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Color Palettes: Pantone's 2015 Color of the Year, Marsala! {part 1}

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marsala inspiration board - burgundy, purple, navy, cream - grace and serendipity
pantone color of the year - marsala

When I saw that Pantone had chosen their color of the year for 2015 to be Marsala, my mind instantly started swirling with ideas.  There are SO many different color palettes that you can create using this color, and every single one of them screams romance.  It may look like a bit of a rust red color, but I chose to use it as an inspirational color and design a few inspiration boards using the color hues in this color, incorporating the deep berry reds that are also in this color family, with burgundy, aubergine, maroons, and created a few different boards for you to use as inspiration for your wedding, if you'd like to incorporate this color!

Also, back in September, I wrote a post about the 2015 Color Trends ... click here if you'd like to read more about where Pantone thinks color designs are headed for next year!

There were so many combinations that I loved, that I decided to split these into two separate posts.  So, today you'll see part one, and tomorrow I will share part two with you!

Isn't this color just a gorgeous one to use for your wedding?? I hope that seeing these boards will inspire you with your own wedding to use a color that you may not have thought of before ... and I'd love to hear what your favorite combination of colors is as well!

Happy Planning!

 
My daughter starts Kindergarten today, and as much as I know she is ready, my mama heart is going to be missing her something fierce today. Originally, this was a print I designed for a husband and wife to hang in their home as a vow to each other, but today, it stands for the feelings I have for my little girl, and for everyone else whose littles are heading into another school year in the days and weeks ahead. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ With each passing "life season", it makes me reminisce but be excited about what the future brings. I hope that they will continue to grow, continue to flourish, continue to develop their sharp minds, chase the passions they have in their hearts, and be the incredible human beings they were destined to become. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I vow to love my littles more with each passing season, to love them more through every single stage of their life they enter into, and to treasure the previous seasons we had together prior to the new ones beginning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To every one of you who is at the beginning of a new season, whatever it may be, I hope you love it even more than the previous season you grew so fond of as well. The best is yet to come, my friends. 💕
This custom invitation collection may have had three years since it's first debut, but it still gains the most oohs and aahs with the brides who I chat with who are looking for a bold floral inspiration when we are talking about the details they're looking for in their custom suites. I’m beginning to see fall images trickling their way in on Instagram, but don't mind me ... I'll just drop this in to your feed to help to keep our attention on the summer floral goodness that's still surrounding us. Mmmkay? #summerpleasestay ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy Three Year and a Day Anniversary to you, Jessi and Joseph! #gsweddinglove {📷:@xoashleyvictoria}
I was talking with one of my Spring brides today about her upcoming wedding, and we were going over initial invitation design concepts. We talked about details, embellishments, and lettering styles, and colors, but more importantly, before we got into any of that, we talked about the *feeling* she wanted to have all the years down the road about it, after they said their I Do's, long after their wedding day had come and gone. She told me that she wanted it to feel exciting, romantic, and loved. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There's a funny thing about wedding invitations - because when I heard those three words, I don't think she was necessarily telling me what she wanted the invitation alone to look like, but rather a peek into what she hoped their marriage would look like. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A little bit exciting, a little bit romantic, and with a whole lot of love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have you ever gotten out a blank piece of paper and just jotted down thought after thought about what you want your marriage to be, and how your wedding can play into that overall feeling? I definitely think that those kinds of moments that you explore together when you're engaged can come in a lot more handy than a scrolling session when you're looking for an image of the perfect invitation, the perfect flowers, the perfect anything. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My opinion? When you're thinking about your wedding, don't necessarily focus in on what you want the day to look like - think about what you want your marriage to look like - and build your wedding day around that. #gsweddinglove
The last five days, I traded in the sand and waves of Florida for a place that my water-loving heart grew up with, and made a trip up to Minnesota to say goodbye to my loved Grandpa. While I was there, I was lucky enough to have a day at my parents lake cabin in Wisconsin, which yesterday morning, looked just like this. The water was like glass, so much so that even the clouds reflected on it. A bald eagle flew over me at one point, the calling of loons was the only other sound, and largemouth bass swam slowly under the dock below me. The serenity of the entire scene made me simply sit and soak it in instead of even opening the book I had originally brought to the lake to read ... when's the last time you did that, my friend? When's the last time you were just still? We can choose to go, go, go, or we can choose to sit, savor, and soak in the goodness of our surroundings. The choice is ours, each and every day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These last few months, I've definitely been on the go, go, go side of things. Truth be told, I have a really hard time just sitting and being still. The preacher at my grandpa's funeral even brought up how life is always going to be busy, but we are also in control of how busy as we choose to be. That by saying no to one thing, we are saying yes to something else. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today, I am back home in Florida after a 14 hour day of travel yesterday, and as the day is beginning, my top priority is savoring the sweet summer moments with my littles before they start school in the next few days, in a way that my grandpa would have loved too. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I hope that this post reminds you that you always have a choice. You can choose to say yes to busy, to adding thing, after thing, after thing to your schedule, or you can choose to say yes to harmony, where there's a good balance of savoring the moments while doing what you love, every single day. 💕
Styling images for social media is something that I love to do, and I am always looking for creative pieces to style with! Whether it's a pretty notebook, a new roll of ribbon, stylized ring boxes, even fancy paperclips or coasters, you name it I want to know about it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m looking to add a few new things to my Styling Collection for a few fun things coming up ... what are a few of your favorite small businesses that I can support to find creative pieces?? Please tag them below! {📷: @annafilly}
When it comes to invitations, one of my favorite pieces to add are additional details on the back of the suites in their own creative ways. They’re essentially a blank canvas practically begging for additional design elements, and they never look complete to me until the back is designed too. Your invitation may be entirely formal on the front, but you can still have a party on the back (as Sarah from @theredheadedcamel said yesterday 🙌) or even add additional pieces that give a hint to your wedding style. We have incorporated monograms (of course), florals like the ones shown here, even fabric to add an entirely different texture! So, now let’s turn the conversation over to y’all - how often do you look on the back of invitation, and what do YOU love to see the most when you flip over that beautiful card? #gsweddinglove
Today, I just have to do a little shout out to this lady here, even though we may be teeny in the photo. Ha! I had the joy of meeting Kelli of @letteredgrace this past spring at the #creativefoundersconference and I truly feel like our relationship was completely God-driven - like he said "oh! See this girl? And this girl? Yep, they need to meet." Not only is she a talented handletterer with incredible skills, she's also one of the sweetest Georgia peaches you'll ever meet. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Last week, she surprised me when this @greetabl arrived in the mail and it instantly brought a huge smile to my face when I read the quotes she had selected for the box itself. Kelli, thank you for being such a light in my life, I can't wait to get to see you again in October!! #gsfaves
I still remember the day of this styled shoot that I did with a few loved vendor friends, allllll the way back in the summer of 2014. @xoashleyvictoria, can you believe it's been that long?? Looking back now it is incredible to see how differently I design now for paper pieces, but overall, I still love this shoot. And the fact that we had a real cockatoo for a ringbearer (yes, that happened! swipe right to see him!) along with the most beautiful florals and archway I've ever seen by @fioreofpensacola, this one was definitely a fun one to bring out of the archives today. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ However, what I also want to call your attention to is that this sign made by a good old regular piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper that I bought at Hobby Lobby. I designed the lettering on my computer, but the actual sign here was then made by my Cricut machine and written with a metallic gold ink directly onto it (again, by my Cricut!), because it was too wide for my printer being bigger than an 8.5x11 sized piece of paper. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I'm sharing this with you today because whenever you're thinking of signs for your wedding, they don't have to go into a frame, and they don't even have to be a standard 5x7 or 8x10 size. If you want them to stand out in a unique way, think outside of the box! Consider having signs created in acrylic (the beautiful clear ones that you're seeing more lately that have beautiful white writing added directly onto them) or perhaps have a long poster created that hangs daintily from a vintage hanger on a wall beside the space you want it to call attention to that is lettered by a calligrapher. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The design is in the details, and sometimes the favorite ones you can add are those you've never seen before! If you want to see more from this shoot that was filled with SO many fun details to see if some of the items we incorporated inspire you for your wedding, head up to our profile, it's waiting for you to click on through to peruse it all! #gsweddinglove #cutestringbearerever