Mood Boards

Board: Wine Tones … Playing With Purple

October 28, 2008

What if there was a Purple wedding and it didn’t use Chocolate Brown? Or Green? Or Pink?
Okay, I give. We do see weddings like that. But it’s still a little challenging — and a lot of fun — to use some of the new crayons in the box. Namely, all those smoky, old-world hues [...]

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Gray, Orange & Yellow Weddings

October 27, 2008

Why hasn’t gray taken off the way it was supposed to, as the new go-to color for all four seasons — and KO’ing chocolate brown at last?
It could be that chocolate brown just isn’t ready to throw in the towel. After all, we’ve just lately moved from choc brown + those familiar pastels (pink and [...]

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Cherry, Cherry Nice

August 25, 2007

Sometimes, you see something that catches your eye (to be redundant), and your whole day’s plan is screwed up. Today, it was this marvelous cherry wedding cake from She Takes the Cake.
There’s type of cherry cake design you see here and there, which is usually square, white fondant boxes with heaps of cherries peeking out [...]

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Jennie’s Scrumptuous Pink & Lime Polka Dot Wedding

August 15, 2007

I was waltzing along, collecting polka dot sightings in weddings, because you can never have too many and they’re kind of exciting (anyone ever turn up their nose at a polka dot/fondant cake in bright candy colors?) Of course, there’s that 50s-style polka dot wedding dress by Michele Roth, but most brides are probably not [...]

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A Super-Sweet 50’s Style Wedding

August 13, 2007

The fashion mags might be dripping with heavy glamour from the 30s and 40s, but what could be cheerier than a 1950s-style wedding that’s all sweetness and light? Take a pass on the Lauren Bacall lips and eyes with some goes-down-easy pastels, a touch of adorable eyelet, a fresh face (and flyaway veil), and anything else that brings to mind the lighter side.

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From the Not-Quite-Normal Files: Owl Obsessions

August 6, 2007

I can never get enough of the whole bird-and-twig motif you see floating around West Elm, hip fabric designs and the like. Even before Holly made birds THE herald of the design-obsessed, I’d caught the bug. I’ve already posted once about a fabulous bird-theme wedding, and the finger’s posed on the trigger to post still [...]

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Better-Than-Ever Butterflies

August 1, 2007

Butterflies, it once seemed, were doomed … in weddings, at least. How could this circa-seventies symbol, always to be found in that forlorn “bridal row” at the back the craft aisles, have a place in today’s chic affairs? Wire wings, white gauze, 10 to a pack. I mean, really!
But, against all odds, the butterfly thing [...]

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Amy & Scott’s Hauntingly Beautiful Eastlake Victorian Wedding

July 26, 2007

Amy, the supremo/czar/truly amazing person behind this wedding, is the kind of creature that wedding photographer Eric Hegwer refers to as an UberBride.
UberBride (noun): The opposite of Bridezilla. A bride (or couple) that shows exquisite taste, has a grip on design and rocks the fashion scene (if only at the watercooler). A relaxed bride, totally [...]

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Say "Yellow" to the New Pink

July 25, 2007

Pink-weary brides take note: there’s a fresh alternative flowing from the fashion mags.
Yellow seems poised to take a bite out of pink for brides who want something crisper, brighter and newer.
But … yellow? Isn’t that one door down from lavender, in a land where fuzzy baby bunnies romp over crocheted lavender and tea towels?
Not necessarily. [...]

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Mood Board: Art Deco Weddings

July 20, 2007

I love Art Deco. And I think it’s an incredibly glamorous direction to take your wedding. (In fact, after eating and breathing it for the last few days, I have this urge to dump my midcentury-modern vector and redo the whole house.)
Originally aimed at the jet set, Art Deco embodied the Jazz age and always [...]