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Pastel Wedding Colors – Seven Dreamy Combinations

If you are having a spring or summer wedding, you might want to consider using pastels or soft colors as your wedding colors. Actually, a pastel or soft-colored palette can work in the winter also; for example, pairing a soft pink with silver or gold. Pastels and soft colors can create a dreamy and romantic look to your wedding palette. In this blog post I’ll share seven of my favorite wedding color combinations with you to help you decide if [...]

Top 10 Tips for the Perfect Candy Buffet for Your Wedding Reception

In my last blog post I showed you how to create a dessert bar and I thought I’d follow that one up with tips for creating a candy buffet, in case you are trying to decide which one to have at your reception. Of course, some brides have both or combine them, but this post will focus on just the candy buffet. Top10 tips for creating the perfect candy buffet: Include approximately 7-10 different types of candy. Vary the candy in size [...]

September 10, 2013 By Zoey wedding planning, wedding reception candy buffet 2 Comments

How To Create the Perfect Wedding Reception Dessert Bar

Instead of serving just one dessert to your guests, you may want to consider having a dessert buffet or dessert table, which these days most people call a Dessert Bar. Having a dessert bar is one more way to wow your guests and in most cases this is something you and/or your family and friends can DIY. You can use all store bought desserts, all homemade or a mixture of the two. How large and elaborate it is can vary [...]

August 27, 2013 By Zoey wedding planning, wedding reception wedding dessert bar, wedding dessert buffet, wedding dessert table Comments Off

Pink Wedding Color – Twelve Perfect Combinations

The color pink is the star of this week’s blog post. Pink has been a popular wedding color for many years. I think one of the reasons it is popular is that it is a flattering color for most all bridesmaids and, depending on the shade and what other color(s) it is paired with, it works for all seasons. Pink can be used alone or with another color and it works well as the main wedding color or as an accent color. [...]

August 17, 2013 By Zoey pink wedding color, wedding planning pink wedding colors, wedding colors Comments Off

Your Outdoor Wedding Reception – What’s Your Style?

Planning your wedding reception can be a daunting task. After all, most engaged couples have not had the experience of planning such a large and important party before. To help with your planning process, I will cover some of the hallmarks of three popular types of outdoor receptions in this post. At first glance all three may seem to be very similar to each other but there are definite differences in décor and style that really do help create a [...]

April 30, 2013 By Zoey casual wedding reception, garden wedding reception, reception decorations, rustic wedding, wedding decorations, wedding planning, wedding reception DIY, outdoor receptions, rustic wedding reception, wedding, wedding reception decor, wedding reception venue Comments Off

Your Wedding Invitation and Your Wedding Colors, Part 2

A couple months ago I created a post that showcased some of our wedding invitations that coordinated with the color stories I created. I was looking at some of our invitations today and noticed that we had quite a few more that seemed to work really well with some of my newer color-stories. I couldn’t resist putting them together to see if they matched as well as I thought they would. I was glad to see that they did! [...]

April 24, 2013 By Zoey wedding invitations, wedding planning wedding colors, wedding invitations Comments Off

Gray Wedding Color – The New Neutral

When thinking of the usual neutral colors seen in wedding palettes, we typically think of white and ivory. Recently another color has gained popularity and gives couples one more option. That color is Gray. The tone of gray can range from a soft blue-gray to a dark, warm charcoal. The color works particularly well for fall and winter weddings. We created collages (shown below) that illustrate how to use gray as one of your wedding colors with Plum, Yellow, Green and [...]

April 6, 2013 By Zoey wedding decorations, wedding planning, wedding trends coral and gray wedding, gray wedding, green and gray wedding, plum and gray wedding, wedding colors, yellow and gray wedding Comments Off