For the Love of all things Purple

As you may or may not know, I am madly in love with the color of purple. It makes me think of elegance and royalty; all things that I want my wedding to embody. Here are some purple passion that I've gathered from my daily search.A purple inspiration board to drool over. (Don't remember where this picture if from so if it is yours, please let me know so I can give you proper credit)

















I am in love with these paper laterns and have been seeing them alot lately. They are also used in the showcased wedding below. I am starting to seriously consider them depending on cost and how it would look in my venue space.















Not sure if you read The Bride's Cafe but it always showcases some of the most beautiful weddings and the details highlighted are just breathtaking sometimes. Here are some pictures from Erin and Chris's wedding and of course the accented color is purple. I also love how simple but elegant her centerpieces are. And she had Christian Louboutins. I love love love Louboutins.

Flower centerpieces...

I've been searching for a florist in a lazy kind of way. I looked up some places on Theknot.com and asked my cousin, who just got married two weeks ago, who did hers. I don't really know much about flowers, all I know is they are pretty and I want lots of purple. The ceiling at my reception site is really high so I was thinking that I should have tall centerpieces. Here are a few that I found that I thought were cute and/or interesting:


















I love the look of flowers floating in the water, it is so pretty to me. And the wine bottle with the personalized picture is a really nice touch. The last picture has the apples in the stem of the vase and that is really cute!

Low centerpieces: My roommate had a centerpiece similar to the first one with red roses. It was really economical as well, as she bought bushels from Costco/Sam's Club and we assembled them ourselves. They were so simple and so elegant. Unlike other weddings, I have been to, I still remember her centerpieces. I also love the last one, the white vase is such a stark contrast to the cream flowers and the greenery. You can tell I'm a flower novice, I have no idea what the greenery is...lol...
So many pretty flowers and choices! I must say, I have loved the floating flower set up since the first moment I laid eyes on it.
What kind of centerpieces are you envisioning for your big day?

Busy Little Wedding Bee!

My mom was in the hospital so I came home to NY to put my OT skills to work and spend some time with her. My family has finally caught up and now all everybody wants to talk about is the upcoming wedding. Mind you, I have been talking about the wedding with my friends and other people for a while now. Since I'm not in rotations right now, I have some free time to do "wedding stuff". I've been online looking up stuff for what seems like forever.
Keep your fingers crossed but I may have found my videographer on craigslist. His quote is really inexpensive but fits right into my budget. So we'll see how that goes. His videos were not perfect but I'm sure I can provide him with constructive criticism. My main concern is the photographer, I love pictures and want mine to look amazing...I stumbled across this site Kiss the Groom. The pictures are amazing, I am really impressed.
I also found this site called Egala and it features real couples and their weddings. I am all about real life weddings!
I am meeting with the church where we are having ouir ceremony on Friday. Our date is open and its a beautiful church. Hopefully all goes well! My father and I have not sat down to talk about my wedding but I have discussed it at length with my mother. I'm not scared anymore so I am welcoming the conversation. I know this blog is about not being a bridezilla, but in his case I have to be one to get what I want.

Not sure if you all knew but I am having a Nigerian-Haitian wedding. I saw my first Nigerian wedding last weekend and it was a lot of fun! I got to wear a traditional outfit and everything! So we are in the process of trying to incorporating both cultures into one seamless, elegant, and fun wedding!

Wedding Hostess

I've been to weddings where the couple had ushers; usually younger girls standing at the door handing out programs. Recently I heard about the term hostess, so I went google searching to see if this was something that could be beneficial at my wedding.
Here is what I read on Host and Hostess Duties at Weddinginsight.com about the duties of a Hostess. It sounds pretty straightforward but I can also see how it can be abused. I don't want the hostess to feel like a personal assistant because they are not. Their role would be to hand out programs and direct people at the reception especially those who were not invited to the reception.
I have a few people who I have in mind for this role, close friends who have the personality to pull this off. Do you think someone would take offense to being asked to be a hostess? Would they see it in a different light than intended?

School is dragging me down man Part 2

When I wrote this I did not realize it would be a part two but thats life I guess. School is still dragging me down. I'm tired all the time and I miss spending time with my baby. My schedule is all over the place but whatever. I finally bought some books today and I got a lap top!!! I am so excited about that, its been a long time coming. I really have no business writing today because I have absolutely nothing interesting to say, but I had to test drive the lap top.

So the FI and I were downtown and we walked into this huge cathedral. It was beautiful inside and very intimidating. We brainstormed about the possibility of having a "church wedding". He was more against it than I was but he likes the idea of getting married in a cathedral. I got excited because that meant I could invite more people to the actual wedding. But after careful thought, we realized that this would mean that the church would be divided into two parts: the haves and the haves not.
Some would have the reception card and some would not. It might work but knowing my culture, people would bombard my mother with phone calls demanding entrance to the reception or bombard the reception demanding to be granted entrance. Either way people's feelings will be hurt. Haha. So we thought the best plan of action would be to simply invite people who would also be attending the reception also. It would essentially be a "closed wedding", but we realize that there will be a few crashers. We are keeping the church wedding in mind.

So we'll see. Once the budget is set and I get serious about finding the venue, we can start on the guest list. That is the part that scares me the most.