Striking or sunny? Black and yellow are fabulous options for bridesmaid dresses. Any colour will really pop against black and of course your bridesmaids will be sure to get plenty of use out of their dress later. Team a cute little black strapless cocktail dress, US$280 from Ouma, with a pretty white fascinator, US$65 from Twigs and Honey. Photo by Sarah Maren Photography. 
It's your day to shine, so stand out in black and white or make a statement in striking yellow.
Polyvore Our top pick for where to start creating your on own online mood boards. It's fast, easy to use and fun. Plus there are hundreds of other users churning out a fantastic array of inspiration. You will need to register to start putting your ideas together, but once signed in there are huge number of images to work with and its quite easy to add more. It's a simple case of search, drag and drop. One of the best features of Polyvore is you can easily follow the links back to where the images came from, so if that was an online shop, you can click through to buy. Genius. www.polyvore.com
September wedding in Florida by RebeccaAH
Bridal Canvas Another option is Bridal Canvas. Working in a similar way to Polyvore you double click from a selection of thumbnails what you would like to appear on your mood board. Again you will need to register to get started. We did find this a little harder to use, more search functions would really help, it was tricky to find suitable images. Deleting items from our canvas didn't always seem to work and we lost the whole thing twice. But in saying that there are some good features and it is worth a look. You can add music to your moodboard which is a nice touch especially when sharing your wedding ideas with family and friends. www.bridalcanvas.com
If you have a mood board to share the check out our idoityourself flickr group and add your ideas.
We've found a few stylish suppliers to help get you started planning the perfect purple and blue beach wedding. 
If there is one thing I really hate it's a boring ugly old plug spoiling a nicely designed kitchen or bathroom. Well, finally someone came up with a solution. Water stopping water is definitely on my shopping list. 
We've been hard at work tracking down some beach beauties this week - of the accessories kind. Luminous shells and lovely lavender make for the most beautiful wedding accessories. I feel calm and relaxed just looking at them.
I'm so pleased with the way this shot turned out just had to share. Busy building the wedding stationery website over on 'i do' it yourself, and putting together some groups shots of the ranges. Not bad for a first attempt, off to do the rest. 
I've been keeping my mummy VERY VERY busy, soon I promise to settle down so she can get some work done :)
It's been a crazy month so far, so much to do and our internet keeps dropping out. So apologies again for the delay in posts. But it has meant we've had a bit more time to work on our wedding stationery. So we now have a new product, yeay! Print at home bridesmaid cards.
