Planning a wedding isn't the easiest task in the world. You have to start as early as possible and know what you want ahead of time. Organization is key, which is why we have a step-by-step guide to help you stay on task. Continue reading "Planning The Perfect Wedding Reception" »
Step Aside Donuts Wall and Cupcake Bar: There's a NEW TREND IN TOWN!
In recent years, weddings have stepped up their game when it comes to food! There have been a variety of way to feed your guests with your favorite food, even if it was something a bit odd to have at a wedding. Continue reading "Step Aside Donuts Wall and Cupcake Bar: There's a NEW TREND IN TOWN!" »
4 Stunning Wedding Receptions
One of the most difficult decisions in the wedding planning process is picking a venue. It is hard to imagine what your wedding reception will look like when you are touring empty rooms without tables, chairs and decorations. Here are four stunning wedding receptions to give you some inspiration and ideas. Having a clear vision of what you want your reception to look like will help you decide if the venue is the right one for you!
Glamorous Reception
This beautiful reception space is lined with floor to ceiling windows making the room feel open, bright and large. This reception layout is a mixture of rectangular and circular tables. There are large hanging drapes that match the color scheme and divide the room. The white and pink floral centerpieces, white tablecloths and candles, and light pink napkins are a beautiful contrast to the black chairs and wood tables. A venue like this is perfect for a wedding in any season.
See more pictures of this beautiful venue here.
Inspirational Friday – Wedding Decorations
There's a lot of things to think about when planning a wedding and the reception is a big part of it. This weeks Inspirational Friday highlights a few of the trends right now when it comes to wedding decorations.
Right now there's a lot of focus on how to make the lighting fun and unique. Use lanterns or chandeliers, whatever suits your style best, to create this cozy and intimate feeling at your wedding reception. Natural light is used as well to create an outdoorsy feeling even if the reception is held inside. Another thing that we see is the use of greenery, almost domination of actual flowers or in combination with pastel colored flowers. We hope these ideas inspire you for your wedding reception.
Check back next week for more wedding inspiration!
Trending Tuesday – Family Style
When planning the food for your wedding reception, think family style. Serving comfort food family style around the tables are trending in a big way for weddings this year. Why is this trending? It shows that you think of your guests as family and it's truly laid back and comfort at it's finest at your wedding.
Inspirational Friday – Red
Here at Wedding and Party Network we want to give you inspiration for your wedding and party details. The details are what sets your wedding and party apart from anyone else. The colors, theme, detailing and style all creates your wedding day style and conveys your party theme. So, today's Inspirational Friday will focus on the color red.
Red is such an elegant color for a wedding. It's bright, bold, and looks great for everything. Your wedding bouquet, reception decor, and ceremony arrangements will look simply stunning. You can pair this color with a lot of variety so it's great for spring, summer, fall, or winter. Just find the right color combination to pull off the theme of your wedding.
Inspirational Friday – The Color White
Here at Wedding and Party Network we want to give you inspiration for your wedding details. The details are what sets your wedding apart from anyone else. The colors, theme, detailing and style all creates your wedding day style. So, today's Inspirational Friday will focus on the color white. This is a great color to incorporate into your wedding. It's a beautiful color and goes well with absolutely anything! A winter white wedding, orange & white for fall or hot pink and white for a summer wedding. There are many options and your wedding will be a vision in white.
Incorporate white into absolutely anything! Flowers, reception centerpieces, wedding cake, candy buffet, white chocolate fountain and even into the food; it's all possible to incorporate white into. Your wedding will truly be a vision in white!
Inspirational Friday – A Splendid Sunflower Wedding
This week, Wedding and Party Network's Inspirational Friday is all about sunflowers! An Autumn wedding is the perfect atmosphere for sunflowers. The warm yellows, and big dark centers, thick sturdy stalks, and over-all 'Sunnyness' that brings elegance and charm make it hard to resist!
These fabulous wedding flowers are perfect for your happy fall wedding. An outdoor wedding is ideal, especially one in an open field, garden, or park. The feel of nature is calming, down-to-earth and inspiring. You can use these energetic flowers alone or with other flowers to create eye-popping arrangements. Marigolds, gerbera daisies, roses and hydrangea look gorgeous mixed with sunflowers. Any combination is ideal for your wedding bouquet, wedding ceremony arrangements and definitely your reception centerpieces. The key is to keep the arrangements simple – sunflowers are striking and demand attention, you don't need to do much to make these flowers look great!
Movie Inspired Wedding
When planning a wedding, you can find inspiration anywhere. From nature, the world, colors or your favorite hobbies, these are all places on where you can draw wedding inspiration. You can even draw inspiration from your favorite movies. It's out there, everywhere you look. The most important thing when planning your wedding is to make sure and incorporate YOU. It's your wedding after all and you want it to be just how you've always dreamed.
How Do I Incorporate Movies Into Our Wedding?
First off, sit down and start brainstorming. What is your favorite movie? What time era was it set in? What style does in portray throughout the movie? What is your personal style? These are all questions you need to ask yourself in the very beginning. Once you have figured out the style and theme you are going with, start deciding the basics. What type of colors, flowers and accents will you have at your wedding?Wedding Colors – Incorporate your favorite colors. It's that simple. The theme of your wedding can go and all the little accents can work with whatever colors you choose.
Wedding Invitations –This is where you can get creative. Whether your wedding is out-of-the-box or more elegant, there are wedding invitations out there to suit both styles. For starters, your wedding invitation should replicate a movie ticket.
A movie ticket will definitely fit the theme of this wedding. You can even visit your local stationery store or find someone who is crafty and actually do a tear-off ticket. You can have a movie ticket that features individual tear offs with the reception information, hotel accommodations and the RSVP card. Guests can then tear off the RSVP card at the perforated edge and send it back! Absolutely adorable idea and definitely conveys the theme of your wedding from the beginning.
Wedding Flowers & Decor –If they feature flowers in the film, use those. Is your movie inspired wedding bright & colorful? Well, incorporate that into your wedding bouquet and decor. Is your favorite movie in black & white? Well, make black and white the theme of your wedding and incorporate that into all the little details. Place fun movie accents throughout your wedding. Have a movie poster created with your engagement pictures.
Include the wedding party in the movie poster as well and give it a fun movie title! If you're movie is set in a certain time era, play it up. Everything from your table numbers to your guest book can be movie inspired. Create tickets or miniature movie poster as table numbers and use a typewriter as a guest book, both of these ideas make unique additions to your wedding. Use candelabras for your reception centerpieces or even balloons!
Wedding Attire – This will depend on the theme and time era your movie was set in.
Reception Food –Again, stick with the theme and era. However, get creative and think outside-the-box when it comes to your food. Vintage soda pop bottles with colorful straws, a popcorn bar featuring different flavors of popcorn, popcorn cupcakes or a memorable food item from the movie all will make wonderful reception food!
It's easy to find inspiration for your wedding through your favorite movie. It's a fun way to incorporate your personal style into it. Everyone loves a great movie now and then, so incorporating your favorite movie into your wedding is a fun way to show off your style. Your movie can be a timeless classic, circus inspired, cartoon inspired or even sci-fi inspired. Just be sure to show off you and your groom's personality throughout your wedding!
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Popcorn cupcakes, save the date tickets, provided by carabou, amy[treespacestudio] via flickr.
Inspirational Friday – Mellow Yellow
Every Friday, Wedding and Party Network will be choosing a theme or color and give you inspirational photos. We want to help give you inspiration for your next event, wedding or party. So, take a look and we hope to give you a bit of inspiration when planning your wedding or party. Our inspirational board will give everyone inspiration on the color yellow. This color can be bright & colorful or soft & light. It's perfect for spring, summer or even fall! Play it up, get vintage or create a classic, traditional feel with this color. There are so many things you can do!
When incorporating yellow into your wedding, definitely do so with flowers. It pairs so nicely with many colors. Create gorgeous yellow wedding bouquets with a red or peach accent, beautiful wedding arrangements & reception centerpieces, matching boutonnieres or incorporate the color into your wedding cake. There are so many options available for you. Pair it with deep orange to make a great color combination for fall or pair with other colorful colors for a combo that's fit for summer. So, yellow is a great color to use all year round. It doesn't matter when your wedding is, incorporate yellow into it!