How awesome is this bride's dress and bridesmaids' dresses?

Grabbed from here

Saw the bride's dress from Green Wedding Shoes and the dress is designed by Christian Sirriano I have to say the bridesmaids' dress look amazing too especially the back view!! Ok I'll need to give more updates to you all soon!

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 :)

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?

Table tops: Lace tied napkin; cake stand; dome cover

Here are things I am lusting over right now.... Should I do it???? Love the lace tied napkins.... dome cover cake stands and the inside will be one big flower....

How how.. should I pull the trigger? The cheapest I found on pink lace is about $4 per 8 yards.. I'm guessing I will spend about $50 on that total... Here's one I found

The cheapest I've found on the dome cover is about $15 on Pottery Barn. See here and here

Pink and Gray Inspiration board

From here

aww some of it is really cool.. like the gray dress.. DROOOLLLL.....

My Indonesian traditional dress

Without further a do.. here's the design that my Maid of Honor comes up with for my Indonesian traditional dress that we will custom make by an Indonesian tailor.... Awww loooovvvveeee.................... This budget will come out of the Indonesian budget :P :P :P can't afford it in the US budget.. My fiance thinks I'm cheating when I do this...

Are you incorporating something cultural on your wedding?

Baby's breath for ceremony decor?

So I changed my mind about my circle ceremony and going back to traditional ceremony set up now.. my venue can't really accomodate the circle ceremony option boo... I wanted 2 big vases of flowers (see picture the one with two big vases of green and pink arrangements)... i think that can cost me around $100 each... i wonder if I should just change that into a big arrangement of baby's breath...? not sure how much money will be saved there.... what do you think???

do you like baby's breath only arrangement?

Bird cake topper

I don't know why... I have a thing for bird cake topper. This one is from Bhldn for $298.. Unfortunately I don't love it enough that I will pay $298 for it.. and it doesnt really go with our theme .. BOO...