The Northern Bride

Friday, April 6, 2012

Flower Arrangements - Pink Dreams

When designing a table centre flowers, you shouldn't forget that there are likely to be champagne, wine and water glasses surrounding the arrangement. It would be good to make sure that flower arrangements aren't too low and therefore get hidden by the surrounding tableware. At same time it should be possible to see those guests who seat across the table, as there is nothing worse than flower arrangements that hide everyone who seats across the table. The best is to make a trial flower arrangement with glasses and check how would it look like. Here are some of the pink ideas for your table central flower arrangements :)

Huge martini glasses with flower and colourful stones. A unique and interesting way of making a center peace. From Light In The Box store.

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Absolutely breath taking beautiful pink gerberas, lilies and roses photo

There are no rules on what kind of vase should be. It can be a normal glass for water like here photo

Or a white pitcher with millions of different types of pink flowers.I love how this looks like flowers were just arranged without a deeper thought photo

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How about putting each individual flower in a little glass container ( a bottle for example ) photo

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If you decide on the high center peaces , i would suggest to make them thin and with less flowers - like here

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Simple but beautiful ! <3 photo

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Katherine

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Finding Wedding Ring Mission

I am feeling little stressed right now because our wedding is so close by and i still do not have any kind of a wedding ring to go with my engagement ring. If you would ask my fiance , he would say that no diamond ring should be needed at all... But i feel that this is the only opportunity to have a diamond in my life. My own engagement ring is simple half round golden ring. I thought with such a simple engagement ring i would easily find something awesome to go with it... yep, i was deeply wrong there :)

The biggest issue with finding a wedding ring is my taste. I do not want millions of little diamonds on my finger. I like elegant and interesting shape and just one our a couple of diamonds. And yes this one diamond should be clearly seen and no just a little sparkle somewhere... Basically my taste is expensive :) Last winter i found one wedding ring, but honestly we couldn't afford it. Yesterday i went on a kinda real wedding ring hunt and found this two rings.

A simple and elegant white gold ring with 0,28 diamond. Timeless and fits my engagement ring perfectly as both rings have similar half round ( lord of the ring - type ) shape. I really like it, but i feel that here in Finland this is probably one of the mostly seen ring looks ? Is it little boring as well ?

And then i saw this ring... I've tried it in a white gold .. And it was simply amazing! The ring had 0,45 solitaire diamond. I would probably ask for a smaller stone of 0,40 as i think it would be more than enough bling for me and less of a price tag. Anyway i love this interesting shape of two "lily flowers" on both sides of the diamond. I like this unique look that not every single bride has on. I like this vintage feeling. If i choose this one, then i have no idea would i take it in a white gold like the one i tried in the jewel store, or should i take this one with yellow and white gold....

So what do you think ?

Katherine

PS: tomorrow going to a few other jewel stores , i need to do the proper job now - Finding Wedding Ring Mission continues :)

Monday, April 2, 2012

Romantic Outdoor Weddings

If only Finnish weather wouldn't be so unpredictable... I am in love with the mood of this wedding photos.. I don't know how, but i must get this feeling somehow somewhere :)

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I love how they used different types of chairs and benches , and arrange them randomly. Awesome idea! photo

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This wouldn't be possible in Finland as the nights are light at summer time and when the nights are dark it's very chilly or even cold outside... But it does look beautiful ! <3 photo

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Katherine

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Our Wedding Invitations

I've been talking few times by now about how important the wedding invitations are. They are first hints for the guest on what to expect on the wedding day. The colouring, decoration, text type. All those will give some clues. It is possible that I've taken this invitation importance to the next level hehe

Me and my fiance have been together for 10 years now, 7 years engaged.. So you could say that I've had some time to think what i like and don't like. So when the time came to decide what kind of invitations will we have, it was extremely easy for me. I just knew what i wanted! Luckily my fiance doesn't care as much, so i could use my imagination.

I was first thinking of making our invitations from the start all by myself, but then i found a place that was actually making my dream invitations! That was HORIZON company from Poland. And the end result was better than i could ever had expected! <3

Here is the package of our invitations as they arrived

We have both invitations in Finnish language and a couple of invitations in English. I've just sended the information i wanted to be wroten on the invitations and ordering went extrimely easely and fast.

My idea was to have invitations that would look like an old letter. I used beautifully old type of polite finnish and english languages (i will show the exact text in the next post :) ). Like you can see our invitations have burned edges which makes them look even more old.