True colours

Following the purchase of my dress, the colours and style of our wedding were quite easy. Even though the main theme of our wedding is cheap and cheerful, I still wanted our venue to be nicely decorated and to have consistency in colour and style from our invitations through to ceremony and reception decorations.  

Posies like these inspired my colour palette. I found this image on Pinterest, but originally posted on Love my Dress.

I wanted muted tones, nothing too bright, bit of a vintage feel. I had not delved into the specific Pantone colours I would require, but the tight arse Gods were smiling on me. My local Lincraft store was closing and they had a 50% off sale. At the time, I thought I would just go along and see what they had. But as I stood there, waiting for the store to open, I sensed the danger of potentially coming between 50 other women and their arts, crafts and haberdashery bargains. When the doors finally opened, there was a crush. Shopping trolleys banged, women ran, stumbled, and hobbled. In the frantic moments before I entered the store I ran through the ideas I had, and tried to take snapshots of the colours and textures I was after. Adding to this, I prioritised my attack based on the expense. 

Number one priority, lace. During my Pinterest trawling for cute wedding ideas, I had seen lace. I could see how this would work. Sure! Lace. Three different types. Tick!

Secondly, hessian. I had seen hessian used in some cool ways. I had thought perhaps it was a little too harsh for the look I had in mind. Fortunately or unfortunately,  all I could find was hessian with some maps and stuff on it. In hindsight, a lack of hessian is a win. 

Next, ribbon. With the hasty mental picture of my colours, I took on the ribbon aisle. Much to my delight, it was completely devoid of any other bargain shoppers. This afforded me the time and space to consider the colours and how they would be used. Ribbon. Four colours, six different widths. Tick! 

Said ribbon...

All of the ribbon is different in width, and as I have began to use it, I have found that I favour the lilac and dusky pink, however all of the ribbon plays a part. All of these colours have influenced the invitations, and will feature in the decoration of the ceremony and reception. Depending on how much ribbon of any colour is left, it may also be used on the bridal car. 

The lace has been used for the decorations but I will share more details of the decorations in a future blog. 

My other Lincraft bargains include calico and some fascinator fabric for my birdcage veil. All up, I halved the cost of lace and ribbon, by being flexible with my vision and impulsive with my decisions. It is not often that I fly by the seat of my pants but this was one journey that saved us some serious dollars.