Project 2: Choosing a Theme

<----- This is our son Caleb. Born 19 December 2008 he is our pride and joy and the funniest little kid ever. We knew that we wanted Caleb and the kids to be involved in the wedding and not to be shoved into a back room while their parents partied it up. We love having Caleb with us and we believe that kids need to be exposed to weddings especially in a world where the divorce rate is sky high and the concept of two people being together forever is associated mostly with a Disney fairy tale. They need to grow up knowing what real relationships are and the meaning of a marriage not a wedding ceremony.

So the line of though began with activities for the kids.. a jumping castle, a face painter, a magician, a pinata, party packs, balloons...

We literally started planning a kids party which spiraled into an idea for the actual wedding to be just as fun filled!

Edward and I are not the romantic roses and doves type of couple. we both don't enjoy sitting awkwardly at weddings in funny formal outfits and listening to speeches for hours. In all honesty traditional weddings have their place but more and more couples are veering away towards a new age of wedding traditions. quirky and odd with vibrant colours which suited us perfectly.

After browsing through some overseas blogs i came across the concept of a vintage carnival wedding and fell in love the the scheme straight away.

The typical colours were blue/turquoise and red/pink. So i started researching the colour scheme.

Here is my first colour mood board i put together with inspiration dated 25 November 2010.

It's almost exaclty 1 year ago since I began my wedding planning. Funny how time flies by and taps you on the shoulder.



















Following up on the colour scheme was the actual carnival theme which I will do as a seperate post.

xXx Mrs C.