SNOWSTOPPER

Close your eyes and picture yourself stepping outside on one of the coldest of winter days. There's a white blanket of snow on the ground and there are icicles everywhere! You stop for a second and take in a deep breath of that amazing cold air and it somehow seems to fill your body. Kinda cool, right? Well, this wedding is sure to be one chilling event! This board is perfect inspiration for a blingy bride who wants to go another route. Maybe the rhinestones embellishing just about everything have been done before amongst her friends. This takes it to a whole different pole! Variety of crystal chandeliers can be rented for an amazing setting throughout the venue or just in one area. A white dance floor would give guests the sense they are almost skating on ice. Of course having an ice bar or ice luge of some sort would definitely tie in with the theme. Don't forget to hang crystals from branches (preferibly silver or white branches). Be sure to incorporate some faux fur for the bridesmaids and the bride herself who should more than likely be in an outstanding ball gown to show that she is the Ice Princess. Bridesmaids can dress in icey colors of light silvers. A little blue uplighting can't hurt to achieve this sense of cool. And, I just really admire the cake adorned in strands of bling. This is one of those themes where I just don't think you can get too gaudy! Ice ice everywhere ice! Sure to be a snowstopper!

Something Old AND Blue!

Originally I had in mind making a board that was nautical in pale blues and white. I've always liked this picture of a Bari Jay's bridesmaid dress (featured at the bottom right in a pale blue with the headpiece) and so that became part of my inspiration for this board. The vintage feel that it gave reminded me of the flapper-era when women wore bathing caps. So, I was able to just tie it all together. Just as the ladies of yester years are holding parasols and posing on the beach, I'm showing you a picture of today's maids with parasols that are such a cute touch for any outdoor wedding to shield the sun and avoid squinty eyes in pictures. The bride could wear a vintage style dress for this, a birdcage veil, and use vintage napkin rings and it'll fee just like you're back in the earlier part of the 1900s. Sticking with the pale blue and white, no other flower was more perfect for this than hydrangea. Something old and blue!

Regal Romance

I love to mix unexpected colors! That's why I chose to work with a teal, lime, and golden hue. To bring regalness in to the year 2010, I emeralds, chandeliers, and feathers, but merged them with modern. The chandelier bleeds the blue, green, and yellow. Chartreuse greem poms are enveloped in teal blue feathers. The shoes show contrast which would make for realyl cute pictures. I chose to put the bride in a gold gown and pair up the groomsmen in gold accessories to match. The antiqued look can be updated through using damask designs. Make-up is fun for this one as since you have so many colors to work with, you can incorporate them in to the eyeshadows you wear. Bringing the tree in and surrounding it with drapery sets a romantic mood. You can feel a sense of a modern day Romeo and Juliet...if they were rockstars!

Just My Type

Being in a very romantic mood and dreaming of old-fashioned love, I was actually inspired by the thought of love letters...you know the old kind that would be mailed overseas back and forth to lovers who longed for each other. Today so many people find love online, so they can relate. Colors for this theme seem as though they should be vintage...almost sepia...a Shakespearean type of a vibe. Decor is full of damasks and monograms. A St. Pucchi gown seems to be fitting for a bride. This kind of romance is "just my type".