Colour scheme mood boards for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone users!

So as I’ve recently mentioned, Mr M and I are in the process of buying a house, and yesterday I got a bit ahead of myself and started to plan the colour schemes for the different rooms (saddo, I know!). 

I was doing this on my iPad, after downloading a free app called Dulux Colour Concept, which is basically a digital scrapbook with access to all colours within their range of paints.

So what I was thinking, is that this’d be a PERFECT tool for planning and developing your colour scheme for your wedding!

You can add your own photos (i.e. you could put pictures of your venue, centrepieces etc) and then use their colour palette and find colours of paint that match your scheme! This would be a fab way of helping to decide which to go for if you were stuck between two different colour schemes!

Here’s an example of one of the ones I’ve made for our house..

And what’s better, is that you can create as many different ‘pages’ as you like, and then email them to your other half, venue or wedding planner!

Plus, as it is FREE you might as well have a go…

A little on the quiet side..

The last week or so has been one hell of a busy time for Mr M and I as we’re currently in the process of applying for a mortgage, and we’re viewing houses!

This will be our first house, and the first place we’ve properly lived together. Everything is all very new to us, and the financial side of it is quite (actually, very) confusing! We’ve seen a place we REALLY like, and viewed it last night! Annoyingly, we can already see ourselves living there, which is a pain as we’re right at the start of the process and it could get snapped up by someone else while we’re doing the paperwork! So I’m trying not to get my hopes up!

As a result, wedding planning has taken a bit of a back seat for the last week or so! But I have a day off work tomorrow, so it’ll be all stations go, go, go!!

My new favourite website

My new favourite website is dotcomgiftshop.com!

It is FAB!!!

It caters for weddings, household goodies and garden items… and its all just lovely, lovely stuff!!

Its like a kitschy-er (and probably cheaper) notonthehighstreet.com!

Love it!!!

List of photography shots

My photographer has been very helpful and sent me over a list of photography shots I can ‘choose from’, so she can make sure she gets exactly what WE want out of her services.

So I thought I’d share that list with you! I’ve added a few more different shots I want taken to the list, as there’s certain things I’d like focused on  that aren’t already on the list.

Photo shots

Bride getting ready
Bride full length shot
Bride head and shoulders shot
Bride with bridesmaids
Bridesmaids
Bride and mother
Bride and father
Bride leaving the house/hotel
Groom arriving
Groom with best man
Groom with best man and ushers
Bride arriving in car
Bride with father by the car
Bride at wedding venue entrance
Bride at wedding venue entrance with bridesmaids
Rear shot of Bride and Groom at alter after bridesmaids have sat down
Signing of register
Bride and Groom walking down the aisle
Coming out of wedding venue door
Confetti shot
Bride and Groom head and shoulder shot
Bride and Groom full length shot
Bride on own (dress arranged)
Bride and Groom with wedding party
Bride and Groom with all guests
Bride and Groom by the car
Bride and Groom inside the car
Bride and Groom walking into reception
Bride and Groom toasting champagne
Bride and Groom cutting cake
Wedding ring shot

I’ve also added onto the list things like shots of DIY projects around the reception before guests arrive, and made a list of areas inside and outside of the venue I’d like photos taken in.

My photographer said to me when we booked her ‘You tell me what you want, and I’ll do it’ as she wanted us to get exactly what WE wanted from our wedding photos, rather than have a set of photos that weren’t as we imagined.

Seating arrangement conundrum

So, I started to have a think about the seating plan for our wedding breakfast, and oh my goodness it is TRICKY!

Having to squeeze 80 guests onto tables is hard enough, then there’s family groups, friendship groups, arguments within groups, “so and so wont sit with bla bla – they hate each other” and the old age phrase “traditional”.

The top table itself is hard enough to organise; in our wedding party there is 13 people. But the width of our venue will only allow for tables to seat 10. So do I go for Mr M and myself and just our parents? Or do I go for Mr M and myself, plus Bridesmaids and Groomsmen?

Apparantly (according to my Mum), the top table should be the married couple and their parents. No offence to our lovely parents, but I think I’d prefer to sit with those we’ve especially chosen to be a part of our wedding (Bridesmaids and Groomsmen). It’d also be easier for the Best Man to do his speech if he was sitting at the top table; if he was sitting with his friends, he’d have to cross the room to get to the front, which is a bit of a faff.

But anyway, the top table still needs deciding upon, so I’ll leave that for the moment.

Then there’s the other 70 guests. And here’s my problem.

My friendship groups are very small, and none of the groups know each other. Mr M’s friendship group on the other hand is very very big, everyone knows each other, and the group is rapidy expanding where babies are being created. This pattern is also mimicked with family. So this poses problems; some of my tables for guests are quite small, whereas the tables for Mr M’s guests couldn’t fit enough people round them, so his groups are having to be split.

Oh. My. Goodness.

Its tiring me out just thinking about it!

We are presuming here that all the guests we’ve invited will actually say yes to coming; if anyone cant make it, then I’ll have to have another think about possible seating arrangements!!

I’ve given the draft version of the seating plan to Mr M to have a look over for me, so I’m sure he’ll find a load of things that need changing because of ‘so and so, and bla bla’….

Today has been a great wedding DIY day!

I have spent the majority of today on the computer, designing various different stationery items for our wedding. And I have to say its been quite successful!

I’ve got quite a large (and expanding) list of crafts going on at the moment but I have managed to make a nice dent in the list by getting on with it today!

So far today I’ve designed all the place cards for on the tables, created a possible seating plan, designed the menu for on the tables, edited the Order of Service sheet and a few other little bits and bobs! I haven’t printed anything yet, as firstly, I’m all out of ink, and secondly, all these things may need to be edited nearer the time, so there isn’t much point in printing them all out just yet! But it will have made it a lot of easier in the run up to the wedding knowing its ready to be printed!

The downside to getting on with it all? I’m running out of DIY projects : (

Sweetie buffets

Mr M and I went to a wedding back in August 2010, and the Bride and Groom had organised a sweetie buffet. Looking back it was pretty immense, but in all honesty, we found it near to the end of the night (pretty poor positioning in the reception room) and my general memories were looking at it in awe, and then stuffing marshmallow ropes and jelly snakes into our mouths. Classy, I know.

But now, sweetie buffets are becoming more popular and organised affairs, and it’s kind of something I want to be a part of.

So on my journey to deciding whether I want to create some kind of sweetie table on our wedding day, I though I’d share with you some of my FAVOURITE photos from other couples weddings! I’ve also included photos of the labels they’ve used to name each of their sweets – I love a good set of labels (and possible DIY project at that!)!

One word: YUM!