Wedding help!

[wineandcake]

I posted in J15, but I love seeing other people's wedding so I'm asking here as well. I have no ideas for centerpieces, hair styles, or ceremony music and need inspiration, pinterest is overwhelming. We're having a fall wedding at a lodge, more than likely an outdoor ceremony unless it rains or snows.

So, show me your wedding hair and decor! And post your ceremony music so I can YouTube it thanks!

[seadragon2013]

I'll play!

We had a classic garden party style brunch wedding. I am a marine biologist, so decorations were beach-themed. We got married on Talk Like a Pirate Day, so we also had a bit of pirate theme as well, including a treasure chest cake that my mom surprised us with.



We had a classical guitarist for our ceremony and cocktail hour. We walked down the aisle to Pachelbel's Canon and Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desire. We had a wine pouring ceremony to a medley of Bob Marley love songs. We walked out to Greatful Dead's Ripple.

**Poofedy-Poof**

[dc2london]

Our venue actually provided center pieces. They were basically white hydrangeas in hurricane style vases, but they were lovely (and it was one less thing I had to think about!)

For ceremony music I love January Rain, an instrumental song by David Gray from the movie Serendipity

[summer]

Check out bellacoco.co.uk. I love her wedding ideas and decor. Mine was 10 years ago and done on a shoestring budget, so I don't have any great suggestions. Except sunflowers. My niece had them as centerpieces and her bouquet and they were lovely. I think they look so nice at a.m. outdoorsy wedding.

[crimsonandclover]

Is yours fancy or more casual? For our US wedding, I borrowed boxes of friends' table decorations in the colors we had chosen (I had 3 friends have at least one of the colors in their wedding, too). Then when we were decorating I told everyone to just pick a table and decorate it how they wanted. So it ended up that all the tables were decorated with things in our colors, but each one was different. I actually really liked it

In Germany a friend was in charge of decorating and she was very militant about it. My mom and I didn't decorate up to her standards, so we ended up leaving early the evening before. It ended up beautiful and was in orange and red, so fall colors. I'll see if I can find a picture.

[kleigh926]

My hair was half up and curled. I really liked how it turned out. And initially I was very against wearing a tiara but then I saw the one I wore and loved it. It was more like a headband instead of a princess-y crown.

Center pieces were a calla lily and rose together in a bud vase, on top of a mirror with rose petals and little gems sprinkled around. All our flowers were fake to save money.

I walked in to Canon in D, which is special to me because it's one of my dad's favorite songs. We had two friends sing "The Prayer" during the candle lighting and the recessional was The Wedding March. As a side note, I'm a pianist so I played and recorded all of the prelude, recessional, and postlude ahead of time to be played at our wedding. The processional was played live by my former piano teacher since that's tricky with timing. But I loved being able to do that, it added an extra personal touch.

Pics of hair and center pieces, they are pictures of pictures so I apologize for the subpar quality and I have no idea how huge they will be:

[crimsonandclover]

Here's a picture of the tables with colors that would work well for a fall wedding

[crimsonandclover]

And my hair- I had it done pretty much like kleigh926's I have natural curls, but not like that. I'll try to find a pic of my hair with my natural curls at our US ceremony.

[crimsonandclover]

We had regular church hymns during the ceremony (Let All Things Now Living, Now Thank We All Our God) and then for the candle-lighting in the US a friend sang "Jesus, You're Beautiful" - I love the song, but obviously it depends on your beliefs as to whether it's a good fit for your ceremony

[sjames2015]

Our wedding was in the foothills. The wedding was outside with a gazebo and a horse drawn carriage. My dress was white with a black stripe at the top and bottom. And one down the back with the entire train being black. I had my hair blonde with black underneath. I had 2 veils, one regular length and one train length. The train length one was used to tie our chairs together to show us as one.
The flower girls and ring barer walked into "Wheel in the Sky". The guys walked into "Sweet Child O Mine" The ladies walked into "Nothing but a Good Time" and we walked out to Highway to Hell.
My SILs table decoration I loved. You take a wine glass turn it upside down. Put a small flower in it then put a candle on the top (base).
Our cake was pretty normal. But I had a grooms cake made for his motorcycle racing. I'll find pictures.
Our wedding was not very traditional as DH is not religious at all and didn't want a lot of tradition.

[sjames2015]

My hair
Our cake and grooms cake
Back of my dress
With 2 veils
Pinterest of cool center pieces

[beenandgone]

I still can't get photos to post, but mine aren't exciting either. I was actually going for a soft, all up hair style. During my trial run, the stylist did great. But for the actual wedding? Wrong. And I didn't have enough time left for her to fix it.

So my hair was dumb and wrong, and she did a gallon of hair spray, so it looked plastic, too. I cried.

My dress was perfect, and I love it, but I wish it was about 10 sizes smaller... along with the person inside the dress.

Lastly, we were married at the courthouse, so there was no decorations. Our reception came several months later, and guess who has ZERO pictures? Yep. I totally forgot to take pictures. Headslap to me! Lol

[crimsonandclover]

Found one of my hair in the US - these are my natural curls with a bit of gel, and no poof on top, but otherwise the same hairstyle as the first ceremony in Germany

[crimsonandclover]

ps - The US wedding was 98°, really humid, and very windy. So my hair is perhaps not looking its best in this picture, which was after being outside for about 4 hours with pictures and the ceremony

[mishka29]

I made our center pieces. I got small terra cotta pots, spray painted them white, tied a ribbon around it (our wedding colours). I got some of that green sponge thing for flowers that holds water and then put a hydrangeas in each one.

Hair- nothing exciting to report. For favors we did jars with our custom labels and filled them with candy. Yum! Lol

[colinsfebmommy]

We had a fall wedding, here's the veil/hair/flowers/centerpieces

For my bouquet, the ivory flowers represented each of grandparents that weren't with us.

[Meghanfelldown]

We got engaged and honeymooned in Hawaii, so we had a very gentle Hawaiian theme, nothing kitschy. Just some tropical flowers here and there and out first dance was the ukulele "Somewhere Over the rainbow" because we heard it about every five minutes on our engagement trip.

Music: I'd had our processional music picked out since I was 13 and played it in the orchestra. It was "Jupiter" from Holst's The Planets. Then we signed the register to Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze and recessed to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love (we also walked into the reception venue to that song).

Colours: Our main colours were bright turquoise and fuchsia - the bridesmaids' dresses were turquoise and the flowers were fuchsia.

Our centrepieces were gel candles (My mum and I made them - dead easy) and bud vases filled with personalised M&M's that I ordered online.

My tired brain can't figure out how to upload a photo - GAH!

[creepyeyeball]

We had a winter wedding with red, black and gold as main colors. Centerpieces were alternating tables some with floral centerpieces - winter greenery, red roses - and others were floating candles three per table in various heights. We also sort of had a gaelic theme since DH was kilted and we had a bagpiper, so instead of table numbers we had little signs with a Gaelic word on each. The cards had gold on them to tie it in.

We did traditional wedding music -Jesu, Joy and the like. DH walked out to a piper and the bagpipes played Amazing Grace when we lit memory candles for grandparents. Recessional was pipes - Scotland the Brave, I think.

My hair is very long. I wore it half up in curls. I could only do that because it was December. Any humidity and my hair won't hold curls.

[expatmama]

Love all the wedding pictures! Wish I had some with me. I had an antique dress from the 20s and wore my hair in a crown of braids.

I wore stage shoes because I wanted to dance in heels and was really happy with the choice as they were comfy and looked cute.

Centerpieces were included in my venue. We had one simple dahlia in a slim case and tea lights. It worked well with our venue (a beautifully renovated farm house).