Inspiraton strikes!

I had this great "aha!" moment the other day: peacock feathers. As in, I want peacock feather accents worked into the wedding. Why? Because I've always loved peacocks and I feel like this could add that perfect glam touch to our modest little event.

Starting with invitations...we were originally going with an extremely simple, black and white invite. Digital printing, no muss or fuss. We really aren't willing to shell out an ungodly sum of money on something that will end up in most people's trash cans. But, owing to my peacock pondering, we've now changed course with the invitations and are leaning toward something like this (click to enlarge):

These are both from one of my favorite stationary sites on the interwebs, http://www.hellolucky.com/. I've ordered cards from them before and their work is simply beautiful. We would do these on plain white cardstock with all printing in black, except for the eye of the feathers which would be a brilliant green. They're still digital, though, so it will save us a lot of cash. Which is always faboo.


And I knew from the moment I got engaged that I wanted a vintage-ish dress with a birdcage veil. There's just something about a beautiful, netted birdcage veil that sets my pulse racing. I have no idea what I'll do about the dress, but the veil is officially covered. This site, http://www.unveiledbridaldesigns.com/, makes gorgeous, one-of-a-kind veils. This is the french netted angle birdcage veil I like:

And this is a good approximation of the comb detail I'd like at the side of the veil, which she also hand-makes to specification:



Luke and I discussed the possibility of using a small peacock feather for the boutonnieres (just try spelling that word without looking it up!), but he's not entirely sold on it. To be honest, I'm not sure I am, either. We initially decided against boutonnieres because, well, what guy is really jazzed about wearing flowers on his chest? But I thought it just might give a nice dash of color and super-cool class to his suit. He agreed to try it and see how it looks.

We'll also do some peacock feathers in the vases on the reception tables along with the winter branches and plain white candles. We may also experiment with adding a peacock feather or two to the bridesmaids' bouqets or even my own. Who knows? I'm open to ideas.

For the first time I can really, truly picture our wedding in my head. Before I only had vague ideas of what we wanted and didn't want; now, it's actually coming together in one cohesive vision. So that's kind of dope. Now we just have to really, really concentrate on finding a venue. For sheezy.