Butterfly Wedding Invitations
Published January 27, 2012 | 
They are so graceful and colorful, so it is not surprising to find many butterflies in wedding invitations. Often represented as a couple, these winged insects perfectly symbolize the union of marriage and elegantly decorate our event. In a rustic version with butterflies fluttering in relief over a flowery field or a more sophisticated version with gold background, you will be enchanted by these butterfly wedding invitations.
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If you want an invitation more in relief, some cuts of butterfly wings on your invitations will be sufficient to create an original map. So the triptych type invitation can be embellished with two wings embossed on the front. The refinement of lace paper butterflies can also dazzle your guests with their grace. You can also use a cookie cutter to create butterflies to decorate your invitations. Play on different dimensions of butterfly to create the effect of a swarm. Very popular will also be pouches as a way to enhance your invitations. Thus, a single layer pouch decorated with two butterflies brings a nice touch. To surprise your guests, you can choose to use the less conventional forms, for example the circle.
The heart butterfly is perfect for wedding invitations of this kind. What could be more natural than to adorn your invitation with a butterfly for a country theme? A butterfly-shaped map and folded in half immediately announces your guests the theme of marriage. Creating the effect of a fresco, the butterfly wedding invitations can be embellished with lace or satin ribbons or bows. The flower is also an inexhaustible source of inspiration in creating your invitations. You can then cut out a flower where the text of announcements will appear. The text can also be written on the petals and your guests will just have to pluck the flower to discover the announcement.
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Also remember to play with materials to create your wedding invitations. The transparency of the tracing paper will highlight the elegance and finesse of butterflies. The wire is coming to the wedding invitations with these pretty iron butterflies adorning the cover of the invitations. For a more real look, you can use mini feather butterflies to decorate your invitation. The fluffiness of the fabric will give your invitation all its elegance. Add some rhinestones and embroidered butterfly and you will have an amazing invitation! For a more bucolic note, your invitation may be decorated with a fabric flower or butterfly. Origami can also be used to decorate your invitations. Also the technique of quilling (rolled paper) will provide a twist to your invitations. You can make a butterfly or flowers to decorate your cover. The wire may also create the illusion of flying butterfly.
Wedding Reception Favors
Published January 27, 2012 | If sweets are traditionally offered as gifts to the guests, their monopoly tends to crumble in recent years. The gourmet gifts remain a must for all. Candies, lozenges, fruit jellies, candied fruits. All these goodies will be ready to satisfy your guests’ appetite. Moreover, if you organize a butterfly themed wedding, it is best to keep this line throughout all the details. Thus, wedding reception favors are not an exception.
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Very popular across the Atlantic, flowers or butterflies like candy perfectly illustrate your theme. It will equally be appreciated butterflies shaped cookies. Ready to put water in the mouths of your guests, pretty butterfly-shaped lollipops and flowers will be a delight for the taste buds. For a touch of lightness after a good meal, fruit will be a refreshing gift. Cherries, apples, strawberries are ideal. Place them in a small basket and decorate with a small colored butterfly and your gift will look delightfully. The jam jars as well as bottles of syrup will merge perfectly well in a theme of butterflies. For men, miniatures of brandy bottles represent an original gift.
If your guests have a green hand, you can also provide them with flower seeds. Also very nice, the butterfly-shaped baskets will be an exceptional support for hosting your seeds. Finally, simple seed packets in the shape of flowers or butterflies perfectly illustrate your theme. You can plant them in an original flower arrangement for a more rustic note.
Anoint your reception with these sweet fragrance scents pouches decorated with a butterfly and everyone will be charmed. There is no doubt that women will enjoy the soaps in the shape of butterflies or flowers. For the guests to keep your gifts and do not throw them in a dusty drawer, you can choose to offer them useful items. In this category, the butterfly bookmark will delight fans of reading. Food lovers will be excited about a lovely cake pan shaped like a butterfly. As for smokers, they will love butterfly printed matchbooks.
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Returning to the presentations of sweet wedding reception favors, what more appropriate to illustrate a butterfly themed wedding than using boxes for cookies printed with the image of those pretty insects. In another version, you can opt for cubic boxes topped with a small butterfly. An inventive cutting at the lid of the box and this presentation of sweets will be pure poetry! Butterfly wings will close your box creating the illusion of a flitting butterfly. If you have a rustic decor in mind, no doubt these boxes printed with the colors of a field of flowers and topped with a butterfly will seduce you.
Themed Wedding Ideas
Published January 26, 2012 | Take your guests on a journey around the world by choosing a trip themed wedding. This is particularly appropriate if the bride and groom are great travelers. Their escapades can be a source of inspiration for their themed wedding ideas and decorations. This theme will also be addressed in a more historical manner. The adventures of the great travelers who discovered the world adds an old and authentic touch. In a more modern note, the journey can be understood in the tourist sense: airfare, hotel, suitcase, passport. To assist you in preparing your reception, we offer you a ride in the world of wedding decorations dedicated to the travel theme.
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Delight your guests with a light decor featuring paper airplanes twirling above the room. It is a nice tribute to the journey, which will give your décor a childish note. The map is again an ally for decorating your reception hall. You can use it to make objects such as small rosettes suspend or even flags. You can also make a map curtain hanging over a rack.
The postcards will also help to decorate your ceiling. As for the flags of different countries, they can decorate the walls of the room or the ceiling. If you have chosen to be inspired by the great travelers of the nineteenth century, the decor should convey the spirit of the salons of that time. You can turn yellow paper into old stamped missives (with the pool of coffee) to create the illusion of old papers scrolls. You can also stick them to the walls to give your location the charm of antiques. Make a mural by forming on a wall a clever arrangement of maps, postcards, personal photos, tourist brochures and other assorted objects that will personalize your wedding location while giving the illusion of real trips. This idea will prove very useful if you want to hide an ugly wall.
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Suitcases placed here and there, furnish your room while announcing your upcoming departure for the honeymoon. Small globes made of paper or balls of different sizes will also find their place on the buffet table or guest book.
Choose a theme on the trip, but also take your guests around a virtual tour of the world. For that objects of different cultures can be exposed in your room. Consider the African masks, Egyptian statues, Indian goddesses’ figures. These travel themed wedding ideas will beautify even more the reception hall. Dare to be original by using unusual materials to serve as a vase for your floral arrangements. A mini suitcase or a trunk full of flowers perfectly illustrates your wedding theme.
Autumn Wedding Reception Decorations
Published January 26, 2012 | Perfect for an off-season wedding, the theme of the fall is affirmed with elegance and poetry in the world of decoration. As for the beauty of its colors and the richness of the forest world, it emanates a serene charm and nostalgia. The abundance of shapes and colors of autumn foliage lends itself easily to the world of wedding autumn wedding reception decorations.
Abundant and colorful autumn leaves will be a surprise for your wedding decor. So why not recreate a colorful carpet of leaves in your reception room or use them to decorate your tables. Similarly, the leaves can have pretty important places on the guests’ tables. For a light and airy decor, you can also suspend the leaves recreating the effect of a gust of wind. Finally, to decorate your invitations or your tablecloths, you can trace the imprint of the leaf.
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Autumn is the season of mushrooms. The tasty and delicate mushrooms may be on the menu, but also inserted into various decorations: mushroom-shaped urn, center pieces. With a few candles, mushrooms will be even further enhanced Seasonal fruits can also be used to compose your decor: fig, blackberry, pear, apple, grape, quince, blueberry, sea buckthorn, litchi … So many sweets can be served to your guests. Indeed, what could be more refreshing than a bag of grapes or blackberries as a gift? Again the fruit can be incorporated into the centerpiece for an ephemeral and tasty decoration. Also consider dried fruits such as walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, acorn to decorate your tables and make your place cards and menus. By immersing them in water, these decorations will have the most beautiful effect. Do not hesitate to turn the chestnuts into small characters for children.
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Citrus fruits can fill the tables for autumn wedding reception decorations and can be used to compose centerpieces. Consider including slices of lemon or orange to decorate your dried flower arrangements. Fall vegetables provide perfect decorative elements. Consider the variety of pumpkin shapes and amazing colors: pumpkin, gourd, squash, zucchini, eggplant and peppers that will blend perfectly with the floral decor. Use them as candle holders to create a magical atmosphere. Transform the Halloween pumpkin into a romantic version, by making heart-shaped openings or reinventing Cinderella's carriage.
Often the difficulty for fall weddings is the lack of flowers. Yet there are some varieties of fall flowers. These include asters, chrysanthemums (despite the reference to mourning), the cyclamen, sage. These gems of the autumn gardens, will match perfectly with the sweetness of roses, dahlias and lilies white. Try to reinvent the décor with the plants and flowers that autumn offers you and your wedding will be special.
Garden Wedding Reception
Published January 25, 2012 | The garden is full of animals and species of plants, so it is conducive to inspiration: frogs, birds, rodents, insects (dragonflies, spiders)… Spend a sunny afternoon in the garden to watch this little world in turmoil. A garden wedding reception will be perfect for a nature inspired wedding organized in the middle of the summer.
Close to the theme of the garden, the angling can be a great source of inspiration. Do you remember those huge aristocratic gardens with lakes for fishing? Why not use a fish net and guarantee a fun atmosphere. Make small fishing rods with your names door and use small boats as containers for sweets. Some colorful lures and nets for decoration could build up a vacation like ambient. The theme of the fishing is full of original ideas. You can also approach your theme with humor and propose a fishing duck for kids attending your wedding.
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Choose natural colors like green, ivory, beige, brown, khaki, light blue … Do not hesitate to highlight the decor with brighter colors like pink, fuchsia, yellow or purple, all inspired by floral decorations. A garden wedding reception decoration without reference to water would be charmless. Recreate the soft rustle of the lapping of the water using a fountain. Decorate your tables with vases filled with water, submerged flowers and floating candles. Play on the transparency of the water using containers and glassware: vases, test tubes, champagne flutes, glass plates and bowls. Add some mirrors to suggest the reflection of the water. Opt for natural materials like linen and cotton to dress your tables. Play with the tulle to recreate the world of dragonflies.
Wicker offers countless forms: baskets, boxes and it is perfect for creating an urn or a wedding table plan. Easy to handle and graceful, wicker will serve as support to showcase a floral or fruit arrangement. Up to 3 m high, the reed is also a decorative element. There are several varieties equally delicate and refined, including the hammer and spindle-shaped flowers, common reed or purple and brown grass. Use these large stems in a vase to decorate the entrance to your reception hall. The entire atmosphere will be similar to that of an aristocratic mansion’s garden.
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Native to tropical regions, cotton is nevertheless a plant near the inflorescence of some reeds, so it is perfect for a garden natural decor.
The elegance of these stems will highlight your centerpieces on tables. Make small nests with twigs as centerpieces in which to slip treats, sweets, chocolate eggs. Also include moss in your compositions (for centerpieces or cushions) to bring a touch of freshness and let the vegetation take over your decor.
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