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Brainstorm: CJ''s wedding ideas

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Here''s another one for the pale pink color scheme. I feel like some of the flowers have a purplish undertones (maybe it''s just the pic). But also think these would go great with the BM dresses, the location, and I am also partial to the softness of the pale pinks with your beautiful flowly wedding dress!!!

Plus these kind of flowers are fluffy and flowy too!
 
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pic to compare the dark bouquet to the light ones!

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a centerpiece that I particularly love in the pale color scheme. It''s very different from what you were looking at but the pic was more for the colors than anything else.

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You have GREAT ideas! I''m not much of a pink person either, but when I was brainstorming ideas I really loved the idea of a really soft pink combined with a darker kind of peony-burgandy pink for a spalsh of color. I hope I have such great ideas to choose from when I get to that point!

I have to ask - your dress is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!! Who makes it and what is the style? And if you don''t mind me asking, what''s the damage $$$ ? I keep falling in love with dresses that are out of my price range. :P
 
Hey CJ...here is some fun wedding suggestions...including an interesting take on a color scheme...

1. Think monocromatic. People used to pick a color, like "tiffany blue", and everywhere you''d look you''d see "tiffany blue"...and the bride would stress out for months searching for the tiniest details in "tiffany blue" and hoping that all of her "tiffany blue" would match come her wedding day. Then, one day, someone thought "why does everything have to be "matchy/matchy???" and someone popped up with the idea of using a monocromatic color scheme. Meaning, if you like "blue" then you incorporated different shades of blue thru-out the day...and the effect is breathtakingly beautiful...because not only do you achieve rich, but you also achieve subtle. Plus, as an added bonus, the bride doesn''t have to "stress"...she can pick different blues that blend and compliment each other without having to hunt high and low for that ribbon in "tiffany blue".

2. Be sure to add elements of your relationship into your wedding. My husband and I had out first date at Starbucks, so we used a coffee theme, including Starbuck gift card for $10.00 as their favor, with the little phrase "we hope you enjoy your next cup of coffee as much as we enjoyed our first"! We named our tables after coffee and had a cake that looked like a Starbucks cup of coffee as our grooms cake! On our favors, we also included a scroll that shared with our family, friends and guests the "story of us"...it wasn''t long, but it helped them understand how we to be where we were. It was a big hit! So, my point is, make sure you put little touches of you & your FI into the things you do, it will help make the day even more sentimental.

Okay, I''ll try to think up more good stuff later!
 
CJ - I know I've said it before, but your venue is just gorgeous. How many people are you planning to have?

I think some bright colors and jewel tones in that room would look fantastic. I feel like too much pale pink might just get washed out a little since the rest of the room is sort of soft colors? Since there is a lot of beige (at least from what I can tell - carpet, chairs, the bench on the left, etc) I think some nice bright reds would look great.

I'm waiting for Gypsy to respond because you know she's going to have some GREAT ideas.

Largirl - her dress is Melissa Sweet Dora. I only know because we have the same dress!! It's pricey, although not compared to MANY other dresses...$3800 is what I saw in all the NYC stores. CJ hope you don't mind me posting the price!!

ETA: I've never seen that pic of our dress before!! god I love that dress.
 
Hi CJ I have some ideas at home that I think you'll like. But I'm at work now, and missed this last night (was exhausted so I crashed at 7:00pm).
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I KNOW I have a few things for you though! So keep posted, I promise I'm not ignoring you!
 
Thanks KaraSue!!!!!!!! It is absolutely breathtaking. A little (okay, a lot) out of my price range but WOW. Maybe if I win the lottery....! :)
 
Okay so I have some purple ideas for you to tide you over... All my orange stuff is at home, and actually a lot of my purples stuff. But I found some peices I liked so I thought... CJ''s BM gowns (which are GREAT btw) are purple and these would look lovley with them... so here''s a few.

BM bouquet idea:
 
Take two

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Matching Bout for Grooms men

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I know you love the silve mint julip cups for the centerpieces. I would use those or another silver vase. With the same flowers as the BM bouquet above. But add red roses if you want red. I''d add in some red roses to the BM bouquet too. I would do purple and red with all the white and green. IF you wanted red. Otherwise (and this is what I''d personally do) I''d keep it to the bright purples and whites with silver accents everywhere. The bouquets have a nice amount of green in them, and that would coordinate them with your reception hall. And if you add in a nice amount of green to the centerpieces I think it would work really well.
 
Here's some mint julip cups that combine red and purple and some green. I would NOT use the lime green cymbidium orchids though. I'd replace those with more white in there, like the white button mums from the BM bouquets which are inexpensive and lovely.

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Here's another option with Purple and white... I'd replace all the pink with red if you wanted the red. If you just wanted purple and white, I'd pump the purple up with some of the lisianthus and other purples from the BM bouquet instead of the pinks.

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AAAAAAAaah!! Thanks for all your ideas everyone!

April, I love that deep red bouquet you posted.

largirl, yup Melissa Sweet Dora! She is well loved on this forum!

Italia, your wedding sounds awesome. I do think I need to stay monochromatic, just to keep me focused, and to add more "pow!" to the dining room. And I'm trying to add touches of our relationship...just haven't figured out how yet! We love foreign languages, so we're doing love poems and readings in Chinese, French, Russian, English, Hebrew and Spanish. To represent every part of our families. Except the French...none of that in our family *yet*. We just love French everything.

karasue, thank you! We are planning to have 80-100 people. I want to keep it small. Actually I wanted only 40, but that was impossible. I saw this particular photo of our dress on the Melissa Sweet website, under "press". It's from an old InStyle mag. Isn't it a great photo? I don't mind you telling the price.

GYPSY, what do you do in real life? I hope you get paid to plan weddings. You are AMAZING at this. If you are not a wedding planner or designer IRL, you SHOULD be. Thanks for the photos! HOW DO YOU DO IT?!! I'm not such a fan of doing purple as the main color. An accent color, yes...but *today* (meaning this could change tomorrow, and then change again the day after that) I'm leaning towards creams, or pinks, or reds, or mauves as the main color. I do love that BM bouquet you posted. It's perfect. What do you think about creating a monochromatic look for the centerpieces...just because the dining room is so multicolored already? I think doing monochromatic centerpieces would help create a theme.

You gals rock. I'm so grateful for all your help. Merci beaucoup!
 
I love monogromatic centerpieces. Will post some later. I wanted to show you a purple and orange combo too, since you are considering it. The colors look very dramatic together. But I think it would be very noisy in your reception hall.

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Date: 2/28/2008 9:00:30 AM
Author: April Diamonds
CJ - wow it seems like your brainstorming is coming together.

Just IMO, your reception room is more ''old'' style than modern (i don''t mean old in a bad way!)
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I agree April! This is why I realized vibrant colors may be too modern for the space. Ok, maybe ixnay on the teal. Maybe ixnay on the orange too. It is very modern.

Why can''t I decide?!
 
Date: 2/28/2008 2:29:08 PM
Author: Gypsy
I love monogromatic centerpieces. Will post some later. I wanted to show you a purple and orange combo too, since you are considering it. The colors look very dramatic together. But I think it would be very noisy in your reception hall.
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Noisy! That''s the description I''ve been looking for to describe the dining room! Yes, I need to avoid noisy. But orange and purple is pretty. And fun.

WHY CAN''T I DECIDE?! How did you girls pick wedding colors? Hooooooooooooooooowwww?!
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Jeez, I''m such a whiner.
 
PS it's allowing me to upload pics. don't know why. Picking colors has never been that hard for me. Somethings are easier for some than others. When I look at your reception hall I see mostly ivory centerpieces. But with accents of another color. And I like the rich dark purple you've chosen, so I would use that as to break up ivory. I love the color of the BM dresses, and I do love the bouquet you've chosen. I would wrap your bouquet with purple or green ribbon. If it were me, to pull it all together I'd do mostly ivory as my colors but with rich purple as an accent, used sparingly except in the BM bouquets. And greens, white flowers with green edging/green casts, seeded eucalyptus. That kind of thing. So if it were my. My colors would be purple, green and white/ivory. Your bouquet with its really soft creamy pink overtone would work, standout and be a 'signature' piece.

I'd do something like that centerpieces you loved on the other pages with a little purple accent like the branch of ivory flowers coming out would be purpley instead of pure ivory.

Or like these... (it will let me re-copy an already uploaded pic). The greens are lovely. I'd do them in all whites and ivories. Same greens. And add blue thistle (the pokey bluey purple flowers in the boutineer I posted above) as a slight accent of purple.

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CJ, I can see why it''s tough - you have SO many great ideas! It''s tough to choose, and I am expierienceing the saaaaaaame problem! I know I want a nice vintagey pink feel, but I can''t decide if I want to add in cream, light green, brown???

I actually really, really like the orange and purple centerpiece gypsie posted. I like how it pops! Would it work with your venue or do you think it would be too "noisy" - haha! I think it would be perfect with your girls'' purple dresses. Jewel tones are so pretty!
 
Date: 2/28/2008 12:45:52 AM
Author: CrownJewel
I want the centerpieces to be simple. Monochromatic or max of two related colors. Actually I want the centerpiece to look exactly like this, except I don''t know what colors. I also want the flower arrangement to be *slightly* larger.
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Omg!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of my favorite pictures ever and I can''t belive I have never come across it before! Can you please please please tell me where you found this online? And the one below it with the champagne dresses/pink flowers?

I love toile, but all the ones I''ve seen in the past have been too "noisy" - this one seems so perfect!
 
Hey FMPD. Those two photos are scans from magazines actually. The one with the pink toile is from the Knot NY edition, spring/summer ''08. I think on the cover it says something about a special section on Long Island venues.

The one with the champagne pink dresses and pink roses is from Modern Bride Feb/March 2008 page 161. I''m sure they must be online somewhere, I just can''t seem to find them!
 
THANKS Gypsy!!! I talked to FI last night and I ran through all the colors I liked and asked him to pick one that he could imagine in the dining room. He said ivory and green. Haha. We both really like the idea of all ivory centerpieces. A white wedding. And he likes Billy Idol.

Ok, I''m starting to feel better. I''m going to do a collage of ivory, green and purple. I like it. Yay! Thank you so much for your help everyone!
 
Date: 2/29/2008 11:49:59 AM
Author: CrownJewel
THANKS Gypsy!!! I talked to FI last night and I ran through all the colors I liked and asked him to pick one that he could imagine in the dining room. He said ivory and green. Haha. We both really like the idea of all ivory centerpieces. A white wedding. And he likes Billy Idol.

Ok, I''m starting to feel better. I''m going to do a collage of ivory, green and purple. I like it. Yay! Thank you so much for your help everyone!
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I''m so glad. I think it''s going to be really beautiful in that room. I can''t wait for the collage!
 
Thanks for thinking of me FMPD! OMG that bride''s colors are so great! I would never have expected that combo, but it is definitely memorable. It is too modern for what I''m envisioning for my wedding, but thank you for the idea! I met with a florist yesterday and it was so much fun. I''m waiting for her proposal, and I really hope it works within my budget because I just adored her. She was so nice and fun, had a great sense of humor and is totally willing to work with a small budget.
 
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