Wedding Updates!

Venue - check!
Church - check!
Wedding party - check!
Cake - check!
Wedding colours - CHECK!


Our Big Fat Sri Lankan/Canadian Wedding is really starting to take shape. I often wonder how I am going to make it another 13 months! September 4, 2015 can't come soon enough!

Deciding on wedding colours, wasn't an easy task. If it was up to Aravind, the wedding would be every bright colour imaginable and it would a DJ party all day long. If it was up to me, the wedding would probably be a simple colour scheme of black, white and blush with lots of gold and silver accents.  But this wedding is about us - Mikayla & Aravind. We both instantly agreed that we wanted our wedding to be full of love, family and to combine both our cultures. We wanted our wedding to be one giant celebration. After lots of debating and us me looking at my favourite wedding blogs and magazines to interrupt him while he studied, we finally agreed on colours. 

Together we came up with:

It makes my heart happy just looking at it! Tamil weddings are very bright and colourful so I think these will do nicely. What do you think? I plan on balancing out these colours with a few of my favourite neutrals (glitter is a neutral, right?) and throw in some DIY touches to help bring together our families. 

As for a theme, we don't really have one. Combining two cultures has definitely been tricky and we still have a lot of work to do so I think for now a specific theme will have to wait. 

I'm looking forward to being able to share more details about our wedding as we get closer to the wedding! 

Save The Dates

Our Save the Date cards arrived in the mail today! This is our first wedding related package to arrive and I was extremely excited when it showed up on my door step. I may or may not have squealed... 

Traditionally Save the Dates go out 6 months before the wedding (8 months for a destination wedding) but in our case, we are getting ready to send ours out in late September/early October due to the fact that we are having our wedding on the Friday of the 2015 Labour Day weekend. (see here for why we are having our wedding on a Friday and a bit about our venue.)  We are hoping this will help our guests when they are having to book time off work. Most of our guests will be traveling into Hamilton for the wedding so we want to make everything as easy as possible so that means have ample amount of time to book time off work. 

There was an amazing deal on Vistaprint (this girl's fiance loves a good deal and is extremely persuasive) that we couldn't pass up so I decided that I was okay with our Save the Dates not matching our invitations. Why did I order on Vistaprint? I haven't even remotely looked at invitations yet! I'll be honest and admit that most of my wedding is planned in my head but it comes certain things, I haven't even thought about it - invitations are one of them! I know it's not something you would expect to hear from a wedding planner - but hey, sometimes you just want to save a few dollars. This also means we can get these out to our guests as soon as possible! With Aravind's busy school schedule, things take a lot longer than normal to get things done so this was definitely the best option for us. 
We have recently decided on our colours and don't really have a theme so I will be on the hunt for the perfect set of invites shortly. Until then, these are our Save the Dates! 

Creating A Wedding Hashtag

"hash·tagˈhaSHtag/noun 

Hashtags(on social media sites such as Twitter) a word or phrase preceded by a hash or pound sign (#) and used to identify messages on a specific topic."

Are you doing or did you do a wedding hashtag for your special day? I personally think it is a wonderful way for you and your guests to group all your candid photos together but before you jump into it, here are some things to consider. 

• Come up with a unique name! Make sure you double check your hashtag on social media sites to see if it has been used by any other couples. When you want to relive the best day ever, you aren't going to want to filter through 10 other couples who have used the same hashtag for their special day. 

• Keep it simple! Try to limit the amount of characters you use - this is harder than it looks! You don't want your guests to misspell your hashtag and not be able to find the pictures and or phrases at a later time. 

• Start using your wedding hashtag early so your guests get used to seeing it! Having an engagement party? Use your hashtag when posting pictures on Instagram or Tweeting comments about the evening. Have some exciting wedding news that you want to share? Use that hashtag! Consider putting it on your Save the Dates. 

• Bonus: If your guests know it exists, they might start using it before the wedding which will save it in their phone for easy access on the day of! 

• Make sure to promote your hashtag on the day of the wedding. Make a sign to sit on a table or have personalized napkins made to pass around during cocktail hour. 

 Etsy Seller: MemorableWedding 

To hashtag or not to hashtag..that is the question! 

Clearly, I'm a big fan of them and will be using one for my own wedding next September! 

#amwedding15

Our hashtag took a little bit of trial and error. Trying to fit in Mikayla & Aravind or our new 16 letter last name definitely wouldn't work. I considered using the first 3 letters of my last name and the first 3 letters of his last name but I wasn't loving the way it looked. I stopped trying to make it clever and just went with the facts - A(ravind), M(ikayla) and it's a wedding happening in 2015! 

I'm looking forward to sharing bits and pieces of my wedding with all of you through my social posts!

What is your wedding hastag?

xo