Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Overload....

Ok, so I have been going crazy...need to stop for a minute and regroup!  I want a vintage Victorian wedding as that is my favorite time period and my favorite look...but all the vintage pics and weddings I find are awash in a palette of pinks, creams, browns.  I love those colors, don't get me wrong. 

I love the vintage look so much, I have even changed from the Damask I had originally planned to the great vintage look of Burlap.  I plan to use several antique pieces in my wedding, like my husband-to-be's parent's kitchen table, like old planters that belonged to my great-grandmother.  I cannot tell you how much I love it all.  I adore it.  I live it, I breathe it.  It is all just part of what makes me, well, me!  The problem is that my favorite colors on the planet are red and black.  I have my heart set on red...red, red, red! 

There is nothing more elegant in my mind than a palette of red, black and cream.  Think about mercury glass candle holders beside a glorious bouquet in red and you will know why I say that.  All the pieces we have purchased thus far are black wrought iron pieces and those things we have that aren't black, we are painting.  I just cannot seem to find a way to integrate the two. I want the burlap, the softness, the beauty of the vintage wedding to somehow go hand in hand with the bold and beautiful color of red.  I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make the two go together in my mind, so needless to say, my mind has been swirling.  I have made or am making most everything for my wedding...the signs, the centerpieces, the invitations, everything.  I have maintained a vintage feel in everything I have done thus far...it's the decor that is killing me.  How do I make it all work?  How do I bring together the two elements that most scream me?  Red is far from the softness I have seen so frequently in pictures of vintage/rustic weddings.  Ahhhh, mind overload.  I think a meltdown is imminent.  So, I believe I will take a break from thinking and just enjoy the time I spend with my children creating these things for my wedding and the fun I have planning what is sure to be the most incredible day of my life...and I will dream in red.  :)

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