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So I've been having a hrad time nailing down my color scheme. I know I want purple, and peacock feathers. I know I want subtle undertones of the 1940's, but beyond that I was tumped. Every picture I found on google was the same old same old. And I hadn't found anything that truly inpired me until late last night in the wee hours of the morning. Now I'm looking at all my inspiration and wondering, will I look back in 20 years and think that my wedding was ugly???

the table cloths shown in the photos below are beautiful, but they are really what I see being something that could look dated and cheap. THe venue we are using has beautiful gold chivari chairs with balck cushions, so I was originally going to go with black table cloths. Now I want to branch out! Would gold chivari chairs with black cushions look good with those linens?

Also, adding in hints of turquise and navy blue now...it's coming together. But I'm still a little stumped. Thoughts anyone?

Did you have jewel tones at your wedding?? I'd love to see your pics!!

Here's a few more peices of my inspiration. My wedding colors: purple, gold, black, and small amounts of turqoise and navy blue. Of course this could all change in a matter of days. Hahahahaha! I'm going to have a woman in Portland hand make my birdcage veil with bleached peacock feathers, and some purple dyed peacock feathers as well. There is some pics of her work included.

Also here is my venue!

I was going to have my bridesmaids wear black dresess. There will be enough color in the wedding party with my SO and his groomsmen who are all army pilots and will be wearing their dress blue uniform. I thought I'de keep the bridesmaids simple so it's not overwhelming.

And acutally the navy blue isn't really one of my colors now that I think about it. The only thing that was going to be blue is my shoes (the blue manolo's) and my SO and groomsmen's uniforms. Is that ok? If I don't have any blue anywhere else will that look weird? I guess there's blue in the peacock feathes so maybe that would be good enough?

the black would just be the bridesmaids and maybe the invitations or something. Hmmm...now I'm getting confused. Oh dear...

Thanks for all your helpful comments ladies!! Jenbabe, you're totally right. I guess almost everything looks dated 20+ years down the road. We should just do what we like! My SO brought up that we have such an amazing photographer that she will makes everything lok timeless. 

Sulli301, thanks for sharing your beautiful wedding!! I've actually never been a purple person...until now!! Now I can't get enough of all the different shades of purple!! :)

I was showing my SO all these pics (he's in Iraq so sometimes I have to wait days or weeks to talk wedding with him, but luckily he's really involved and likes having input), and he likes the purplis-green-bluis table cloths and the bouquets from above too. We are also going with the actual invitations I listed above!! I'm so excited!!

Arenyth, I was going to do black bridesmaid dresses because my MOH is in her late 40's and a size 18, while my BM is 25 and a size 0. I wanted them to both feel beautiful but still coordinate. I felt that with such drastically different ages and sizes that a colored dresses would make the differences stand out and my MOH might feel uncomfortable. Then they could go buy black dresses, wear whatever makes them feel amazing, and no matter what it would coordinate. It's hard not to match black right? What do you think? And you're idea of adding in touches of turquoise with BM sashes and bouquet wraps....love it!! I think I'm going to try and go with that!!

P.S. Gonna add the vintage touches with this pic on the front of the wedding invitations if we can muster it somehow (plus, that woman in the picture is nurse..so am I)!! Broaches on bouquets, vintage table numbers, and vintage invitations. I think it works without being overpowering.