Using gray as one of your wedding colors

Picking your wedding colors is a big decision since so many other things will be affected by this choice - your invitations, bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen socks, napkins, flowers...the list goes on. It always helps to have a good neutral as part of your color pallet. If you have all bold colors you may find that certain accessories are overwhelming such as lime green vests for your groomsmen. Here we have put together some fun color pallets that all incorporate a shade of gray to play as the neutral color. See if any of these inspire you.

Using gray as one of your wedding colors

Picking your wedding colors is a big decision since so many other things will be affected by this choice - your invitations, bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen socks, napkins, flowers...the list goes on. It always helps to have a good neutral as part of your color pallet. If you have all bold colors you may find that certain accessories are overwhelming such as lime green vests for your groomsmen. Here we have put together some fun color pallets that all incorporate a shade of gray to play as the neutral color. See if any of these inspire you.

Wedding Day Schedule

When I was getting down to the final to do's on my wedding checklist I realized that I needed to come up with a day of schedule - at first this seemed like an easy task and I sat down with a pen and a piece of scrap paper thinking I could crank it out in a few minutes and cross one more thing off the list. Well, I was sadly mistaken. The day of schedule turned out to be far more complicated and took much longer than a few minutes to put together. I ended up creating a spreadsheet that had a column for each important person and vendor. This made tracking simultaneous activities much easier :) When I shared the spreadsheet with my bridesmaids I honestly thought they were going to think I was crazy, but they all let me know what a huge relief it was to know what everyone was supposed to be doing. My vendors loved it and the day could not have gone more smoothly! Everyone was so impressed by it that they said I should share it on my blog. So here it is! Feel free to download it here and customize to your liking - enjoy and good luck with your planning.

“Rules” for Invitation Wording

Invitation wording seems like an easy thing to tackle until you sit down to actually decide on what you want to say and realize you have no idea what you should be including! Here are some general rules that are good to follow, but like all rules exceptions are inevitable.

When should you send save the dates?

This is a really a two fold question. First, does every couple need to send save the dates? The answer is no. This is a fairly new custom that brides and grooms have adopted. Sending out a save the date is a good idea if you are having a destination wedding or if you have a lot of guests who will be traveling to the wedding location.