A very special Spring giveaway! (MyWeddingFavors.com)

Remember my post about being featured as a Bride on the Brink a few days ago?  You can check out the interview I did with MyWeddingFavors.com here. 

Well, I am so excited to be hosting a super cool giveaway via the amazing http://www.myweddingfavors.com/.  When I first started planning my wedding, I instantly new that I wanted a very unique, untraditional, unexpected wedding favor for my guests.  But I also knew that I was on a budget and trying to figure something out for 200 people was not going to be easy.  I instantly began looking through all kinds of online favor sites...there are tons of them out there!

And I was so excited when I finally found the lovely little keychain tape measure that I will be gifting each guest. 

Well, now, I am able to assist some of you other brides out there with a $25.00 e-gift certificate to http://www.myweddingfavors.com/.  As a spring bride myself, (Just about 47 days away now!) I figured we could put a fun spring twist on this giveaway.  So here are the rules:

1)  Go to the http://www.myweddingfavors.com/ web site and share with me what your favorite spring favor or item would be for your wedding and how you might use it (1 entry)
2)  Blog about this entry on your site and leave the link in a comment here (1 additional entry)
3)  Let me know that you are a follower (1 additional entry)

Be sure to leave me your e-mail address to contact you if you win.  The winner will be selected at random and announced on this blog on Saturday March 6th, 2010.

Best wishes everyone and can't wait to see your own ideas for some fun and unique favors!

**  Contest starts March 1st, 2010 and ends March 5th, 2010 at 8:59 PM PST (11:59 PM EST)

New Trends in Color Schemes

So just when I think I have come up with something very unique and different that no one has ever seen at a wedding before, it suddenly ends up on all the blogs and in all the magazines!  (sigh)  Oh well, I still LOVE my color scheme.  It is an aqua/turquoise with cranberry deep red accents.  You have to be careful with aqua and turquoise because there are so many variations - some even think of tiffany blue as an aqua which is truly not the color I chose.

It came to me while browsing through wedding web sites for coordinators.  I found a picture that I absolutely fell in love with not just the colors but the little favors and napkins and place cards.  And the funny thing is, it was from my very own venue (will blog on that later this week).  And so after confirming that was my color scheme, I began searching for dresses, favors boxes, ribbons, etc all to coordinate - but not overly done.

I eventually found a florist and while browsing through her books, realized that the florist I selected just so happened to be the same florist who did the flowers and deco for the wedding I used as my inspiration!  How awesome is that?  And then while browsing the blog about the wedding I found a company in Illinois that did all their stationery for the wedding and fell in love with her, too!  So now I have my colors, favor box ideas, florist, stationery company and inspiration all from the same wedding.  So funny. 

In some ways I don't want it to seem like I am just 'copying' it, but honestly, I always say there are no original ideas...only knock offs and twists on a previous thought.  So I am definitely putting my own twist on a lot of the elements I am incorporating.

But enough chatter...here are the pics from Joyful Weddings and Events:

My centerpieces will be totally different incorporating red tulips in some sort of simple spray like this:

My bridesmaid's are wearing these Jasmine Bridal B2 dresses in this berry color:

Photos:  Jasmine Bridal
My daughter (a bridesmaid) is wearing this dress (hemmed to match the other girls) from Jasmine B2 Juniors in Bahama Breeze color and the flower girl will have a white dress with a matching sash in the Bahama Breeze:

And finally, they will all be carrying bouquets very similar to this with blue hydrangeas, burgundy cymbidium orchids, black magic roses, jade green roses and kermit mums:

Yes, my wedding is still 6 months away but I pretty much have everything planned and booked...now all that's left is some tweaking as I finalize details with vendors and purchasing the fun stuff like favors, gifts, jewelry, shoes, and so on.  What are your colors and what do you think of these?