Vintage met beauty at this beautiful bridal shower. A lovely bride that has a love for all things vintage was showered with lots of love and blessings from friends and family early last month. For this event, I took her a couple of her favorite loves, crosswords and postcards, along with vintage style to create a design special and unique to just her.
Emily loves crosswords so guest were greeted with a custom mini crossword where the clues revealed the answers "Welcome", "Emily", "Bridal" and "Shower". I added some vintage lace to dress the sign up along with a custom crossword florette.
A light lunch was served with surprise catering by the bride-to-be's best friend. He served up a delectable meal that left everyone wanting more. I always feel that traditional food tags get lost in admidst all the platters so I designed a unique menu board that tied all the design concepts together well. I really think it was my favorite part of the whole design!
The dessert bar offered up several desserts from Red Velvet Cupcakes to Three Berry Bars and Raspberry Chocolate Mousse. I topped the cupcakes with custom toppers I created out of crosswords. I kept variety going by topping some with crosswords paper spheres and some with just simple crossword flags. I left quite a few undressed so as to show off the beauty of the cupcakes themselves!
The gift table featured more simple vintage elements. I fell in love with the display board made of wire heart as soon as I laid eyes on it. I decided to make wish tags so that guests could write a personal message to Emily. Postcard collecting is another pastime of Emily's so I found a vintage postcard design
here which I customized into tags. I tied jute twine on them to keep the vintage feel while at the same time allowing the guests to hang up their message.
The favor area displayed a custom bunting made of crosswords letters and a vintage suitcase filled with an electric mix of glass jars. I sprayed these jar with "looking glass" spray that the bride's sister had (since discontinued as we found) that made ordinary glass jars look "vintage". We dressed some up with lace and added a votive to each to finish the look.
Credits:
Event Styling and Photography: Party Pretty Design
Stripey Straws:
Pick Fair
