Inspiration Boards and Inspiring Vendors

After my post last week about Sweet Emilia Jane's new event coordination and baking business venture, we got to emailing, and I'm excited to announce that J and I will be hiring Emilia Jane as our Day of Coordinator!  For us, we've prioritized focusing on the marriage and celebration and not on vendor tips and cake table set ups on our wedding day (and I don't feel comfortable asking a friend or family member).  And it's also important to us that we use our money in a way that matters, to support businesses, artists and people we believe in.  And so, we are thrilled to be working with Emilia, and every email with her further confirms that we made the right decision.

Our first order of business (oh, who am I kidding - it was fun all the way) was an inspiration board to rein in all my messy ideas about decor.  I was looking for sustainable, simple, inexpensive, colorful, textured and stylish (along with a ton of other things) and Emilia Jane really helped edit down my mishmash into two inspiration boards. Yeah, my mishmash was too awesome to be contained on just one board.  (Either that, or my thoughts weren't stylistically coherent enough, but I choose to believe in the awesome.)

So, without further ado, here are my two Southern-California, bold-color, sustainable-chic inspiration boards to help guide me on my thrift store adventures. J and I lovelovelove the color palette from the second board and will be liberally stealing elements from them both.

Credits: bethhelmstetterblog, style me pretty, Veiled Vows, A Backyard Wedding, stylemepretty, yes, please blog, designspongeonline

Credits: wedding whims (3), martha stewart, wordpress, Gemma Commas

For all you ladies who have unsuccessfully attempted the Martha pom poms (getting that signature poof is harder than you'd think. At least, that was my impression at Akbar's craft night.  Or perhaps that was just the cocktails talking...) how much do you LOVE these pinwheels?!  Easy, colorful, structured, travels well to the venue, did I mention easy, and DO YOU SEE THAT FIREPLACE?!  We have a fireplace too, so I am doubly thrilled.

For anyone interested in talking with Emilia Jane about making you a custom inspiration board too, check out more information here.  And for anyone interested in talking with Emilia Jane about your wedding planning or baking needs, go visit Sweet Emilia Jane.

Edit: I fixed the link to Sweet Emilia Jane's Inspiration Board info. It should be working now.