Intimate weddings allow for a variety of fun seating options! We love these comfortable couches, chairs and loveseats as guest seating for your smaller wedding. These seats will make our guests feel right at home with these cozy chairs.

With a smaller wedding it is simple to splurge on things that are the most important - like cake! This dessert table with homemade pies, and cupcakes is perfect for an intimate wedding. You could get your grandma to make her famous apple and cherry pie, maybe your aunt makes killer cupcakes! When your family and friends can add their own personalization to your wedding it makes the day that much more intimate and memorable.

 If you are having a destination wedding with only both of your sets of parents, a simple decoration and a couple of your closest friends and family makes the perfect setting for a simple, romantic and intimate wedding. You can celebrate with the ones you keep closest to you and they can share in the moment as well!

Homemade wedding favors are the best! Whip up your best batches of cookies in place of a candy bar for a more personalized gift for your guests. Yum! Or make your own infused alcohol or limoncello with creative tags.

For more great ideas check out other Wedding Inspirations blogs on other pages or check us out in person in Downtown Asheville!

Couch Seating from Style Me Pretty
Chandelier in Tree from Minha Filha Vai Casar
Desert Table from Intimate Weddings
Homemade Wedding Favors from Buzzfeed

Whimsical Weddings

Be whimsical, be different, be colorful! Many of the things you see on this blog post are so easy to DIY! The adorable bride and groom string signs are simple! All you need to do is nail the letters into a piece of wood and go crazy with colorful string!

For extremely unique and whimsical touches to your wedding, snag up a box of plastic zoo animals and spray paint them a stand-out color and attach them to your guest's name cards!

Save money by making your own DIY vases from old water glasses, fun thrift store vases or mason jars. You save big on floral expenses when you use your own glassware! The one of a kind vases will take your centerpieces to the next level and your guests will be complimenting your creative genius all night.

Another easy DIY would be to make these adorable hanging circles. To make these, just grab some scraps of lace from a fabric store and pull them tight over a cross-stitching circle. Simple and inexpensive!

Whimsical weddings are colorful and full of life! Spice up your bouquet with various pops of color and fun ribbons tied into the gorgeous bouquets.



 For an added surprise for your guests, request for multilayer wedding cake with a bunch of different colors.

For more great ideas check out Wedding Inspirations online and in person in Asheville!

Bride & Groom signs from 100 Layer Cake
Colorful Cake from The Knot
Flower Vases from Wedding Chicks
Whimsical Flowers from Rustic Folk Weddings
Gold Name Cards from Ruffled

Ombre Weddings

 The ombre hairstyle has become popular over the past few years and has sneaked its way into the wedding world. The DIY Bride is becoming the most popular bride in the industry. Give your wedding the touch of personalization it needs by having your bridesmaids get together to help you make your wedding dreams a reality.

The pink ombre butterfly above is extremely simple to make. Head to your local craft or scrap-booking store and pick up a paper cut out stamp of the shape of your liking - then get some thicker card-stock of various shades of your color palette to punch out the designs and get that ombre look. Once they are all ready, glue the shapes down to a poster board in the shape of your choosing and voila!

Ombre themes can even be achieved by using flowers! See what types of accommodations can be made with your florist and what colors of flowers they have in season to create the ombre look. The aisle runner itself can be sprinkled with flowers of various colors or event dip dye the aisle runner to match your colors!

Who knew you could make an ombre bouquet! Subtle changes in flower color can give you the fading in color you've been dreaming of!

 Mismatched bridesmaids have started to become popular in the more recent years. Traditionally, all of the bridesmaids wore the exact same dress style in the same color - however, we are finding that more and more brides are breaking free of that idea and branching out to have their own unique and personalized wedding that they dreamed of. A great way to start the ombre bridesmaid is to start with the maid of honor. Do you want her in the darkest of the color family or the lightest? Go from there when choosing how to lay out the colors for your girls!

 

It is simple to get the faded ombre look on your wedding cake. This cake was frosted in white or ivory then sprayed with food coloring to achieve this great cake!

For more great ideas check out our other blog posts and by coming into Wedding Inspirations Boutique in Downtown Asheville!

Ombre Butterfly from Etsy

Blue Ombre Cake from Style Me Pretty

Blue Slice of Cake from My Wedding

Ombre Bouquet from Elegant Wedding Invites

Purple Bridesmaids Dresses from Wedding Chicks

Guestbook Alternatives

What is a guestbook really doing? It is creating and building memories! Guestbooks were incorporated into weddings to acknowledge the presence of guests at the event! The bride and groom could then look back on who was a part of their big day. The Jenga guestbook (above) is a fun way to remember your wedding. Each piece you pull is a little memory!

We love this handmade wooden state guestbook. This would look great hanging in your house and each time you pass by you can look at each person's name!

Guestbooks with date ideas or bucket list ideas are gaining popularity in the wedding world. Allow your guests to give you their best advice for married life with these fun guestbook alternatives.

If you are a puzzle fanatic like we are you will love this idea - get a puzzle made out of a picture from your engagement shoot and have each guest sign a piece of the puzzle!

For those who are tech-savvy, consider a guest blog! We have never seen anything like this - guests can record a video message for the bride and groom to see later on! This way you can remember everyone at the wedding and what a great time they have had.


For more great ideas, check out Wedding Inspirations online and in person in Downtown Asheville!

Jenga Guestbook from Crafty Wedding
Puzzle Picture from Shutterfly
Puzzle Pieces from Wedding Chicks
Wooden California Guestbook from Wedding Chicks
Guest Blog from Bridal Guide