Pure Inspiration… Feathers

I found a photo of a fuch­sia bridal bou­quet a cou­ple years ago, and saved it in my clip­pings.  I couldn’t tell you where I found it, (I am think­ing it was from TheKnot.com ) but the image of this par­tic­u­lar bou­quet has never left my mind.  I loved how the florist grounded the bright fuch­sia ele­ments with rich brown and then added an addi­tional layer of inter­est with red peonies.  Using nat­ural pheas­ant feath­ers along with died pink feath­ers turned what could have been a tacky and cheap look­ing bou­quet into a styl­ish, opu­lent piece.

As do many other wed­ding and flo­ral design­ers, I find feath­ers very inspir­ing.  With so many dif­fer­ent feath­ers to choose from there is some­thing unique for every wed­ding style.  My favorite feather for wed­dings is a bleached pea­cock feather.  After it is bleached it becomes a brown­ish cream color and looks amaz­ing in mono­chro­matic arrange­ments of white and creams.  I think that most feath­ers look the best when used sub­tly in this man­ner.   A great use of the bleached pea­cock feather was in Monique Lhuillier’s Spring 2009 col­lec­tion, when she show­cased the Evita dress.  If you are a feather lover, this dress is the state­ment to make.

Feath­ers are very easy to find and there are many great online resources for them, one of the best that I have found for feath­ers and other var­i­ous craft sup­plies is Save-on-Crafts.  Every­thing I have ever ordered from them has been great, check them out at www.save-one-crafts.com

There are so many ways in which feath­ers could be used in your wed­ding, not to be lim­ited to cen­ter­pieces and flo­ral arrange­ments.  Below are some inspi­ra­tions for dif­fer­ent ways in which you could feath­ers in the decor of your wed­ding.  Enjoy!

Happy Plan­ning!

Melia Spring

Bou­quets

This bou­quet only uses feath­ers, to cre­ate a soft yet dra­matic feel.

Bou­ton­nieres

Decor

2,000 feath­ers were used to cre­ate a canopy, which hung over the dance floor.

I love the scat­tered feath­ers on the floor.