Wedding Details!

I knew before I even got engaged what I wanted my wedding to "look like." I knew that I wanted it to be a beautiful, classic Southern soiree and that I wanted lots of personalized details. We decided on the color scheme of champagne, pear green, and ivory and I couldn't have loved it more!

Walking into our reception and seeing everything I planned for so many months was such a surreal experience. I painstakingly planned every little detail and pictured it all in my head for forever, but seeing it all together with all of our families and friends there was so magical!

I definitely could not have done it all without such wonderful helpers! My mom's best friends growing up came the Thursday before the wedding and were such a HUGE help! They made the mason jar lanterns, helped me finish all of the candy jars, and basically did almost everything the day of the wedding!

Here is some advice for you bride to be's: no matter how much you plan, things will go wrong, and you WILL need lots of help! I was obsessed with planning this wedding and thought nothing could go wrong because I planned everything so well...WRONG! Nothing major went wrong, but it was SO wonderful to have people handling the problems and setting everything up so I had absolutely nothing to worry about except marrying my sweet boy! Moral of the story- get you some help...LOTS of it!

Now on to the pictures. I'm a little obsessed. One of the pictures of the tent all set up is the background on my computer. Not a picture of my sweet new husband and I; but a picture of the beautiful tablecloths, gold Chivari chairs, and gorgeous centerpieces. HA! I fought hard for the gold Chivari chairs and I am SO glad I did! Many will argue that no one notices chairs, but I think they made all the difference! We also splurged a little on the linens, because it was really important to me to have the exact green color that I imagined. Bridezilla?? Noooo! :) We had a lot of tall cocktail tables, so we didn't have to rent as many chairs (good way to save some money!)







I collected all of the paper lanterns for about a year before the wedding. The tent was very "blah" and needed something to jazz it up; the lanterns were perfect! My sweet, sweet, sweet husband, father in law, and some groomsmen spent 3 hours on the morning of the wedding putting these dumb things up. From what I understand, it was a HUGE pain in the butt and took multiple trips to Wal Mart to figure out, but boy was it worth it! They definitely changed the look of the whole tent and made it look more finished! Most of the lanterns came from either Pier 1 or www.thepaperlanternstore.com- a super cheap way to jazz up your reception!





We had a florist do all of the bouquets, bouts, and corsages; but decided to go the DIY route for our centerpieces. We ordered all of the ivory roses and hydrangea in bulk from Costco in Greenville. Not only was it super easy, but it was SO much cheaper than ordering them through a florist, or having them actually make the centerpieces. Armed with all of my collected vases, some inspiration pictures, and the Costco flowers; Carrie and Brenda of CB Events did all of the centerpieces! Everything turned out exactly as I imagined; they were such a huge help!

I found my inspiration picture for the tall centerpieces on Save On Crafts. I bought the white sticks on their website and they sat in our garage for like a year. Love the look of the modern sticks with the classic hydrangea! Here is the inspiration picture:


And some pictures of our centerpieces:






Early on in the wedding planning, I started to collect vintage milk glass vases and cups to use for the smaller centerpieces. My grandparents made frequent trips to the local flea market, and got most of my vases there! They are all so unique and special, and they were beautiful with the white flowers at the reception. Here are a few inspiration pictures and some pictures of how ours turned out:



Some of our milk glass centerpieces:








I will save the rest of the details for another post; sorry this was so long!