Why You Need to Build a Wedding Mood Board

You can start by asking yourself two important questions: What do you want your wedding to look like? And, What do you want it to feel like? With those two questions in mind, start looking through photos of other events online. When you see a material, color scheme, theme, and setting you love, add it to the vision board! It could be something as specific as a kind of chair or flower arrangement. Whatever catches your eye goes straight on the board.This exercise can be a lot of fun. But it’s also a great first step in the process of distilling your ideal wedding from all the thoughts and ideas that are crowding your brain right now!

The first step when you’re trying to create a wedding mood board is finding wedding photos. Loverly’s Vision Boards, Instagram, Pinterest, various magazines, brand promotions and most importantly, wedding photography accounts are all great places to go for inspiration.As you’re looking at wedding photos there are a few things you should be taking note of: 

As you find pictures of these different things it’s helpful to start organizing them into folders. A folder for dresses, a folder for cakes… you get the idea. Doing this makes it a ton easier when you start doing side by side comparisons later on in the process. Trust us!

As you start making these folders you’ll probably start to find that you naturally gravitate towards certain colors, styles, and aesthetics. That’s actually the most important part of the process!We highly recommend using the Loverly Vision Board as you start looking for inspiration. These boards will serve as a visual storage facility for all your preferences and ideas. Don’t worry too much about getting it perfect. This is just the first pass! Your board will grow and evolve over time as you keep distilling your perfect wedding out of the things you’re seeing.It’s also important to remember that Loverly has a ton of great resources you can use for inspiration.

A great place to start is the Loverly Style Quiz. It takes about 5 minutes to finish and once you're done, you’ll get a ton of personalized suggestions about wedding styles and aesthetics.

Once you’re finished with the quiz, you can check out Loverly’s database of real weddings! It includes information about 12,000 weddings that you can filter through by season, style, color, and location. Finally, don’t forget about Loverly’s Instagram account. Our feed is full of double-tap worthy content that you can use when you’re hunting for wedding inspiration.

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