Let’s talk about feathers! So how would you use Feathers at your Wedding? As you may have noticed, this years feathers are rocking the show when it comes to weddings. You can find everything feather related almost on every Pinterest board. Previous year we styled a winter country wedding and one of our “go to” decoration inspirations were gray feathers. Therefore, we decided to dedicate this post to how to use feathers at your wedding. We included feathers in all floral arrangements as well as the bridal bouquet and grooms boutonniere.
We instructed our the florist to incorporate the feathers in the groom’s boutonniere and to combine it with grey and grey complimentary colors, like white for instance.
Because we needed to keep the theme cohesive, the florist also used the same materials in the bridal bouquet and the table centrepiece.
Wedding favours, we used custom made cake pops with white chocolate and coconut topping for each guest but you can also tie a feather for each guest, or add it on top of the box instead of bows for more modern looking favours
Get inspired by these lovely gifts from Lia Griffith
Use dream catchers to fill your empty spaces and give your wedding the cosy feeling.
Check all the photos from this wedding at 100 Layer Cake
Read this step by step tutorial on how to create gold and glitter dipped feather garlands from Michelle of Michelle, Ryan and Ellie Mae
Feathers for decoration with balloons tutorial from Frankie Magazine
Dont miss this real wedding from Borrowed and Blue and get ideas for Menu holder feather decoration
We hope our post will inspire you to create the wedding of your dreams!
~ {Diamonds and Kisses} from WBS
Don’t you just love to browse through all those beautiful weddings on social media pages? We know we do! We get inspired by the wedding ideas and trends out there and wish to implement them in our styling, which is not always easy, since we must respect bride’s wishes their visions. After all, it is her day.
You might also realize that sometimes the posts say real wedding other times styled wedding/styled shoot. Well, what’s the difference? Ok, “real wedding” is usually, real, as the word implies. But the styled one is usually a “fake” wedding. Most of the time, couples on the picture are actually models and don’t even know each other and the whole set is staged. But don’t get mad, this is actually a good thing.
We all love SMP blog posts and inspirations. Abby Larson, a Blogger from Style Me Pretty says in this video how important are styled weddings for them. Abby Larson says that “styled shoots are really important for helping to shift the tied a little bit and are giving people creative freedom to try new things,” which ultimately sets new wedding trends.
Styled weddings are becoming more and more interesting in the wedding industry. You might wonder why these kind of weddings are necessary or even desired. Well, styled weddings or shoots are a way for wedding professionals such as planners, stylists, designers, photographers or even wedding bloggers, to artistically express themselves and to show what they think is beautiful, trending and of course to express their style. It is a way for all the vendors and experts to get together and work just like they would for a real wedding. Catering will prepare and style the food they think expresses them the most, florists will prepare arrangements that shows their capabilities, the photographer will express their artistic abilities and the stylist/planner will organize, style, design and execute the whole event to bring it all together.
Usually when a specialist has a client (a couple who wishes to get married) they need to respect couple’s wishes in order to realize their vision and cannot push all of their ideas regarding the style and decoration. Therefore, in order to show their style to potential clients, wedding professionals show what they are capable of with one of those styled shoots. Every planner, photographer, etc has their own artistic and working technique. It is important for couples to understand the way they work in order not to be disappointed on the end. This is especially true when you are hiring a photographer. If you do not like his/her quality of work, why would you book them? For more on “How to book the right photographer for your wedding”, read our blog post about it.
Also be aware that many of the weddings and wedding decoration you see on social media today are either styled or organized by some professional/blogger/expert/vendor. And, if you wish to have one of those weddings, be prepared to extend your budget 🙂
Winter wedding color chart by Weddings By Sanya
One other reason is to show trending themes, colors and prepare the easy to use color charts like these which you can mainly find on Pinterest and which are useful, to not only inspire brides to be, but other wedding professionals as well. From these charts, you can gather ideas inspirations, trends and color palettes for your wedding.
That is why, last winter we decided to organize a winter styled wedding photo shoot in Slovenia. We got together with Vanessa Tivadar Photography and organized a promotional event, that would do just that, inspire you to think different. A red wedding dress might not be your typical dress for a bride to wear, but this was our designer’s inspiration we worked with to create this red/grey Christmas styled wedding. The “feather” looking sequence pattern on the dress gave us the idea of using feathers as part of the decoration. We focused on winter colors like grey, brown from nature and red from Christmas and of course, the dress. The whole wedding theme was inspired and designed on the basis of the location and the dress. The location was chosen beforehand and we knew the theme had to be rustic/country. The dress was a vision and creation by our dress designer and we knew we need to incorporate red colors to bring it all together + some gold for the bling 😉
Enjoy with these amazing photos of our winter wedding. The project was primarily organized to promote local businesses and places, as well as the idea of winter weddings.
Don’t miss our behind the scenes photos on the end of the post. But first, here are all our collaborators who did an amazing job at helping us pull this project together. We would like to thank everyone who participated at our styled wedding.
The season for weddings has started and where better than Greece, to have your Greek blue inspired wedding. Golden beaches, crystal waters, clear blue sky and those little white houses in the distance. We could find different shades of blue almost anywhere we looked these days. But as you may know, Kyklades or Greek islands are especially famous for their white houses with intense blue colors. Islands like Paros, Naxos, Santorini, Mykonos and many others are known for the narrow streets, white stone houses with blue doors and window frames and lets not forget that blue cloudless summer sky. In fact, even inside most hotels or homes, you will find this famous color combination.
We went hunting for blue-colored inspirations all over Greece and here is what we came up with.
Island Inspirations
We would like to share with you some of our photos, made while walking carelessly down the small city alleys of Paros and Mykonos, while relaxing on the beaches and closely observing the culture of these islands. Don’t forget to save the color charts we prepared for your Pinterest boards!
Walking around Athens, every shop has something to offer, but what stayed in our memories were the blue and white color combinations that seemed to be around every corner. This summer, also major stores like Zara Home are trying to promote bright and vivid blue colors which are currently trending in Greece.
We had the privilege to be part of some amazing weddings and here are few Island Blue inspired photos from those weddings. Each wedding was different with a different theme and style, but every one of them had some shades of blue incorporated. Either that be Blue suit, Blue sky or Blue decoration. Here are some of the photos with blue details or go to our gallery for more photos from each of these weddings.
Table centerpiece with feathers
