Pom-poms...a good thing?

I haven't really talked much about my tablescape yet, truthfully, because I don't have a vision of how the tables should look. My decorator is looking after most of the decor at the venue, but not everything, because: a) I'm anal retentive like that, b) cost, and c) I want to feel as though I contributed to the feel of the day in some way.

My colour scheme is black and white with orange accents, as I've mentioned before. The tables will be covered with white linens and black (or possibly black and white damask) overlays and the centerpieces will either be manzanita trees or black candleabras. The chairs will be done up in black chair covers with orange satin sashes.

Sort of like this, but with orange instead of yellow accents, and no flowers:

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Our decorator will be setting up all of these elements herself. Now, we're not doing flowers on the tables due to cost, but when I started thinking about the overall look of our tables, I felt they needed something. So, like any good bride, I turned to Martha for some DIY inspiration and found these:

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Napkin pom-poms! I die. Martha provides step-by-step instructions for these cute napkin additions, and they're actually quite easy to make. YAY! I can contribute to the tablescape after all.

So now, my only dilemma is whether to make the poms in black or orange. I'm leaning towards black because I want to use orange sparingly (so that my wedding doesn't look too Halloween-y), but they'll look more like flowers if I do them in orange.

What do you think? Orange to add some colour to the table setting? Or black to stick with the overall vision?

What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?

Squash.

I think I mentioned my wedding date in my first post, but for those who missed it, I'm getting married on October 30, 2010 (aka Devil's Night).This wasn't completely intentional, but I'll get into that later. Anyway, since we'll be wed on Devil's night and party into Halloween, it was important for us to have some inspired decor.

It's fairly difficult to do a Halloween inspired wedding without entering into gaudy territory, but I think one of the easiest ways to do this is to use natural decor elements, such as pumpkins, flowers and branches (i.e. manzanita).

Pumpkins will be a very important part of our wedding decor. But can you do jack-o-lanterns without being tacky? I give you my inspiration.

How about some monogrammed pumpkins? My FH loves carving (he usually carves 2-4 pumpkins each Halloween) so this would be do-able.

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We'll definitely have more than one monogrammed pumpkin; probably a few at the entrance of the ceremony/reception hall and then one up at the front of the ceremony room. In addition to the monogrammed pumpkins, I'd also like some 'mini' pumpkins.

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I'd also like to do some white and black painted pumpkins to go with our white and black colour scheme. I am in love with the damask pumpkin!

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And finally, I'll have to cover the mantle (and perhaps the hearth) of the fireplace in our reception hall with pumpkins. Though I'd probably change the "RIP" banner and the "BOO" pumpkin message to something a little more wedding-y, like I DO.

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So what do you think? Too much pumpkin, or just enough?

I want candy.

I have more than a little bit of a sweet tooth. My FH has even more of a sweet tooth. So, when deciding on what to give our guests as favours, the answer was simple, something sweet and edible.

We thought about chocolate covered pretzels (but my FH's brother did that as his December wedding), we thought about personalized M&M's (but what about people that don't like chocolate), we considered caramel apples (though this would be very time intensive as we'd likely do them ourselves) and then we went to meet Kim, our wedding coordinator.

She suggested a candy buffet. Um, yes!

I had seen tons of pictures of wedding candy buffets, but thought they were out of our budget. But since our decorator/WC already has all the jars/plates to display the candy, it actually won't be too costly. Plus, since she'll be helping us the day of the wedding, she can refill the jars as the guests deplete them.

Now the only question is, what should I do for candy colours.

We could just do a mix of colour, focusing on the more halloween-y colours, like orange, green, purple, and black. I think a variety of colours can look great.

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We can stick to our black and white theme and do something like this. Or, we could do this and add in our orange accent colour.

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Or we could go for a primarily orange display, and let the candy buffet be the main orange element of the reception hall.

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So what do you think? Black and white? Black and white and orange? Black, orange, purple and green?