Monday, 11 August 2014

DIY wedding - tip #101

My best friend has a wedding stationery business on the side so she was the first person I went to after I got engaged as she has experienced a lot of weddings through her business.  Her first tip to me was

Make a colour swatch of your chosen wedding colours and keep it in your wallet.
She took me to Spotlight and I chose some satin ribbon in our chosen wedding colours and also in the width proportional to our colours.  Our main colour is a dark navy, our secondary colour is silver/grey and then our highlight colour is fuchsia.


I actually used this when I was buying bridesmaids dresses and the navy matches perfectly!!!

15 comments:

  1. That is such a great idea. Might past this on to my bestie who is getting married next year :-)

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    1. It's such little effort but actually comes in handy!

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  2. Congratz on picking your colours! We have yet to do this as I'm just so indecisive. :P

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    1. I found it was easier to just make a decision and stick with it. The longer I have to make decisions, the harder it is to make the decision!

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  3. What a great idea!! We didn't really have colours until our invites were made, so then I just carried around a spare invite (that got ratty and banged up!)

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    1. Hehe colours are something I'm really particular about so this has come in very handy.

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  4. that is so much better than carrying around loose pieces of material like i did! hope all the wedding planning is going well :)

    reckless abandon

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    1. It's going very smoothly. I am being really chillaxed about everything and just ticking random things off the list as I get to it to minimise stress.

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    1. Not a problem! Have you chosen your colours yet?

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    1. Thanks Kacie! I think they're decent winter wedding colours without being overly girly (weddings that are all pasta pink scare me). I will be using the pink ever so scarcely as I understand not everyone appreciates pink to the same degree as I do.

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  7. Love the colours, I cannot wait for your wedding!

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  8. hah! Why didn't we think of that? Good tip!

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