Turquoise and Purple, peacock and lavender, teal and violet. What.

Colours:  

Our initial range:

We seem to have settled on these shades of turquoise/teal and purple/lavender, and need to narrow it down to a final shade of each. 

Probably my favourite purple.

A little too green but headed in the right direction.

These last two look like easter together, but are separately very pretty.

Easter egggggg.

I'm not sure if that is possible before we settle on our first bulk purchase of decoratives. Right now I am buying tiny amounts of things and seeing how they look together.  

We are also in the midst of deciding if/how to incorporate base colours like white, black, and silver. J likes the participation of black and white equally. I am dutifully aware of the medium-tone wood paneling we will be working with on the lower halves of the walls in the reception venue, as well as the wooden ceiling beams. This leads me to wonder, which base colour(s) will help the wood to blend into the evening's palette? Probably not black. Black will make the wood look incomplete or unfinished. White or silver? White may potentially be option that looks the most clean/streamlined as a base colour for turquoise and purple if they all need to be friends with wood. I don't know!

Lind Hall - False Creek Community Center

Lots of good natural light until the sun sets! 

What does this mean for tablecloths, runners and draping fabrics?
Since we have two colours, should we skip using a base colour at the tables?
Like turquoise tablecloths with purple runners?
Alternating between straight turquoise and straight purple from table to table? White tablecloths with alternating turquoise or purple runners and accents?

Above all, I don't want the wood to stand out in a tacky way. This is not a shabby-chic country wedding, and I don't want to feel barn-like. Must find a way to make the wood feel at home! Or a way to drape so much f*ck!n& white tulle everywhere that the wood isn't mentally present. J likes the wood. Must make the wood feel at home. Goal in life: figure out the best way to bring turquoise, purple, and wood together, with or without a base colour.

Do It Ourselves

DIY.
DIO(urselves) does not have the same ring to it.
Thank god I will have J's help with all of this, and thank god she loves to make and bake and dream just like I do.

So it would seem that doing as much of this wedding ourselves as possible will not only be rewarding and memorable, but save us a lot of cash in the process. I like that idea. It means more room to take a nice honeymoon, more room to make our lives together even better, and more room to save for the baby-house-travelling-etc. that will fill our lives long after the Big Day.

This all leads me to wonder: How much can, and more importantly how much should we tackle ourselves? And how much can we make a small budget stretch?


All these sudden thoughts are generally circling my head, thoughts like "I should look for tulle on Craigslist every day." and "How can we cook for 65 people and transport it to the reception venue while wearing wedding gowns and also not seeing each other before the ceremony?" and "What if I just crochet 15 table runners and do some elephant-sized paintings to hang in the reception hall?" and "Can we mass-brew wine in our closet?". It seemed like a good idea to start logging and categorizing and sifting through the mental olympics in weddingplanningland that generally lead me nowhere at 3 a.m.

Who knows? Maybe this will lead to an artfully-planned wedding! Or maybe just chronicle the process of me slowly losing my mind.