The wedding colors

I never really created a wedding color palette. It just sort of happened.
I like green and we wanted clovers. Perfect fit.
Ok, spring wedding..let's do various shades of green. Perfect.
I want tulips. I like purple tulips. Green and purple, a favorite color combo of mine. Perfect!!
I want Blumebox centerpieces. Oooo, their sage is too green. Eucalyptus is nice...but it's kinda blue. Okay! No problem.
I want recycled paper. Hmmmmm, natural? Done!
Ivory dress...fits in perfect.
No ivory sashes? Ok champagne it is!

I basically made all these decisions on the fly and I was getting kinda worried that it would all look ridiculous together. So, today I went on colourlovers.com. A really cool site where you can make your own color palette! Finally I can see all my colors together!

Not too bad!!! And kinda relaxing. Now I can breathe a sigh of relief and continue on my wedding planning way. But before I go, here is a peak at some of my inspiration:


The box is a Blumebox and will be the vase for our centerpieces. The three pices of paper are the colors of our placecards (one color for each dinner choice), and the bag is for our candy buffet. Oh, and that tiny piece of ribbon is the actual color of the bridemaid dresses!

Hotel Gift Bags

I got an early jump on some of the components of our hotel gift bags this weekend. I created shampoo, conditioner and lotion with a personalized wedding scent!

To do this I bought 2 oz. bottles with caps and unscented lotion, shampoo and condition (Aveda Personal Blends). Then I choose an Aveda Key Element to scent them. I chose Key Element #3, which is supposed to be a soothing scent.

Next I made labels for all the bottles. I choose green labels to coordinate with all our other stuff and I included use directions on all of them, as well as an explanation of the personalized scent.

Here they are!!