Trouble seeing wedding vision?

I love your colors and theme, mine are very similar (plum and bronze)!

I'd have to say my problem is more of an inability to focus my vision to make sense. My pinterest boards are overflowing and I've had to go back through them as I start to make actual decisions on what I want. I think it's more a process than an outright mental image of your big day.

Make each decision in it's own time and try not to worry about seeing the big picture yet. You're too close to it and looking at all the details. Once you get a little further along and start deciding on things it'll help you progress with it, and then give yourself some time to take a step back and see where you're going with it.

That's just my two cents

I had the same issue for the longest time. It was so hard to picture the whole thing when so many decisions were yet to be made. As we've finalized more of our vendors and narrowed down the type of things we want, it's become a LOT easier. I remember being afraid that once it was all said and done, the whole event would look disjointed, but recently, everything is falling into place. Each decision is one step closer to defining your day, so it'll all come together in due time.

I think it has to do with the way our brains work. I have a complete vision in my head and can see it clearly, but my FH can't visualize it at all. If you have a color scheme and a general idea of what you are looking for, if you do it detail by detail I'm sure it will all come together beautifully! My advice to not forget anything if you aren't good at envisioning a whole event-- look a pictures and write down what you like about it and make those aspects happen!

I think Pinterest makes it difficult; there are too many choices!! I don't even look at it. I've been married before. All I knew was that I wanted a short dress, a non traditional cake, no wedding party and just a cocktail party... No sit down meal. I saw KarenM's flowers and decided on orange as well, which is my favorite color so it works. My venue is beautiful and doesn't need any decorating; I'm not doing any DIY. I don't really have a vision. I'm just planning a fun, casual event for family and friends. I've had no stress (except finding orange shoes which I couldn't find so I ditched the idea). Just plan what you like. You don't need everything you see on Pinterest... Tons of signs and decorations, purple lighting etc. I'm sure whatever you pick will be lovely.

Remember....guys don't spend hours trolling the internet and looking at wedding inspiration or creating boards and pinning. They haven't been thinking about their wedding day since they were little and have never looked at the centerpieces twice at another wedding.

If you would have asked me years ago in highschool what my dream wedding looked like, I could have given you an extremely detailed list of exactly how I wanted things to go. Now, after finishing college, I feel like I've experienced so many different things and appreciate so many more styles.

The only thing I've had a real vision of is my wedding venues. I need old stone gray brick and a beautiful church with high arched ceilings. Now that I've found them, I honestly pretty indifferent about most things. I haven't yet had a vision for colors, a dress, or anything!

I think the further along in my planning, the easier it got to envision everything! I would hold off on buying signage and decor until you get a little further along, and that might help, or save receipts so you can return things in case you change your mind. I find there are SO many things I like, but I don't want it to seem random lol.

Wow, plum and orange are my two main colors! Have you booked a venue yet? Your venue will greatly affect the decor you will choose. So maybe after you book a venue, then you can go from there. Also maybe start putting a description on the general feel you want. Do you want a chic, elegant, rustic, glamorous, intimate, wedding? etc etc

I have a lot of my vendors booked already and STILL have trouble with piecing everything together in my head. I know we have uplighting. I know my colors. We have a florist booked but I can't see WHAT my flowers will look like. I have decorations bought but I just CANT put it all together in my head. I am just hoping everything falls together that day. This is what the professionals are for.

I was struggling really hard to envision this golf course, blush and greys event. We changed it to the beach and I still couldn't see it. We changed the main colours to grey and seafoam and I TOTALLY get it. It takes a lot of playing around and really narrowing down what you want. I really wanted shades of blush, but having a wedding on the beach meant my girls might blend in with the sand, and my girls don't look good in the muted pinky tones. As soon as I swapped my hi-lite colour (seafoam) to my main colour, it made way more sense. I will still have blush tones, but they wont be as prominent.

I'm the same as you -- my wedding is finally starting to seem like it's got some cohesion to it, but I never started out with a grand vision that I wanted to execute. It's all been pieced together, based on what we do or don't want in each "category" of the wedding. I don't think that you need to be crazy, everything-planned-out-bride to have an amazing wedding. I will say that attending weddings, and reviewing them in my mind has helped a lot for wedding planning, in terms of figuring out what are absolute deal breakers, and that shaped the overall feel.

I would say, just keep finding what you do and don't like, and little by little it'll come together. You have an entire year more than me, and I'm only just starting to see the big picture, so don't worry too much about it. There's really no way to force it, you know? If you don't have much experience as a wedding guest, I would watch wedding videos on videographers' websites (although, that will DEFINITELY make you want to hire one, which is pretty pricey) just to see more weddings "in action."