table setting

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this table setting via Green Wedding Shoes courtesy of Tec Petaja Photography. It has such a wonderful vintage and garden vibe. My head's spinning with ideas!

I'm head over heels

In love with this wedding!


Photos found on Once Wed

I love everything about it, the sweet, vintage style, the cluster of decorations centered by a place mat, the twinkle lights, and pom poms.

Also from this wedding, but found on a different blog, 100 layer cake, are a few more images:
I love her veil and the rows of pictures hanging from the trees.Banners? Yes please.

All photos by Erin Hearts Court

inspired

The instant we became engaged I knew I'd look to blogs for inspiration in planning our wedding. I'd never seen a wedding blog, but was sure they existed. The first one I found was The Wedding Chicks, then came Once Wed. After that, I don't remember the order, but I found them fast. Over time I stuck to the same group, all reliable sources of eye candy, information, and advice. I've never bought a magazine, haven't needed to. My head is so full of ideas for my wedding day and it started with this picture from this post on Once Wed.


The idea is of an Anthropologie, vintage inspired wedding and reception. The only idea I'd ever had for my own wedding was that I wanted it to be outside. Other than that I had no plans or childhood dreams about how it would be or look or play out. I consider it good fortune that I came across this in the very beginning and I could have a clear picture of what I could aspire to create for our own special day.

in the air

It gently rolls in on the midnight air....that familiar scent, so soft, so almost not even there. So I breathe it in, again, deep. Yep, it's there. Don't know how they do it, they almost don't even exist...the scent I'm talking about is that garden scent. My little plants are waking from their slumber, ever so slowly, but surely!

my container garden all grouped together for the winter

One by one, I snapped pictures of the first of the little sleepy-heads that appeared...

feverfew

cuphea

diascia

???
ya, I have NO idea here

viola
(sorbet antique shades)

violets labradorica

lamiastrum 'herman's pride'
yellow archangel

plumosa asparagus fern

pony tail fern

english daisy bellis

hydrangea macrophylla

lithodora 'grace ward'

vinca minor 'illumination'

lamium 'shell pink'

helichrysum 'limelight'

blue fescue
(after a haircut I gave him
(I'm sure he's a him)
last month-can you tell how much he's grown??)

lavender

baby blanket
groundcover rose

baby carnival miniature rose

huechera

alyssum
wonderland purple

athyrium
painted fern

delphinium???
pretty sure it's not, but that's how I've written it in my garden journal.
i might have moved it and forgot to make note, guess I'll just have to wait and see!

pink champagne marguerite

Every day I spy some new growth and I don't even know when it happens, but it's really cool to see. It's really my favorite part of this whole gardening thing, to see what comes back, little surprises every day.