Life. Love. Lipstick.

I am starting to toy with color schemes and other wedding design ideas.  For over a year now, I’ve loved black, white, and green as a color scheme.  Then I made a post about those colors.  That post is by far the most-viewed on this blog, and that color palette is popping up all over the web.  I’m not sure that I want to have the same wedding design as so many other brides.  Then again, if I love it so much, does it really matter?

Anyway, one of the other color schemes I’m considering is white.  Yep, just shades of white.  Maybe with a few hints of beige and gold.  I haven’t created an inspiration board for this scheme yet.  I’m planning a future mega-post, with a few different inspiration boards, to see my choices side-by-side.

Instead, I’m bringing to the blog the bridesmaids’ look.  I love the look of whites, especially when each bridesmaid chooses her own dress, of any style.  Evidence that this looks beautiful, courtesy of Jasmine Star:

Upon seeing this photo, I headed to my go-to source for dresses, Nordstrom, then to a great shoe shop, Zappos, to create this possible bridal party look.

It would be so nice and easy to tell my bridesmaids to find a white dress and a neutral shoe, and leave it at that.  I definitely plan on making things easy for my bridesmaids.  This can be done with any color really.  It is done a lot with black, and I’ve seen images all over the web with all sorts of different bridal party looks.  There really are no rules anymore, and I’m loving it!

I love when I run across dresses and can totally see them as part of a wedding.  The top three (j.crew, Vivienne Tam via bluefly, and j.crew) are the most untraditional, followed by two, pretty, but understated dresses (JS boutique and Kay Unger, both via Nordstrom).

These are definitely dresses that I would wear for our own wedding (for which the plans have totally changed, but more on that later).  They would also make great rehearsal dinner dresses for the more traditional or formal bride.

A special thanks goes to the fiance for lovingly created this collage for my photoshop-dumb self.

I have been in love with red and turquoise for a couple of years now, but never thought to do an inspiration board featuring it. Then I ran across a photo on Jonathan Canlas’ blog (photo of couple at center) a year or so ago, and wanted to build a wedding around it. Sadly, I have just now gotten around to it! Inspiration boards take me awhile to do, considering i painstakingly search for photos on my crawling dial-up internet. Also, I try not to just take photos from popular wedding inspiration sites and paste them together. I try to create a certain feel, and make you feel like you were at the “wedding” pictured.

I picture this wedding as being heavily stark white, with loud punches of turquoise and red in unexpected places. It is whimsical, light-hearted, and modern. I think this is my favorite board to date!

Image Sources:

• Tags on chairs from Martha Stewart
• Chandelier from Decorexi Ltd
• Invitations from Etsy‘s MichelleBrusegaard
• Dress by Carmen Marc Valvo, via Nordstrom
• Pic of couple by Jonathan Canlas
• Lollipop from Karen Smallbone
• Guestbooks from Martha Stewart
• Dahlia ring pillow from Etsy‘s BrassPaperclip
• Table from the galleries at TheKnot