Real Wedding: Beth & Jamie's Elegant Rustic Colorado Wedding

This wedding really portrays rustic elegance throughout all of the elements.  Their cake is simply beautiful and I love the current trend of the "bride" and "groom" signs on the back of the chairs at the reception.  Of course, the couple is totally adorable too!  Thanks to Christina Kiffney Photography for sharing this pretty wedding.

{Christina Kiffney via Two Bright Lights}

Inspiration 197: Combining Hot Colors

Yellow and chocolate brown are a hot color combo, and lime and lemon are also popular so I thought I'd combine them into one board and I really like the way it turned out.  I didn't go with a theme so much as a color scheme for this board but I think it wound up having a hip rustic flair.  I can see this color palette working best in summer or fall.

sources:  Green Wedding Shoes, Matrimonial Meg, Elizabeth Anne Designs, James Carson Photography, Pretty Chicky,  

Wedding Wire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Creative Odds and Ends, Wedding Flowers

Inspiration 179: Sunflowers and Strawberries

Sunflowers definitely add a rustic, fun and a bit vintage feel to a wedding, and that is exactly what the bride who requested this board is aiming to create for her wedding day.  She wants to work with a red & yellow (I added some pops of pink too) color palette for her husband who loves In N Out Burger and the Redskins.  She also wants to create a picnic feel without being too country-ish.  They plan to have their wedding partially catered by In N Out and want to incorporate some games like horseshoes and ladder ball into their reception.  To incorporate strawberries (one of the brides requests) I think adding them to the cake and using them as favors are a great touch!

sources:  Love and Lavender, 100 Layer Cake, Green Wedding Shoes, Wedding Bee, Elizabeth Anne Designs, With This Ring, Style Me Pretty

Theme Thursday #27: Tuscany, Revisited

I have made a few Tuscan inspired boards before but this is one of my favorites.  I love the combination of eggplant and sunflowers!  The bride who requested this board wants to have a vintage feel to her wedding and incorporate lots of sunflowers, grapes and wine.  I really like the idea of using grapes in the centerpiece, it really ties in the eggplant color the bridesmaids will be wearing.

sources:  Wedding Bee, Entertain Exchange, Delovely Affairs, Gray Photography, Jacques Pastries, The Knot, One Wed (x2), Momentville

Inspiration #107- Tuscany

One of the commenters on my contest had a request for a Tuscan inspired wedding and here it is! I love the idea of it being very family oriented (sitting at one or a few long tables and having the food served family style, meaning in big bowls and you serve yourself). The cake in this board is rad too, covered in sunflowers and black olives! Miniature cannoli would be fun for dessert and baskets of tomatoes or cute bottles of olive oil are great favor ideas. The color scheme for this board is sunflower yellow and shades of red with a few pops of green.

sources: A Practical Wedding, Martha Stewart Weddings (x2), A Wedding of a Lifetime, Kula Tsurdiu,
Wedding Bee, Favor Ideas, Paolo Bigazzi, Sarah McGee Photography, Austin 360

Inspiration #84- Library Meet Barn, Barn Meet Library

The bride who requested this board was uncertain about her color scheme, but since she was having her reception in a barn she wanted to keep it a bit rustic. She also mentioned that her fiance and herself were literature "geeks" (her words not mine!) So I tried to incorporate that into the board :]

You could use favorite authors to name the tables instead of numbers (and include your favorite quote). I really love the idea of incorporating vintage (or vintage looking) books into the centerpieces. With this in mind I worked with a natural wood, gold/sunflower, rust and red color scheme as most vintage book colors tend to be in that scheme. The sunflowers add a bit of a rustic hint, at least in my opinion. I hope this board helps create the beautiful rustic wedding she's after!

sources: Green Wedding Shoes, Vintage Glam Blog, With This Ring (x2), The Knot, Snippet and Ink, Elizabeth Anne Designs, The Haystack Needle

Also wanted to include these cute invitations that didn't make the board and the full version of the save-the-date that I edited to fit the board:

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Inspiration #58- Frog Prince [mismatched #3]

When I saw these bridesmaids dressed in royal purple and sage green it brought to mind the story of the frog prince, so that's what I based this board on. I love the photo with the groom holding the frog on his arm! The addition of sunflowers is sweet too.

Sources: boutonniere, frog kiss, cake, cake, umbrellas, sunflowers, wedding party, sunflower bouquet, place setting

Inspiration #35- Mustard Yellow is H-O-T, hot!

Mustard Yellow is definitely becoming a hot color right now.  I love this combo that I received a request for... mustard, chocolate and gray!