Your Wedding Style (Poll)

BmoreBride311

Just curious what style everyone is going for with their wedding. Are you doing modern/classic/vintage? Any kind of theme? Any unique traditions/customs you are incorporating? Lots of DIY?

ceglare4

This is a fun topic Bmore!!

I'm going for a romantic, elegant, classic, and sort of vintage-y feel. The colors we're using are pastel, soft colors. We're getting married in an English flower garden with an old farm house on the property.

We aren't doing much DIY because I am NOT crafty at all. We're making the escort cards, board, and stick pins, and are also taking care of the details for the the "guestbook" and table.

We're also doing the wine box ceremony.

colleenm18

This is a little tough for me!  I guess I would say we are going for a romantic/modern/summer feel.  Our BM dresses are royal blue, short and have flowers they are very flowy and summery.  We are doing some DIY but nothing crazy.  My mom is making our centerpieces and we are doing our own escort cards and some other small things around the reception.

LADY324

I would describe ours as fun/bright/summer/traditional/classy.  

bells24412

Not sure if this makes sense but I want it to feel beachy romantic and classic.

The only few things we have done for DIY is our cardbox, our escort holder, and our centerpieces. That is pretty much it.

brandeeteer

I think we are more fun/wild/vibrant if that makes any sense. We've done almost everything DIY - we are crafty and on a tight budget. Our colors are vibrant pink, purple and orange. And we did a lot of fun things around the reception. The ceremony itself will be more classic.

l_everett

hehe super fun topic!

We're doing rustic/country/vintage. Our colours are more like a colour scheme... yellows, greens, tans, white, gold accents, lace & burlap kind of feeling.

Our ceremony is taking place on land we have (this year it'll be a wheat field) where we will build our furture home so we'e planting a tree during the ceremony and it will grow with us

Lots of DIY, i love crafting Pretty much eveything at our wedding (other than like linens... well i'm making burlap table runners lol) i will have had a hand in making. We've been engaged for a year and half so i had some time to work on it lol

So excited to see it all come together!!!

arunkumar

Mine sounds a bit odd but I swear it will look nice. I'm going for a elegant yet rustic look. Our ceremony is in a garden at a private educational community and our reception is at what I would call an upscale lodge (it has exposed wood beams, stone fireplace, earthy decor). Yet my colors are very representative of my Indian culture, very bold colors, a ton of red and gold, with a touch of purple.  So it's modern Indian mixed with rustic elegance.

I didn't DIY much other than my table numbers and programs. I used etsy for everything else so it might look like I'm much more DIY than I really am.

penny12986

Ummm,  our's is relaxed/colorful/intimate/sweet.  I tried to DIY as much as could do without going crazy.

DIY: table numbers (they're our cats)
        card box
        escort cards
        centerpieces
        bouquet
        signs
        programs
        candy buffet
        cake stand
        flower girl baskets

l_everett

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_july-2012-weddings_your-wedding-style-poll?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:066005ef-215f-48b1-8655-328b41e07c52Discussion:0a40e4c0-be68-42b4-acf9-42f5218ccd25Post:455fc1c8-7494-49ce-bb18-513cedee99e0">Re: Your Wedding Style (Poll)</a>:
[QUOTE]Mine sounds a bit odd but I swear it will look nice. I'm going for a elegant yet rustic look. Our ceremony is in a garden at a private educational community and our reception is at what I would call an upscale lodge (it has exposed wood beams, stone fireplace, earthy decor). Yet my colors are very representative of my Indian culture, very bold colors, a ton of red and gold, with a touch of purple.  <strong>So it's modern Indian mixed with rustic elegance</strong>. I didn't DIY much other than my table numbers and programs. I used etsy for everything else so it might look like I'm much more DIY than I really am.
Posted by arunkumar[/QUOTE]

This sounds so neat and having a rusticy wedding myself i can see how the bright colours would play fantastic with it!

BmoreBride311

We are having a pretty traditional church wedding followed by a cocktail hour and reception at an art museum.

The cocktail hour will have a summer vintagey feel. It's half outside in a garden and half in a barn. We're doing strawberry lemonade cocktails with our fun stripey paper straws. We'll also have the musuem open during this time for the guest to walk through if they want to.

At the reception we are doing touches of a vintage travel theme in some of the details (some suitcase decorations, boarding pass style escort cards, vintage travel poster table numbers), but we're not taking the theme all over the place. My FI and I developed a love of whiskey since moving to the UK, so we decided to do a whiskey bar with selections of whiskeys from different parts of the world.

TChiumi

I would describe ours as classic/elegant/fun. We don't really have any sort of theme.

My DIY items include:

card box

escort cards

escort card holder

programs

bridesmaid thank you cards

program basket

FG basket

RB pillows

garters

center pieces

favors

table numbers

FG gift

Bridesmaid jewelry

lvissers

I've defined my wedding as "tropical chic"! Using lots of orchids and bright colors (magenta, lime green & orange) Not doing much DIY, but I am taking on the placecards which will be starfish with name cards attached to them sitting up in sand boxes. My reception has all white linens, submerged orchidsin cylinder vases with led lights and dramatic fuchsia uplighting to give a chic Miami club feel. The ceremony has a garden feel and will be traditional with a bamboo arch draped in white linen and bright orchids.

butterflyjumper1

Traditional with some modern flair,  beautiful yet spunky and fun, romantic yet whimsical. We are incorporating a lot of bow decorations (silver bow charms on our place cards, silver printed bows on our cocktail hour napkins, bows at the top of our programs, big bows on our chair covers, etc.) to tie in with the massive bow that the bridesmaids have on the back of their dress.   

We are trying for crisp lines, crisp colors, a little bit of bling, and a whole lot of fun. 

I think our escort table will be unique and fun, since we are putting up "meet the maids/guys" frames and decorating the table really pretty.  We are having fun elements at cocktail hour, a signature drink for each of us with a name tied into our lives, and incorporating some elements from my fiance's Indian heritage into our wedding (Indian processional music, Indian sweets, and two of the three entrees will be Indian-flavor inspired).  

It's hard to think about how fun the wedding will be now that my whole purse has been stolen and my life has been thrown upside down  

MeaganR12

Country, vintage, rustic, romantic, eclectic, elegant. Those are the words I would use to describe our wedding. The venue is a barn that was built in the 1800s and then converted to a barrel room 20 years ago, it's surrounded by vineyards and rolling hills. 

We're doing the winebox ceremony which I know is pretty common on our board, but I still feel like it's a unique tradition since I've never seen it at a wedding before. 

We're DIYing a lot. We did/are still doing:

STDs

Invitations

Programs

'Here Comes The Bride' sign

My FMIL is making our FG dresses

Cornhole Boards with our monogram

Table Numbers

Petal Cones

Signs for the bathrooms

2 signs for the backs of our chairs

Deer antlers for our arch (my FI literally went taxidermy on the antlers)

Elk antlers to hold our placecards (same)

Placecards

Photobooth

MeaganR12

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_july-2012-weddings_your-wedding-style-poll?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:066005ef-215f-48b1-8655-328b41e07c52Discussion:0a40e4c0-be68-42b4-acf9-42f5218ccd25Post:0bf96ab9-bb26-4875-85df-d11debb8abbc">Re: Your Wedding Style (Poll)</a>:
[QUOTE]hehe super fun topic! We're doing rustic/country/vintage. Our colours are more like a colour scheme... yellows, greens, tans, white, gold accents, lace & burlap kind of feeling. Our ceremony is taking place on land we have (this year it'll be a wheat field) <strong>where we will build our furture home so we'e planting a tree during the ceremony and it will grow with us :)</strong> Lots of DIY, i love crafting :D Pretty much eveything at our wedding (other than like linens... well i'm making burlap table runners lol) i will have had a hand in making. We've been engaged for a year and half so i had some time to work on it lol So excited to see it all come together!!! :D
Posted by l_everett[/QUOTE]

<div>I LOVE this. I'm so jealous. </div>

Madisonpenny

We're having a vintage wedding with a moderate amount of DIY

k8888

Never really thought about this, but I guess ours is traditional, classic, yet fun. 

My DIY projects:
Invitations
Flip-flop baskets
Programs
BM bracelets and earrings
Centerpieces
Ceremony decor
Water bottle labels
I attempted to DIY my own brooch bouquet but I had to scrap that because it turned out really awful haha

pillsburyaj

We are doing vintage with a sort of 1920's feel (I hate to use the word theme! ) The only DIY thing I did were the kissing balls for the FG and the JBM. We are doing a sharing of the wine ceremony and breaking the glass as a nod towards FI's Jewish heritage.

butterflyjumper1

I wish bridetobe wasn't sick. She would love this thread. sad face

Melissa.hylton

We are doing a mix. My dress is modern along with FI suit. But we are going to keep the traditional ceremony and before wedding rituals. Our reception is Baseball themed. Not over doing it but with hints of it here and there to keep it from looking too birthday partyish. Baseball in vases for centerpieces, jersey for our guestbook, etc. We picked the colors, red, white and black because that is the color of the baseball itself. 

DIY

Groomsmen beer mugs-doing our own etching with the cricket

table numbers-bought frames at the dollar store, scrapbook paper, and punched out numbers. The paper has light colored baseballs and the numbers are black.

Flowers I bought through sam's club have to be arranged for centerpieces and bouquets

Candy bar we bought all the jars at the dollar store and the candy through winco and the dollar store.

Invites

programs

I would like to think everything is DIY, even though we purchased things like chair covers, sashs, plates, etc. Everything needs to be set up and done. We have a wedding planner who is doing the day of set up and running of the day timeline but we still have things to assemble that she wont be doing. It cut down the cost of her doing everything. 

dramaqueen91087

Our wedding is very classic/tradtional but with some modern thrown in. My colors are Purple and Green. My venue is this beautiful old bank that is just so classic romantic so that kind sent me in that direction.

cmhutchison22

We are getting married on the beach so obviously we are having a beachy wedding.  We are using starfish in our decor. I would have preferred to use sand dollars because there are no starfish around the area we are having the wedding.  I couldn't find sand dollar invitations so I had to go with starfish.  I love it either way.  My mom is doing my flowers and our centerpieces. This is what I have given her for centerpiece inspiration:




I am bringing the shells we have collected from our wedding venue beach to put in the vases.

I am trying to make it look classic casual with a beach feeling.  I don't want to go too crazy with the beach thing.

KimC1983

Southern summer wedding.  Rustic.  We're getting married at a bourbon distillery and there will be lots of burlap and mason jars from all the grandmothers and great gmas.  Shades of blues and greens...super laid back.  We're serving bbq.  Casual summer party where someone happens to get married I guess.

I've diy'd quite a bit.  All of our paper goods, my brooch bouquet, our cork monogram, the centerpieces, burlap squares, and our guest book is an actual bourbon barrel that we're turning into a table for our home.