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To me, there’s nothing like a spring or summer wedding on a beautiful warm day with new blooming flowers and romance in the air. In fact, many other couples agree and want to have their weddings in the spring and summer months. There’s just something about the newness of spring and the beauty of the wild life coming back after a cold winter that makes spring that much more enjoyable. As I’ve mentioned before, there are so many different ways for you to decorate your wedding in the spring or summer that can not only be decorations, but a celebration of the season. One of those decorations that I’ve mentioned is fruit. Now you’re thinking, Sarah you’re crazy, what can you do with fruit? The answer is plenty! Here are some great examples of wedding decorations with fruit.

Submerged Fruit in Water

What a fresh and trendy potential wedding centerpiece! Just grab a bunch of lemons and limes, cut them in half and submerge them in water in a big beautiful vase. The lemons and limes will keep their vibrant color and will make a beautiful centerpiece. Any size or shape of vase will work wonderfully.

Submerged Fruit with Candles or Flowers

Another twist that you can add to the option above is to place some floating candles in the water above the fruit to add a romantic glow to your wedding reception tables. If you are not able to use candles in your wedding reception, then consider filling the vases only half full of fruit and water, and then placing a small bouquet of colorful flowers in the vase as well. I’ve seen this done before and the effect is beautiful. If you are on a tight budget, then use a vase with a wider mouth, with just a few blooms on top of the water to float. This is a truly elegant and beautiful centerpiece.

Fruit Tower Centerpieces

Another fun idea for using fruit in your wedding decorations are some fruit towers. I’m not sure of the specific name of them, but they are basically a tower of stacked fruit which sits on a flower pot vase of some kind. From what I understand, they are pretty easy to make, and you can find lots of great instructions for making them on the internet.

These are a great way to add some color and height to your reception centerpieces as well. Fruit is a beautiful and inexpensive choice for wedding centerpieces. I’ve only mentioned using lemons and limes, but you can also use oranges, grapes and whole pineapples to help create the beautiful wedding look that you are going for. If you’ve used fruit before in decorating, or have seen a particular wedding centerpiece done with fruit that you loved, then please comment and let me know about it!

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I’ve been watching The Ultimate Gift lately. It’s a heart touching movie that features a little girl named Emily who loves butterflies. She believes that butterflies are painted by the hand of God with every color, and that heaven is filled with butterflies. It’s a very sweet movie, and it kind of got me thinking and doing a little bit of research on butterfly weddings as well. Lots of little girls love butterflies, and it never really changes once they get older. But butterflies are an excellent theme for spring weddings, especially if you love butterflies. So, I’ve been doing a little bit of research on butterfly weddings, and I’ve found some really great ideas for brides planning a wedding with a butterfly wedding theme. Here are some great places to start.

Butterfly Wedding Invitations

Your wedding invitations are a great place to start. After all, your wedding invitations are the first glimpse into your wedding colors and theme that you are allowing your guests to see. So look for some wedding invitations that feature butterflies. If you can’t find any, you could buy some plain wedding invitations and emboss or stamp some butterflies on the invitation and/or the envelope.

Butterflies in the Wedding Flowers

A great way to incorporate a butterfly wedding theme into your wedding flowers is to insert some butterfly picks into the bouquet. For groomsmen or ushers, a single flower with a fancy butterfly pin is a great look. A quick searche on the Internet will result in all the tools you’ll need to accomplish the look you’re going for.

A Butterfly Wedding Dress and Jewelry

If you’re looking around in wedding dress shops for a butterfly wedding dress, then you’re not going to have much luck. Instead, start looking around for applique butterflies, or lace butterflies that you can have attached to your wedding dress. You add more butterfly accents through bridal tiaras or hairpins that feature butterflies.

Butterfly Wedding Decorations

There are many different ways that you could decorate your wedding and reception to fit in with your butterfly wedding theme. You could place small potted plants at the center of each table with butterfly picks inserted into the plants, or have a large bowl with submerged wild flowers and floating butterfly candles. You can also find some cute butterfly name card holders to place at each seat to help add to the charm of the butterflies. If you are using pillars, wrap them in ribbon or tulle and attach butterfly appliques. You could also designate each table to a different kind of butterfly, which will help with your table names as well.

Butterfly Wedding Favors

You can find lots of great butterfly wedding favors on the Internet, or find some that you can make yourself. Chocolates in the shape of butterflies are a great idea, and can be easily created with a candy mold. Another great idea is to decorate small envelopes with a butterfly stencil, and insert some packages of wildflower seeds that will attract butterflies.

A Butterfly Release?

Many brides who are wanting to have a butterfly themed wedding also tend to look into having a butterfly release at the end of the ceremony, and there is a lot of controversy surrounding it. This is because the butterflies are migratory and that once the butterflies are released, they may become confused as to where they are supposed to go, and end up dying once winter comes along. Also, many couples find that many of the butterflies arrive dead, or half dead. It just isn’t worth doing to these beautiful creatures when there are lots of other ways you can decorate your wedding with butterflies.

Butterflies are a pretty popular wedding theme, so if you are thinking of having a butterfly wedding you should be able to find lots of different decorations and ideas for decorating your wedding with big beautiful butterflies.

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As I’ve mentioned before, when I was doing my wedding planning, I was under the assumption that spring was the most popular time of the year to get married. I mean, spring is probably one of the most beautiful times of the year, the weather is typically beautiful and temperate, plus it seemed like everyone I knew was planning a spring wedding. Literally, during the spring months of March, April and May, my husband and I were attending at least one wedding every weekend, and sometimes two. Which is why I thought that spring was the most popular, but I was dead wrong. Turns out that the summer and autumn seasons rank higher than spring. But spring is still a great time of the year to get married. Spring symbolizes new beginnings and romance, and with all the flowers naturally in bloom- you’re sure to have a beautiful wedding. Your wedding flowers, decorations, and even colors can help celebrate spring and your wedding in one shot. So here are some great ways to incorporate the joys of spring into your wedding

Spring Wedding Colors

While the choice of your wedding colors is totally up to you, you can go with anything you want. But if you want to incorporate some springtime colors into your wedding, then perhaps the best place to look is in nature. For example, the bright green grass, blue skies, soft yellows, romantic pinks and fresh lilac are all beautiful shades found in springtime nature. You can pair some of these shades together for some exciting color combinations such as green and pink, or yellow and purple. If you don’t really like mixing the colors, then a light pink and dark pink look great together as well, or a light and dark purple. You can also choose some fun patterns for spring, such as gingham and polka dots, which are very popular for spring.

Spring Wedding Flowers

If you have a particular flower that you want to use, then look for some great spring colors to have them, or look for a flower that is particularly found in the spring season, such as daisies or some vividly colored tulips. You can also look at cherry blossoms, daffodils, roses and lilies. All will make beautiful additions to your springtime flower collection. Talk to your florist for more choices in springtime wedding flowers.

Spring Wedding Favors

A popular springtime wedding favor has always been seed packets so that your wedding guests can plant their own flowers at home in memory of your wedding. You can buy bulk seeds at any nursery and either wrap them in tulle or other cute packaging. And of course, include planting instructions on how to grow them. You could hand out butterfly magnets, some kind of candy wedding favor, or even flower pens, as I talked about in my previous article, Make Your Own Flower Pens. They make a great wedding favor, and look like a beautiful and vibrant flower bouquet.

Most importantly, choose springtime wedding colors and flowers that you love. Don’t go with something simply because it is a springy color. Make sure that whatever spring time colors and decorations you go with are something that you love, and won’t regret down the road. Your wedding should be one of the best days of your life, and if you hate your wedding colors, decorations or even your flowers, then it just isn’t worth it.

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