Grey wedding fashion

Credits: Studio Foto

Scott has always had a thing for grey suits and this was the one thing he ‘insisted’ upon for our wedding day - that he wanted to wear a grey three-piece suit and have his groomsmen in grey suits aswell. This was fine by me as i’m not too keen on black suits for weddings anyway and we certainly aren’t tux kind of people! 

Then when looking at all the different bridesmaid dresses out there I realized that I wanted my gorgeous girls in something a little bit different from the boring pink or burgundy dresses on sale everywhere - my first thought was LBDs but I have changed my mind… so in comes the LGD (little grey dress of course!).

 My maids all have very different skin tones and hair colours and body shapes so a fairly neutral colour like grey will suit everyone and I just fell in love with the gorgeous Melissa Sweet dresses. 

For the flower-girls I will be sticking to white but having grey sashes to tie in with the older girls. 

And of course I won’t be getting married without a pair of laboutins on my feet - and these silver/grey ones fit the bill entirely- so glamourous its no wonder they are called ‘Hollywood’!

xxx

DIY Touches

Credits: Meg Baisden Photography, Suthi Picotte, Kawartha Photography

I made up this board to showcase some of the DIY touches that I will be adding to our wedding (when it finally gets here!). Our budget might be low, but our creativity is certainly high and with my imagination (and hubby-to-be’s practicality) we hope to pull it off… it’s not like we don’t have enough time to plan either :-p

Most of our wedding will have a DIY touch incorporated in some way - from our invitations which we are hand-designing ourselves to our food, cake, flowers and favours. 

All of our flowers will be hand-done, incorporating a mixture of pure white and colourful arrangements in glass vases, jars and other miscellaneous holders. We’ve already got our friends and family collecting empty jam jars and vases for us to use!

DIY food touches will include lots of home-made cakes, cupcakes, pies and biscuits, mini personalized jars of honey and jam for our guests to take away and lots of donated items for our buffet! Along with all of our stationary we will be designing and printing our own labels for favours, water bottles and my personal favourite - our personalised matchboxes. Admittedly they aren’t an original idea but we will be having those printed on one side with our names and date of wedding and on the other the definition of marriage and the quote ‘the perfect match’. 

xxx

Wedding Flowers

Credits: Sedona Bride

When we first started looking at planning our wedding my original plan was to go with all white flowers but after a lot of thinking, and digging through the internet and bloggers archives I realized that I just couldn't visualize our wedding being white! 

I crave colour all of the time - my favourites are the bright ones - Red, Orange, Turquoise... And although I could put together lots of weddings that featured solely white colours I soon realized that those boards that I was diligently putting together weren't our wedding, they just weren't 'Us'. So i've scrapped that plan and now have settled on having a rather un-schemed colour scheme (if there is such a thing!) 

We are going to have a mixture of bright, fun, summery colours in arrangements that are loose and handmade. Like most of our wedding we will be DIY-ing the flowers so they will be in simple arrangements, loosely displayed in various glass vases, mason jars, jam jars and other eclectic holders.

Scott likes the idea of putting some flowers in metal buckets or baskets, which I think would look great (just as long as they were done 'right'). Even for my bouquet (which I am going to go for solely white and creamy flowers) will be loose, hand-tied and probably filled with peonies, roses and greenery.

The ideal look for our wedding flowers would be 'wild and rustic' but with a touch of care that shows how much work has gone into making them look gorgeous!

xxx

Feature on stylemepretty.com!

Credits: Jeff & Julia Woods, Jose Villa

How amazingly happy did it make me to log into my computer today, open up Stylemepretty.com (my favourite wedding blog) only to see that one of my own inspiration boards had been featured! 

Abby (the blog creator) had this to say about my work:

"Alexandria has the greatest sense of style, full of whimsy and charm, and really takes the time to articulate her vision. I've loved reading her blog and always look forward to what she's going to do next. Definitely worth a trip over to the Style Circle to read what this Style Guru is saying!"

Talk about praise! And not to blow my own trumpet here (but) I am pretty proud of the stuff that I put together and get so much enjoyment out of it all - the new Style Circle has certainly changed the way I put things together - it makes everything so much easier than copying and pasting into paint and there are so many beautiful images to choose from! 

Congratulations Abby on creating such a great resource for brides-to-be, and everyone else out there who loves a little inspiration!

xxx 

Bird and Owl themed baby shower

Credits: country living (2), ohdeedoh (2), Our baby shower (2), etsy (2), Country living (2), martha Stewart (2)

As you know from previous posts Scott and I have been thinking about adding a few bird-themed details to our wedding - little things like including birds in our stationary and having bird cake-toppers. Whilst on the web I came across loads of lovely ideas that could be used for a baby shower as well and what better theme could we have for our very own little 'Robin'?

The soft colours of Tiffany Blue, light yellow and pale pink are also the sorts of colours we will be going for in our nursery too - hopefully we will be able to reuse some of our baby shower decorations in there and vice-versa!

The Lemon souffle looks so yummy and served in mini white ramekins, decorated with lemon peel it looks almost too good to eat - as do the little bluebird cupcakes!

The cake is great fun - i love the colours, the whimsicality of the design and the cute little owls on top - its just too sweet! The nappy cake is a traditional baby shower decoration, but this one has mixed it up a bit and ties in perfectly with the theme as its decorated with birdhouses and mini birds - so cute!

Now i've just got to hope that my girlie mates see this and decide to go with a bird theme for our baby shower :-p

xxx

Nursery Inspiration Board

Credits: Vintage modern nursery (2), Pottery barn (2), I-do Australia (2), google images (4)

As you all know me and Scott are expecting our first baby on January 6th (not long now!) and so I have been thinking lots about how to decorate our little one's nursery.

Im loving the idea of having a modern and fun take on a woodland/bird theme - with tree and bird murals on the wall and lots of cute accessories like the gorgeous owl cushion. By mixing it up a bit with the fun polka dot pattern it will be a more modern version of the theme. This sort of nursery will be quite long lasting too - we won't have to redecorate for quite a few years because its a versatile scheme.

Scott and I are expecting baby to be a girl (although it isn't 100%) so have been looking at a turquoise, white and pale pink colour scheme but this idea could easily be adapted to suit a little boy as well - just with a tweak of the colours :-)

xxx

Homemade Summer Wedding

More Information: image by Martha Stewart weddings, image by martha Stewart weddings

How much am I still loving Style Me Pretty's Style Circle?

This board is another of my attempts at recreating the feel that Scott and I want for our wedding day.

The inspiration for this board came from the amazing Martha Stewart cake (which I have posted on the blog before) and the colours and fun whimsy it provides. Our wedding, if everything goes according to plan and budget (!) will be filled with lots of little homemade touches - particularly where the stationary and decoration of our venue is concerned.

I have fallen in love with the idea of having paper lanterns and tissue paper pom-poms hanging through the trees, interspersed with hanging glass jars holding flickering candles as the sun sets *swoon*

The handmade guestbook is a fun and original idea, a bit more interesting than the average guest book and a lot more fun!

And of course the blackboard at the bottom sums it all up 'Live, Laugh, Love' - it's what every day and every wedding should be about!

xxx