Our Inspiration!

Well, it's more like a collage than inspiration board, but here's something for you to look at. I'll list the links for most of them (in no particular order) down below the picture with a bit about them.



The dress is a photo of my Jim Hjelm inspired lace wedding dress. There will be an orange sash instead of the champagne color there.

I think that all the plants and things speak for themselves. They are decorations, inspiration for the color palette, and just fun things. We like the idea of using wheat, gourds, cattails, pine cones, and leaves throughout the place rather than having matchy-matchy things purchased from a florist.

The boutonniere is by the French Mouse on Etsy, and we loooove it.

That room with the Christmas tree lights in the rafters and the white round lanterns is actually the Lodge where we are having our reception at Camp Kiwanee. We will be married on the deck overlooking the lake, and then move inside for the food and dancing.

These rings are made out of recycled gold, by a company called GreenKarat. Extra bonus, Shaun's mother is donating some of her gold jewelery to use as store credit.

The plates are a particular type of disposable dinnerware by VerTerra that's made of just fallen leaves and water. So they're non-toxic, biodegradable, compostable. Plus, they just plain old look awesome :3

Let's see, what else is in there that needs explaining... I think the last thing is the invitation you can see on the bottom. These invitations by the InviteSite are also biodegradable, and embedded with Cosmo seeds. Shaun's head over heals for plant-able wedding invitations. Personally, I would like to design our own invitations (it would be less expensive AND guaranteed to suite us perfectly), but that would probably nix out the whole invitations -> flowers and/or herbs (planting the seeds of love!).

Lastly, the bouquet (Martha Stewart) is made mostly of herbs, and a lot of these things I can get right in my own yard. The Lambsear is a favorite plant of my mother; the rosemary, sage, and thyme are lovely kitchen spices that I already have (I'd also like to have a sprig or two of bay, if I can keep a tree alive. I heard those things are tough!); there are tons of little flowers like grape hyacinths and violets that sprout up in our back yard if I felt inclined, though I'm more likely to hit up the local farmers market for more yellow-orange-red hues than purple. I have to say I was already thinking of having an herbal bouquet, or probably just a poesy, but this is a nice picture that helps to illustrate how lush and fertile they are.