COLORS:We couldn't decide on wedding colors, the ones I picked out at age 15 didn't seem to fit me anymore. So I went with multiple colors because it would be colorful and I thought it would make it easier to match things with multiple options. Ultimately, I was inspired by this book from the DI and it became the color palette.
We chose not to have bridesmaids or groomsmen and we had each of our siblings' families pick a color and dress/accessorize in their color. I like what it added to our family photos.
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| Cherece's family wore light purple, Marlon's dark green, Marci's and Kia's dark purple and Sherri & Bob wore orange. |
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Bobby's family wore pink, Nathan's red, Cindi dark blue, Hilmans and Ed & Marie wore light blue. |
TABLES: I wanted colorful tables, insipred by this pinterest photo, I ordered colors and patterned fabric to put on top of white tablecloths from fabric.com, mostly amy butler prints. My mother thought I was crazy, but I think it turned out well. We got plain white hydrangeas from sams club for the table flowers and we put some things that reflect our interests and photos with flowers as centerpieces. Now I have throw pillows on my couch from the fabric and some yards still left for more projects.
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BACKDROPS: Our reception was in the Hurst's backyard- it was SO beautiful! It really didn't need any decorating- in retrospect I did too much. But because it was a backyard there were some places that needed a little extra touch. . like the vegetable garden turned backdrop, the really hot cement pad best suited for dinner and the basement stairs. In the end the weather cooled down and the backyard bloomed like the Garden of Eden- i didn't have to worry about a thing. Here are some pinterest inspirations and my interpretations:
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My mom made these signs of reclaimed wood (freshly reclaimed from the barn dad tore down the week before) to fancy up the vegetable garden they exceeded my expectations! And we still have the Grow Old one to put in our house or garden someday.
Here is what we did to attempt to shade the hot cement pad where the tables were placed. I bought sheets from IKEA and my sister Marci and my dad dyed them gray and red. Dad draped these from the roof to the fence wt It was such a relief when my parents and sister arrived to help with wedding preparations- THANK YOU!!
I was looking for a way to display photographs and cover up the outside stairwell you pass from the serving area to get to the tables. We zip tied a 2x4 to the railing and then strung twine from the 2x4 to the pillar at the top of the stairs, from the top line we hung crepe paper and then ran the length of the crepe paper streamer behind the twine and clipped our photographs with clothespins to the twine. We had decided to not do this due to time but I decided the night before that I wanted to do it. Conveniently, Jeff got locked out of where he was staying the night before the wedding so I had help and we stayed up late cutting and taping streamers. Ashlee, Monica, KR and Martha went after the wedding ceremony and printed the photos and then assembled this steamer photo wall in the sun at the hottest time of the day right before the reception. I absolutely LOVED this feature in our wedding!
GUESTBOOK: I didnt want a guest book we'd never look at so we borrowed this idea from pinterest, found a great template on shutterfly and used our favorite pictures from our engagement photo session. We love this book and I think it was a good way to entertain our guests while they were waiting for the receiving line. 