Peony - Flower of the Year

According to the wedding planner to the stars, Mindy Weiss, the Peony is the "flower of the year" for weddings and has been for two years straight now. This romantic flower is one of my favorites and I absolutely love how many color variations there are!

Anyway, I love them so much that I fashioned one of my invitation suites around them. The Coral Peony is my most popular suite on Pinterest and has been re-pinned everywhere! I just love the color combination and think it is a very soft, feminine wedding invitation.

There are a few more wedding trends I'm excited about this year as well!

Neutral color palettes - not sure why, but I sure do like the palettes of grey, brown, blush pinks, etc. They just exude elegance to me, if you do it right.

Gleaming wedding invitations - I love adding a little bit of shine to my invitations. Whether it is through heat embossing, ribbon, or the paper itself, I think a little bit of glitter and gleam is a fantastic highlight on an invitation.

Going natural - The "going green" thing has been embraced thoroughly, and rightfully so. I am looking forward to creating an invitation suite centered around being all-natural. The use of recycled papers lends a unique touch to a suite and several of those papers are actually quite cool to work with!