An often irreverent look at weddings from an industry insider
I have been working with a local venue on their marketing and I just fell in love with the look of this place. A little bit southern elegance, a little bit rustic country and a whole lot of shabby chic charm.
Kathy and her hunky fireman husband, Brian are your propietors. They look at the whole site as a part of thier love story and want to extend that same feeling to the couples that choose Front Porch Farms for their weddings.
Enjoy the view.
There is something so romantic about pale, soft colors. ~sigh~
After the last few years of bright, bold, contemporary look in weddings, soft is making a come back.
Pale doesn’t mean colorless. This table decor has cream, yellow, silver, green and blue in a shabby chic look.
The soft off white lace blends beautifully with the soft peach chiffon bridesmaids dresses.
Not only are the colors soft, but the flowers in this bouquet from The Martha are soft and fluffy.
Even when the design is over the top, these colors add a certain romance. Don’t you think?
The colors, the flowers chosen and the very restrained use of black as an accent are what this look is all about.
As weddings trend towards more casual affairs, it’s time to rethink your table decor. These rustic table are fun, pretty and certainly something you could consider DIYing.
1. Blue gift bags hold sunflowers and roses and lemons make unique place cards. Burlap makes a casual table cloth. {source}
2. A feasting table makes the most of the narrow confines of this barn. The mismatched china and garden flowers in mason jars give it a shabby chic look. {source}
3. Blue chairs, stemless glassware and lanterns are brightened up by simple arrangements of sunflowers in milk glass vases. {source}
4. A collection of bright colorful cans are re-purposed as vases and fill with garden grown zinnias. {source}
5. This look is perfect for a wine country or summer field wedding. The color palette of white with pale sage and brown is fresh and summery. {source}
6. This tented wedding is a result of the use of the tanned golden browns of a late summer field. The chairs really make it. Shop the picture with the rental firms in your area to see what alternatives they can offer. {source}
I have been kind of tracking this for a while. I started mostly because a dear friend of the Dish, Vicki Sanders at Branching Out Event Design has a knock your socks off collection of containers that fit but also because I love the softness of the look.
I had thought I was seeing it pop up more often in recent months but today I had confirmation that it is or will soon be the hottest of hot.
Confirmation you ask? What confirmation? Well the images below were all taken from two of the hottest wedding blogs, Style Me Pretty and photographer Jasmine Star’s Blog. The first two collages were taken at a photography workshop hosted by the fabulous photographer, Jessica Claire. Need I say more? Enjoy!
Source: Style Me Pretty
Images from: Allisa Ferullo
Taken at : Jessica Claire Photography Workshop
Source: Style Me Pretty
Images from: Kari Sikorski
Taken at : Jessica Claire Photography Workshop
Images by : Jasmine Star
Images by: Jasmine Star
I had a great time today. Friend of the Dish, Vicki Sanders of Branching Out Event Florists and I had lunch and a tour with Kristen Fridrich and Mark Ermshar at Classic Party Rentals. Well you know that there is nowhere I like better to find inspiration than a really top notch rental resource. Classic didn’t disappoint.
As we toured the show room I was telling Kristen that shabby chic is a rising trend. Well sure enough, you get that many creative minds together and magic happens. Before you know it we had pulled together a shabby chic place setting and centerpiece out of seemingly thin air.
Let me dissects it for you.
First this beautifully patterned china caught my eye; on the same rack we found the white china with the embossed vines and the scalloped edge. So we mixed and matched. Kristen pointed out the cut glass wine glasses saying it looked like something her grandmother would use. Bingo. We added the blue water goblet for a pop of color. The gold flatware was chosen to pick up the gold rim on the china. Next I ran around the showroom grabbing random bits of silver and hobnail glass and Vicki headed for her car for some flowers left over from Saturday’s wedding. Before you knew it, we had a shabby chic look using all rented objects.
Now wasn’t that easy?
I’ll have more fun tidbits from today to come.
I am seeing a resurgence of the shabby chic look for weddings and also a heck of a lot of stuff just being called shabby chic. If you really want that look for your wedding, you first have to understand what is and is not shabby chic.
To me, shabby chic is the look of a vintage English country manor. A setting full of beautiful stately bits that have been collected over generations and washed by time and use to a lovely softness. There is a randomness that can’t be endlessly repeated on each table.
Unlike the sharp crisp lines we have been seeing in the contemporary looks, shabby chic has a soft, cozy wiltedness to it. There aren’t any sharp color contrasts, just lovely pastel blendings. The silver is old odds and ends with tarnish still lodged deep in the crevices. All the pieces are high quality but worn.
Shabby chic isn’t about a collection of brand new mason jars with daisies shoved in them. That’s country and a design style in its own right, but not shabby chic. Rather, think along the lines of random teapots, sugar bowls , water glasses and flea market vases to hold garden variety flowers for your centerpieces. For flowers think peonies, garden roses, ranunculus and Queen Anne’s lace with wisps of ivy trailing out. Think randomly.
Take a look at some of the images I gathered. See if you can see the thread I am trying to explain.
Here all the chandeliers are different, so are the containers for the flowers
These lovely vintage perfume bottles hold simple garden flowers, the blue plate behind them is a very soft shade of robins egg.
This bouquet is loose, casual and airy. Again the colors are muted.
This sign is weathered and old looking but the the font is wonderfully ornate. It looks as if it could have hung outside a paris shop 100 years ago.
