Table Linens

I've been going back and for on what linens to use on the tables at the reception... until now. I found the perfect linens at Wedding Linens. They are a bit higher priced than other rental places, but I absolutely love this color, called Blackberry Crushed Shimmer (seen below). There are soooo many options, it should have been hard to choose; but, it wasn't. When you know, you know... kinda like how I knew with my fiance! :)

Bridal Bolero

Soooo... part of being a Winter Bride is getting to wear fun wintery extras like boleros! So I've been on the hunt for the perfect one, and wanted to pass a few along to inspire winter brides!

All bolero's seen here.

Winter Encouragement

After having discussions with several people over the last few weeks, I was getting sorta bummed about the fact that being a winter bride, I will not be able to take any photos of my fiance and I frolicking about in an open field on a warm, summer afternoon. So, I went online and looked for inspiration of things that I loved about the uniqueness of winter weddings, and I came across the perfect pick-me-up photos. I hope you enjoy as much as I do!

Below is the cutest pic of a winter bride and her bridesmaids on a snow filled, winter day. I love the contrast of their dresses with the white snow on the ground, and I love how the bride looks like an angel descending on the snow.

I just think this is a super cute photo of the groom & bride...
I LOVE this idea! I have been on the search for months for the perfect cashmere socks for my Fiance and the guys.... this just fuels my energy to keep looking for them!
I love the kiss with the snow falling, and the crowd in the background. So cute and so perfectly captured with the diffused lighting of a winter day.
Love this photo because it's almost exactly like what my guys will be wearing -- groomsmen in black suits with purple/plum (bow)ties with ivory calla lilies, and the groom in a black suit with a white (ivory) tie.
All photos first seen here.

FINALLY - back in black

So, when my MOHs and I picked out the Bridesmaids dresses, we didn't know what they would look like in black because there were NO pictures in black online, and there were no black dresses at the store. But, we figured back is black, taffeta is taffeta, we should be able to imagine it. I was just REALLY happy when I checked the Priscilla of Boston website again today to find that they had updated the photos to show the dress in black... and I love it, yay!

The only thing was... now that they've updated colors, they showed all the other colors that I could have chosen from (which for whatever reason the store didn't tell me -- probably because I told them I wanted black ;)) but anywho, now I LOVE this blackberry color that the dress comes in and kinda wish I had gone that way... of course I could never have known because at the time we ordered the dressess I had a different color palette planned. Oh well. Either way, these are gorgeous dresses and I can't wait to see how beautiful the BMs look!

Letter flair

I saw these cute photos on another blog and thought it was such a neat, creative idea to add some flair. And I know from all my infinite time in Michael's that these letters are barely over $1 a piece... sounds like a fun, cheap, cute add!

Bridesmaids Luncheon

So it has been quite the task to find a place that would host parties on New Years Day... I didn't think about those types of details when I set the wedding for Jan 2nd. We're keeping the plan for the rehearsal dinner super easy and it at the hotel where the reception will be the following evening. Done. A harder thing to schedule was the bridesmaids luncheon... I think I called EVERY restuarant in the town and got a big "we're not open" before my wonderful MOH suggested the Belle Grae Inn -- a super cute inn & restuarant. They are putting together a very nice luncheon for us for New Years Day and I couldn't be more excited. What a cute lil place!

Ceremony Decorations

To decorate the church for the ceremony, I am going to decorate the end of every other pew (or every third pew, we'll see) with lovely ivory rose pomander balls with burgandy ribbon like below. I think it will make the center aisle really stand out and look lovely, but will not be overbearing to the other decorations in the church, which include the Church's Christmas tree.

Flowers are officially ordered!

More progress has been made. I officially put in my flower order for the bouquets, bouts, & corsages. I did end up going with the bridal bouquet as shown in my last post. Then, BMs will carry ivory calla lilies like below. Mothers & Grandmothers will also wear ivory calla lily corsages.

Then, P will wear a eggplant calla lily bout to match the calla lilies in my bouquet, like below. The guys will all wear ivory calla lily bouts to match the BMs.