Today, I’ve got some of the MOST important wedding details for you — the flowers and the decor!
Each of these things was extremely important to me in creating my perfect wedding day, and most of it came together by creating it myself — with a little help from some very lovely family members. 
We’ll start with the single most daunting task of all of my wedding planning – the flowers!
Almost the entire theme of my wedding centered around one single item — the book flower. I shared this tutorial in creating your own roses out of book pages a while back, and I shared how I intended to use them for my wedding. When I first created those flowers, I never quite realized just how MANY flowers I would end up making by the time of our wedding. I created both plain book flowers, as in my tutorial, and I also painted book pages with water colors before making flowers so we would also have some color. I stuck with blues, turquoises, and purples for the water color book flowers.
We incorporated the book flowers both into all of the bouquets AND all of the centerpieces. Alex’s mom came for a weekend in January, and we spent an entire 8 hour day on creating book flowers. Talk about a test in making sure you like your future mother-in-law — just sit at a table together ALL DAY LONG doing a menial task like creating these flowers. It’s lucky we like each other a LOT, because we definitely would’ve been at each other’s throats that day otherwise! 
I used book pages only from Pride & Prejudice, along with one single book flower with pages from the Chronicles of Narnia that I stuck into my bouquet for fun. [Read more…]
