If I've ever been excited about anything that's truly Floridian it's flea markets! This weekend my girlfriend and I went to flea markets, antique shops, discount stores and garage sales in search of decor and inspiration for the wedding. We found the old school antique section of the flea market - not the "as seen as TV", tube sock, leather goods, fake designer purse section that you find at most modern day flea markets.
If you are a bride that's into milk glass (fenton) just head south to the Daytona Beach Flea Market. You could have all the white and blue tone milk glass you ever wanted.
If you are having a beach wedding and want a vintage nautical theme there were all kinds of oil lamps, lanterns and old school nautical decor. If vintage style coffee tins are your thing...you can find it all here too.
We ended up buying various size old dairy and cream glass bottles to use as vases on the tables for the reception - they still have the original lettering and are really cool. Another thing we found that could be really neat were vintage postcards from every country and state you can imagine - 1000's of them. We spent about an hour just at this one booth. One idea I had (maybe not for our wedding) was to buy a postcard from every state, city, county (whatever you can find) where your guests are from and use them as table cards. You could have a clothes line and have them hung up using mini clothes pins with the name and table number on the back of the postcards. I loved them so much I bought just a few from the area where we are getting married so I could think about how we might use them - I can always go back for more.
If you are a bride that's into milk glass (fenton) just head south to the Daytona Beach Flea Market. You could have all the white and blue tone milk glass you ever wanted.
If you are having a beach wedding and want a vintage nautical theme there were all kinds of oil lamps, lanterns and old school nautical decor. If vintage style coffee tins are your thing...you can find it all here too.
We ended up buying various size old dairy and cream glass bottles to use as vases on the tables for the reception - they still have the original lettering and are really cool. Another thing we found that could be really neat were vintage postcards from every country and state you can imagine - 1000's of them. We spent about an hour just at this one booth. One idea I had (maybe not for our wedding) was to buy a postcard from every state, city, county (whatever you can find) where your guests are from and use them as table cards. You could have a clothes line and have them hung up using mini clothes pins with the name and table number on the back of the postcards. I loved them so much I bought just a few from the area where we are getting married so I could think about how we might use them - I can always go back for more.
Not a very good scan but these are the vintage postcards from the Hood River/Mt. Hood area that I ended up buying
The vintage postcards were so cool b/c some of them had even been written on and were love letters or just notes to a family member. One of the postcards I bought was from 1942 and appeared to be a note to a friend about a cross country trip and the delicious cookies they tasted along the way (random). Can you imagine that being the only way you communicated back in the day!
It was a successful trip to the flea market and definitely offered some inspiration for the wedding - more to come!
