Creative Wedding Ideas

writer9393:

make sure you hav lots of bridal magazines
but a color scheme i find really pretty is a fusha n yellow color schme
bc its a summer wedding you dont want anything too dark

i hope a few of these helped and good luck with your planning!
and congrats!

Kris L:

Your best bet is to figure out the whole budget for your wedding … from the cost of your dress to the cost of the place you get married, and even the cost of the person who will be marrying you. Once you have a budget, it’s going to be much easier to plan the rest of the wedding. When my husband and I got married 12 years ago, we were basically broke, and our whole budget, including the cost of our reception was $100 for everything, including the rings. Yes, we did pull it off, and did it with fine stye … but a friend of Neal’s was a chef who did our catering for free, we paid $50 in food stams and gave him some food from our pantry. Neal had catered his wedding, and he was just ‘paying it back’ but we had over 50 people at our reception, we all ate gourmet food, and everyone thought it was a wonderful reception. There was no ‘rental cost’ for the place we got married because we did it on a state ferry, and not rental cost for the reception, which was in a large room in the basement of our building. The cost of the minister was the price of two ‘walk on’ ferry tickets … one for him and one for his wife (it was Valentine’s Day and we had an ‘evening’ wedding, so we felt she should come too …) but my husband did a fine art piece for his church that he never could have afforded as a ‘thank you gift.’ I made my dress (white, with a dark red vest, because it was not my first wedding) and paid also for the matron of honor and her husband and two ‘bridesmaids’ for me. The ‘best man’ never came (nor has he been heard from since) but another chef friend of Neal’s was happy to step in, and refused to let us pay even for his ferry ticket (nice guy, yes we do see him on occasion). Unique decorating ideas? My husband went out and got flowers for free from a florist shop that gave the day before flowers away every evening (and they still looked gorgeous, because this was an ‘ultra’ florist, not a cheap one) … and they were ‘done up’ with nylon netting on the walls and tables in an artsy way, with some of my husband’s art on the walls. He baked the cake that afternoon (he bought one and cried when he saw it … way too small with the hard candy decor you can buy off the wall to decorate a birthday cake), and that was also gorgeous (I did have to comfort him as he cried … which is a very sweet memory, by the way). Nothing seemed ‘right’ but we did it, we got married, and everyone had not just a good time, but took away good memories (and some also helped us by taking home leftovers …). But, that a good look at your budget FIRST, and promise yourself that you won’t go over that amount, then choose what you want to be ‘lavish’ on and what you want to try to do for far less than you think possible. Okay, my husband and I had put on a similar wedding for my son and his girlfriend two months before, so we did have some practice (they got married in one room of our basement, and had the reception in the same room after everyone moved the chairs to the walls), but you’ll be very surprised at what you can do as long as you know your budget, and have a list of guests and what you want your wedding to be like. I wanted to get married in a park in the summer, but my guy wasn’t willing to wait, so we got married on a ferry (hey, it was dry, warm, and on the water, which is an old Irish way of doing things with meaning, and I am an Irish woman) … but we also HAD FUN and didn’t think of anyone elses wedding, just ours. I can still remember everything that ‘went wrong’ and just how much went right … even the four little high school girls who actually rode that ferry four times that evening … we met them in the restroom when I was changing, and they asked if they could go. We told them we weren’t getting married until the boat had turned around on the other side, but there they were, absolutely delighted to be there … and yes, we did have to call their parents and explain why the girls were late getting home. Guess what … they were charmed, and sent us a check for a gift, since we insisted on calling them. It wasn’t much money, but it was still very nice, since they had never even met us … and that, I think, is just one of the things that made our wedding PERFECT.