A Fruity Twist!

I really love the idea of using fruit as wedding decoration! One of our colours is lime green, and when searching for inspiration pictures, I came across some gorgeous photos of actual limes being used -

[From www.margodittmer.com] A creative alternative to place cards

From Katieandryanwedding.wordpress.com

From www.merrimentevents.com

From thelittlewhitebook.wordpress.com

From weddingwire.com

I imagine that limes would be alot cheaper than flowers and I think they look really striking. The same thing could be done with lemons, oranges, apples - almost any fruit really!

The only thing that would worry me would be how long the fruit would last - especially as we are having a summer wedding. How long do cut up slices of lime last before they start to look a bit sorry for themselves??

Another fruity option of course, is to use coloured jelly with flowers set in -

From weddingobsession.com

I bet these would smell amazing! Although some of our younger guests would probably try to eat them...

Colour me pretty

We decided on our wedding colours because I love purple, and my ring has an amethyst which is Karls birthstone. I thought it would be nice to have my birthstone too, which is emerald. However, purple and emerald green look very dark together, and we wanted something light and fun. So purple and lime green was it!

I love these colours together - I think they look really fresh and fun. I thinking that the bridesmaids will be in purple, with green bouquets. I also fell totally in love with this cake -

How much fun does that look? Too good to eat, really.
Here's some more purple and green inspiration for your viewing pleasure (photos are not mine!)

Gorgeous, right? I did think about having lime green bridesmaid dresses but I couldn't find any in the exact right shade, so I thought purple would be easier. Also, I really love the look of green and white bouquets.

I am as yet undecided whether my bouquet will be all white, or white, green and purple. I saw this gorgeous purple lisianthus bouquet but I think it would look a bit out of place if all the other flowers are green and white

I'm leaning towards purple, green and white for my bouquet. Something like these...