Unexpected challenge

Hello! How's your day going? Well I hope :-)

Do you know how sometimes things happen unexpectedly and make you pick your brain for a solution? Yeah? Well, that happened to us yesterday. We heard that our venue got a "makeover".... color wise! So we paid a little visit to the place, and yeps, they painted it! The colors went from mostly white with dark blue chairs, to these colors:

Woooa, right? The weird minty moss green is decorating the walls (talking about domination), while all chairs are now light grey (acceptable I guess) and the non-removable "blackboards" are rusty orange. Oh and the new curtains are a warm and sunny yellow (almost mustard yellow), but hey, we can remove those. Interesting, right? :-/

Some time ago, I completely fell head over heels for a mostly black & white, with a dash of purple (you can see my inspiration pictures here).

So what do you think; can my color scheme still work in a background of minty moss green surrounding walls?

I'm trying to figure out if we have to change our color palette or not.... I guess I also could incorporate the grey chairs, but those are easy to deal with by disguising them with chair covers.... It's mostly those weird green walls. I need to pick my brain on that one. Any ideas are appreciated :-)

Have a great day!

Venue!

Hey folks! How's your day going?

So we finally got a key to access our venue! We already found and booked it back in November. Just to remind you, it's the club house of a tennis club, a little up north from Copenhagen. It is only open during the outdoor tennis season, so from May 1st to September 30th, which is why we hadn't been able to get inside and take a few measurements, check available chairs, tables, etc. So I was so psyched when we got a key to check it all out! So here are the first pictures :) Of course there's plenty of snow still and a total mess inside right now due to winter, but just imagine a tidy room ;)

From outside:

Then the inside:

And plenty of tennis courts at our disposal ;)

Even out little dog agreed that it was a good venue.... for running around at least!

We measured the rooms, checked out the furniture, restrooms, etc. so I'm now ready to start planning the decoration, table set-up and much more now. I'm exited!

Have a great day!

COLORS PLEASE!

Warning! Long post ahead! So grab a cup of joe before you read on....


So who ever said that wedding colors had to be white, white and more white, with a splash of green and maybe some light pink? Well, actually, nobody said that.... that's just how little imagination *I* have! When I started to think about how our wedding should be, where, etc. I always imagined pretty round tables with white linens, white plates and shiny silverware, with a centerpiece made of white roses and some green stuff.... Yeah, green stuff because I'm actually a flower idiot, so I can't get more precise than that. And that's exactly how I imagined our venue for a garden-party-style wedding, with maybe a hit of very light pink, to add a vintage touch to it all.

But then....

EVERYTHING changed! It started with the news about the whole we-can't-have-our-venue-in-summer thing. At first, I was really, and I mean REALLY, bummed, and my FI and I had intense discussions about what to do. We both wanted the summer wedding, because it just seemed so cozy and we could picture it so vividly in our heads, but we actually found out that we wanted our venue even more than that. So we discussed what other time of the year would work for us, and since I almost fainted at the idea to organize a Spring wedding, I mean c'mon, december is knocking on our door, so Spring is waaaaay too close! Therefore, it had to be Autumn or Winter 2011.... and we decided.... an Autumn wedding! I still have one teeny tiny issue I need to work on, and that's getting over the fact that we won't be wed outdoors. Let's face it, it's simply going to be too cold, too windy, and.... not realistic (anybody living in the High North understands this.... nodding in agreement, yes?).  So even though we already had a really sweet officiant (a family friend) for our (so we thought) outdoor ceremony, we will now be moving into the candle-lit warmth of the sweetest church (more on that later).

So as I said, everything changed. I now had to get entirely new pictures into my head. And that's when I fell into the photo gallery at Project Wedding! Lord do they have tons of inspirational pictures! I loved it! I immediately started to search the flower & decoration section, and here is a VERY little selection of the stuff I drooled over (please excuse my not so pretty boards):

(ALL pictures are from the photo gallery at Project Wedding.)

Autumn colors! Love them, and they are perfect for an Autumn wedding.

I'm loving the hot pink 'N orange combination! Super fresh! I would never have dreamed of combinding these two colors, but I'm lovin' it.

Now here's another thing I would never had thought about: using fruit in the flower deco.

Now isn't that lavender bouquet so sweet and vintagey? And I love the drama in the Calla lilies bouquet! Yeps, I did my homework on ID'ing this flower!

Love, love, love! Especially the idea of having a town as table name instead of a number.

Oh, look! More vintage inspired decorations! Do you see a trend? :)

Here's another color palette that I fell for: the crisp black & white, with a splash of color! Fresh with the lime green and dramatic with the red. I like both, but am more drawn towards the lime.

Here's another one. Oh oh oh! Did I also mention that I am completely OBSESSED with the Damask pattern?? Yup, obsessed BIG time! By now I'm sure that it will make an appearance at our wedding.

And here's another decoration that we appear at our wedding: blankets! So cute and useful since we have a big patio at our venue!

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And here's how I want my food: adorable raw veggies and amuse-bouches as appetizers and a huge dessert buffet (see the Damask on the buffet table BTW?.. told you I was obsessed!!!!)

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So as it turned out, I had absolutely NO idea of all the gorgeous, classy and colorful decor one can do for a wedding! My head is literally spinning right now from all this input! I want to do all the color palettes, darned I only have *one* wedding to decorate!

Season troubles at the venue

So we just heard back from our venue, and were crushed when they announced that the place is no longer up for rent during the "tennis season", meaning from the 1st of May to the 30th of September, but that we are more than welcome during the rest of the year. GRUMPY FACE. Now what a slap in our wedding's face! Garden party in March anybody? No? November maybe? No? Arrrrgh. Well you see, if we lived somewhere in sunny California, or the Southern hemisphere, it would actually be an option, but here in the North.... not so much!

But hey, as the eternal optimist that I am, I went right back on cyberspace to see what a winter wedding could look like.... and it's not so bad. Our wedding pictures could look something like that:

well except that snow is not guaranteed every year (though there's plenty right now!) (source)

Or really cool like that:

except that there are no mountains in Denmark.... and the insignificant detail that I don't actually snowboard! (source)

Moving on. There are plenty of other good reasons to have a Winter wedding. First of, I won't die of a heat stroke in my 20-layer dress, eh? Then again, I could stay warm AND look stylish in winter dresses. I mean, come on, look at the kind of dresses I could be wearing:

with that great hat that I am dying for to wear some day.... NOT! (source)

Or hey, I could even be Santa's daughter....!!!!

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Who makes those kinds of dresses anyway??

No but seriously, we now have 2 options: 1) we are back to square one and need to find another venue, or 2) we change our garden-party style wedding to a spring / autumn / winter wedding.... big decisions ahead!

Happy first advent everyone :)

I think we found our venue!

After having searched through the internet and all of our friends in the quest of the perfect venue, I think we finally found it: a tennis club! I do not have any pictures yet, but I'll post some later. The tennis club is located about 20 km north of Copenhagen. The club house is nicely isolated from the neighboring houses and is surrounded by tennis courts, pretty grass lawns and big old trees. I can really picture our outdoor ceremony on one of the lawns, our reception on the big wooden patio and a BBQ dinner in the cozy surroundings of the club house. Perfect location for a summer wedding! More on that coming soon.

Other than that, I am proud to tell you that I am still going strong with my workout regimen! I have done my cardio on the cross-trainer and my arm toning exercises :-) I have also done the Pilates stomach muscle series.. twice! I can now hardly laugh without getting sore, but hey, it's worth it, right?