Shabby chic or vintage theme without burlap?

You absolutely can! That's the direction im heading in. An idea I had was to buy/collect old milk bottles or other vintage glass bottles with tea lights around them and flowers in the glasses as your centerpieces. A huge hit right now is lanterns which can look vintagey. Type into Pinterest vintage wedding decor and there are tons of options WITHOUT burlap. Happy planning!

I'm in the south too! No burlap for us either, we are doing a more classic/vintage/elegant wedding.

Lace, vintage candle holders, classic books (a newer idea I've recently liked a lot) are just a few things we might use but honestly I'm not all the way to that point yet. :-)

I was going to use burlap too until I saw everyone doing it! I switched to almost all lace... But it still seems subtle to me.

My centerpieces are old hobnail jars with flowers. (Afloral.com has them in lots of colors too!) My table runners are lace. And I've been scouring thrift stores for vintage looking stuff for extra decor.

Our theme is "vintage rustic". We have a little bit of burlap in our decor but I didn't want to go overboard. We got a ton of our decorations from hobby lobby! Our store had a whole section of lace items. We got a lot of lace table runners and we got mason jars with little lights on the inside so it looks like fireflies and those have a lace bow around them. We will use those as part of our centerpeices. Very cute. My FH got a few white birdcages to hang from trees and I'm not sure how I feel about those but he says they look vintage? ¯\_(?)_/¯

We are also using a lot of lanterns in our decor

You definitely don't need burlap. Lace, pearls, the right colors, vintage photo frames and candle holders. I think there are a million ways to do it without burlap

I am making table runners from a really nice cotton gauze from fabric.com, it's not too expensive and i think a fresh take on the overdone burlap Comes in all sorts of colors!

I am definitely going to look into the gauze. Thank you Stephanie

We are doing cotton gauze w a touch of lace accents and gold Mercury glass candleholders.

Look at Michaels! They have a whole row dedicated to shabby chic right now and it's all 50% off for the rest of April!

What is your venue like? What are your colors?

BURLAP ISN'T FUCKING VINTAGE.

Do more like "classy vintage" rusted yellows, but with crystal chandilears... Ect.

We are doing lots of lace. We don't like burlap either and it was so hard to find lace without burlap. We are doing mason jars with vintage china

No burlap at our barn wedding! It is possible but strangely hard.

I'm doing vintage. Lace and pearls no burlap.

I am doing vintage elegance... Satin, lace, pearls, bling, fur and antique chairs, doors, older luxury car and winter rich colors

I second Jo Rocka...I never thought of burlap as vintage.

I'm with JoRocka...burlap isn't vintage. It is rough and scratchy, but not vintage. It's quite possible to avoid it, just like I, and apparently lots of others, have.

My cranky opinion aside. I did a lot of research on industrial stuff and holy hell there is a lot of over lap with barns and burlap and tea lights. It's really odd. And infuriating.

I'm with you with the burlap it's so overrated. We are trying to pull off country mountain romance. I been looking into having some antlers in the decor.