some of my ideas...
Well, my plan is to use silver/platinum and white as the colors for everything. So, the bridesmaids dresses will be silver and they'll have white bouquets (sp?). The only other color will be the use of red flowers (probably roses) in my bouquet only (just for that dramatic POP of color). Otherwise, all else will be silver and white.
Along with the silver and white, I want a ''snowflake'' theme and plan on using silver and/or white snowflakes of various sizes in different ways as decorations for the ceremony adn reception site. I want the ceremony music to be saxaphone Jazz Christmas carols (think Kenny G) while guests are arriving and being seated. Also want saxaphone solos for any music used during the ceremony.
I also want to use white lights at ceremony and reception and have 3 white flocked trees behind FH and I at the ceremony. I also plan on having a Christmas tree at the reception for placing some of the gifts underneath (a table will be next to the tree for overflow gifts that don't fit underneath).
Some other little ideas include haivng the chairs at the reception covered in white with the silver bows, a personalized aisle runner from
The Original Runner Company that says ''and they lived happily ever after...'' (or something else). I want a snowflake ice scultpure at the reception site, raised up on a table with fruit/vegetable platters, etc at its base (if that makes sense). I want my flower girls to wear white flower ''halos'' and white feather angel wings (kinda like the Victoria Secret models, but smaller of course) tossing artificial ''snow''. The guests will be given ''jingle bells'' to ring at the end of the ceremony as we walk down the aisle (and also to use at the reception to get us to kiss).
Hmmm...I can go on forever with my
ideas. I know what I want the cake to look like, I have ideas for the rehersal dinner, favors and so much more. Luckily my FH is OK with me taking over about 99.9% of the planning <img src=''
http://talk.jewelry/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/graemlins/default/grin.gif'' alt='''' />. His statment was ''do whatever you want''. I've also ''hired'' my best friend and my very good friend to help me out, give advice, ideas, etc. I come up with new stuff all of the time, butI know that I'll have to narrow it all down <img src=''
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Whew!!!! sorry so long <img src=''
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