Wedding Breeze

You have the guy, you have the ring on your finger, you said “Yes”, now you can start looking for great ideas for the wedding you have always dreamt of.  A wedding inspiration board is a great way to brainstorm, gather, and display the many ideas you may have for your wedding vision or theme.

Brides search the web, save clippings from magazines, and share ideas with friends for months sometimes years before their big day.   These are all components for creating your personal Wedding Inspiration Board.   For a french wedding google google images for wedding in France, castle wedding and chateau wedding.

Wedding inspiration boards (also called a story or mood board, but let’s be honest - it’s a collage. Sheesh!) are a growing trend. Wedding boards are presentable to wedding vendors.  Displaying it on your office wall, for example, will undoubtedly invite suggestions from your work colleagues.

You may miss the overall effect when you get down to the nitty-gritty of every fine detail. If you include pictures of everything from food to flowers to dresses to lighting, you’ll have a better idea of what your guests will see on your wedding day, when all of a sudden they walk in and see it all put together. And, as you will know how all of your different wedding elements come together ahead of time thanks to your inspiration board, it will be fabulous on your wedding day.

As you are making decisions it really helps to have a visual reminder of all your thoughts right in front of you. It can be a bulletin board, a piece of foam core, or you can create it on the computer in Photoshop or a layout program. Swatches, photos, even notes you’ve jotted down can be displayed all in one place, and changed around as you change your mind.

They can consist of dresses, bouquets, shoes, favours, placecards, receptions, programs, invitations. Create your board using pictures from magazines, websites or personal photographs. You name it, you can include it. Wedding Inspiration boards are also a great way to express your wedding ideas and vision to the many vendors who will participate in your wedding.   Google images for inspiration.  Any wedding vendor you deal with will be delighted to see that you have an inspiration board. 

Providing your vendors with your wedding inspiration board will allow them to understand the look you want to accomplish, and even motivate them to create unique ideas along the same theme.

 You could always download a free program or website or even work it up in Microsoft Word!

Do not be intimidated into thinking you need a fancy program like Photoshop to make an inspiration board.

Wedding inspiration boards are particularly helpful if you have selected a destination wedding with a language that you are not fluent in.  Remember pictures speak a thousand words.  Our bilingual french wedding planner says most brides having a destination wedding have an inspiration board.