three hundred sixty seven (b)

new ideas!

oh i love these pictures!
first a great old galvanized tub (i found one downstairs in my basement! whoo hoo i love it!)
































































Hydrangeas for centerpieces! oh! by the way we have found our florist and i am so very super excited: victoria cripps. she is fabulous and did a friend of mine's bridal flowers. they were so very amazing and she is so extremely reasonable! here are some bouquets that she has designed:

four hundred thirty five

four hundred thirty five is a much less intimidating number than the starting six hundred thirty two, it's almost a whole two hundred days shorter! a friend of mine just got engaged recently and she only has to wait (as of today) one hundred twelve days. in fact i know of six other people who either got engaged just before us or recently and all of their dates are before mine. oooh september 24th 2011 you still seem so far away.

so i continue my search for ideas. if you know me, you know i love trees and have ended up incorporating them into my designs unconsciously. i also love candles so what better way then to put the two of those together?! my thoughts exactly.

four hundred fifty nine

okay bear with me, certain things about this wedding planning make me extremely excited, but i realize that sometimes to you, they are the most boring thing ever. well today's post might just put you in a stupor, realizing that, i apologize up front and ask you to again, bear with me.

centerpieces....duhn duhn duhhhhhhhn (i warned you), i have officially chosen four centerpieces to alternate between the many tables at the reception. one of which will be your home base for the evening. not wanting to spoil the surprise completely i have sketched them out for you.

one will be a lantern, another will be an iron work scroll thing that holds votives, the third one will be this charming little reminds-me-of-a-milk-jug vase that will hold roses, and the last one will be a tall elegant vase that holds some sort of amazing flower....yep this is what i am so very excited about. but the thing that makes me even more stoked about these centerpieces, is the most wonderful deal i got at joanne's fabric for votive holders and candles. seriously i ended up walking out of there with 72 glass votive holders and 96 candles! this probably doesn't get a hallelujah chorus but it still made my day.

five hundred fourteen

more ideas...looking at these photos it seems that i am drawn to natural elements and textures. more specifically, styles with a slight sophisticated/rustic feel. i absolutely love the burlap runners on one of the tables below with the square candles. moss is such a soft touch, and the rose bucket is fabulous. hmmm expect to see some of these elements in five hundred and fourteen days.

five hundred twenty one

getting ideas by randomly grabbing photos from sites like 'the knot' and simple google image searches i am slowly building up the style I envision for myself. granted some of these photos are a bit over the top in elegance, but ideally i would have that same 'feel' in a much more budgeted manner.