Get Inspired!

One of the most effective ways to bring your wedding vision together for yourself and your vendors is by creating a custom inspiration board.  An inspiration board is a collage of pictures and items that help you to pull together your color palette, décor ideas and other details of your wedding.

Creating your custom inspiration board will allow you to stay organized and focused on your overall vision.  Your inspiration board will also keep you from straying away from your overall vision and making unnecessary purchases that add details to the wedding that are not cohesive with the overall look and feel you would like to accomplish.  Be sure to take your board with you to meetings with your vendors.  They will certainly appreciate this visual tool which will help them to make sure that they are on the same page to create the look you desire.

When putting your board together, be creative!  It can be anything you want it to be!  Begin by collecting various images from magazines and websites.  You can also add swatches of fabric and any other small items that inspire you.  Your inspiration board can be anything from an actual board to a computer generated sheet displaying all of your images.

They are many different websites available that can assist in building your board and can also provide example boards for you to view.  Visit The Dessy Group at   http://www.dessy.com/styleboard/ or Project Wedding at   http://www.projectwedding.com/photo/browse?tag=inspiration+board .

These are two great resources to help you get started.  Remember to be creative, and make it your own!

Happy planning!
 

Inspiration board examples from www.dessy.com