Top Five Wedding Colors Mistakes to Avoid

Chrissy Arpie Ott is the founder and CEO of The Perfect Palette, a wedding source dedicated to helping couples find the best color palette for their wedding day.  Since its launch in 2008, The Perfect Palette has been the go-to color resource for couples who dream of a unique, creative, and colorful wedding day.
My job is dedicated to helping engaged couples think unique and creatively when it comes to color and event design, so it’s safe to say that I’ve witnessed a ton of wedding color mistakes over the years.  So, I thought it might be helpful for BG brides if I compiled the most common pitfalls and how to make sure you don’t fall into them. Let’s dive right into it!

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A Summer Bar Mitzvah with an Icy Feel

We had a lot of fun designing this Bar Mitzvah with accents of ice hockey incorporated into the look. A color palette of blues, whites, and silver was layered with hints of red and other primary colors.  Elements such as a dance floor designed to look like an ice hockey rink, a goal net with pucks as place cards, hockey stick candelabras and faux snow all added to the icy feel.

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Spectacular Flower Ideas from Preston Bailey


“Regardless of its size or complexity, the perfect floral arrangement is the one that makes you stop for an instant and smile with surprise and delight,” writes Preston Bailey in his new book Preston Bailey: Flowers.
If that’s the case, then his beautiful tribute to blooms is bound to inspire awe.  Every bride I’ve shown Flowers to has grabbed the book from my hands and wanted to frame (not rip!) the out-of-this-world photos inside.  His anecdotal stories from A-list events—he’s planned parties for Oprah Winfrey, Joan Rivers, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Ivanka Trump—are equally fascinating.
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18 of Our Favorite Over-the-Top Wedding Ideas

Here’s the truth about big, over-the-top weddings: It takes more than an unlimited wedding budget to really pull off something different and amazing. The secret? A great team and lots of creative details designed in unexpected ways. From a flower-filled dance floor to a garden-like ceiling, see the most amazing wedding ideas we can’t stop talking about.

By Simone Hill

  1. A Flower-Filled Dance Floor

    Preston Bailey's flower-filled reception dance floor

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7 Ways to Keep Your Guests Entertained All Night Long

Loverly is the heart of weddings: a visual inspiration search engine designed to help brides discover ideas, people to hire, and things to buy. Loverly makes finding beautiful wedding inspiration easier than ever! Their images are powered by the best wedding publishers and wedding shopping partners on the web.
Every great wedding has a lively dance floor, and dancing the night away with dear friends and long-lost relatives is often one of the best parts of saying “I do.” But what about guests who don’t want to dance — or aren’t able to? How can they have all-night fun at your wedding?
We have a few suggestions below for ways to keep your guests entertained all night — and reminiscing about the BEST. WEDDING. EVER. long into the future.
1. Have board games scattered throughout the room
This is a fun option to offer alongside traditional dancing entertainment: Guests can take a spin on the dance floor, then relax for a game of Chutes & Ladders, and non-dancers can make the rounds playing every game at the reception.

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15 wedding reception games and activities for good times

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Here’s Jami and Jamie getting their potato sack race on. Photo by Ian Mullen
So you’re looking for some wedding reception games that will give your guests something else to do BESIDES dancing? (Because while some of us love dancing, some of us don’t want to dance at our wedding). We’ll, you’re not alone.
We hosted a game night wedding reception so it could be more interactive for everyone. We bought most of the prizes on sale, but still saved a lot by not hiring a DJ or band, which comes with an added cost of a dance floor and lights.
That quote from Jami and Jamie’s backyard game night wedding inspired me to put together a roundup of great games that you can play at your wedding. Ready, set, GO!
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20 Awesome Photo Ideas For Wedding Parties Who Know How To Have Fun

All too often, brides and grooms get bogged down in big day B.S. and forget the most important ingredient of an awesome wedding (besides love, of course!): fun.
One way to increase your matrimonial fun quotient? By goofing off and letting loose with your “besties” and bros. Below are 20 wedding party photo ideas you’ll definitely want to borrow.

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Your Ultimate Guide To Wedding Lighting

Lighting is one of the most impactful investments you can make in your wedding.
From fairylights and candles to uplighters and spots, paying a little attention to your wedding lighting can add drama, ambience, and really draw attention to an ornate venue or make a simple setting, all the more special.
A little goes a long way with lighting, and even the most impressive-looking rig-ups can be surprisingly simple. While many areas of wedding decor (bunting, flowers, origami or pom poms) take a lot to make a big impression, being creative, or hiring professionals to accent your space with lighting, could be all the decoration you need.

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26 Amazing Wedding Photo Ideas

Weddings are a special time for brides and grooms before marriage. It’s a ceremony of love of the two people, as well as their family and friends. With the evolution of technology from film era to digital SLR cameras, photographers have more flexibility and capability to capture the events of the entire course of the day.
Besides technology, it’s important to make a good preparation in order to capture artistically memorable wedding photographs. You need consider time, locations, activities, sets and wedding costumes.  As a professional photographer, creative ideas are always killer factor to win the event.
In this post, I discovered 26 examples of Wedding Photography in which you can get inspirations from the creative ideas. Check out the link to view more portfolio of the photographer and feel free to leave your comment which one do you like the most.
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10 Craziest Wedding Ceremonies

1.  Suspension Wedding

These are photos from PiercedSmurf‘s suspension wedding on April 20, 2007 in New Orleans. They’re sharing their love for each other and for body modification.

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