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Permalink Reply by Daniela VI on December 9, 2010 at 11:53am

Wow!! Congrats Nicky!!! ;)

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Permalink Reply by Satina on December 9, 2010 at 12:24pm

I'll have to get back to you after I think about it some, but I planned my whole wedding by myself and it turned out pretty awesome and I didn't spend much at all, not including my outfit or the rings I think only $2,000, which isn't too bad. We had a regularish wedding and then a masquerade reception (we made ALL of the masks) because our wedding was on halloween. We had a desserts only reception too, because of the Halloween theme, it worked well. We just had lots of cake, cookies and candies. Now we are vegan as well so I'll try to find some stuff that might work for you :)

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Permalink Reply by Nicky B on December 9, 2010 at 2:25pm

$2,000? Impressive! We aren't funding our wedding, my parents offered to but we want to keep the cost as minimal as possible. I really hope that the wedding will be a good introduction to vegan food for our family and friends. We don't plan on telling the guests that the food is vegan until after they eat. Unfortunately we have a lot of family members who would refuse to eat the food if they knew it was vegan, which doesn't make sense. I would love any advice you could give!

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Permalink Reply by JenniS on December 9, 2010 at 12:36pm

Congratulations!!
I think the best advice i could give is to keep track of everything, write it down even if its just a tiny thing, i didn't do this for my wedding and it was truly maddening because you have so much to think about planning a wedding its so easy to forget things (and i did forget a lot lol).

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Permalink Reply by Samantha on December 9, 2010 at 12:47pm

I think a cute idea for the center pieces would be to use a tall thin vase with some simple flowers and put some peacock feathers in the center piece, like maybe just one sticking out of the center or a few around the outsides. One thing I have learned is that you should either use a very low small center piece or tall enough one that people can see around it because otherwise your guests will be trying to look around the center piece in order to talk to one another!
Try not to stress about it to much momma, your wedding day should be a fun easy going day that you spend with friend family and your love :)
A vegan menu would be awesome! there are plenty of vegan cookbooks that I think you could find some great ideas in.
If you eat chocolate you could always do a chocolate fountain and put fruit around it to dip it in, like strawberries bananas pineapple and all sorts of yummy things!
Good luck girl and I hope your wedding is all that you dream it to be :)

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on December 9, 2010 at 2:15pm

Congrats!! I highly recommend offbeatbride.com and their "bride tribe" if you're looking for support and all sorts of ideas, I was so lucky I found it when I was planning my own wedding. It's actually how I first heard of hooping, since the woman behind the scenes there was a co-founder of hooping.org! The whole community there is awesome, almost rivals this one :D

The garden you've chosen is beautiful! I too had a peacock "theme" and was pleased to find out later that the greek goddess of marriage, Hera, chose the peacock as her symbol.

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Permalink Reply by Nicky B on December 9, 2010 at 2:43pm

I am definitely going to check out that site. Having another community as close as HoopCity would be great too!

For your wedding did you find that peacock feathers were almost too much? I am really trying to be cautious of how many we use because I don't want it to become annoying or gawdy (is that even how that is spelled? lol). I'm trying to just use hints of peacock feathers and focus more on the colors to express the theme.

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on December 9, 2010 at 7:28pm

yeah I did the same- where I had a few feathers but was mostly inspired for the colors. Let's see, I had a spray of them in my bouquet and two in my hair, I made them into boutonnieres, I had some on the cake and some in a vase on the guestbook table. I balanced the rest of the "floral" decorations with fake paper dollars, a kind of seed pod.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany on December 9, 2010 at 2:21pm

congratulations on your engagement :)

how far away are you from Nashville? there are vegan options in Nashville, that you might be able to order from them if you aren't too far away.

also, have you gone on theknot.com for ideas? that is how i planned most of my wedding and the message boards are the most helpful.

there is a book called "Bridal Bargains" and i know several brides who used it and loved it because it saved them a lot of money. i didn't use it, because i had a destination wedding.

hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Nicky B on December 9, 2010 at 2:40pm

Yea, I live about 2 1/2 hours from Nashville. Something I considered was ordering food in Nashville and driving to Nashville sometime before the wedding and picking it up. It's not very eco friendly though, but if time/money/ideas run out it is probably what I will do.

I have been on theknot.com and there are a lot of good ideas but I hadn't checked out the message board. I noticed that the website itself is more focused on high end/high attendance weddings. Our wedding is only going to have 50 people max at it and it will be very casual. Maybe the message boards are different though.

My best friend has that book! I loved a lot of the tips it had. Good suggestion!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah "Dwiizie" on December 9, 2010 at 2:29pm

Congratulations! That is really awesome, I love your ideas. I am NO good at formal wedding planning unfortunately. I can offer tips for the honey moon *wink wink* just playing lol. My cousin gave out bubbles instead of rice or bird seed, I think that was the only eco friendly thing at her wedding. Wish I could help more, good luck, and share pictures when the time comes!

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Permalink Reply by GlowBunny on December 9, 2010 at 8:40pm

Congratulations! I'm engaged and I cannot wait for the day I start to plan mine!

Cant think of many but some themes can be:

Costumey/masquerade
Flowery/casual clothes, flowy hippie wear

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