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Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Wedding

Buie's Girl, on February 11, 2009 at 1:04 PM Posted in Style and Décor 0 4

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I love fairy tales and want the fairy tale wedding and all that it implies, but I don't want the Disney fairytale scheme. I want more Brothers Grimm - you know, kind of dark, not as many bright colors. My colors are black and lavender and I'm using more grapevine than floral decorations with a few tea light candles. My cake backdrop is going to be grapevine with Christmas lights throughout and a few grapevines throughout the food tables. We're also thinking about putting small bare trees/branches in plaster of paris (kind of like what Laura L. was wanting to do) and in big potters. Then spray paint the trees/branches white with white Christmas lights. Is there anything else I could do to realize this theme? Anything for the guest tables? Cause all that was going to be done there was a candle with some rose petals. Oh, and butterflies are also involved in this theme. I'm just not a big flower person.

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Latest activity by Laura, on February 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM

Lois Lyons · on February 11, 2009 at 9:05 PM
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What about copies of Grimms Fairy tales for each table? Or excerpts from their well known tales, on parchment like paper, for the tables, or the cake table/gift table.

You could do table names instead of table numbers. The tables named after famous Grimm characters or story titles?

Lanterns, with the tea lights inside? Very "old country"
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gabby_jayne · on February 11, 2009 at 9:50 PM
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When I read your description I was immediately reminded of an article I just saw in YWD magazine. It was called Fanciful Garden, and though it may be a little bit darker than you are going for it has a TON of great decorations that I think could go great with your theme! Here is a link to it
http://www.yourweddingday.com/ywd/event-design/Fanciful-Garden.html
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gabby_jayne · on February 11, 2009 at 9:55 PM
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Oh i just realized the pictures on the site dont get bigger... BUMMER! If you can find one it was in the YWD Winter 2008 issue... those little pics don't do it justice!
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Laura · on February 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM
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Gabby I LOVE the look on that link you posted! It made me think of a something Buie's Girl could use pretty cheaply. How about craft moss? Like at Micheal's they have bags of it and you could lay it out on tables or in shallow boxes and lay the place cards on it or whatever. It just has that whimsical garden feel, makes you think of gnomes living under trees or something. I'd hang it off the branches, or some hanging amaranthus, or spanish moss just to add some texture. Drip it over anything you could think of, candelabras, etc..Great theme by the way!!
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