Vintage New Orleans Wedding Invitations!

If you haven’t found the perfect wedding stationery yet, you’re in luck. The custom creations of Vintage Invites blend quirky and fun with old world class, just to set your little vintage hearts aflutter. Because they custom make every order, you can collaborate on a one-of-a-kind wedding suite that enhances the vision of your wedding and reflects your personality.

 

New Orleans Style Vintage Invitations

Inspired by anything beautiful, we create wedding and event stationery with a vintage twist. All of our work is completely custom designed and therefore 100% unique to each event, representing our clients’ true personalities and setting a definite tone for their New Orleans weddings. We love true romance, glam, rustic, off-beat, whimsy, quirky, shabby chic and more than anything, one of a kind weddings!

They’re also giving away three $100 gift certificates. To enter for your chance to win, Like our New OrleansVintage Invites on Facebook and leave a comment letting us know which one is your favorite. Winners will be announced this Friday. Good luck! Or Check out Albany Plantation on Facebook !!

Photos by The Vintage Vineyard Photography

 

Louisiana Plantations                                               

The Spanish moss on oak trees and meld of French Cajun and antebellum culture and architecture make southern Louisiana plantations the ultimate venues when planning romantic destination weddings. Destination weddings are more like a vacation for your guests as the wedding festivities last an entire weekend or even a week as opposed to having an hour-long wedding ceremony followed by a reception that last a few hours. These traditional weddings often leave out-of-town guests at a loss of what to do. Most of the plantations in Louisiana are located within a reasonable distance from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which offers you guests a multitude of activities and entertainment from which to choose. Additionally, the temperate climate makes southern Louisiana an ideal place to plan an outdoor wedding ceremony.

Weddings at Louisiana Plantations

    When planning a destination wedding, the starting point is to choose one of the wedding venues Louisiana has to offer. Many of Louisiana plantations offer complete wedding packages so you just have to invite your guests, while others will recommend local photographers, florists, and caterers. Some of the plantations offer lodging on site, while others will assist you and your guests arrange for lodging at nearby inns and hotels. Out-of-town guests can fly into either Baton Rouge or New Orleans and transportation can be arranged for your guests to get to their place of lodging and to the wedding festivities. Additionally, your host can recommend off site activities in your preference of Baton Rouge and/or New Orleans for you and your guests, depending on the length of your stay.

Many couples who have friends and relatives that live in different areas of the country, or internationally, are opting to have destination weddings in order to save and cost and to spend more time with their loved ones. Southern Louisiana plantations combine a diversity of cultural influences and styles that make them the perfect place for the destination wedding of your dreams.

Louisiana Wedding Venues for those on a budget

To the recently interested, it can be aggravating how little you are able to experience your wedding before the questions begin. In their hurry to reply the when and the where, some people can book a area that sends them on a direction that overlooks their marriage funds. Do not let that be you! We’re going to list a few places for those looking to save money for their wedding venue. Keep in mind that when looking for a Louisiana wedding venue, that just because your saving money on your wedding location doesn’t mean it better.

Weddings are expensive. So to help you and your fiance’ out in planning, we’re concentrating on the essential components of a great celebration — the meals, decorations, popular music, paper, and  vendors. We’ve already mentioned how getting your own bottles of wine for your marriage can help preserve you big dollars. For our second suggestion, we’re discussing area — because location does matter.

Once you know the quantity you can invest in your marriage (please clear your mind about anything wedding–related until you know this number), expect about half of it will be used on the collaboration of area, meals, and drinks. Whether your funds are large or minimal, keeping the site fee down will allow you to invest more on other things.

When you are looking to preserve a wedding location, you need to think beyond classy event spots or resort ballrooms to locations that are under-utilized for marriage wedding. Here are four techniques to consider.

Louisiana wedding locations                         

Consider an area that’s better days are behind it — it’s always extra money in your wallet. These locations are often thankful for the business and willing to be versatile. Some prospects that come to mind are roller-skating places and old display cinemas.

Before you jeer at these thoughts, consider the built-in benefits of each. A curler rink  is a huge open position with a stereo audio and refined wooden flooring suitable for splitting into wedding, mixture, and dining areas. Many have lighting style effects systems that can be used to make a wonderful atmosphere.

Movie cinemas  have enough wedding seating and a level suitable for trading wedding vows. Many conventional cinemas have fantastic lobbies which can easily provide beverages and dining. And of course, you are going to get to customize the setting and marquis for your Louisiana wedding reception.

Louisiana Parks, Athletic Fields and Plantations

Public parks can offer stunning options at a very good deal prices. Think about some public parks to use as a venue in Louisiana or Albany Plantation’s large grounds or Ash Hillsides State Playground in northern Louisiana. A fee sometimes is required for the parks and athletic fields but it’s usually not that much and is often around $15.

Besides offering attractive options for exchanging your vows, parks can be the best area for an informal  outside  cooking area wedding venue. Just be sure that your music is not a problem if you want it there and definitely make sure there are enough bathrooms in the area or at least check them out because you might have to clean it.

Louisiana Wedding Venue Locations 

If you are planning to have your marriage ceremony in a spiritual building, consider using their buildings that may be attached or outside area for the celebration. Many chapels and synagogues have private backyards that are suitable for groups to have plenty of room for everyone, as well as huge indoor location which can be used for dining and your reception. While the appearance may be lacking the necessary look, the minimal charges to use the venue will hit you with an additional fee for beverages and popular music.

Unusual Places with Significance in Louisiana

One of the most significant wedding events it proved helpful on took place next to the home of the bride’s nephew’s house. By an off chance, the bridegroom, who was raised along ways away in another state, had gone to the same school as a child. The school administrators got the entire class to decorate the auditorium. We used an old section of property for the celebration and visitors stayed in the locker rooms.

Be innovative and consider unlikely locations that speak out loud with you and your lover and see if any would be attractive for a marriage. Rent the local plantation in your area. (Albany Plantation)  Or here’s a crazy one, tie the knot at the closest Triple-A area. University sweethearts? Have it in your college gym. Ski buffs? Lease the area at your preferred hill, off-season.  A little genius and the desire to money custom can considerably decrease the quantity you invest on your marriage area. We wish you all the best in scouting your wedding venues in Louisiana!

Baton Rouge and New Orleans La,

Albany Plantation, Hammond Louisiana’s newest wedding venue and is offering a Free photo session for any photographers looking to take wonderful photos using our beautiful plantation as a backdrop. Anyone that is in the Baton Rouge or New Orleans area feel free to give us a call. We are going to have limited days to shoot, so call us up and schedule your date today. You can find our address on our contact page.

Brides and grooms seeking the perfect wedding venue in Hammond, La need to look no further than Albany Plantation This newly renovated Plantation in Louisiana, offers a truly unique and romantic wedding venue. Albany Plantation features balconies that offer some breathtaking sights and provide a perfect location for wedding photography. Lately we have also been designing our new arbor, Albany Plantation will have one the nicest arbor’s around. With a height around 8ft, depth 4ft and wings with swales, I will include some pictures as soon as its finished. So whenever your looking for that affordable venue in Louisiana, keep us in mind when looking for that perfect wedding location in Louisiana.

 

To Complete our Wedding Venue’s Look

Our foot bridge out front also needed a complete redesign, we took down the old ragged hand rails and are putting up some brand new painted ones, took some of the old decking off and replaced a few of the main supports… so by next week sometime we plan on finishing that project as well.

 

Special thanks to Jason and Mia Hammond Photographers   you guys did an excellent job taking these photos, and Albany Plantation is pleased to feature some of your work.

Plan Your Themed Vintage Wedding

Albany Plantation would be perfect for your Vintage wedding. We offer surroundings and settings that you just can’t find at other wedding venues in the Hammond, La area. First thing we have to understand is that Vintage Weddings are themed around the decades between the 1920’s and the 1980’s. Don’t confuse vintage with Victorian which is the era between the 1837 and 1901. (Which our Wedding Venue would be perfect for too)

The vintage wedding themes are the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, and the 80’s. As you know, each one of these decades has its own distinct style of clothing, music and decor. The fantastic thing about these themes is seeing and experiencing the look and feel of decades past.

For some wedding themes, the location is the most important element. But with vintage weddings it is the clothes, hair and props that tell most of the story. The location can be very important as well if you choose one that tells a significant part of your story, but typically clothes, hair and props dominate the scene.

 Wedding Ideas

Once you decide on an era, begin to research the clothing styles. Look at old pictures. Do a search on the internet or watch movies that are set in that era. Take good notes so you don’t have to go back and do this again. Note the hair styles, clothing, make-up, and accessories. Even look at the modes of transportation like cars, bicycles, or carriages. Make a list of things you think were popular or things that your particular era was best remembered for. Some of these ideas may become great props down the line.

You don’t have to nail it, just make it yours! Do pay close attention to the wedding fashion though. If you do, everybody will get it and it will be fun and romantic. Use the clothes and the location to define the primary look and feel, then add the props to make the theme more accurate and fun.

It will really help you put your theme together if you combine it with one of several other themes including favorite color, favorite flower, garden wedding, or country wedding for example. This will refine your look and feel and give a more specific direction to go with the rest of your wedding choices.

Flowers

Choose wedding flowers that fit your color scheme and the style of your theme. If you are crossing vintage weddings with one of the other themes, refer to that theme page for more flower and theme ideas.

The most popular flowers are Roses, Tulip, Calla Lilies, Lily of the Valley, Hydrangeas, Gerbera Daisies, Peonies, Ranunculus, Stephanotis, Sweet Pea, Gardenias, Casablanca Lilies, Orchids, Lilacs, and Viburnum.

 

Wedding Color Schemes

Colors will be a big part of your theme. As you know, fashions and colors change all the time, and different eras are known for specific color trends. Colors can define a time period and even a setting.  People expect to see certain colors in certain settings because we know historically that is how it was. Purple dresses in a red 50’s diner would only confuse everyone, on the other hand a pink Sandra Dee dress with pink flowers would be absolutely beautiful. So make sure you love your theme, and that the colors you love go with that theme because they will be in the dresses flowers and everything else.

Clothing, hair and props are the most important things to do well for this theme. Making sure the feel of the location is right can be very important as well. The more obvious you are about your theme the more real it will feel. If you do a good job on your research and choose a color scheme that works well with the theme, you will have the tools to be able to easily put together a fantastic vintage wedding. Also there are Acadian house plans in the Albany Louisiana area.

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