Farm Favors

My Inspiration:

Sometimes inspiration sneaks up and slaps me in the weirdest ways. Why not offer your guests an exciting farmers market style set up to choose favors from!? Including a variety of fruits, veggies, and flowers would create a beautifully colorful space for guests to explore and give them access to some incredibly useful favors to take home. Paper or cotton monogramed bags could be provided to add to the excitement. You could also take this one set further by incorporating these items into your centerpieces and then encouraging guests to take the pieces home.

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Tea Time

My Inspiration:

I attended a British style tea time and it inspired me share some thoughts. Hosting a tea party style bridal shower would provide both good new memory creation and a reminiscent experience harkening back to the days of being a little girl, putting on your mother's wedding gown, and pretending to get married. Another fun way to incorporate a tea party into wedding festivities would be to kick off your bachelorette party celebrations with a tea party followed by wine tasting and a night out at a comedy club. No matter what you do have a blast!

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Carnival Games

My Inspiration:

If you and your fiancé met at a carnival or fair or just have a special love for attending them, I have an idea for you! Host carnival games at your wedding during cocktail hour. Games like balloon darts, ring toss, and goldfish ping pong will provide your guests with the type of fun they will never forget while awaiting dinner and dancing. Also, think of the extra interesting backdrops the games will provide for photo sessions.

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Backyard Wedding

My Inspiration:

Are you having a back yard picnic style wedding at your house or parent's house? If you are you have freedom to do what you would like in regards to providing alcohol, although we do suggest event insurance in this scenario. Ask your guests to bring a bottle of wine or specialty beer that they would like to share. Create a sharing table full of ice filled galvanized buckets and coolers for them to place their shared wine and beer into. This is a great way to save money on alcohol and to encourage your guests to try something new. Consider offering smaller cocktail cups and plastic shot glasses, in the colors of your wedding, for people to try smaller portions before taking a whole cup of an item. Cheers!

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Evergreen Winter Decor

My Inspiration:

Evergreens make me think of candle-lit romantic tables covered in rich jewel tones. I used natural wood pillar holders topped with battery operated flicker candles and small glass bowls filled with stones and moss to complete these wintery evergreen table runner tablescapes. Wood charger plates, glassware, battery operated fairy lights could also be added to tables to further finish the look.

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Paper Flowers

My Inspiration:

After attending each flower show I always feel inspired. Surprisingly it wasn't the real flowers that had me inspired to share this time. These paper book page flowers mixed in with real flowers would be so much fun for a book loving bride or couple to incorporate into their wedding bouquets and boutonnieres. Another thought...Have guests sign the pages and then have the pages strategically made into flowers after your wedding so you can display them in your house.

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Airplanes

 

 

My Inspiration:

Museums are always inspirational to me. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum ignited whimsical thoughts about arriving in an prop plane or having one on site for photos at a wedding. This would be especially fun if either of the people in the couple were involved with these types of things for their job or had a particularly strong interest in them. Another thought that can to mind was using an airplane hanger as your wedding venue. That would certainly be unique and have your guests talking for quite some time afterwards!

 

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Sticks and Branches

 

My Inspiration:

This glamorous stick and branch queen inspires me to use branches and sticks for centerpieces. Why not fill tall vases with braches you can find for free in nature to use as your centerpieces or spray paint sticks with glittery silver paint and hot glue them to boxes you fill with red roses?! There are just so many possibilities if you use your imagination!

 

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Scarf It Up

 

My Inspiration:

During the cold months it's nice to have the comfort of a warm scarf. I stumbled across the ones pictured above in a quaint little shop along my travels. I thought almost immediately it would be nice to have bridesmaids wear the same color dress and give each a different color scarf to stay warm. It would make a nice gift, give warmth, and add some extra color to your wedding day.

 

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Wintery Mix

My Inspiration:

This beautiful wintery scene ignites all sorts of ideas for a winter wedding. The ladies in your wedding party could wear lush imitation furs and the men won't ever complain about being too hot in their tuxes. Rich jewel tones for flowers and dresses would really make this time of year come alive in photos. Carolers could sing before your ceremony starts, sleigh rides would be blissful during cocktail hour, and hot chocolate could be served throughout the evening. There is a bit of magic in the winter season.

 

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