Category — Real Weddings

You can make a big impact with a subtle color! This week’s board encourages wedding ideas using light and pale pink tones. Enjoy!

bride + groom / table number muslin bags / love letters / simple centerpiece / pink yogurt shot glasses / pink wedding dress / pale pink veil / ruffle wedding cake / heart chair decor / pink shade dresses

How fun! If you’ve got a sweet tooth, brace yourself! So many ideas for pretty candies and sweets to add some flavor and color to your special day! Loving the cotton candy bouquets! Enjoy!

shelf of vintage candy / candy sprinkles confetti / mrs + mr / red candy invitation suite / candied belt ring / teal + red candy invitation / lollipop bouquet / cotton candy bouquet / candyland centerpiece

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How beautiful is this royal blue? Here are some ideas for a rich color theme on your special day. Blue is a great color for any season! Enjoy!

wedding cake / invitation suite / bride heels / chair sash / groom’s bow-tie / tablescape / bottled favors / bridesmaid dress

What a wonderful way to incorporate all the beautiful colors into your special day! A fruit market theme! You can easily pull components of this board to create a romantic garden theme! Remember our Caramel Garden Inspiration Board?  Not only will your event be a sweet sight, it will smell sweet too! Enjoy.

sweetheart table setting / bride + groom fruit baskets / naked fruit cake / love sign / seating chart / jam favors / mason jar drinks / black + white table cloth / fruit stand

A romantic kiss while getting in/out of your pretty getaway car? Definitely a must-have photo! Don’t forget to let your photographer know if you have specific types of shots you’d like… like this one!

See more from this beautiful wedding gallery here!

Perfect for summer and fall weddings, yellow creates a vibrant atmosphere. Since it’s such a strong and dominant color, using white to balance it helps to create a fantastic and happy mood. Enjoy!

milk glass centerpieces / pale yellow wedding dress / bride + yellow door photo / cocktail desserts / mason jar aisle decor / bouquet / lemon + flower mason jars / paper straws / flower petal aisle runner

Who says your wedding cake has to be cake at all? This beautiful three tier ice cream cake is just dreamy. The drizzles on the side just finishes the look. This would be amazing for a purple or red themed setting, and would look gorgeous at a woodlands wedding! Pretty please, with berries on top!

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Ooh. Looking for a spicy and mysterious theme for your non-typical wedding? Fall in love with the beautiful details and textures of a masquerade wedding theme! Layers of lace and intricate patterns – so romantic! Enjoy!

masked bride / black lace candle holder / invitation / paper mask name card / venetian black mask / romantic masquerade mask / ivory lace heels / vintage teal handheld mask

Meet Ashley and Ryan…

How adorable are they?! We are honored to share their special day here on The Little Canopy! Ashley, the bride, told us their story and it just swept us off our feet. Take it away, Ashley!

Ryan proposed mid-January and we knew from the start we wanted a short engagement. We started looking at venues, picking out the bridal party, contacting the vendors,… and we quickly realized it was going to be a daunting and expensive task.

Neither of us liked the idea of spending a lot of money on our wedding, while also exhausting us in the process. Ryan is also not the biggest fan of weddings. We decided (pretty easily) that a traditional wedding just wasn’t for us. Fortunately, we had already met Hannah, our awesome photographer, and taken some engagement photos. We decided to simply just get married in the park with only our immediate family.

We were married in Breckenridge Park in Richardson, Texas, a location that Hannah found herself. We sent her some pictures of what we liked, and she said, “I know the perfect spot!” We trusted her so much, we never visited the location before the wedding itself.

Ryan knew he wanted to be non-traditional in his attire, so he decided to wear jeans with a vest. He did invest in a nice pair of jeans from Nordstroms, as well as a nice vest and new white shirt. I was happy to let him wear whatever he wanted, and he loved his look.

The flowers were put together by an awesome florist at Whole Foods in Addison. We simply told them to throw something together for the bride and the maid of honor, and be as creative as you’d like. Way to go, Rodney! They were so beautiful, smelled perfect, and looked amazing.

My brother-in-law officiated the ceremony, which was another amazing part of our wedding. Michael wrote a great speech and was able to speak into what he had witnessed in our relationship. Our family came around us at the end and laid hands on us, and prayed for our new marriage. It was the perfect, small, intimate wedding we had pictured for ourselves.

My advice to brides is that all weddings are beautiful, but don’t let the world tell you what kind of wedding to have. If you want 500 people at your wedding, do it. If you want 5 people at your wedding, do it. I can tell you that my stress went down, and my joy went up when we decided to cut the guest list and focus on our families. You can be more creative when you have an intimate wedding. The “traditional” goes out the window, and you will be able to create something completely unique for you and your groom. I did not get “wedding-ed,” I got married to the man of my dreams, and it is so much more important that we focus on what our marriage looks like, over what our wedding looks like. Your wedding day will come and go, and you will hardly remember it. Take the time to focus on the months and years that lie ahead, and let that be your focus.

Ryan and I are both committed Christians, and we wanted our wedding and marriage to reflect Christ. We wanted our ceremony and the cost of our wedding to also reflect Christ, in that we are good stewards with the money He has given to us, and that our ceremony was constantly pointing to Him.

We love that Ashley + Ryan took the route that was right for them! It’s so refreshing to hear a story that encourages us to remember that the wedding is just one day, but the love you share in marriage is a lifetime. Congratulations, Ashley and Ryan!

Thank you for sharing with us!

Photography Cottonwood Road Photography / Venue Breckenridge Park, Richardson TX / Dress Watters / Flowers Whole Foods

Pink and green wedding theme is such a sweet and delicious combination! The trick is to keep one color more dominant than the other. As in this board, you can have mostly green decor with hints of pink! Loving the marbling in the invitation and cake! Enjoy.

vintage getaway pickup truck / floral archway / floral wreath / bridesmaid dress + bouquet / hanging mason jar chandelier / marbled menu in frame / photo garland on tree / marbled invitation suite / marbled succulent wedding cake