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First steps
Organizing your Guest List and wedding budget is
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fairly straightforward if you follow these simple steps...
1 Get inspired! 3
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Consider the Season
• Head to your local magazine stand While you do not HAVE to use season
and begin flipping through the wedding approriate colors, it can be very budget
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Q&A
magazines. I encourage you to look friendly if you can. It will translate in many
through them first rather than just buying areas, from availability of bridesmaid
one of each wedding magazine on the dress options to using local flowers.
rack. Plenty of them may not interest you
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at all. Be sure to check out some fashion, Consider these gorgeous color combos
home and interior decorating magazines for your Spring wedding:
I am getting married in October but I
too. I often find more inspiration in these
really want to have pink in my wedding
magazines then any others. You never
colors - is it OK to use that color
know what will inspire you, so be open to
outside of Spring?
possibilities! Absolutely! While there are color
• Also, go online to look for inspiration. schemes that are geared toward
There are some amazing wedding
specific seasons, it is by no means
websites and blogs you’ll want to check Cherry Blossom + Buttercup + Charcoal
a requirement for you to use them.
out. The homepage of our website has
Your florist will likely be very excited
links to some great sites and blogs to get
you started! Print out photos that you
to break out from the usual oranges
really like.
and reds and feel inspired to be even
• If your fiancé hasn’t seen these photos
more creative - so I encourage you to
yet, I encourage you to show him what
definitely think outside of the box!
you’ve collected. You want to be sure Lavender + Spring Green + Wedgewood To give it a seasonal feel, consider
that you’re coming up with a vision for pairing pink with a chocolate brown
both of you.
or gunmetal grey. This will ground it
These would be gorgeous for your
beautifully.
Summer nuptials!
2 Vision Board 101
You will need: the photos you’ve
collected, a 3 ring binder, letter size
paper, double-stick tape or glue.
Quick tip: punch binder holes in the paper
before you begin sticking images to it.
Gold + Coral + Cream + Chocolate
• Cut out your favorite photos from the
magazines and internet that you’ve
gathered.
• Attach to the paper the photos that
most perfectly represent your vision. If
you can, use 2 facing pages to create
a board that gives you an overall look
and feel for your wedding in one glance.
Sage + Violet + Grey + Mushroom
Then any extras you have you can use
to create individual pages that might
represent each category like flowers or
food.
• You can also viist sites like
Polyvore.com
and
StyleMePretty.com and use their
software to create a virtual vision board.
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