There were so many pins on Pinterest for my future wedding, that I had been saving for a while! So many ideas that I really didn’t know where to begin. I decided to start with the flowers because I personally think everything should match them. We looked into pricing of flowers at a local florist and the pricing was over 3K minimum for a wedding and another place was 5K and the only way it would be different is from a place in San Francisco that would choose the flowers for us. I wasn’t a huge fan of someone else choosing the colors and types of flowers. Mainly because my mom and I were allergic to different flowers and I already had my own color scheme. I knew I wanted orchids and lilies, and our colors for the wedding were Dark Blue and white and silver. One of my coworkers suggested we do fake flowers instead. I really liked that idea and ran with it! I looked all over Etsy and finally found a place who’s faux flowers looked quite real(Justanns) ☺ So we got a quote with a price under 600 dollars and ordered the flowers. We wanted the bouquets to double as the centerpieces too. Below are the pictures of the bouquets from our wedding!
Next was the tablecloths. I really wanted something that would stand out and would make a statement. After a lot of searching I found these.
I got vases from the save-on-crafts website and mirrors to go underneath and accent it.
We then needed table numbers which I went back to Etsy for.
Our place cards for the seats were shells that I had found on etsy! The color matched great and was a nice keepsake for everyone to take home.
Our cake stand was definitely a nice one and we were expecting it to be metal lol so when it was delivered we were quite surprised that it was so light weight. It was a high density foam with a foil casing to look the part and withstand a heavy cake. We would have known that if we had thoroughly read the description haha.
The cake topper was a custom one with an outline of a bride and groom with their dogs. We got to pick out which ones looked most like our own! We have a whippet and a lab/shepherd mix .
The cake cutting set we got from things remembered and they were gorgeous! We got them engraved as well.
My mom and I went to Michael’s and purchased these cute little wood love signs. Which I followed up with a coat of sparkly blue spray paint.
I found approximately 75 battery operated candles in mercury glass votives on wedding recycle for only $50 it was so worth the money to have candles everywhere! ☺ Below are the ones we got that you can purchase from Michaels however the ones we bought on wedding recycle came with the candles as well.
My mom and I started going through some of the stuff in her kitchen and we found some amazing hand painted glasses that she had bought for $5 at a garage sale years ago! They were so gorgeous and I asked her to please let me use them for the wedding as our toasting flutes! My mom not only let us use them but gave us the entire set of 6 that she had.
Unfortunately rob and I could not agree on a card box originally and it was the only argument we had through the whole process. We finally agreed that it was too trivial an aspect to argue about it and we did away with it. However we were told a couple weeks from our wedding that we were required to have a card box so I found a wire present card box at target last minute. Here's how it turned out.
For the filler decorations we decided to do a bunch of old pictures of us and our family from when we were kids. I also labeled all of them on the back to which I received a lot of compliments from our guests on. Not everyone knew each other so it was also a good ice breaker.
For the Table number directory. I got a nice frame from michaels and placed painted cardboard for a background. I spray painted the cardboard black and then strategically placed the love signs for the centerpieces on the board and spray painted it blue. It was a little hard to keep them in place while getting a good outline so if you try to do it I would suggest having someone who doesn’t mind getting paint on them to hold it down. Then I took a white chalk pen and wrote in the tables and where everyone was to sit. The stand was also from save on crafts.
We both agreed we wanted a non traditional guest book. Our friends had gotten a frame with a matte around the picture big enough to sign on and we loved the idea of being able to hang our guest book on the wall. So we went on etsy :D and found alphabetcanvas. It was easy to customize to make it exactly the way we wanted it to look.
Below was the final look! I was so happy with the way it all turned out.
