DESIGN & STYLE
MOUN TA IN WEDDINGS
The next step is choosing colors for your wedding and bridal party. Consider the interiors of the home that you are renting. For example, if there are bold red accents in the home, consider choosing harmonious colors like blues, turquoise and green shades. Or choose a neutral palette with textural elements like french linen, ivory lace and creamy silk. When it comes to flowers, stick with your color theme, and consider using mountain wildflowers. A tiny sprig of lavender tied with twine can be an impactful place setting. Loosely arranged wildflowers in mason jars can be a delicate and rustic centerpiece on tables. The third step is to choose accents. Avoid becoming trend obsessed and focus on personalizing your wedding. If you are an avid reader, choose a stack of books with spines that match your wedding colors as an accessory to the guest book signing table. If your soonto-be husband is a fisherman, have a florist create a boutonniere with a fanciful fishing fly, sans hook. Elements that are true to your personalities will never go out of style and will be the most memorable for you and your guests. Once you have a game plan for the ceremony and reception areas, think about creative ways that you can utilize the multiple rooms in the house. Transform a guest room or den area to a photo booth, or photo room. Photo booths or rooms are a great way for guests to loosen up and have fun, gifting you with silly images to enjoy for years to come. Choose your backdrop - a solid wall or curtains in your wedding colors, and perhaps a banner with your wedding date. Set out a basket of fun props - hats, glasses, mustaches and scarves in colors that coordinate with your wedding style. If your wedding has a vintage vibe, choose an old fashioned suitcase to house the props. Enlist the help of your photographer to provide proper lighting and camera setup. Turn the game room into a gentleman’s whisky bar - a swanky room for your male guests to toast to the happy
couple. Turn a guest room into a tea room - ask the caterers to set up coffee and tea for your guests to enjoy throughout the evening. Personalize the room with pictures of you and your groom growing up and your parents or grandparents on their wedding day. Hang the wedding gowns of your mothers and grandmothers for the guests to admire and enjoy the memories of their own weddings. When it comes to wedding favors, send your guests home with a piece of Colorado. Perhaps tiny jars filled with local honey, seed packets with Colorado wildflowers, or tiny soaps from a Summit County soap maker. Enlist the help of your bridesmaids to scan vintage images of Summit County and create postcards on thick paper stock for your guests to take home, reminding them of your beautiful Colorado mountain wedding.