Wedding inspiration _ unique invitation cards

This is the wedding invitation I made. The cartoon is of us. Me pulling my husband to be away from his dish of pasta to get to the altar. It has a fun feeling to it and shows our personalities quite well. I have included many details into the invitation that will later be shown at the wedding. 

This is the card when its layed out. You fold it in 3 parts. The bride and the address become the outside, and the groom eating the spaghetti is on the inside, as a surprise. 

This is the outside of the card. Showing a bride pulling what seems to be a rope... 

Only to find out that she is pulling the spaghetti. Her fiancè is eating, as usual (Italian). 

This is the inside of the card. It is full of useful information about the wedding.
- On the left page we have the map with directions on how to get there. It is a map of Lake Garda, a cartoon aeroplane shows nearby airports, the "spaghetti" continues and becomes the highway, as well as a dividing line on the other 2 parts.
- The addresses of the restaurant as well as the ceremony location are written on the bottom left page. The same symbol is then shown on the map.
- A road sign on the top left corner shows the distances that our guests are travelling to come to celebrate with us. This is to make them realise that we are very well aware of how fare they are travelling. It's also a fun topic to talk about during the dinner. I have made a real sign that will be placed in the garden of the restaurant where the guests will enjoy a refreshing drink and snacks before the actual dinner.
- A fiat 500 car has the text "just married" on the side.
- A cartoon of the castle has 3 flags: The Italian, The Swedish and the Australian, showing our nationalities. The real sign can be seen here.

The center of the card has the actual invitation details, time, date, place, etc.
In the center of the middle page we put the link of our wedding blog where people can get more info about the wedding, transport, accommodation, gift registry, etc. The bottom flowers are also shown again on the wedding blog and include the colour theme for our wedding.

The right part of the invitation is the RSVP page. Guests can fill in whether they are coming or not, if they are allergic or vegetarian, etc. Hardly anybody actually sent it back, as it meant cutting off the cartoon of the groom on the back. 

Wedding inspiration _ colour palettes

Which colour palette do you prefer? Please comment!

Wedding inspiration _ bridesmaids dresses

I have been looking a lot at bridesmaids dresses (as well as everything else for the wedding). My conclusion is that the bridesmaids are going to be able to chose their dresses themselves. I don't want them to be matching, but to have the same colour theme. They don't need to be in the same material, length or style. Some of the colours I like the most for the bridesmaids dresses (and for the wedding colour theme) are: grey, apricot, champagne, and blue/grey. I keep changing my mind on the  combination. A few weeks ago I was sure that I wanted grey dresses with warm yellow flowers. Now I am more thinking of blue/grey dresses with champagne details (ribbons around the waist, bows, hair..).
What do you think?
Also I like shorter dresses for the girls. Not long ballgowns. Also remember that the average temperature in the Verona region in August is 25C (considering even nighttime temperature). Average high is 32 (max high 36). Average low is 20C. Since I want my girls looking fresh, I think shorter dresses is the best summer option!

This is a colour I quite like. I think it's quite elegant and modern at the same time. I don't want all the dresses to be the same and I think the width of these skirts looks slightly goofy, but otherwise quite nice.

So I know my bridesmaids aren't as "hippy" as in this photo, but I do think it catches something that I like. Both the colour range and sweetness.

I like both the colour and length of these dresses.

Champagne dresses... are they too formal?

I think this caramel, chocolate, champagne colour range is nice.. Maybe with shorter dresses it wouldn't feel so formal.

I love how these girls don't have matching dresses. They're all following a colour theme, but all the dress types are different. Materials, lengths, and styles. But they still work really nicely together. The champagne colour is a classic and looks very nice. The flowers are a bit too classic for my taste, but this is still one of my favorite inspirational photos.

Grey and apricot works well together, although the yellow flowers look better with the grey dresses. Perhaps they should've considered two different bouquetts? The brides bouquett is very nice with the added apricot coloured flowers. I love the yellow ball shaped flowers.

Grey and white bridesmaids dresses really give a lot of attention to the bride. I don't think the dark green bouquett works very well, but otherwise I think it looks nice.

This family have  matching clothes and don't they look lovely? I especially like the babys pokerdot dress!

This couple must be popular (or have desision problems) 9 bridesmaids and 6 groomsmen.The shiney grey and black looks good together and really gives the bride attention.

The girls are working the dark grey and warm yellow combination. I like how some of the girls also have yellow shoes and two of them have apricot coloured shoes which also fits very well together with grey.

The grey bridesmaids dresses give a lovely background for the white wedding dress. The yellow flowers go perfectly with grey and get much more attention than what they normally would.

Wedding inspiration _ yellow and grey decoration combination

 It's not hard to guess which kind of colours I'm imagining at my wedding. I think grey and yellow is a fabulous combination. If I'm actually going to use it or not is another question. But I really do love all these inspirational photos that I have in my huuuge inspiration folder on my computer.