Things I Love: Wood Grain

Some time ago, I realized my love for wood grain. The first time I saw it incorporated into a wedding was with Weddingbee's Mrs. Apple Cider's gorgeous wood grain invitations.

Mrs. Apple Cider's amazing RSVP card

Besides the lovely design and the colors Apple Cider chose, I just loved the texture of the paper and thought it would work so well for fall. I even looked up where she got her wood grain paper and considered printing our own invites on it. (You can buy it here or here.) Then I thought about the others ways one could incorporate wood grain into a wedding. I scoured the Internet and Etsy and came up with the following:

{Letterpress wood-grain invites}

I love the subtlety of these white wood-grain invites.

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I love the use of wood as a pedestal for the centerpieces, and the wood-grained vases.

{Wood You Love Me Cuff links}

How about wood-grain cuff links for the groom?

{Wood grain gift tags}

Perfect for wedding favors!

{Love You 4Ever Card}

You could use this card to write a note for your honey to read the morning of the wedding.

{Personalized Wedding Signs}

Of course, you can have wooden signs...

{Wood Grain Wedding Cake}

Why not incorporate it into the cake?

{Faux Bois Thank You Card}
You can even tie in the theme with your thank you cards.

In the end, we ended up going in a different direction (which I'll share with you) so I don't think we'll have a wood-grain motif. Though I'd love to find affordable birch tree vases (or vase covers) so our centerpieces can look something like this:

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If you happen to know where I could get cheap birch tree wrapping (even if its fake), let me know! I might just use this birch paper template from the wedding e-zine, Utterly Engaged, to wrap around the vases. I could still wrap them in twine...

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Anyone else love the yummy texture wood-grain like I do? Or are you incorporating any other motif into your wedding?