The compendium - basil''s wedding ideas

[jazzgal4ever]

You have so many great ideas! I don''t think it will be too busy as long as you try to tie everything together. Like if you go with the pear menu and pears on your cake how about doing a green place card, green on your lables for the favor boxes, and maybe a sage green dress for your girls? My brother just got married and they had a redheaded girl in the wedding party and she looked really good in the sage color. You could have a peachy color as well. That would work well with the flowers and the wood chopstick holders. Just an idea! Feel free to ignore!! LOL

 

[Pandora II]

Oriental and 1920''s are actually great together.

The fashions were hugely influenced by japanese and chinese design - think of embroideries on dresses and bags. Women carrying paper parasols etc

You could extend the theme through for your bridesmaids... have a modern twist on a 1920''s dress

I would go with the vermillion roses, burgundy can fade into the background as a colour.

Looking at everything together, I would probably go with a soft cream with sage green and vermillion accents.

Vermillion or sage green liners in the envelopes.

The cake could have the green pears and leaves, and cream and vermillion flowers on the branches.

You could adapt your grandmothers design for the favour box stickers - cream background, green design and vermillion accents.

A way that looks really nice is to blow a design up and print it really big and then use it as the background for smaller stickers, so you just get a different portion of the design on each sticker. Does that make any sense

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On the veil, I would be tempted to just go with something very sheer - I''m not a fan of lace and lace together - and it is hard to match the same pattern and tone. Lace veil with place dress, plain veil with lace dress.

All in all - it looks gorgeous!

 

[HollyS]

Date: 11/4/2007 6:07:44 PM
Author: basil
Floral inspiration: My bouquet, bridesmaid''s bouquets, ceremony flowers, and centerpieces are based more or less on this.

I''m really liking your choices: flowers, dress, venue, --everything!