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Hiya all,

I am in a pickle. I was planning on going with a nice fall wedding for our Oct. 30th wedding. The downside to this was that both my and my FI's favorite colors are blue. We were in Michaels last night and saw peacock feathers. Inspiration hit me. They are absolutely gorgeous and I think that they would make a fantastic theme for our wedding. Does anyone think this is weird? I have heard that they're bad luck, but I currently have one and still managed to meet my love so I don't believe it. Do any of you awesome gals have any advice to go about incorporating the feathers and colors into a wedding? Any and All ideas are welcome!

I am just worried about going overboard or not adding enough. They are fun, beautiful, and unique :)

Thanks so much! I apologize that this is sooo long.

@cre- thank you so much! That link looks like it shall be uber helpful :)

@evie- thank you for saying it looks like a fall theme! I totally wasn't sure  and wanted to make sure it fit our date :)

Oooooh yay, a peacock bride.  I'm one too! 

In about 3 weeks, I'll have real live photos to show off.  :) I have a bunch of inspiration photos - I'll try to dig some out today or tomorrow. 

I'm working the teal aspect of the feathers.  Our invites were navy & teal.  Someday I'll have a pic.  ;)  My girls are in teal and I believe our flowers will be orange...  Sounds icky but if you look @ the feather there are lots of amber/oranges in them.  Peacock can go so many ways...  royal blues, purples and jewel greens with hints of orange, gold and red would be luvrly in fall.  :)  This is definitely a theme you can go overboard with - I'd stick to some feathers in the florals and scattered around the cake table and possibly on your napkin rings.  At one point I was also thinking of working olive into my colors and going a bit more muted.  Ahhhh, so many choices...  :)  I've probably been no help! 

OK, here's a quickie couple of pics - my original inspiration board:

And this is one of the design motifs from our invites - we went a little more whimsical than some of the other pics

Miss Meepsie- you are being super helpful! Thank you so much for the ideas. I did indeed notice the orange in the feathers :) Do you think if I put my bridesmaids in teal and my MOH in gold it would look good? Also to have a couple feathers in my bouquet must I use only white flowers? Thank you so much again, I truly appreciate it. Your wedding sounds stunning!

Thank you ladies! Wow you are all amazing :D I am so lucky to have found this awesome board...and y'all know how to match!

@ cheese - all my girls are wearing teal (alfred angelo tealness to be exact) and my mom is wearing gold - I'll post pics as soon as I get any & you can see for yourself!  :)   You can use any flowers you like.  Here are some examples of bouquets that I found... 

@cre - lmao.  glad you like.  :) 

@jojo - hooray for tealness!  It's such a great rich teal.  When I first told my BM's teal, they gave me the oh no 80's eyeroll.  Now they're all thrilled with the color.  :) 

I absolutely LOVE peacock and I am using it in my wedding with purple accents!!! If you go to Karen Tran Florals website, you can click on the peacock wedding and it has alot of inspiration. If you love something, you should go with it! I'll keep you posted with mine as well!

I think your ideas sound great! Peacocks are bad luck at theaters--like broadway type - according to my aunt-- i don't think they are anywhere else! Plus they mate for life. :-)

I'm having a peacock themed wedding as well! My colors are grape and green but I feel it's a warm and vibrant touch for a winter wedding. Here are a few of my favorite inspirations.

This was a big inspiration for the color scheme of my bouquet

this was the inspiration behind the color!

this one would have a purple ribbon for us.

this was the main inspiration for the flowers

this is how my bridesmaids dresses and flowers will coordinate, even though their dresses are all different. their bouquets will look like this.

I lucked out and one of my BM's aunts has 35 peacocks in her backyard so we have 4 big boxes of feathers we are using everywhere! Our centerpieces will  be tall clear vases with birch sticks and peacock feathers sticking straight up and clear crystals attached to the birch hear and there. The base has clear and purple beads.

Good luck! garden ridge here in texas has tons of peacock stuff if that helps!

I considered doing a peacock theme for my wedding too!  I blogged about it and put all of my ideas there.

http://soontobemrsgalgano.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/peacock-wedding-theme/

Good Luck!!!

Oooo! I love those peacock programs. 

thanks for all advice ladies! the pictures are super helpful :)