Black & White Weddings

I am seeing more and more brides who are incorporating black into their colour schemes. It would seem like black is not synonomous with sadness/grieving/death anymore, and it is now acceptable to see bridesmaids dressed in black or even black wedding dresses.

The colour black works well with most other colours, including white, pink and yellow and it can be used to marvelous effect with these accent colours.

So here are a few pictures for inspiration for a black and white affair:

To speech or not to speech?

Question: Are you, as the bride, planning on making a speech at your wedding? I am interested to find out how many brides are planning to speech or has done so at their weddings. Tell us by leaving a comment on this post!

So onto who, traditionally, says what, about whom, when!

Putting yourself out there...

These days there is no need for your out of town guests to feel left out of your wedding experience. Just put your wedding info on a wedding website and spread the word! There are quite a few places you can go to get this started, and as with anything, there are some you pay for and some that are free. Here are a few:

Venue and Menu

Finding the right venue for your wedding reception can be a mission. You need to consider the theme and feel of your dream day and then find a venue that will match and enhance that.

Here are some questions to ask when considering a venue (also a list of venues in and around JHB/PTA):

Traditionally married?

There are so many traditions that are associated with weddings and most of us follow them blindly without knowing the origin of most of them. So I decided to do some research and see if I can clarify the origins of at least some of these traditions.

Something old, something new....



The original rhyme goes: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in your shoe.

Something old represented a link with the bride's family and her old life.

Something new represented success and good luck in her new life.

Something borrowed, preferably from a happily married woman, was supposed to bring the same good luck and happiness to the bride

Something blue stems from the times when the colour blue represented purity and fidelity.

The silver sixpence in the bride's shoe was to ensure health, happiness and prosperity for the new wife.

I don't know if I will specifically do any of these on the wedding day. The 'something new' won't be so difficult, but not sure about the rest!

Music for special moments

So tonight we are meeting with our DJ and we have to choose the impact songs/music for the wedding. The entrance at the ceremony, the first dance song, music while cutting the cake etc etc. I know which song will be our fist dance song but about the rest I am still unsure. It also doesn't help that GV and my tastes in music are like chalk and cheese! I am a slower, softer, more mellow, lyrics-are-important type of girl. He is a the-louder-the-better, damn-the-lyrics, get-me-dancing type of guy. Can you see where we might have a problem? LOL! Luckily there are some inspiration available on the web:

You are invited!

So, our invitations are finished and we have already hand delivered 5 of them! The ones that need to be posted will go out tomorrow and the rest hand delivered over the next week or so! I am excited as this almost feels like proof that the wedding is real!!! I made each and every one of the invites and I feel very proud. I think they came out nicely and that they convey the feel and theme of our wedding. Now the wait for the RSVP's start.....

Here are a couple of pics of the process: