Today its exactly 7 months to the BIG day, we now have the venue sorted….YAY!!!! And we had decided on the décor and colors.

Everything’s going well you think…….mmmmm well it is but with a twist.

Mr Daisy decided that we should add some black into the picture and black doesn’t mix well at all with the colors or décor we decided to use. So after much debate I decided to work on another idea to show Mr Daisy that having a black “theme” wouldn’t look as nice as the “vintage” theme we had already decided on. On finishing the “mock-up” theme that included black for Mr. Daisy, I very unexpectedly fell in love with it, it was just so much more…….mmmm what’s the word……..vibrant, than the color scheme and theme we had already decided to use. Ideas for the new theme just kept rolling in, one after the other, It felt so good having a fresh idea to work with that I completely forgot about our previous theme. So here is an update on the NEW theme we are going to use….

The new colours - Black, Lime green, Gold, Light pink, Ivory

Tables:

New table layout

To bring in the black we decided to use Damask design table runners with Lime green table cloths. Many people cringe at the idea of colored table clothes and are still very traditional with the white table clothes and colored overlays but just have a look at this reception, doesn’t it just look VIBRANT.
Here is an example of such a colourful wedding.

I still liked the whole vintage, oldish kinda feel and I still wanted to incorporate that somehow with the black and green, which I feel gives it a very modern look. So our NEW theme now is “Modern Vintage”, very contradictory but I think it’s going to work AWESOMELY.

I found out that Damask anything is very very pricey and considering that we are on a very tight budget I decided that as a designer I can do my own damask design on the PC, create a stencil of the design, buy material and get black fabric paint and paint it on myself. I only need to make 7 or 8 of these so it’s not going to be a huge mission.

As for the plates, I would’ve loved to use square plates BUT I cant find anyone who hires square black plates……everything is round and white. So we are going to make black, square “placemats”, use the standard white round plates and black napkins.

Plate setting

The Centre pieces:

Everyone has seen the tree branches with fairy lights on them, well I LOVE THEM!!!! So we are going to incorporate that in our centerpiece. We are pretty much going to make an entire tree out of wire, spray it gold and add battery operated fairy lights to the “branches”. Once again, only 7 or 8 are needed so its not going to be too much work. The wire we are going to use is not expensive at all and have worked out the the cost of 7 trees (without fairy lights) is going to be about R200. There is still a lot more detail that has to come onto the tree such as flowers, but I still have to get all the ideas on paper to see what will work and what wont.

This is more or less along the lines of how the tree must look

Sort of the effect I'm for

That’s pretty much what I have come up with for now. The flowers are still going to be the same, green button daisies, light pink chrysanthenums (new) and one big king protea as my bouquet. We are still working on the invites, but have a good idea of what we want.
After more than a year of working with one theme a person can get very bored with it and ideas just don’t come as easily as they should. I have regained my excitement for the wedding planning with our new theme and cant wait to get started on all our DIY projects for the wedding.

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