{"id":260,"date":"2010-08-08T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-08-08T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:55:12","slug":"ikea-as-a-wedding-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"IKEA as a Wedding Supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Steve and I took a trip up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IKEA<\/strong><\/a> in Sunrise, FL. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I adore IKEA and could walk around and enjoy all the pretties. Before we moved back to Miami, I would scour the catalog and envision how our home would look and our future children&#8217;s rooms and everything else. Naturally, I turned to their little accessories for reception ideas.<\/p>\n<p>My vision for the reception is very loosely based in Asian design. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=126\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>invitations <\/strong><\/a>have orange and blue bamboo trees and leaves. I am toying with ideas of lucky bamboo or fortune cookies as the favors. A recent idea was little bamboo steamers or baby take out boxes filled with candies. The party will be really low key, but for centerpieces, I&#8217;m picturing lots of vases with floating candles and submersible lights. Today, I took the following pictures for inspiration and potential future purchases:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-268\" title=\"IMG_0583\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0583-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0583-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0583-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0583.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>White round paper lanterns can have lights inside or not<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-270\" title=\"IMG_0585\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0585-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0585-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0585-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0585.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Blue vases, 3 different sizes, for centerpiece groupings<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0588.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-272\" title=\"IMG_0588\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0588-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0588-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0588-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0588.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Plant pots for low centerpieces. Since they&#8217;re white, I&#8217;m not sure how to use them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0587.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-271\" title=\"IMG_0587\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0587-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0587-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0587-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0587.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>White pots that are just super cool looking, centerpieces maybe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-269\" title=\"IMG_0584\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherfam.com\/bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0584-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0584-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0584-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0584.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Clear vase, 1 per table for rocks or shells and floating candles or something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">all images taken by me inside IKEA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Steve and I took a trip up to the IKEA in Sunrise, FL. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I adore IKEA and could walk around and enjoy all the pretties. Before we moved back to Miami, I would scour the catalog and envision how our home would look and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,56,130,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centerpieces","category-miami","category-reception","category-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}