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So I went to a wedding yesterday...

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...and it was a total Pinterest explosion.

Everything you saw came from Pinterest. You name it, it was probably there! 

(Except cowboy boots or camo...none of that! But there was a burlap aisle runner, plenty of baby's breath and mason jars, chalkboard signs, etc. The bride and groom also spent what seemed like a TON of their time doing these special staged pictures).

There were also quite a few etiquette snags that made me really happy about how we treated our guests.
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  • falsarafalsara member
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    Oh that sounds --- Creative - why cant people ever come up with other ideas?  I bet those etiquette snags came from reading the awful etiquette advice on Pinterest though.

                                               

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  • JCbride2015JCbride2015 member
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    UGH I keep my lips sealed when I see posts asking for DIY mason jar help on TK, because it's just a matter of taste.  You aren't hurting anybody.  But seriously, I hatehatehate it.

    Etiquette snags, please!
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  • SenecafSenecaf member
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    Eh, I look past the Pinteresty stuff. For some It's hard to be creative. Someone, some where has probably done it all before. It's just with the aid of the internet we see it a million times and get sick of it. How many Mason jar and burlap weddings have we all actually been to irl? I'm going to my first at the end of the month. The bridal shower was a pinterest explosion but it was still plesant.
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  • missdelilahmissdelilah member
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    I've very purposefully stayed away from pinterest, excepting when I was helping others look for ideas. I have a friend going the whole burlap route; I can't wait to see how the pictures turn out. Unfortunately I can't make the wedding (back in home city on the other side of the world, 5 months before our wedding their). Also really curious to see how it looks with her very glam dress.
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    Were there cutely poems instructing people how to park their asses in chairs?  
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  • climbingsingleclimbingsingle member
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    I wish burlap would die a slow, fiery death. Ugh. 
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    Senecaf said:

    Eh, I look past the Pinteresty stuff. For some It's hard to be creative. Someone, some where has probably done it all before. It's just with the aid of the internet we see it a million times and get sick of it. How many Mason jar and burlap weddings have we all actually been to irl? I'm going to my first at the end of the month. The bridal shower was a pinterest explosion but it was still plesant.

    I've been to three but only because Pinterest exists.
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  • DanikaMarie0227DanikaMarie0227 member
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    While I don't love burlap, I'm not going to lie - I really love the cutesy chalkboard signs (don't hate me for that please!) 
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  • missdelilahmissdelilah member
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    @DanikaMarie0227 I like the chalk signs too, when they're done properly.
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    @missdelilah - I agree! I need to learn to do them properly before my wedding ;-)
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  • missdelilahmissdelilah member
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    @DanikaMarie0227 Do you have a friend who can help? That's definitely a delegation task if you have any calligraphers and painters who can work together. Paint definitely looks stands up to the elements better than chalk does. Otherwise, I suggest finding a painting studio near by who could help you, or perhaps to do it for you - the kind that hold classes, or allow you to pop by to paint whenever you like (I can think of at least two places around here that would either help you out, or do it for you) for a minimum fee. If you don't know a calligrapher, you can always look at this site (www.dafont.com) and see if there's anything you like. You can download them (I've had absolutely no problems with this) and type what ever you like in a word processing document. Get some tracing paper, and copy the writing on to the board, then paint or chalk over it. I'm really curious to hear what you end up doing (and eventually see pictures). I come from this ridiculous craft background (really wonderful nanny followed by several years of me being a nanny, and a little bit of my local bar asking me to write their specials on the board for them). Feel free to ignore everything I've said here; I'm just so full of ideas of cute little blackboards, of which there will be zero involved in my wedding - too much to worry about seeing as I'll be in the country about two weeks before hand.
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    @missdelilah - I figure it will either be a total success or a total disaster on my end. LOL. My wedding is still over a year away so I have time to practice and figure out if I can actually DIY this or not. With that said, I will definitely be keeping your suggestions in mind, as I can use all the help I can get! 
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    @DanikaMarie0227 You've certainly got time to play with things.  Please do let us know how it turns out!
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    Maggie0829 said:
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    Oh that sounds --- Creative - why cant people ever come up with other ideas?  I bet those etiquette snags came from reading the awful etiquette advice on Pinterest though.

    Like what though?  I mean, when it comes to weddings there are no unique or creative ideas.  I mean, when I pin stuff to my boards on Pinterest I do so because I love the ideas and want to use them in my own home. So I really don't see the big deal in taking ideas that one may find on Pinterest or Google searches or wedding blogs or wherever and using them in their own wedding plans.



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    I feel Pinterest ideas should be used more for inspiration than for exact copies.  A lot of those ideas don't speak about the couple or their own interests.  Weddings are two different people coming together who have their own interests and hobbies.  You can totally use pinterest ides to help get inspiration and then change it to fit your own style and interests, or the interests of the couple.  I think that is what pinterest should ultimately be: inspiration.   Most people just copy things exactly form pinterest though and then choose not to tweak it to fit their own interests.  I feel that that isn't doing  justice to the two personalities that are choosing to devote thier lives to each other.

                                               

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    My mom is obsessed with wedding ideas on Pinterest. Sometimes she'll send me 20+ wedding pins per day. Often on things she knows we've already decided/booked/bought. *facepalm*
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    I don't blame people for taking ideas from Pinterest, even the much hated burlap. But use the idea because you like it, not because it's trendy!



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  • amakayebamakayeb member
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    I don't blame someone for taking ideas from Pinterest. We certainly did a few. It's more when literally EVERYTHING is one of the very popular pins that you see popping up all the time. Also, this girl was NOT the rustic/country type at all when we were growing up, and I know that a lot of her choices were because it was trendy. And like someone else said, a lot of them were exact copies of pins I've seen, not a starting place for an idea.

    Etiquette snags:
    --No receiving line, and they didn't come to every table. (Which was odd, as there was plenty of time...)
    --Cash bar, except for beer (which I don't drink). They didn't even have wine, just beer and hard liquor.
    --The wedding party and family were served champagne for the toasts.
    --Reception was to start at 6. Ceremony finished around 4:30, we did family pictures, and then headed into the reception area. Grand march (with complete wedding party introductions) started at 6:30. We didn't get to go up to the buffet until about 7:40, and there were still about 6 tables left to go. (Plus, I traveled from out of state, so my internal clock was an hour ahead...despite cheese and sausage and veggies out as snacks, I was HUNGRY!)
    --No effort was made to put 'related' tables near each other--Our side of the extended family filled 3 tables, which were on 3 different corners of the space. (I realize this isn't a requirement, but I think it's a nice thing to do, especially since it took so long for dinner. By the time we finished eating, some of the older people were getting ready to leave.)
    --Photo slideshow--that was SIX songs long! And it was announced as, "Everybody watch this"--so conversation kind of stopped.
    --After their first dance, they did a dance with their parents, then a wedding party dance. After a couple fast songs, they did the father/daughter and mother/son dances. There wasn't a 'open to everyone' slow song until after the slideshow, which was almost 10:00. I know a bunch of older people (or people with little kids) who were waiting to get in one dance together before leaving, but eventually gave up.

    (That said, it was still a lovely wedding. I love the bride, and was very happy for her. I was just glad we didn't run into these kinds of things at our wedding...)
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    cwradford said:
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    cwradford said:

    Oh that sounds --- Creative - why cant people ever come up with other ideas?  I bet those etiquette snags came from reading the awful etiquette advice on Pinterest though.

    Like what though?  I mean, when it comes to weddings there are no unique or creative ideas.  I mean, when I pin stuff to my boards on Pinterest I do so because I love the ideas and want to use them in my own home. So I really don't see the big deal in taking ideas that one may find on Pinterest or Google searches or wedding blogs or wherever and using them in their own wedding plans.



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    I feel Pinterest ideas should be used more for inspiration than for exact copies.  A lot of those ideas don't speak about the couple or their own interests.  Weddings are two different people coming together who have their own interests and hobbies.  You can totally use pinterest ides to help get inspiration and then change it to fit your own style and interests, or the interests of the couple.  I think that is what pinterest should ultimately be: inspiration.   Most people just copy things exactly form pinterest though and then choose not to tweak it to fit their own interests.  I feel that that isn't doing  justice to the two personalities that are choosing to devote thier lives to each other.
    Well what if both people were like "hey I did that decor, lets use that?"  And also, in the case of my wedding if I had been on Pinterest and saw something that I loved then I probably would have copied it.  It is mainly decor for crying out loud.  I don't look at chalkboard signs and wonder "what does this say about the couple?"  I think, "oh they must have liked the look of chalkboard signs."  Not everything in a wedding must be tweaked to fit the couples interests.  I mean, besides the table numbers at our wedding there really wasn't much in our wedding that spoke to us as a couple.  We just picked stuff that we thought was nice and looked good.  We really didn't give much thought into how people were going to interrupt it.  So if someone wants to use things they found off Pinterest because they really like them then that is fine with me.  Maybe they even picked those things because it represented their taste as a couple.

    But really, there is no longer anything that can be seen as unique or creative or different when it comes to weddings.  It has all been done before.  Yes, I think it is nice to put in one or two things that represent the couple via a cake topper or what have you, but most couples just want their wedding to look fabulous.

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