Inspiration: Flower bouquet

Of all the wedding planning things I have done, my most favorite thing ever... is the wedding flowers.. I love gathering inspiration pictures of flower bouquet / arrangement ( Even after I finalize and not going to change my wedding flowers). i am even inspired to take flower arrangement classes (much to my fiance's disagreement)... He's probably scared I'll jump ship from a good paying job in finance to maybe a florist? although they probably make good money too..

So I don't want to get all my inspiration boards to waste, I want to share all my favorite bouquets to you.. and if you need me to figure out where i grab it from (which will be hard) but leave me a comment, and I will try to see if I can find the source of it and perhaps the whole wedding related to the bouquet.. some of the special ones I still remember :)

Wedding jewelry search.. Necklace reveal

wedding jewelry is a painful search... for now this is what I have.. a necklace that I will pick up hopefully tomorrow, sitting slightly lower than the picture :) What are you wearing for your wedding jewelry and are you having a hard time finding it?

Who's with me to vote off this shirt and bow tie combo

OK FIRST.... think about casual elegance theme, silver, light pink, ballgown Vera Wang dress, soft , romantic yet modern...

And then see this:

Who is with me to vote off this shirt and bow tie combo that my fiance wants to wear for our wedding day???

DIY Menu Canvas board

Okay first see this post where I talk about my love for chalk boards but I have no money or the intention to create a chalk board.

Next see some inspiration pictures:

and then of course don't forget my invitation which also has made it into the menu board:

And... the final result.. ta da..........

It takes me about 3 hours to do or maybe 2.5 hours.

First i have an old canvas, big enough for the menu, I paint it all black... Let it dry for a couple days...

Second, I start to write the Menu on it using pencil.. That might be hard if you're not as good on keeping the writing straight so use rulers and stuff

Third, I decided to go with white paint (instead of grey which is my color) to make it contrast more and start writing over my pencil. and then add those pink flowers (inspired from my invitation) into it..

Fourth, I haven't done it but I am hoping to erase the pencil writings.. either by an eraser (gosh I hope it works) or just painting black over it.. The beauty of oil paint is you can just paint over it if it's wrong.. i heard acrylic dry faster but I like the look of oil for colors better...

Good luck trying!! What do you think of my menu canvas board?

cake topper

soo cute... do you think will and kate want one? see here

Biggest News ever.....

I am in the process of booking my most favorite live painter Agnes Csiszar YAYYYYY................. I'm super duper excited......................

I love her works...... I love how her painting really show resemblance to the people instead of a total impressionism where i can't even see the face of the guests.... So I'm super estatic.. Ok so I'm still working out the contract right now but still estatic because a couple weeks ago she told me that she was booked and I was soooo bummmed...... and then today she emailed me and said that my date got freed up... yayyy

What do you guys think of my live painting idea???