"What are you going to do without pinterest??"

luckya23 · February 2015

Some coworkers were asking me about my wedding last night and one said "Oh I was obsessed with pinterest and thats all I used for mine."

I was like, "I don't want to feel the pressure of all the pinterest stuff, so I haven't looked at it since I got engaged."

They were all: "Well how are you going to know how to decorate???"

Ummmm..... from my mind? To the extent I can muster up some care?

I'm guessing I'm not alone here, going pinterest-free?

novella1186 · February 2015

I was really late to join the whole pinterest party. I think I had been engaged for almost a year before I even looked at it, so we already knew by then what we wanted to do for our wedding and pretty much everything was already decided/booked.

I look at wedding stuff on there sometimes because it's pretty and fun to look at. But I'm pretty sure I can decorate and throw a party without pinterest telling me what to do. I actually got a few ideas from TK, and a few from random "offbeat" wedding websites I came across, and then I joined these boards and you ladies helped me figure out anything I was stuck on.

In fact, when I see something on pinterest that I had already planned on doing for my wedding, I honestly get a little bit annoyed. Not that I'm delusional enough to think I'm totally original or the first one to do a certain thing, but I don't want my guests to be all "oh look how good you are at pinterest! I love that you followed all the pinterest trends!" Argh. I hate trends!

maeday2 · February 2015

I can't think of anything I am doing that's solely an idea gained from Pinterest.

I definitely look up ideas that I have on Pinterest to see how others executed it. I'm a visual person, so that helps me to figure out the best way to make an idea happen.

It's not like sprays of greenery and flowers on a church pew are original ideas. I just like the visual comparisons to decide if I wanted to use 3M hooks, ribbon, or lace to secure them. Stuff like that.

larrygaga · February 2015

Apparently most people aren't creative enough to come up with their own ideas. Hence, pintrest.

KatieinBkln · February 2015

Pinterest is fun sometimes, in the same way wedding websites and magazines are fun--you get some ideas, you laugh at some other ideas, etc. Hell, I just pinned a beautiful cake on my wedding board and we aren't even having cake (I know, I know, cue the shrieks of TK disapproval; we just like pie better, okay? And we're having mini desserts so get off mah dick). To me it's just a fun thing to look at and get the barest ideas from. The notion of copying something exactly seems completely silly to me, since I am well aware I don't have the artistic skills to get those details right, ha.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

Yeah, no. I used Pinterest to help me visualize some things like the scale of my centerpieces, but I didn't depend on it to give me ideas. I would generally already have a specific idea in my mind and then search for that specific thing to see how it looked. I wasn't just perusing the Most Popular wedding pins and picking from those.

Then I used it to keep track of the various types of lace I was considering for my veil, to find a tutorial for making it, and to shop for things like table overlays and our favor bags.

luckya23 · February 2015

To me it's more like I don't want to compare - I know my wedding isn't going to live up to being pinterest-worthy!

Plus I haven't REALLY started thinking about decor, although some old glass bottles were the first things I bought for the wedding!

TBH I haven't done much planning at all, besides booking the big stuff... sigh.

lyndausvi · February 2015

Pinterest wasn't around when I got married.

I think I did an okay job being creative.

abl13 · February 2015

I pinned some stuff on pinterest for fun but didn't really use any of it in my wedding. Most of that stuff is so trendy/overdone anways.

tpwkalyn · February 2015

The only thing I've used Pinterest for is flowers. My florist & I have our own "secret" board to pin colors/styles we like that are in my budget. It's helped immensely!

emmaaa · February 2015

I joined Pinterest before I was even engaged. I pinned wedding stuff like that crazy person who isn't even engaged. Yep, I am going to hide in shame. Once I actually got engaged, I used it some but then realized everything was so alike and then refused to get on until after the wedding.

now, I'm obsessed with pinning house floor plans and kitchen cabinets and everything.

Wegl13 · February 2015

I think the only thing I did that I got as an idea directly from Pinterest was using a map as a guest book. I wanted something we could display (so not a guest book), and I have heard that those fingerprint stamp things (my SIL did one and it was cute) might lead to fingerprints on your dress which was kind of a turn off (did anyone else actually experience this?). Pretty much everything else I wondered around Hobby Lobby for, like, a bazillion hours to figure out what I liked and wanted. And seriously I just carried our wedding invitations around with us and went " oh this goes with that!" And then I went over to my friends house and she helped me actually make the things!
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/white-and-blue-love-birds-wedding-invitations-814863/
I think it turned out swimmingly.

Inkdancer · February 2015

I didn't use Pinterest at all. My wedding was still beautiful.

Cookie Pusher · February 2015

I didn't have a Pinterest account before I got married, and I still don't have one now. Does that make my marriage invalid?

novella1186 · February 2015

Cookie Pusher said:

I didn't have a Pinterest account before I got married, and I still don't have one now. Does that make my marriage invalid?

You need a re-do for sure.

Cookie Pusher · February 2015

novella1186 said:

Cookie Pusher said:

I didn't have a Pinterest account before I got married, and I still don't have one now. Does that make my marriage invalid?

You need a re-do for sure.

YES!!

All the burlap, lace, mason jars, and cowboy boots for my formal rustic wedding!

I can't wait to decorate my Honeymoon Fund jar!

novella1186 · February 2015

Cookie Pusher said:

novella1186 said:

Cookie Pusher said:

I didn't have a Pinterest account before I got married, and I still don't have one now. Does that make my marriage invalid?

You need a re-do for sure.

YES!!

All the burlap, lace, mason jars, and cowboy boots for my formal rustic wedding!

I can't wait to decorate my Honeymoon Fund jar!

don't forget to put "black tie optional" on the invite! And remember, it doesn't count unless you post it on facebook, so be sure to constantly post statuses of every detail!

Dottie05 · February 2015

Ok I am not going to lie, I LOVE Pinterest!

It is seriously so much fun for me. I love "learning" about new things and seeing all of the cool stuff in so many different categories.

I use it to get ideas and see the possibilities of an idea I may have been trying to execute (craft or home projects)

I know it gets a bad rap, but I think that's because someone sees a $60,000 wedding on there and thinks "Oh hey, my budget is $2000 but I want my wedding to look 100% like that!"

Another thing I always tell people is, it is my Pinterest, I will pin whatever I want on it. That doesn't mean I am "planning", just that I saw a cool idea or something and want to be able to reference it if I need to again! This is mostly towards my mom for whenever I used to pin cool baby/kid stuff

Cookie Pusher · February 2015

novella1186 said:

Cookie Pusher said:

novella1186 said:

Cookie Pusher said:

I didn't have a Pinterest account before I got married, and I still don't have one now. Does that make my marriage invalid?

You need a re-do for sure.

YES!!

All the burlap, lace, mason jars, and cowboy boots for my formal rustic wedding!

I can't wait to decorate my Honeymoon Fund jar!

don't forget to put "black tie optional" on the invite! And remember, it doesn't count unless you post it on facebook, so be sure to constantly post statuses of every detail!

And I'm going to put like fifty hashtags on every post and Instagram image. #myREALwedding #formalrusticistotallyathing #screwyouimthebride #etiquetteisdead #queenoftacky

jdluvr06 · February 2015

I love Pinterest but Ive never looked at the wedding stuff. I like to get new recipe ideas and look at awesome tattoos.

doeydo · February 2015

I like Pinterest for getting ideas and actually getting a picture of something similar to what you might have in your mind so it is more solid or something. However, I am pretty sure one can decorate and have a wedding without Pinterest, or any internet for that matter. Pretty sure before internet people got married just fine, and didn't just shrug their shoulders.

VulgarGirl · February 2015

We started planning our wedding way back in the dark ages when pinterest was not a thing. In fact we started planning our wedding so long ago that MySpace was a thing.

I love pinterest...but my wedding board was basically CAKE CAKE IS GOOD and some OMG SHOES. Nothing about decor.

MadHops21 · February 2015

I'm getting ideas for center pieces since I don't go to weddings at all or parties. I don't know these things, so it's fun to look at ideas. I don't like the trends, like burlap and lace, but I found some cool ideas with lemon slices and flowers in vases. My mom actually wanted to try that this spring to see if it smells nice in our kitchen, after it's done remodeling and being painted.

JennyColada · February 2015

I just started a Pinterest account last week and I got married 4 months ago.

Google is surprisingly helpful to find pictures and decorating ideas. (I mean, for my bouquet I literally Googled "flowers in season October" and then Googled pictures of each flower and just made a list of the ones that I liked and a list for the ones that I hated.)

Pinterest is really just the e-version of some magazines, scissors, glue, and a folder.

maeday2 · February 2015

JennyColada said:
Pinterest is really just the e-version of some magazines, scissors, glue, and a folder.

While hanging out with my mom last weekend I asked her what she was doing. She responded with,"pinning," while tearing recipes out of Southern Living.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

maeday2 said:

JennyColada said:
Pinterest is really just the e-version of some magazines, scissors, glue, and a folder.

While hanging out with my mom last weekend I asked her what she was doing. She responded with,"pinning," while tearing recipes out of Southern Living.

Did you tell her

falsara · February 2015

I use pinterest for home ideas and recipes and beauty tips. I have a board for wedding hair and makeup ideas because I'm a very visual person and my hair is difficult to deal with. Almost none of my pins are wedding related.

firebabe6519 · February 2015

This sums up my opinions on Pintrest.

lovesclimbing · February 2015

I didn't join Pinterest until after my wedding. People said oh I NEEDED it, but I was like nope. I got ideas from my own brain. It wasn't that hard.

mrscomposer · February 2015

I pinned to a (secret) wedding board when I was single, but then didn't do any of it when we were actually planning. My brain has good ideas.

justsie · February 2015

I totally use pintrest for looking at things wedding-wise, not even going to deny it. I'm not a creative person, I'm more of a logistic/analytic mind so when describing my wedding all I can think is the word "airy". Seriously, that's all I got. Looking at pintrest helps me to see more what I like in action, so I can better verbalize it my planner and she doesn't just look at me blank faced when I say airy and have zero imagination on what the whole thing will look like.

I don't, however, copy things seen directly from there (do fonts count?) nor do I imagine that my wedding budget is way up there. My practical mind helps to keep all of that in check well.

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