Flowers and More!

I'm going to dedicate this post to pictures of bouquets I think are fabulous, and perhaps a theme will emerge so that I can figure out what I want for flowers.

Looooove this bouquet! I really like that it's almost white, and that the flowers are just these lovely pastel colors that go well together really well. I also kinda like the little green streaks (is it grass, maybe?) instead of huge green leaves. The fact that there aren't any pearl or shiny things in it really makes this look all natural.

Here's a completely different bouquet that caught my eye as I'm browsing wedding sites. In this one, I like the textured greens mixed in with the flowers - and the bouquet isn't all white again. I guess I'm leaning towards pastels and such.

From the same wedding, we get this image of their centerpieces:

I hope you can see the closest centerpiece, because I think that the lime slices look really snazzy inside the vase. It looks like it's filled with water and lemons, and I'm not sure how much work that would take, but what do you all think about that? Maybe instead of slices, we could do lemon halves or quarters sitting on top of some river rocks (the rocks are much nicer and shinier in person than in that image). How does that sound?

H. and I were trying to come up with an idea for our guest book that we both liked. He's not a huge fan of getting the large signable frame of us, so instead I was thinking we could do one of two things:

1.  An Envelope Guest Book -  You take any journal, find some nice little envelopes and colorful cardstock, and the guests write happy notes and wishes for you and place them inside the envelopes. H. suggested we could even put the paper and envelopes at the tables along with pens, and then they just drop the envelopes in a box or something whenever they're done. The box could be somewhere inside the reception room. That way, you don't have a long line of people waiting to sign a frame.

2.  A Photo Booth - we already have that Polaroid camera that prints out the image instantly. How much does the film cost for it? Because if it's cheap-ish, then we can ask the hotel to use one of their couches from a lounge area and just have guests come in and take an instant picture which you can then - you guessed it! - put into an envelope and drop into a box for me to glue to a journal later. Or if we can find a photo album that fits the photo size, they could immediately place the photo inside.

Back to bouquets, if I decide to go with an all-calla-lily bouquet, this is probably what I would want:

Ignore the bottom half of the left side of that picture. Below is another example of a calla-lily bouquet, with more than just the lilies.

So yeah. Lots of options, not enough decisions, I know. >.<

So I know I already did a cake-inspiration post, but I'd like to add this cake to the mix.

What if we mated this leafy cake with that tiny flower 2-layer cake that everyone loved? I think we'd get a fantabulous mixed cake, that's what. But I'd probably lighten the green detail on this cake an awful lot to a nice pastel green to go with the theme I'd like for the cake.

But back to beautiful bouquets:

I love the white and green theme - I'm just worried that since the bridesmaids dresses are green, this wouldn't really work as an accent color. I think I'll use green, white, and some other color to add a real pop!

Another pastel bouquet:

And that's that! Now I get to go yell at UPS for being useless in changing the delivery address for the package that H. and I would like to have here. In the next coming days, I look forward to talking with the hotel lady, the catering lady, and looking up a good florist. Not to mention my wedding shoes should be coming in any day now - hopefully they are so comfortably that I can wear them whenever H. isn't here. Ha!