A few days ago I wrote about overall impressions of Monticello Antiques in Portland, but the ideas we came up with for the wedding were a bonus. Southern Charm was on a creative roll and I'm not sure I'd had enough coffee to process the input - I just kept taking photos and hoping I'd catch up at some point.
Baskets like these with their trimmings of burlap, gauze, and fabric flowers will be great in a smaller version to hold the favors we'll make (or buy) for our guests. What I like about doing everything ourselves instead of hiring a planner, is that I can pick out things that we'll use or that I can give away after the wedding. I'll find sturdy baskets that will last for years.
This looked like tea-dyed cheesecloth although it was labeled gauze and I bought a small amount of it to experiment with, making fabric flowers that I'll embellish with a rhinestone button. Like this tutorial. Or this one (love the huge flower on the pillow).
I used up my purchased gauze the other day to make flowers although I won't post photos until I get home and embellish them. I used another fabric for backing although I like the self-fabric backs better and will do that in the future.
This is fabulous and is a "must-do". First, I must find the perfect rusty bedframe - no springs, just the wire. Then we'll collect photos of JC and me when we were young things and of our new family, I'll turn them all into sepia in Photoshop, and it'll greet our guests when they walk in the door. Later, the photos can come off and this can become garden decor or used up at the resort. Love it. Love the banners too - cut out of burlap or linen and then stenciled or stamped with big letters.
This little picture frame with the torn paper and the tarnished fork gave us ideas for the tables - collecting thrift store frames, painting them all the same color (gray or cream) and then putting the table numbers or the menu on the paper.
I've seen a few variations on the fabric / paper backdrop / altar theme and I'm going to do one of them.... so far we've seen receipt paper used at another wedding (gorgeous), fabric strips at Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, this one at Monticello... and seems like there were even more. I just have to decide on one and go for it. And again, it'd be nice to be able to use it somewhere later. It could, with a bit of PVC pipe and JC's ingenuity, become a part of my booth backdrop if I decide to start doing shows.
These are just adorable (in my opinion). Lampshade frames, wrapped with fabric and a ruffle strip. I'd hang them with a great bulb like one of these from Restoration Hardware.
I think our venue currently has florescent lighting so we'll have to address that - I've seen the fixtures draped with lengths of fabric for a temporary fix. We're going to be busy the day before the wedding! The day OF the wedding - the cafe is open the day before.
I really liked these little earrings - but these were the only two sets left and neither set was just right for me... besides I do think I've found my wedding earrings and I've had them all along - I bought them a few years ago at an antique store up on Whidbey Island while visiting my folks. They are little puffballs of rabbit fur - wintery and perfect with the muff and hat from Junkee. Or, I'll find the time to make the aquamarine earrings.
We are getting down to crunch time now - with just 3 1/2 months to go. We need to get this resort shut down, get settled at home and let some cold weather roll in so that I have the time and the inclination to work inside on all these ideas.
Seems to me like it might be list time.
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