ring by erica courtney via martha stewart weddings

it’s pretty widely accepted that the holidays are engagement season. i’ll always remember my grandmother gossiping about who got a ring for christmas and if you follow anybody wedding-related on twitter you’ve no doubt read tweets of sweeping congratulations to women newly turned into fiancées. according to some statistics, fifteen percent of all engagements take place in december. this is a pretty sizable chunk considering if things were spread out evenly, each month would get around eight percent. on top of that, i’d be willing to bet november engagements take advantage of the fabulous excuse that the holidays are to put off wedding planning till next week.

once you’ve called all your favorite family and best friends and squeeed about the good news, where to take it from there gets a little fuzzy. it’s so easy to get scatterbrained about the fun stuff, the bazillion little details that are gorgeous in their own right but completely unrelated. the prettiest weddings have a consistent design scheme that seems effortlessly carried through each element. but how do you get there? over the next few posts, i’d like to help. keep an eye on the blog for tips on how to focus and streamline your design.