night wedding, outside..

i'd love this for a mandap. it could be transferred to your backyard after the wedding for late night barbeque parties..

simple, pretty, and practical! (the guju way of course..)

from style me pretty

wish list - venue

one of the proposed wedding ideas i gave my parents was an outdoor wedding. that idea was nixed two seconds after i suggested it.. what if it rains? what if it's too hot? what if someone gets heat stroke from being in the sun too long?

my ideal location would have been outside, in an open space surrounded by trees. the key part here is a space where there happened to be four trees that would make up the mandap. in my head i thought - cheap, simple, and uniquely stunning.

i'm not talking about pine trees or anything.. those old oak trees with huge trunks, thick branches, full of greenery. or in my imaginary utopia, there would be four huge flowering trees perfectly placed by mother nature creating four corners of a square - the perfect mandap. i'm not huge on flowers, but this i would love because it's very organic.

i know, i know.. impossible to find. i'm sure it exists somewhere in the world.

from project: 10k wedding

inspiration board

a big thing around wedding blogs are inspiration boards. basically it's piecing together ideas you've found anywhere and everywhere to create your wedding vision. so.. i've created mine!



as much as i love the patterned flower petals, it wouldn't be practical.. since the groom has to walk down that same path before the bride.  and it's not just the groom, it's the bride's mother and the groom's family.   however, if loads of people mess it up, then does that mean it will just almost even itself out into a straight aisle of petals?

the cake stand is awesome.  cakes are interesting.. cause the less people you're feeding, the smaller the cake, right?  plus cakes are ridiculously expensive!  so the more people you need the feed, the faster the price rises.. so why not get a two or three tiered cake and raise it on a dressed up pedestal?

from home india, dinaz noria, raise the cake, mayra, nisie's enchanted florist, aisle talk, jessica's country flowers, martha stewart weddings

funky mandaps

i just found pictures of mandaps and decor by dinaz noria.. a designer and wedding planner in hyderabad (india). they're GORGEOUS! this one's my favourite:


i love how the seating closest to the mandap is so casual and comfortable looking. it looks so open. *sigh* i wish..

to think these pictures are from 2007.. imagine the stuff she's designing now!