Back to our travel themed wedding. I love our theme and I love how many things you can DIY or without spending lots of money.
Ceremony
It will be a civil/legal ceremony. The idea most people have of civil wedding ceremonies is -at least here in Colombia-, that they lack of that special romantic and spiritual touch you get at a church -majority of colombians are catholic-. My fiancé and I decided to get married by law in Colombia, specially because a catholic marriage means nothing to the german embassy. We already know the visa process will be tedious, so we decided to avoid more headaches. Even if getting all documents we need will also be a pain and not easy at all. We plan on getting married by church once we are living in Germany.
The things is, I told our wedding planner I would like to find a notary which wouldn't just go and read the paper and done. I told him I wanted to find someone who could add a bit more to our ceremony. To Make it more personal, spiritual -but obviously not religious- and touching. He told me he has the right person and he put me in touch with her. Now we can discuss things and I need to tell her a bit of my SO's and I story. :-)
I get the feeling that I write too much and don't get to the point. Man! Ok, to the details: For the aisle runner we will use burlap and instead of petals, we will spread heart shaped confetti made out of maps. I made them myself
My SO helped a bit, but this was not his thing Lol
We will use gypsophilas/baby's breath to hang on the chairs, along the aisle. We plan on using glass jars to put the flowers and hang them with fique or something very similar to burlap.
Exactly like this
The altar is still under debate so I will make a single post about it later. Yesterday I was looking at some rings bearer pillows and I felt in love with one made with burlap. I asked my super crafty aunt if could she make it for me and she said yes, anytime!
Isn't it beautiful? I love it! I don't see myself using the typical ones.
The ceremony will be on the terrace at the very top of the building. We will have a piano man and according to our wedding planner he is an outstanding one. I saw some videos and he sounds great! - At the end of the ceremony, my SO's mom wants to provide the guests with heart shaped helium balloons and let them go into open air. We saw something like that when we were visiting a museum. The thing is, I think people write wishes for the couple and we have a different idea for the wishes stuff. We will see what we end up doing.
More details
After the ceremony, our guests will go to a second terrace where they will be offered mojitos, lemonade and some other natural juices. There will be a Son Cubano band playing live during the cocktail, so that guests can chill and talk while my fiancé and I get some pictures taken.
After the cocktail, the guests will go to the first floor, where the dinner and party will take place. One of the first things they will find is a world map we plan on using as seating chart. There it will say "where in the world will you be sitting?" because instead of boring numbers, the tables will be named after cities we have been together to. It's a way to organize them, at the time we share a bit of our story.
Online we found ideas like this one, but we haven't decided how will we make ours.
We plan on having simple low centerpieces. Flowers-hydrangeas and mini callas- in the middle and on one side a double sided picture frame with a picture of the city and its name. On the other side of the centerpiece, there will be a bird cage lantern, with an used up touch.
This is the double sided picture frame. This one will be on our table, because Barcelona was the city we met.
And this is the bird cage lantern. We bought it when I was still in Germany, The same day we bought the picture frames.
Some few heart shaped confetti will be spread on the tables too. As wedding favors we will give bitty bottles, some deco sand inside and a rolled up vintage world map. Outside there is a tag that says: Love makes the world go around, our names and the date of our wedding. We did the wedding favors together, when I was in Germany. I have them with me now and my SO needs to bring the deco sand. It was too heavy
. I haven't decided where to put the wedding favors. We didn't make one for each, but one per family/couple. So this can create misunderstandings if we place them on the tables. Maybe putting a name under it? got any ideas? 
One of the bitty bottles. My SO put so much pressure on the cork that it was impossible to get it out. This one stayed in Germany, for us.
The idea we have for the wishes is:
Using these postcards -with the colors of our flags-. We bought them on Etsy and even thought they took longer than expected to arrive, they turned out beautiful. The guests are supposed to write on them, their wishes to us.
The postcards with the wishes will go into this vintage trunk. I bought it in Germany and it was in discount. :-)
We will set up a table for this. Will put some books and some of the flowers with the glass jars used during the ceremony or maybe just some pinwheels I made out of maps and use them as "flowers"
Using this old world globe as pen holder
The Cake
Here in Colombia it is common to use fake cakes -my SO and his family rolled the eyes when they heard that!- Only the top is real, you know, for the picture and such. Silly, I know. Slices of real cake will be served and ready to eat. Our wedding planner sent us a list of flavors. He said the orange with poppies flavor was really good. My SO and I are not so keen on it because the poppies look weird and they get stuck between your teeth! Amaretto with almonds sounds good to us. We will try the flavors days before the wedding and then decide.
Some brides go really crazy on the cake. We want a simple one, it's fake anyways! The most important thing on it will be the cake topper. My SO's dad will make it for us! We told him how we would like it to be and he came with a drawing of his idea. We loved it and can't wait to see… but he hasn't started yet lol
Our cake topper will be similar to this one, but maybe just half of the globe, as if the other half was inside the cake.
The bouquet
My bouquet will be with mini callas, hydrangeas and roses. All of them in pastel tones, are the rest of the flowers used at the wedding.
Like this one
I think this all about the decoration and details. Now that I wrote about them, I realized it is a lot and it might sound very expensive, but it hasn't. We have been very good at finding the stuff we want at good prices and our wedding planner is an expert at negotiating and finding the best deals. Which is perfect and helps us to stay in our budget.
Like I said, the altar is something we haven't decided yet because we modified the initial idea, in order to have the photographer we wanted. We also decided to not offer appetizers during the cocktail, also to put that money towards the photography. The appetizers were not necessary anyways. 108 days until our wedding, I can't believe it!!. 103 days until I see him again. I look forward to it, I miss him so much. It's with him that I am happy.
My brother lives in Bogotá and he came to visit. He brought my dress some days ago -after arguing and stuff- and I swear since then, I look at it way too often. Just today I opened the bag, took the dress out and really wanted to try it on… but I need help!
I have so much fun making little details for the wedding and dreaming about it. Lucychick, is this normal? did it happen to you when you were planning your wedding and also the wedding party in Costa Rica? Sometimes my excitement is sooo big I can't control it. Good thing is, my SO is there to listen, understands me and dream with me. :-)
108 days is not that far away!!
Parties are fun! And they're more fun when you're in a pretty dress and get to have lots of pictures taken