The Ingredients: Fabric!

I seriously heart our wedding planner.  She nailed fabric swatches, just like she did our color palette and style board.

Here is a sneak peak of the swatches (excuse the pictures, my bberry isn't the best):

Our base colors will be a mix of beige and navy pintuck table clothes.  We'll use the bright colors on accent tables and possibly as ties around the base.  And I think the cake/candy table is going to be hot pink, hah.

We are also (hopefully) planning to have lounge furniture near the dance floor and we wanted to bring in a pop of yellow by putting making some pillows to go on the lounges.  We've been struggling to find a bright, preppy, yet budget friendly fabric...until I found this swatch on one of the blogs I read:

The fabric is Paula Prass for Michael Miller Summer Soiree Chevron in Yellow and it was on sale - score!  Fabric.com has a pretty awesome return policy so I ordered 4 yards to qualify for free shipping and crossed my fingers that it looked good.

When I first pulled it out of the package, it looked a little mustardy...but in better light, and next to the samples, I think it looks great (the light in the pics is still pretty bad, but it does have a little more of a pop than I originally thought):

Progress feels good!  Carla, you're my hero ;)