Perfect Palettes

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Sweet Stationery
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Sweet Stationery

America fell in love with blushing pink and gold during the 1940s and 1950s. Borrow from the nostalgic palette of exuberant pinks and shimmering golds to create a wedding that is elegant without being stuffy.

Start with Stationery
Colorful Cocktails
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Colorful Cocktails

Serve two drinks two ways. Back row, left: Pineapple puree is shaken with ice, pineapple juice, and vodka; the inside of the goblet is sprinkled with caramel dust.

Colorful Cocktails
Present-Perfect Cake
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Present-Perfect Cake

Three square tiers, draped in pale-pink fondant, are embellished with a sparkling array of trims and ribbons.

Present-Perfect Cake
Pretty Pinups
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Pretty Pinups

Invite guests to help themselves to these yummy favors. Cellophane bags printed with the couple's initials and wedding date are filled with delicious goodies.

Pretty Pinups
Glitter and Glow
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Glitter and Glow

Metallic trims add glamorous detail and pair beautifully with pink ribbons in satin, velvet, or organza. Use them as accents for floral arrangements and bouquets, and as adornments on flower-girl headpieces.

Glitter and Glow
Elegant Stationery
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Elegant Stationery

Use this gentle, evocative color combination on your invitations to give guests a taste of the warm celebration to come. Then repeat the colors to personalize other paper pieces and carry the theme throughout.

Elegant Stationery
Beribboned Wreath
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Beribboned Wreath

A dramatic display like this is sure to draw well-wishers to the guest-book table.

Beribboned Wreath
Finely Wrapped Favors
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Finely Wrapped Favors

Extend your palette with pretty favors in green and brown that are a delight to behold.
Best Trimmings
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Best Trimmings

Using ribbon is an easy way to work your color palette into many details of your wedding.

Best Trimmings
Brunch Setting
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Brunch Setting

Sunny and steely, dialed up and dulled down, the combination of yellow and gray makes for a contrapuntal dance that's neither too sweet nor too subdued.

Brunch Setting
Golden Girl
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Golden Girl

There's more to flower-girl attire than plain white or sugary pink. In fact, dressmaker Roxbury Baby will fashion a frock out of any fabric you send them, as with this yellow-and-white silk-voile dress.

Golden Girl
Special Delivery
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Special Delivery

Re-create this bouquet: Bright yellow ranunculus, gold roses, freesia, ilex berries, and clementines form the foundation, while dusty-miller leaves, blue-gray succulents, and leucadendron buds add contrast and texture. Bouquet by Ariella Chezar.

Special Delivery
Drawing Power
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Drawing Power

Marigold card stock offsets gray-on-white seating cards, which are adorned with line illustrations. Guests' names are printed on the tags, and the table numbers appear on the yellow paper they're pinned to. Cards by Cheree Berry Paper.

Drawing Power
Raising the Bar
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Raising the Bar

Here, the sign that identifies the bar area in marigold script is adorned with orchids and hung with warm gray ribbon, while the tabletop is embellished with cymbidium, leucadendron buds, tillandsia, and succulents.

Raising the Bar
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Estrellita00

18 Feb, 2010
Beautiful, great inspirations

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