How Very Pinteresting {Winter Wedding Pinspiration}

Here's a little winter wedding inspiration for you from Pinterest:

Winter Wedding Table

Winter Bouquet

 Winter Silver Hunter Boots

Simple Winter Wedding Decor

Need more winter wedding inspiration?  You can check out my Winter Wedding Inspiration board on Pinterest.  Need help getting started with Pinterest?  Start here.

C'mon now, be social!

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Need help navigating Pinterest and putting it to good use?  Read up here, here, and here.

Wedding Planning with Pinterest: Who to follow?

This week I've been posting all about Pinterest.  Today, I want to talk about how to use Pinterest to find inspiration.  It's SO easy.  So, you're already using the "Pin It" button to pull inspiring images from all over the web.  Maybe you're an advanced (read: addicted) user and you've got the iPhone App.  In any case, you're using Pinterest to keep your inspiration organized.  So, what else can you do?  Follow people!  Not just your bff, mom, and grandma are using Pinterest!  Tastemakers, designers, bloggers (and just about everyone) is as well.  So, here are some suggestions to get you started!

Top 10 People to Follow on Pinterest 

(for wedding inspiration)

1. Courtney Spencer: Owner of Merriment Events™. Blogging at the merriment blog. www.themerrimentblog.com.  Courney has a lot of great boards, including "Rustic Elegant," full of pins to inspire brides with outdoor or garden weddings.

2. Style Me Pretty: Bringing chic, stylish weddings to the masses.  I love their "Wedding Cocktails" board with tons of signature cocktail ideas and recipes!

3. The Perfect Palette: A wedding blog dedicated to exploring color palette possibilities + a place to find fun + creative color ideas! With over 24,000 followers, 112 Boards, and 6,000 "Pins," you are bound to be inspired!

4. BRIDEfinds:  Wedding enthusiast -- by job & hobby.  

5.Green Wedding Shoes / Jen: Editor + Creative Director of Green Wedding Shoes. 

6. Martha Stewart Weddings:  Ideas, inspiration, and the inside scoop from the editors of Martha Stewart Weddings.

7.  Gayle McConnell: I especially love her "beach wedding," board.

Local Favorites

8. Bayside Bride: The Annapolis Wedding Inspiration Guide & Vendor Resource. 

9. Stephanie Bradshaw's "Weddings & Parties" board.  Bradshaw is a Charm City resident and creative director at bradshawstyling.com.  She is also a lifestyle blogger.

10. Katie McDonough Kutil: owner/designer of Petal & Print - custom fabric flowers and papery delights.

I should also mention, if you'd like to follow me on Pinterest, you can find me there! 

Happy Pinning!

Get Started and Organized with Pinterest

As I recently posted, Pinterest is a great tool for planning a wedding.  And like most things on the web, it is what you make of it.  (For basic information on how to use Pinterest, visit their help page here).

1. Create Pinboards with clear labels.  (Just as you would use tabs in a binder).  You can create an infinite number of boards, so get as specific as you need.  Examples: Bridesmaids dresses, Bouquets, Invitations.  You can then start pinning images from around the web (or already on Pinterest) to your boards.  You may want to create a "miscellaneous" board for pins that don't quite fit elsewhere.  You can always move pins off of that board in the future.

2. Install the "Pin It" button.  You can find details and instructions here.  It takes 2 seconds.  This will allow you to pull images from virtually any website.  This is a great tool when visiting wedding blogs for inspiration.    You no longer have to bookmark everything!  Pinterest will take the image (linking back to the website it came from automatically) and pin it to any board you'd like.  

Visit Roost to learn how to pin politely.

3.  Be sure to label your pins clearly.  Labeling is important for you and other pinners (including your friends) to find these pins in searches.  To get more into the intricacy of pinning and pinning etiquette, see this and that.  As you use Pinterest more, you'll see why this is important. 

4. Get creative!  Pins are just that, pins.  They can be removed, rearranged, re-pinned, etc.  So, feel free to pin "crazy" ideas.  Its all about inspiration!  Pins don't have to fit your budget, wedding theme, or any other limitation.  Anything you like is "pin worthy," so pin away!

Check back tomorrow for more Pinteresting tips!  Happy Pinning!

Get on [a Pinterest] Board!

If you're planning a wedding and you're not using Pinterest.  Get on board!  Seriously.  I assume that everyone has been using this fab inspirational/organizational/social website, but have discovered that many of you still haven't heard the good word!

So, huh, what's Pinterest?  Its a handy website (and iphone App) for collecting and sharing images/things you find interesting on the web.  You can label those images called "pins" onto different boards or pin-boards.  So instead of collecting images from magazines and trying to organize them in binder or scrapbooks, you can do it all online.  Better yet, you can share them with friends!

Much like Facebook or Twitter.  You can "follow" people and they can "follow" you.  The Pinterest homepage features a Pin Feed which allows you to see the recently added pins by those you follow.  You can then "like" (think Facebook), comment on, or re-pin those pins to your own boards.  You can even "tag" someone on a pin.  Come across the perfect bridesmaids dresses on Pinterest?  You can let your maid of honor know right away by "tagging" her in a pin comment or label.

So, scoot on over to Pinterest to "request" an invitation.  But, be warned, its addictive and you may lose track of time regularly!  For tips on how to use Pinterest in your wedding planning, check back tomorrow.  More to come...

Happy Pinning!