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. You can show your board to your florist, baker, photographer and/or wedding coordinator to help them understand the look and feel you want your wedding to evoke.
Brides search the web, save clippings from magazines, and share ideas with friends for months sometimes years before their big day. Your inspiration board is simply all of the ideas, and photos that inspire your wedding. Whether its your dress, cake, table settings, or flowers, its a collage of all the wedding images you love. For a french wedding google google images for wedding in France, castle wedding and chateau wedding.
Brides have always clipped out pictures and ideas that they were attracted to and kept them in a folder or notebook, but the wedding inspiration board makes it pretty. Show your friends and family if you want their input or keep it private or anonymously published on the net if you do not. 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. You can create it in Photoshop or a similar layout program or it can be real on a bulletin board o a piece of foam. 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. Scan images from wedding magazines and brochures. Its also a great way to show your vendors (florist, decor etc) exactly the kind of wedding you want to create.
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 can create them easily online without any graphics programes or knowledge.
Do not be intimidated into thinking you need a fancy program like Photoshop to make an inspiration board.
Remember pictures speak a thousand words. Our bilingual french wedding planner says most brides having a destination wedding have an inspiration board.
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