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Make wedding planning easier - Start with a wedding Vision board
Right after you are engaged, you are almost immediately flooded with questions and ideas for how you should do things. “What are you thinking for this?” “Oh, you don’t want to do that!” “You HAVE to do this!” Eventually you start reaching out to vendors who have another series of questions - “How do you want to do [insert thing that can be done a hundred ways] ”
The best way to combat these issues and arm yourself with the way to answer any question - WEDDING VISION BOARD
Photography by Monnette Co. Photography
Any couple that books a Planning Package with me receives a custom vision board based on the vibe, colors, and experience they want. This is essential to ensuring we are set up for success throughout the planning journey.
What is a wedding Vision Board?
Images courtesy of Mumu Weddings via Instagram “Wedding color trend predictions for 2025”
A vision board, also often called a mood board, is a visual tool to compile all the colors, moods, and themes that will be the essence and design of your wedding day. It is an organized presentation of all the concepts and design you would like your wedding to be centralized around. It should be organized enough that anyone viewing it from your grandmother to florist can understand what your wedding should feel like. In a previous post I cover what a vision board is and how to make one.
To this, many brides might just say “Well I have a pinterest, isn’t that the same thing?” Pinterest is really only the start. Pinterest is the place you go to gather ideas, and many people have ideas still on their page that they had in high school or college. I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust many ideas I had in high school to make decisions for my life now!
A vision board is a fresh start
You click on Pinterest, or flip through the files in your brain and may not even know where to start. My biggest suggestion: start fresh. Begin your wedding vision board and once the framework is established, then you can go back to Pinterest and hand select the image that fit in. This declutters your brain and makes wedding planning a bit more clear.
A road map for you and your vendors
Every person who is involved in your wedding has an idea of what you are thinking. You can hold any idea up the the vision board and think “Does this fit” If it flows, then its in - if it feels off, its out! Simple!
You can be specific in the vision board with exact fonts and Pantone numbers - or opt for just simply showcase the mood you want. The goal is to portray an overall mood or feeling.
“posh or down-to-earth?” “vibrant or soft?” “relaxed or refined?” “modern or rustic?”
A realistic mindset
It can be quite a heartbreak when you are looking at a million of billion dollar weddings on Pinterest or Instagram and form a set of expectations that are quite simply: not realistic. While I pride myself in working with more budget brides or couples who are bootstrapping this beautiful day together - this begins with creating a set of realistic expectations.
Obviously the vision board is just a vision and not meant to be followed to script, but it is also not a place to post pictures of endless cascading orchids or intricate silk drapery if you can hardly afford a daisy and a box of tissues.
Create your vision board after you have already had a budget discussion with your fiancé and parents
And therefore avoid hurt feelings or feeling like your wedding falls short when we both know your love doesn’t!
HINT: This may mean pulling photos from tagged photos of vendors/venues on Instagram.
Vision board given to couple
Actual wedding | Planning by Wholehearted Events | Photography by Monnette Co.
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Ask any bride who either didn’t have a wedding planner, or didn’t have a clear goal:
Bought something → found out it didn’t work → bought something else → found out it didn’t work → tried to return it → missed the return window → now has to sell several different versions of the same thing after just getting married.
…or worse, ended up throwing things away they couldn’t resell or repurpose. TALK ABOUT HEARTBREAK!
Save yourself money buying extra things you don’t need. Make every purchase intentional with understanding how each piece helps you meet your overall goal. And overall end up being more sustainable in your wedding planning by not wasting time and energy.
No More guessing
This goes into the reason above, but is more about mental freedom as well as financial freedom. No more flipping through 100 different pieces of stationary that are all “pretty and blue” - free yourself of too many options by finding pieces that fit a specific vision.
THE REWARD?
While there’s a bit more work upfront, the overall reward is much more worth it! Having a curated and intentional wedding is the best way to set you up for success!
Then count on your highly trained vendors, and wedding planner, to execute all those details according to your vision.
XO, Sam
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