As soon as i got engaged, i couldn't help but think about what colors i would use or the flowers, or venue or everything! it drove me nuts because my main goal was to be "different" and who thought that being different would be really hard! After discussing it with the soon to be hubby at the time, we decided to build off a theme for our wedding. A theme that was so ridiculously obvious because it has haunted us since we met. "Serendipity".
Once we found our main theme, i thought about the things we loved... and everything seemed to point to the words ~ contemporary, modern, and sheek. Soon there after, everything started to come together...
We decided that things in the wedding would be square or rectangle. I also made a symbol or logo if you will of our 'serendipity'. It's basically two lines crossing and splitting. The crossing part symbolizes the union we have or about to have. The lines get longer and father apart after that, symbolizing our future broadening and expanding. The colors we decided on where teal and stark white. The colors were a bit daring but went well with our reception venue (contemporary art museum)!
Below are pictures and explanations for each item or category. Enjoy!!
~Invitations~
Going along with our square theme, i decided i wanted boxes as our invitations. I slaved over these wooden boxes that i had to spray paint to make them white. 5 cans and a massive headache later, i was pleased with the results.
This is the front of the box. It's basically a teal thick ribbon and i printed serendipity and the date on shinny paper. Thanks to janelle's glue gun, i was ready to go!
The inside of the box had the main invitation on the top. The bottom had a glued picture of us. The inside had the cards for directions, r.s.v.p and names. They were all printed on shinny card stock. Pay close attention to the logo (lines crossing). hehe...
Main invitation.
Directions of course!
~Table Setting~
Here is a chart of our table setting. As you can see everything was square/rectangle. When i made this, my bestie debbie suggested we do a diorama :) At first my face lit up and then i realized she was poking at my anal retentiveness....
The flowers i chose were white orchids. They were arranged on a contemporary teal vase. Pictures soon to come, but you can view it here for now. It's the first one on the left.
Yes... I actually did this...
~Table Cards~
Instead of placing the table cards, on a... table when guests came in, we thought it would be creative to put them on a canvas since it was in a museum. More pictures coming soon!
This was the quote i had put on our engagement announcements so i thought why not put them in our wedding too!!
~Menu Menu Menu~
Menus can always add a little flare to your table setting. They can be simple or part of the whole decoration for your table.
This is our square dinner menu. Simple, printed on thick card stock that the poor little printer did NOT like.
This is our drink menu. We decided to have a little fun with this by adding cute names. The new york shooter almost killed me at the reception. YUCK!
~Cake! Yummy!~
So i searched and searched on the internet for contemporary cakes and i really wasn't happy with what i was finding. So i slaved away at designing it. I decided, why not go along with our logo?? And so our awesome contemporary cake was born. I give the caterers so much credit for pulling this off. For the lines, they used ribbon and let me tell you.... those lines were straight! Pictures of the actual cake coming soon!!!
~Ceremony Programs~
As much as i wanted our ceremony programs to be square, it just didn't work... but i think it turned out awesome anyway!
~Thank You Cards~
And finally, I made the thank you cards!
