7 Ways You Can Use Water Colors In Your Summer Wedding 2017

In the recent years, we have seen a lot of couples choose watercolor wedding invitations. But now, the fondness for watercolor is growing even more, as brides-to-be are happily opting to use it in the wedding décor.

From wedding cakes to trendy escort cards, watercolors have the unique – almost magical – ability to transform the whole décor. It is also a great option if you’re looking for a twist on the classic elegant wedding theme.

If you have also seen the romantic watercolor wedding invitations, and want to take it one step ahead, here are some ideas you’ll love.

Watercolor Wedding Stationery for the Bride

Apart from the wedding invitations, watercolors can also be used to design the rest of bridal stationery. As it goes, there is no dearth of colors to choose from – soft pink, lilac, pale purple, rose, pale green, cerulean blue, and many more. Keep the theme and color palette of your wedding in mind while choosing the colors.

Add Color to the Otherwise Minimalist Theme

If you have chosen an all-white theme, you can spice things up with watercolor place settings. For example, opt for watercolor napkins and flatware. If the dinner plates are white, then pink or purple hued napkins and flatware is a fun way to try the watercolor trend.

Up the Ante with Watercolor Fabric Table Runners

If your wedding décor incorporates charming wooden tables, you can add to the charm by using watercolor table runners. It contrasts spectacularly against the wooden background and add a touch of whimsy. Not to mention your guests will be left in awe of this unique idea.

Also, it doesn’t all have to be pink – think blue-dipped napkins to match the rose hued flower arrangements. When it comes to watercolors, the sky is the limit. You can even opt for beautiful hand-crafted watercolor paper accessories to decorate the dinner table.

Do Away with Old Rectangular Escort Cards     

You can swap the regular escort cards for the watercolor ones. The softly colored cards go well with most of the wedding themes – wooden rustic, elegant classic, or even minimalistic. Again, decide whether you want it to match the rest of the décor or contrast it.

This Season Calls for a Colorful Wedding Cake

If you did not already know – because you don’t checkout the Pinterest trends (shock!), you can enjoy a watercolor wedding cake!

A pale peach and pink colored wedding cake, for example, just reeks of romance! You can choose different colors for the different tiers, or even opt for a multiple-color single-tiered cake. Ah, talk about easy on the eyes and the palate.

Substitute the Old Fashioned Packaging

You can have so much fun with watercolor favor packaging! For example, choose the color blue for favors for men, and choose pink for women. It looks visually stunning and instantly adds a ton of value to the wedding favors.

So here you are. If you can think of more ways to incorporate watercolors into the wedding décor, let us know.

Top Snack Ideas for The Bridal Party on Your Dallas Wedding Day

Sometimes planning every detail leading up to the wedding ceremony takes so much time, that feeding yourself takes the backseat. We suggests if you don’t want to feel lightheaded with hunger while walking down the aisle, consider these easy and delicious snacks to fill you up.

You can either have your caterer prepare these snacks for you and the bridal party, or you can order in. either way, you will be energizes and not hangry on the big day.

Watermelon and Ricotta

Looking for something unique? Serve watermelon salad to your party – fresh watermelon mixed with salty ricotta salata and crunchy almonds. It’s imaginative and unbelievably delicious.

Chickpea bites

Looking for a yummilicious protein blast? Choose fried chickpeas that are really easy to consume even if you’re already done with the makeup. A lot of brands offer a wide range of spiced and fried chickpeas.

Smoothie

You can also have regular fruit smoothies but we suggest healthy green smoothies. For a true combination of taste and health, use frozen mango chunks, avocado, coconut, cashews, and water. You will be surprised how delicious these are!

Avocado Toast

It’s super healthy and simply delicious. Your health conscious guests will appreciate the good fat in the avocado, while the taste-lovers will enjoy the perfect creamy flavor!

Asparagus Tartine

Love quick toasts? Give it a yummy twist by adding silky ricotta cheese, and blanched asparagus. It tastes crunchy and fresh, and you can also add herbs for enhanced flavor.

Spiced Cashews

No party is complete without cashews remember? If you’re looking for some quick and nutrient-packed snack options, it can’t get better than spiced almonds, cashews, and peanuts. Really, any nuts will do.

Popcorn, Anyone?

Everybody – we repeat, everybody – loves to munch on popcorns. They are easy to snack on and come in so many flavors – sea salt, garlic, cumin, paprika, and much more.

Homemade Granola

If you think your bridal dearies will enjoy healthy and preservative-free granola, have your caterer make some. Full of organic nuts and dried fruits, you can also serve it with Greek yogurt – making it look like yummy parfaits!

No-Crumb Crudite

For the pre-wedding snacks, you definitely want something healthy and crumb-free. Creamy and luscious Crudite is perfect for that hour.

Salads

If you and your bridal party love eating salads, tasty options are limitless. Fresh vegetables, whole grains, and lots of other good stuff, like this salad – crispy rice, lemon, roasted broccoli, chili, Parmesan cheese, and shallots.

Quiche

From vegetarians to meat-lovers, a quiche can be customized to suit everyone’s taste buds. Best part? They are healthy and don’t make you bloated. You can choose vegetarian options – vegetables & cheese, or bacon-heavy.

Frittata

It may sound basic but here’s why we love it – it’s full of protein and easily customizable! And to be honest, who doesn’t love a fresh frittata?

Taco Quinoa

Love taco salads? Serve crunchy-salty tortilla chips with fresh salad mixed with honey-lemon vinaigrette.

Transform Your Wedding with Drapery

Drapes of Grandeur

When you’re dealing with a blank canvas or any large space drappery can change the whole tone of the room. It can make your wedding space look elegant and expensive without a lot of effort.

Make it Fun.

Drapery doesn’t have to be one color and look super elegant. It can be colorful, tasseled, or paper mache for a lively feel. It can energize the room and create a totally different vibe. So have fun with it and please your DIY urges.

An intimate space

Create an intimate lounging space by enclosing cushioned seating with large tied back curtains. This makes the space feel inviting and encourages conversation breaking the ice. It’s also a good spot for the guests or their kids to get some time away from the party to recharge.

Sheer and Colored Lights

One of the perks of drapery is how it reflects light. It can create any sort of mood you want just by changing the color shining on the fabric. White works best for this, but don’t be afraid to experiment, especially if your color palette calls for it.

And just remember, it doesn’t have to be thick and heavy. It could be sheer, glittery, or maybe not fabric at all. Don’t limit yourself.

For those who love letting their creativity flow a little bit more than the rest, how about a versatile blank canvas wedding venue?

What’s a blank canvas venue?

Just what you’d expect from a blank canvas, a clean wedding venue comes with bare-minimum of installations and a huge space to cater to any wedding theme you can think of. For example, The Empire Room in Dallas is a blank canvas venue in an urban industrial setup. There have been ceremonies where the bride chose to dress the venue up with rich fabrics, making it look very palatial, while on the other hand, some choose to leave the space open and clean which also makes for some breathtaking photographs.

That’s the fun of choosing a blank canvas – you can do as you please and create a theme that’s just yours.

Here’s why we think a clean and bare wedding venue is the next best thing, after Oreos.

Every Theme and Design Seem to be Complementary

This is no joke. Whether you choose a wedding theme that’s all about pink-and-peach-and-girly or a monochrome one with just one statement piece – for example, a colorful cake. The blank space of the venue beautifully offsets the ambience.

Extra Guests Never Hurt

This is one of the biggest benefits of a blank big space venue; even if a couple of dozen unexpected guests decide to turn up at your wedding, it won’t get crowded. The expansive venue allows you to be more flexible with the number of guests and their seating arrangements.

The Sprawling Seating Plan

Often, wedding venues in Dallas are so restricted that you cannot plan a spread-out seating plan for your 200 guests. The result, everything is jam-packed. Fortunately, a blank venue comes with acres of open space that allows you to use a seating arrangement as extravagant as you desire.

A Special Corner for Everyone

If your wedding party includes children, as well as, your aged grandparents, an open space wedding venue will allow you to arrange special entertainment options just for them. You can assign a couple of corners to be set up for the children as well as anyone who would appreciate a cozy nook. You can provide couches, recliners, soft blankets, lots of pillows, portable DVD player, or other easy-to-carry entertainment options. If the space is open, close it off with some curtains and voila! You got yourself a comfy cave.

 

We are the first to say that traditions are comforting and familiar. But they can also be so passé.

We are a stickler for innovation, so if you’re tired of the same old “something blue” it’s time to be rebellious and find your own blue charm that’s creative, quirky, and YOU.

A Sapphire Engagement Ring

What’s better than a something blue that was a gift from your hubby. If you’re still trying to close in on your perfect engagement ring, choose this royally loved stone. A sapphire ring is what Prince William chose for Kate Middleton.

Groom in Blue

Got one quirky groom? You can ask him to wear dark blue pants or a blue bow on his way to the altar – that way he will be your someone blue.

Ditching the White

Okay, so these are some controversial waters we stepped in, but hear us out. If you are not totally sold on a traditional white wedding dress, more power to you. There’s nothing more picturesque than a beautiful glowing Dallas bride in color. You can opt for a spring or floral themed dress with a little blue detail, or you can choose a unicolor dress in your favorite hue that has a little blue flower sewn in. Picture-perfect!

A Somewhat Blue Monogram

If you’re not keen on using blue in your accessories, you can ask your dressmaker to sew an embroidered label with your monogram into the inside lining of your gown. Then you have your blue and it will stay with you forever.

It’s Blooming Blue

You can opt for a blue bridal bouquet that offsets the white in your dress perfectly. The wedding florists in Dallas are especially equipped to provide the bluest blooms you can find anywhere: blue hyacinths, blue privet berry, blue hydrangea, blue delphinium, purple lilac, seeded eucalyptus – the possibilities are endless.

The Hanky Charm

Care to carry some of that old world magic with you? Steal (or borrow) a handkerchief from your grandmother or your best friend, embroider your bridal monogram on it in a beautiful blue, and carry it with you on your perfect day.

Wield your Power

If you are an embroideress, or embroiderer and love the idea of personalizing your wedding gown with your own hands, you can embroider a meaningful phrase – that means a lot to both of you – inside your dress lining.

Something Borrowed

Borrow an antique piece of blue-hued jewelry from your mother or grandmother; it could be a brooch, a hairpin, or even a bracelet. You can choose to wear it or pin it to your bouquet.

Peek-a- boo

Get an antique blue ribbon, get someone to ink your hubby’s name on it in beautiful calligraphy, and sew it inside the hem of your wedding gown.

The Blue Feet

Instead of opting for matching shoes, how about going for a pair of sexy lace-trimmed blue stilettos? Oh, the genius of it!

Parade in Blue

Let go of the cliché pink and peach dressing options for your bridesmaids. Dress them in different colors of blue instead.

Darlings in Blue

Love your little nieces and nephews to death? Since they are probably going to be your flower girls and ring bearer, dress the little angels in pretty blue hues. You cannot get a cuter ‘something blue’ than that.

Arrive in Style

How about a vintage blue car for you and your bridesmaids? Go stylish and decorate the car with complementing blue colored flower-garlands.

Daddy in Blue

We saved the tear-jerker for last. Dress up your dad in stylish blue suit and have him as your something blue as he walks you down that aisle.