After reading about all the lovely themes that brides come up with for their wedding, I was feeling a bit sad, or maybe just melancholy, that we didn't have a real theme for our wedding. I knew we'd never come up with a concept that would cover the whole wedding weekend because that's just not us.
Ultimately I've been accepting that our wedding will be formal and will be romantic, but it will have a couple of quirky twists to it. One twist is my dress, it's very unexpected. Another twist is having 2s of so many things and having so many people involved. But that's not really a theme, is it?
I didn't think so. Not when there are so many real themes out there. Whether it's color, icon, flavor, or culture, we just didn't have anything like what every other bride seemed to have.
I wanted a theme! And guess, what hive, I've got one!
Before I tell you what it is, I'll tell you how I stumbled across our theme that already existed!
I've been loving all the banners and bunting that brides have been DIY-ing here. I was inspired to use that same concept for our Save the Dates featuring a photo from our e-photo shoot.
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| Personal Photo. See the Save the Banner! |
After taking a closer look at both
my first and
my second attempts at making our STDs, the wheels began turning.
Then I had a conversation with Momma Kettle about our wedding favors. We're going the picture frame route. They will double as place cards for the reception. Not the most unique idea, but they are
perfect for what we have in mind. We're getting them in gold and they will match our decor perfectly.
I started thinking about more DIY projects I could do and I settled on decor for the reception. As much as I loved those banners that everyone else was making for their gift tables and cake tables, I knew they were just a bit too casual for our formal/romantic wedding.
Then it hit me.
Well, it didn't literally hit me, but it certainly figuratively hit me. Frames!!!
I could decorate our tables with all the pertinent info we needed and make the fonts/colors match our invitations and put them in lovely fantastic frames!
The frames will be fancy and lovely go perfectly with the fancy mansion on the wedding day. They've already been incorporated in a number of ways into this wedding, we just didn't realize it.
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| Personal photo from E-Party Recap / We'll be re-using these to display the menu at our wedding reception. |
Frames everywhere!!
Here is where frames can come into our wedding:
- Personal photos around the mansion on the wedding day
- Frame for the poster board that will have our seating chart
- Frame for table decor to identify where everything is
- Frames as the only prop for the portrait backdrop. After people take serious pics, they may want to get a big goofy, and I'll go with that if we get some assorted frames for this purpose
- Frame motif for the invitations (which are currently in the design phase)
- Frame motif for the program, thank you cards, etc.
Frames, frames everywhere. I can't believe I never saw how all this could come together before. And there are so many options with frames. We can make it as dressy or casual as we want, so we can tie in the theme throughout the rest of the pre-wedding events. I'm pretty excited about this! Can you tell?
What's your theme? Did you decide before you began planning or did it fall in your lap like mine did?
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