How to Plan Your Wedding Using Pinterest
There are several different approaches you could use to planning your wedding, and I highly recommend exploring all of those options, but for my now husband and I, we chose to use Pinterest to help us plan our wedding. Pinterest is one of the world’s leading visual discovery engine platforms for sharing ideas and finding inspiration.
Before we get to the nitty-gritty about how to plan your wedding using Pinterest, for those who aren’t familiar with the platform but interested in using it, here are some tips on getting started.
Getting Started with Pinterest:
Join Pinterest
That should be simple enough, right!
Create Your Profile and Check Your Settings
The email notifications provide a great way to find new people to follow by seeing who likes, comments, or repins ideas from your boards. Still, I recommend turning the email notifications off unless you want them.
Terminology
Pins. Pins are “visual bookmarks” used to save ideas on Pinterest. A Pin links to a website or URL so people can click through it to visit the site.
Boards. Pinterest boards are where you can save your Pins. Boards help you keep your Pins organized and make it easier to find and save your Pins or find and follow your boards. You can create as many or as few boards as you like to fit your individual needs.
I hope that helps! It’s honestly pretty simple and enjoyable to use. Now, on to what we’ve been waiting for.
How to Plan Your Wedding Using Pinterest
Step 1: Create a Board and Add Sections.
When I started my planning process, I thought about and wrote down all the tasks we would need to complete. Then I looked into what was required for each task. That’s when creating a board and adding sections come into play.
To create a board:
Click your profile picture in the top-right corner of your page to open your profile.
Click the plus icon on the right side of your screen, next to the filter icon.
Select Board
Enter a name for your board. For our wedding, we went with #OnMyWayToLondon, which was also our wedding hashtag.
Toggle Keep this board secret if you want to keep it secret. I chose to keep our board a secret, but I did share it with my Maid of Honor.
Click Create
Once you have created your board, it's time to create the relevant sections for each part of your wedding.
Select your board
Click the plus icon at the bottom of your screen
Select Section
Enter a name for your section, then click Add
Sections you can add:
Bouquet
Boutonniere
Wedding dress
Suit
Color scheme
Hair
Makeup looks
Nail design
Shoes
Ceremony
Reception
Theme
Florals
Cake
Step 2: Search Pinterest
After creating your different board and sections, begin searching Pinterest for each specific part of your detail. For example, searching only ceremony setup ideas and inspiration and pinning those images that speak to you. Do this for every section you created on your board.
Once you have collected all the inspiration for each section, review your board with your partner to narrow it down to just a few images per section. You want it to be concise to what you would like and not be all over the place. If it's confusing to you, it will be confusing others you need to share it with.
Step 3: Share Your Board
When you’re done organizing your board, share this board with every vendor helping you execute your vision. This will help them understand what you are looking for and execute your vision with their touch. Remember that this is a guide to what you like and not how it will exactly look like. Let’s be honest; you hired these talented wedding vendors to not only bring your vision to life but add their flare to it.
Your Pinterest board is fluid and not rigid. Things like seasonal availability may prevent you from having exactly how the board looks. A specific chair may not be available, or your wedding designer found something better and more unique. Lean on your vendor's expertise.
Bonus: How NOT to Use Pinterest
Don’t use Pinterest to hinder someone’s creativity, making the vendor stick to how it looks like on your board or telling your photographer that you want specific poses that you found on Pinterest. This method of using Pinterest kills creativity and ingenuity. BUT you can use Pinterest to help you research wedding vendors such as photographers. You can use the many shot lists that Pinterest offers and use that when reviewing your photographer's full wedding galleries. Remember to ask for a full wedding gallery to see how they capture the whole day.
That’s all, folks!! Happy planning!!
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