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Help choosing decorations please!

I am having the hardest time narrowing down my ideas for wedding/reception decorations, and I'm hoping you can help!

Our ceremony/reception is going to be at Greens restaurant in San Francisco (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/11/16/travel/v-greens-int395.1.jpg).

Our colors were just going to be brown and aqua, but I am totally crazy for succulant table decorations and bouquet (http://prettychicky.com/2806/inspiration/succulent-wedding-decor), so I'm thinking of adding green.

I have been collecting vintage postcards of San Francisco sites to designate guest tables (like trolley car, Bay Bridge, Golden Gate bridge, etc tables).

And my fiance had the idea to send out origami cranes to our guests with our invitations to write well wishes on for us and send back with the RSVPs. Then I thought I would suspend them above the aisle. Someone also suggested using the cranes for table decor, like setting one crane on each napkin.

My concern is that there will be too much going on and it will end up looking silly or over the top.

Any thought or suggestions?

Thanks :)

Re: Help choosing decorations please!

  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_reception-ideas_choosing-decorations-please?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:5Discussion:8ded0b64-ae06-4085-8579-86bc7b234c02Post:1db45b48-4395-4f35-bcce-5c9703fc012e">Help choosing decorations please!</a>:
    [QUOTE]I am having the hardest time narrowing down my ideas for wedding/reception decorations, and I'm hoping you can help! Our ceremony/reception is going to be at Greens restaurant in San Francisco ( <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/11/16/travel/v-greens-int395.1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/11/16/travel/v-greens-int395.1.jpg</a> ). Our colors were just going to be brown and aqua, but I am totally crazy for succulant table decorations and bouquet ( <a href="http://prettychicky.com/2806/inspiration/succulent-wedding-decor" rel="nofollow">http://prettychicky.com/2806/inspiration/succulent-wedding-decor</a> ), so I'm thinking of adding green. I have been collecting vintage postcards of San Francisco sites to designate guest tables (like trolley car, Bay Bridge, Golden Gate bridge, etc tables). And my fiance had the idea to send out origami cranes to our guests with our invitations to write well wishes on for us and send back with the RSVPs. Then I thought I would suspend them above the aisle. Someone also suggested using the cranes for table decor, like setting one crane on each napkin. <strong>My concern is that there will be too much going on</strong> and it will end up looking silly or over the top. Any thought or suggestions? Thanks :)
    Posted by kateedid[/QUOTE]

    Erm, yeah. That's kinda a lot of different directions. Origami is a Middle Eastern craft and postcards are not.

    I would honestly skip the cranes, because I have a feeling you may not get those back like you hope. Just getting people to send an RSVP back is irritating, much less asking them to write something and send a crane.

    Vintage postcards of San Francisco is a cute idea, and using them for table numbers sounds adorable. You could easily keep that theme going with a Golden Gate bridge cake (think a white or brown cake with an outline of the bridge piped in aqua frosting!), maybe invitations that mimic your vintage postcards, brown and blue CPs (maybe manzanita branches for your brown and blue hydrangeas?).

    Hope this gives you some ideas!
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  • I would cut out either the post cards or the cranes; those things really don't go together (I know they're both very San Francisco, but two totally different aspects of San Francisco). If you do the cranes, I would still nix the idea of sending them to the guests (as you may not get them back or you may get them back crumpled) and would make them out of paper in your color scheme (a mix of solid and patterned paper would be nice).
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