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Frugal Dad has the 411 on flower etiquette
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Frugal Dad has a pretty awesome infographic on the flower industry and the meanings of flowers. Check it out:
Hang decorations from the ceiling
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Sometimes, the ceilings of reception halls and hotel ballrooms are ugly. So having some decorations up high is nice, gives your guest something interesting to look out when they pass out from dancing so much at your wedding (hopefully!).
Flickr photo by The Prop Factory
For example, I love this dance floor from The Prop Factory out of Boston. It appears that they erected this open canopy over the dance floor in order to hang varying sizes of red, white, pink and purple paper daisies. If you’re wondering how they got the flowers to hang over the open area, I am betting they hung clear fishing line in a grid over the dance floors so they could hang more flowers. So nice!
DIY: Create your own paper flowers
I recently discovered The Paper Source when I had to go buy some plain envelopes to send out Christmas photo cards.
I’m not a crafty person, but I have a serious thing for stationary products (here’s some evidence). Maybe it’s because I’m a writer? I don’t know. But invitations, announcements, thank you cards, birthday cards — I love them all.
Atypical guest table centerpieces
I look at a lot of weddings, and I’ve decorated a lot of them. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone else breaks from the norm of lush flower bouquets and puts something a little different on their guest tables. Here are a few I found on Flickr to inspire you.
Flickr photo by magw21
This wedding reception centerpiece happened to be created by none other than a bride herself — she happens to be Australian, so I couldn’t tell you the exact amount these cost, but if you click on the link, she describes where she got the materials (like the faux flowers) and how she put them together.
Wedding ceremony decorations
When you say “I do,” what are you hoping your surroundings look like?
Photo by Hoang
A lot of brides-to-be hope for a beach wedding, which can mean so many things here in Southern California. You could aim for an actual on-the-sand ceremony, or you could do something like this — have your wedding within the comfortable confines of a beachfront hotel like the Huntington Beach Hyatt. You won’t accidentally get some uncomfortably large man sunbathing in an uncomfortably small swimsuit (or, heaven forbid, in nothing at all!) in your wedding pictures, but you still get the sunshine and refreshing salty air of a beach wedding.
Vintage wedding look
This is a special post to me. I met this bride, Mayra, while worked together at our college newspaper. The woman is an amazing news photographer. Since we all parted ways in college, she’s gone on to become a photographer at the Houston Chronicle (where we found out how small a world it truly is — she ended up working with a former coworker of mine!), and has done amazing things like being an embedded photographer in Iraq. Apparently, that’s where she met the man she married on Dec. 26, in a truly romantic ceremony that looks straight out of a 1940s photo album, complete with the groom in military uniform!
All photos are courtesy of Helen Montoya Photography out of San Antonio, TX. This post, by the way, is helped by the fact that Helen blogged the wedding and shed light on a few details. I’ve been in contact with Mayra, of course, but that woman is busy!