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Mar 19

Inspiration Board: Bon Voyage

Well, I promised you folks a week of inspiration, and that’s exactly what we’re delivering! After this morning’s colourful wedding, this afternoon we’re concentrating on just the one colour – the only colour this year dahling, Pantone’s 2013 colour of the year, emerald green. Reader Heather wrote to ask for an emerald board for her spring wedding in New Orleans. As it’s a destination, Heather and her fiance plan to incorporate maps and a travel motif, but they want to keep things simple and elegant. So I’ve kept travel details to a minimum, with a map guest book and other subtle touches – a little globe, postcard-style escort card tags, antique map boutonnieres for the guys and super sweet vintagey favour bags. Combined with lace and the deep emerald shade, it creates the sort of vintage feel Heather wanted, and has a nod to travel without feeling themey. Flowers are kept simple white with prominent foliage, as are the boutonnieres, and the bridesmaids wear emerald dresses with emerald shoes for the bride. For the tables, a lace runner is perfectly pretty, with a variety of small arrangements in different vases. It works, doesn’t it? Yay for emerald. Hope you like your board, Heather!

PS Photographers, if you really want to be inspired, come back in an hour when I’ll be giving you a sneak peek of what’s to come on our EdWed shoot! It’s GOOD. :)

Colours: Emerald and ivory

Top row (l-r): Mini globe on books {Blush Bridal Consultation Group/Lauren Brooks Photography}; thistle boutonnieres {Jose Villa/JL Designs}; green shoes {Dally Street Images}; map guest book {Snap Weddings}; bouquet {Anne Robert Photography/Petals & Hedges}
Row 2: Postcard escort tags {Tracie Howe Photography/Blush Celebrations}; bridesmaid dresses; cufflinks {Not on the High Street}; groomsmen {Shannen Natasha Photography}
Row 3: Bride in lace wedding dress {Tracie Howe Photography/Blush Celebrations}; favour bags with vintage aeroplane {Sarah Layne Photography/Your Perfect Bridesmaid}; table setting {Sarah Layne Photography/Your Perfect Bridesmaid}; couple with map {Celeste Duran}.

Feb 20

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Pantone Fall 2013 Colour Report

Goodness, but time is rushing by! It seems like just yesterday that the Pantone Spring 2013 colour report came out, and I’ve had so much fun working with the colours this year, including colour of the year, Emerald. But with the days finally starting to get longer on this side of the world comes the Fall report, and as before, the colours are bolder and brighter and perfect for a statement look. This time around they all really remind me of Morocco, and what I’m really looking forward to doing is pairing them with soft neutrals as well as each other, as they are here. So how might you go about using them? As usual, I’ve put together a selection of mini-boards to give you some ideas! Which is your fave?

Jan 3

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Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2013: Emerald

Well, I didn’t see this one coming. After two years of warm colours – honeysuckle pink and tangerine tango orange specifically – Pantone’s just named Emerald as its colour of the year. It’s dramatic, it’s rich, it’s formal, it’s a little bit old school… and it has totally grown on me. Seriously, when I thought about it, it totally made sense. In the last year I’ve seen a couple of emerald wedding dresses, and every time it has caught my attention. Then I featured this engagement shoot, with the most gorgeous green Gucci dress. And this graphic Gucci and gold inspiration board:

Sep 12

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Pantone Spring 2013 Colour Report

It’s my favourite time of year again – Pantone have just released their latest spring fashion palette, and man, is it a good one! I absolutely love every one of these pretty, preppy colours, from punchy Poppy Red or Lemon Zest to cool Monaco Blue (best name ever) and Linen, which pretty much go with everything. Greyed Jade and African Violet are lovely soft versions of purple and green, and Tender Shoots and Nectarine offer chilled out alternatives to chartreuse and coral. I also love emerald and dusky blue – lovely, cool colours you just want to dive on into. There are SO many combinations of these colours that would look amazing at a wedding, but I’ve put together a few mini palettes to get you started. Which is your favourite?

May 16

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Pantone Fall 2012 Colour Report

This isn’t quite breaking news, but while I was on hiatus, Pantone released their latest set of colours for autumn 2012, and I wanted to share them with you, as well as a few mini-boards showing how you might combine them into fresh takes on old colour palettes. Tangerine Tango (Pantone’s colour of the year) is still going strong (and I actually prefer these colour pairings for TT than those from spring), but for the less adventurous there are some softer colours as well as some bolds that pack a punch. Chatreuse, for example, can be used sparingly but to great effect. I suspect that of all of them, Rhapsody is the one we’ll see in more weddings this season, but I think (with the Olympics just weeks off now) that Olympian Blue must be my favourite. Which is yours?

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Sep 21

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Pantone Spring 2012 Colour Report

It’s that time of year again! After fashion week in New York, I love seeing which colours Pantone put in their colour reports for spring and autumn, as I know I’ll be seeing these colours in the shops and eventually making their way into weddings as well. This time last year they included coral and aqua, and now they’re two of the hottest colours (both together and combined elsewhere). And this time the brights are even brighter, although there’s a pretty pastel end to the spectrum as well. There are so many gorgeous colour combinations possible here – you can really let your imagination run riot! I’m sure many of them will be showing up in my inspiration boards soon, but in the meantime, here are some mini-boards to get those creative juices flowing. Which is your favourite? Read more

Mar 7

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Inspiration Board {1 Colour 3 Ways}: Henley Honeysuckle

Every so often I like to show how you can take a particular theme or colour and interpret it in a number of different ways, depending on your style or venue. Last year we looked at an oranges and lemons theme (see the boards here, here and here), and this time I’m taking another look at Pantone’s colour of the year, honeysuckle (which also featured in this vintagey board). Honeysuckle really is a great colour – it’s so versatile and has such a different feel when combined with other colours. I’ve chosen just three possible looks for this week inspired by Cape venues – let me know which one is your favourite!

Kicking off today is a bit of preppy shoreline chic. I LOVE preppy weddings, and I love the whole yachting and boating vibe. Inspired by another Pantone colour, Regatta Blue, I’ve created a fun but still super classy palette for your very own ship shape wedding. Harbour House in Kalk Bay is the perfect venue with its whitewashed walls and big windows looking out over the water, and lots of photo (even ceremony) options on the pier below. Think seersucker suits, fresh nautical stripes and soft flowers like peonies or ranunculus. And how adorable are the boat centrepieces? As long as you don’t go overboard (sorry!), you can have a lot of fun with this decor and it’s ideal if you love the beach and the sea, but don’t want to do the whole barefoot on the sand thing.

Colours: Honeysuckle, Regatta and grey