Old Florida Wedding

lmsalerno · July 2010

I am having a wedding and trying to create and "Old Florida" feel. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

Nukke · July 2010

I don't know a thing about Florida, let alone old Florida. What do you have in mind? Do you have any inspiration photos?

Chandler2Be · July 2010

I too have no clue what "Old Florida" means. Have you asked this question on the Florida Board?

graysquirrel · July 2010

I agree, asking on your FL board might be more helpful. The only thing I can think of would be a plantation wedding.

Nukke · July 2010

I was picturing kitchy 1950s beachy scenes with plastic flamingos :P As I said, I'm completley clueless.

GracefulMeadow86 · July 2010

i found this online
http://www.florida-secrets.com/Old_Florida/OldFlorida.htm

sounds like its just 1950s so like hamburger stands and drive in movies and such. maybe a rockabilly-type wedding would be a good showing of the "old florida" feel?

weddingspinster · July 2010

This stumped me, too! (So, of course, I couldn't stop thinking about it.)

I see that you're located in Florida - perhaps you could hold your wedding or reception at either a nice, vintage Florida hotel (someplace with ambience) or in a lush, tropical garden.

Paper lanterns would probably add charm, if you opt for outdoors. They seem to add a vintage touch...even though I haven't seen any actual, vintage wedding photos that included them!

Lily Pulitzer's bright, pastel fabrics have been around since the 1960s and have always been associated with Florida, so maybe you'd want to choose her color scheme for your bridesmaids/flowers/tablecloths.

If you can find books featuring photos of Palm Beach in its vintage heyday, you might get some ideas from them.

Potted palms used to be a popular, vintage decoration and certainly seem fitting for a Florida wedding! You could also use potted palm trees.

Also, maybe there's a way to duplicate a vintage Florida postcard, and use that for your "Save the Date" card (if you send out any "Save the Dave" cards) or your RSVP response card (if you use anything like that).

I don't know if this would be suitable for the kind of wedding/reception/rehearsal dinner you have in mind, but you can buy cheery repro, vintage Florida travel posters and do something with them (at www.allposters.com, for example).

And, lastly, I don't know how "vintage" this is, but tonight I saw a photo of "alligator bread" in a magazine (bread shaped to look like alligators...not made out of alligators!). Maybe people in Florida think that would be cliche, but I thought it might look cute, set out on a food table (if there is a food table).

Anyway, what direction were YOU thinking of taking this? I'm curious!

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