the reception venue

i’m doing some odds and ends today that are wedding related… mainly deciding on a color palette so I can get my bridesmaids-to-be their official invitations (more on those later). i already decided long ago that i didn’t want my bridesmaids to match. they are all so unique in their own right, i want everyone to see the personality and style of people closest to me. SO that means giving them some idea of the color palette and letting them run free. the space we decided on is very different than the one i had imagined having my wedding in. an industrial type place with lofted ceilings and exposed brick was always at the top of my mind, and then I got roped into the idea of doing ( the some-what-trendy) barn wedding. turns out i’m not a hardcore outdoorsy type and the industrial spaces available left either too many restrictions or too much time and effort to transform. so, we ended up at a mansion. there couldn’t be a space more romantic and perfect for our “great gatsby” inspired evening, i don’t know why it took me so long to come around to it. the ballroom is surprisingly light and soft, with cool blues and gold tones throughout the fresco painted ceiling, light-gold cushioned seating around the periphery of the room, and an old stain glass window between two sets of french doors.
so we’ve settled on these colors: light silver/gray, charcoal, champagne, pale blueish gray, and a pink champagne. Those are totally made up names for very specific colors, mainly 3 shades of gray, a light gold and a light pink. Oh boy.