Haaaahhahahahaha!
You heard me right: my theme is totally just to be a stubborn jackass and refuse to have a theme so that in six months I can do the “I told you so” dance in my pretty dress surrounded by my mis-matched bridesmaids under my pinata and next to my peach cobbler.
LOL! Excellent.
Progress: Color scheme!
So excited! Mom helped me figure this out today. I stumbled across a site called The Perfect Palette, where some genius (no sarcasm!) has compiled wedding palette ideas in just about any color and theme you can imagine. So I started looking through the “fall” themes and despite initially leaning away from red, the color that really caught my eye over and over was cranberry. I checked out other palettes with black, chocolate brown, pinks, oranges, blues, you name it, and they were all beautiful, but I kept going back to the cranberry. What we ended up choosing was a combination of two:
Cranberry, antique gold and “cheesecake.”
Here are links to each palette, where you can see pictures of wedding decor and clothing using these colors. Pretty, right? Still fall-like without being too rustic. I didn’t think I’d like the gold at first, considering I’m a cool-toned person with an ardent love of silver, but the little accents help create a vintage look without being crazy over the top. Besides, silver might push the cranberry over the edge into a more holiday-esque feel. Don’t want that in September.
So barring any scheduling snafus, we have decided on the ceremony and reception venues, the officiant and the color scheme. This is good, this is helping me breathe and not feel like I’m going to be throwing everything together willy-nilly at the last minute.
Seriously?
$10,000 is considered a “budget” wedding? What in the bleeding hell are they spending it on? Do they have a guest list of 500 or something? Serve filet mignon? No, really, if you know where all the money goes, please enlighten me!
While we’re talking vintage…
How about, instead of disposable cameras on each table (or in addition to), we throw in a few Polaroid or Fujifilm instant cameras? I love the idea of guests passing around the cameras, taking turns and being able to see the shots right away. Plenty of people will have their usual digital cameras with them and even their cell phones, so we can hopefully get a variety of photos from the day. Polaroids would also look awesome in a scrapbook.
The old ones that require 600 film - and the film itself - can still be found on eBay and Amazon.
Guestbook alternative
Instead of just signing a book, ask the guests to write us a little note using an old-school typewriter. Sounds like fun to me, and since Aaron and I are both writers and lovers of words, this idea suits us pretty well. Make sure the guests don’t fold the paper and we can put it in a scrapbook or something after the wedding.
