The Big Wedding Question Part I

You know how when you read wedding books, they tell you to consider a few key items first? Usually, these include budget, season, location, and guest list. All valid concerns, I agree. But that was not the first big question for the mister and I.

If you can't tell by earlier entires, I am a sucker for a theme wedding. Not nessecarily a costume-wearing, exact-detail replica of an event (not like a Star Trek wedding in Vegas - good for you if that's what you want, though!), but I love a cohesive wedding, like Mrs. Shortcake with her 1950s details, Mrs. Lovebug and her "Sweetest Type of Love," and my most-beloved Mrs. Petunia and her Monopoly theme (If you don't read Weddingbee, go there. Now. You can catch up and come back to me later.)

We both knew we wanted something like that. But what? That became our first big concern.


Are you having a theme wedding? What themes have you seen, and how did you decide?

Yellow Submarine

Wizard of Oz

Just have to say . . .

Good job Colts!!!!

Dukes of Hazard

Movie Weddings Week

In hopes of doing something fun for all my readers out there this week, I thought I'd share some weddings inspired by my favorite movies, starting with this one. When I began to think about movie love stories, I immediately thought of Gone With the Wind. I think Scarlett O'Hara is every Southern girl's icon for at least a little while in childhood. I didn't want to be too literal with this theme and risk being cheesy, so I tried to picture a modern-day wedding at Tara: lots of greens and whites, classic letterpress invites, green BM dresses (to mimic the one Scarlett made from her curtains!), and plenty of southern food. The ballgown is Vera Wang, and seems perfect for a Southern princess.

English Garden Wedding

I love grey - I know, I know, it's trendy. The "new" chocolate brown, which was, I think, the "new" black. But grey is certainly unexpected, and it pairs really nicely with other colors in a relaxed, cool sort of way. Something about grey and pink make me think English Garden - warm, fresh, but still sort of old-school and stately. As a side note, I had a cocktail last night that involved a drink poured into a martini glass over cotton candy. Delish, and would make a great signiature cocktail.