My first inspiration board!

So, you've seen my venue. You've seen some dress choices. You've heard about the city that I chose to have our wedding in. You've seen how hard it was to get to those two choices, or how hard it was to even narrow it down... but you still have NO idea what you want our wedding to look like- the colors, the design elements, the elements that I want to surround us on our day!

Well, bees, this is my first attempt at an inspiration board. But I have to warn you that I am completely and totally computer graphic illiterate. I have no experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, or... whatever other graphic editor there is. My expertise is in MS Paint, but since I have a Mac that has Paintbrush, I'm out of luck. Anyway, here we are!





Honestly, I'm totally and completely in love with it. I feel like it's fresh and fun and romantic and sweet and southern without being over-kill. I know that alot of people (y'all and my friends and family) were expecting a more rustic, down home, country vibe. Since we're having a barn reception at a winery, alot of people expected something like Mrs. Cowboy Boots wedding. Lots of wildflowers, horseshoes, ect. I was so in love with her wedding it's not even funny! I read every single one of her posts and drooled all over the pictures. But... it wasn't exactly what I wanted, because it was expected of me. Our colors are white and green, with a little bit of dusty pink or lavender thrown in for good measure and for something to work with so it's not ALL white.

I want something clean and still sweet. Kind of like the Kentucky Derby, but not IN YOUR FACE Kentucky. Not something with a screaming theme, but a whispering suggestion. I didn't want the theme to be The Kentucky Derby because that's not what the wedding is about and even though alot of our guests are from Georgia and have never been to Kentucky, I didn't want to beat them over the head with it. I didn't want a Georgia theme because while I'm from there, it's not the most important thing. I guess it boils down to fact that I didn't want a "theme" wedding at all. But just for fun, I'm going to do a quick series looking at what I could have incoporated for a Kentucky Themed wedding. Alot of these details we actually are going to use and I'll point out which ones (some of them will get their own posts later) but some, while fun, would be too hard to pull off or are just silly and others are just trying too hard.

What do you think? Was anyone else terrified of making their first inspiration board? And combined the terrified with terribly lazy?