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Rose Wedding Theme
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The key to pulling off a
coordinated event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair.
Whether that theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as
specific as a special flower, it should be the subtle thread
that ties everything together. Your location, invitations,
flowers, menu, cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one
common concept. Then, get as creative as you can!
Magic Details
Distinguish a Designer's Wedding
(ARA) - It all started
when I took a job that would move me to Chicago. I was
about to embark on a new adventure with a new position.
I did not know that this would lead me to a new romance,
foreign lands I never traveled to before and into a life
filled with challenges, laughter, love and, yes, more
wallpaper. I was nicknamed the Queen of Wallpaper by my
peers. By now you have probably guessed I am a designer,
a designer of wallpaper and fabrics.
Planning a wedding is all about details. I wanted to
create surroundings that would make our wedding
distinctly ours and rich with references that we and
family and friends would recall with fondness for the
rest of our lives.
Who knew that my passion for wallpaper would become a
focal point in planning my own wedding? Pattern became
my magic ingredient. Probably because of my English
heritage, I selected a beautiful rose floral wallpaper
and matching fabric I designed to be the central theme.
It became very important to me to include color and
pattern on my dress. I had the rose pattern
custom-replicated in beading on my waistband and train
to make it truly unique.
With the rose pattern as a central focus, here are some
of the unique decorative elements I tied together around
this theme:
* The invitations were custom designed with the rose
floral, mixed with vellum and satin ribbons, tucked
beautifully inside sage translucent envelopes that
allowed the pattern to show through.
* Upon arrival, guests were greeted with custom tote
bags, made of the rose fabric and lined with a lattice
fabric from Sarong, a Jaima Brown Home signature
collection. A string of beads embellished each bag, and
all of them contained a sample of local goodies along
with literature about features of interest in beautiful
Door County. A vase of barely opening fresh roses was
also set in each guest room along with our note thanking
friends for coming to help us celebrate. For children,
there was a special candy bag made of clear cellophane
lined with wallpaper that coordinated with the rose. We
mixed shredded wallpaper in with the candies.
* For an evening dinner cruise the night before the
wedding, we banded straw bowler hats with the companion
rose wallpaper border. It set just the right tone for an
evening of fun and dancing to a local Dixieland band.
* Rice is outdated, and
bubbles are messy. As our guests left the church, each
was given a cone, made of the now-familiar coordinating
mini rose wallpaper with a sheer ribbon bow, filled with
pink and white rose petals, which they showered on us
with joyful abandon.
* For the reception, a once-ordinary white tent was
transformed into a profusion of pattern and color.
Abundant swags of a lattice design fabric, the same one
that lined the custom tote bags, covered and disguised
each tent pole. It is from Sarong, the newest of my
signature Jaima Brown Home collection. Long folds of the
floral rose fabric stretched overhead, from the edges of
the tent into the center. The edge itself was surrounded
in the coordinating rose wallpaper border. These
finishing details created a beautifully decorated
environment to rival any hotel ballroom.
* To create a distinctive twist for showing guests where
they'd be seated, we covered an ordinary room screen
with a coordinating subtle damask wallpaper pattern.
Sheer sage ribbon was stretched horizontally across the
screen which held the custom rose place cards. To the
surprise and delight of many guests, we attached
informal snapshots interspersed with the name cards.
These snapshots turned out to be great conversation
starters.
* A custom scrapbook was created from scraps of all the
wallpapers and ribbons we used throughout. It doubled as
a guest book --a great keepsake of memories and good
times shared.
* The tables themselves were layered in custom rose
fabric tablecloths topped with a coordinating
wide-checked fabric. Two lengths of the die-cut rose
border ran back to back along the center of the table.
At each place setting was a small, wallpaper-wrapped
package containing a CD of our favorite songs.
Naturally, the original CD cover was replaced with a
square of the rose floral, printed with our names and
the date.
We re-used the tablecloths the following day on the deck of
our country house where everyone gathered for a long,
leisurely brunch. Later, we gave the tablecloths to
bridesmaids, ushers and other special guests -- another
thank you to them and a remembrance of the occasion we all
shared. It was our way of lavishing them with the same good
wishes
A wedding is the world's most joyous celebration of romance.
It is, at the same time, public and intimate. Therefore, all
the decorative objects that surround such an occasion should
reflect both the bride's and groom's own taste and style. Be
inspired. Browse through S.A. Maxwell's wallpaper and fabric
collections to create your own signature wedding.
To locate a retailer/decorator in your area that carries S.
A. Maxwell or Jaima Brown Home collections, call (847)
932-3700 or visit www.samaxwell.com on the Internet.
Courtesy of ARA Content
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