Wedding Planning Status

Ok everyone, we've booked the the date, the ceremony/reception venue and the DJ, we've found friends and friends of friends who can help us with aspects such as the cake and invitations... Now we're combining all of our ideas and hoping they all come together to make our dream wedding! That's where you come in!


Here are the ideas that we have so far and whether or not we've found someone to help us with, we're doing it ourselves or we have no idea what to do...


My Dress: Found it at David's Bridal for $499... Found the same dress online for $175! I'm skeptical about ordering my dress online though... Any ideas or suggestions?


Dairick's Tux: Usually free with so many other tux rentals. The style of tux and color of vest is still in question.


Kyley and Natally's Junior Bridesmaid dresses: Considered finding these online, but everything is still overpriced for our budget... Wondering if one of our sewing savey mom's could make them for cheaper! Style and color is still in question.


Bridal Party Attire: The colors for our wedding are Green, Blue, and Turquoise (Hints of coppery, gold aspects as well) I want the bridal party to look like they all got dresses up to go to a masquerade not a wedding, so I'm letting my bridesmaids pick out their own [elegant] dresses and I've assigned them a color range to stay within. My maid of honor will be wearing Green (my favorite color) and my other 2 bridesmaids will be one in a blue dress and the other in turquoise. Groomsmen vests will match the bridesmaid they will be walking with.


Garter (Keep and Throw): I haven't found any visuals of garters that I like... Everything seems to have frilly lace, bows, hearts, or just way too much girls stuff on it... I want something that says me! (Simple, green, blue...) Wondering if one of our sewing savey mom's might be able to make this for me as well.


Bridal Party Bouquets: Instead of having flowers as decorations we've decided to use peacock feathers! Since a floral bouquet would seem out of place with no other flowers I will be walking down the aisle holding a peacock feathered mask! Bridesmaids will be carrying them as well, and groomsmen will also be wearing masks.


Throwing Bouquet: Since I wont be carrying flowers down the aisle, why should I through them for the bouquet toss? Instead I was thinking of using a feather duster and adding some sparkle to the handle! Still looking for a tasteful looking feather duster.


Boutonnieres: Again no flowers. I'm thinking pocket squares would look more elegant... I have found some really cool looking peacock feather boutonnieres but I feel like it would be overkill on the peacock feathers and it would be a pain in the ass to make them.


Cake: We've known all along how expensive tiered wedding cakes can cost (Outrageous!) And we could never find any inspiration that we liked for a tiered wedding cake. One day we stumbled across a pull apart cupcake cake that depicted Van Gogh's Starry Night on it with a picture frame around it! Perfect! Mine and Dairick's favorite artist is Van Gogh and we have a painting of Starry Night so it fits! We will have extra cupcakes scattered around it to accommodate all the guests. Now to find someone to take on the task of making it!


Centerpieces: I've collected 13 cases of green wine bottles (FREE!) in assorted shapes, sizes, and color. They'll be placed around a tall pillar candle holder and have tall peacock feathers in them.


Table Numbers and Place Card Holders: Dairick and I have a love for movies so we thought, instead of numbering the tables that we would name the tables after some of our favorite movies! Holders for the Table Names are still in question. By special request from my dad, tables will be randomly chosen by the DJ to go up to the buffet. Place Card holders are being made out of wine corks that I collected (FREE!). Guests will be assigned tables but not seats... Cards to be used for these are still in question.


Invitations: This is where I want to tie in the Van Gogh Starry Night and Peacock Feathers. I found a picture of invitations that we love on etsy.com. They're long, skinny gold paper with peacock feathers painted on the top right and bottom left corners. The way they're painted reminds us of Van Gogh's style. The text and wording on the invitation are perfect as well!


Unity Candle: We're still playing around with ideas for making our own Unity Candle. We have a friend who makes candles and has offered to make the pillar candle portion for us! We don't want a traditional Unity Candle so green and turquoise colors may be involved. We have some beautiful cut glass taper candle holders that I've thought about using which leaves the pillar candle holder. I'm playing with the idea of using one of the pillar candle holders from the centerpieces for this.


I think that's about it for now.... If I think of anything else I will post it! Feel free to input your ideas on anything! The more opinions we have the better!