Bunting Flags in Real Life

SO my life lately has been all wedding all the time as I am getting married in less than a month now (YAY!!!) and somewhere in between there I was surprised with an amazing bachelorette party and my younger sister popping into town all in one weekend!! I've been busy and it's not going to change for a while, but I'd like to show you some of my inspiration right now. I designed the basic look for the rehearsal dinner before the wedding and it will have a bunting banner in it. I was perhaps a little overly ambitious when I said that I'd make it, so that's now I'm spending my Sunday afternoon.

I am obsessed with these nautical ones. The rehearsal dinner will be at a boat house and i've designed it to be very nautically inspired so I'm using all blue and white patterned fabrics. I guess I could buy these from Etsy...but what's the fun in that?

From Country Living, these are very summery and sweet looking.

Yellow and white has a very special place in my heart. Checks, stripes, and polkadots all look great as long as they are all yellow!

I feel like the colors should be consistent and thought out in advance but I suppose as long as they're not drastically different, it'll look good.

These little ones are super nautical and i love the yellow! The rope as a napkin ring may or may not be something we will be doing, too. (I thought of it first.)

Hay bails and balloons make this a very precious and "country" looking party! I love the action shots of people hanging the banners. It's going to be good inspiration when the time comes!

Burlap banners are looking pretty good right now. They are one sided, and you don't have to color coordinate...hmmm.

A little twist--combining a paper lantern and bunting flags! Is the trend going overboard here? This looks way too labor intensive for me...

So I'll let you know how it goes and show you my step by step. Trust me this isn't going to be super easy. I'm starting with a template of a triangle and looping it around a white rope. Also I fell into a time sucker called Pinterest. Check out and follow my Pinterests HERE. If you haven't joined, go for it! You can see all my sources there too...

Alicia B.