The generation that grew up shopping for vintage clothes is getting married and looking for retro wedding dresses. Good news if you have your mom’s Priscilla of Boston silk gown boxed up under a bed.

“There is a market for vintage wedding dresses,” says Rachel Leonard, Brides magazine fashion director. “Mixing old with new is big: It could be a dress or veil, or just vintage shoes or cocktail hat.” Two styles she says are very salable: 1950s designs with tight waist and full skirt, and 1930s Hollywood-inspired charmeuse gowns. The hit TV series “Mad Men” has created a yen for 1960s formal gowns. Not in demand: the 1970s peasant-look or bohemian garb.

At Polly Sue’s Vintage Shop in Takoma Park, (http://www.pollysues.com) owner Susan Collings searches for stock at estate sales and auctions and from people who bring dresses in to sell. At her shop, the price tags on most vintage wedding dresses are $40 to $150. Collings suggests e-mailing photos of the dress to her in advance; if she’s interested, she will buy. She does not take consignment.

At Antiquedress.com, owner Deborah Burke specializes in high-end gowns, including ones on consignment. She splits the selling price of the gown with the consigner. (Prices are $150 to $5,000.) Burke’s caution to would-be sellers: Condition is everything. “No bride wants to wear a wedding gown that has spots and stains and odors on it. Think of yourself as a bride and what you would want to wear.”

Yes! Yes, yes, and yes a thousand times more. That was the answer you gave a week ago when your boyfriend took you out to dinner and proposed. There was no hesitation in your mind then and there really isn’t any now either. The only thing that you’re worried about though is the actual details of the wedding.

Your boyfriend, now your fiance of course, is very laid back and casual about it and said that anything you want was OK with him. He was sure that you would do a great job, just tell him if you wanted anything.

That’s all well and good, and usually you would have jumped at the chance, in fact you did jump at the chance. But now you’re stuck on what to do for your wedding decorating ideas. The motifs are all blending as one into your brain and you still don’t know where to hold the reception.

Of course, you could have the reception in an up-scale hotel with the works, everything catered for and all the niggily little details looked after, but that seemed so impersonal, and you really want your wedding to be one that you will remember for the rest of your life. So what should you do now?

Well, first and foremost, just take a few really deep breaths and relax. Getting yourself worked up into a frenzy won’t help. Next gather your bridesmaids, and anyone else you trust, to your side and have a council of war.

This is where you will decide details and get fresh perspective and ideas into your planning, and where most of all, you can have some fun with your wedding decorating ideas. You’ll be simply amazed at how many great ideas a group of people can get if they’re working on something like wedding decorating ideas with wedding cards being the least of it.

So you start off with an idea, say to have the all the cards handmade so that they become even more special to you as time goes by. Someone else has the great idea of getting a bunch of those little disposable cameras so that interested people would be able to take photographs, and you’d end up with a great many more candid pictures than you otherwise would have.

Yet another person comes up with a great overall design theme. Your wedding decorating ideas are now flowing fast and furious as one person after another chimes in giving you all the help you need to sort out your wedding plans.

However, it is your mother who comes up with the best wedding decorating ideas of all and such like being the least of all her concerns! Maybe|Perhaps you’d like to get married and then have your reception at their place.

They could put up a marquee to cater for all the guests, and the house could be decorating to suit the occasion. And you say, ‘Yes’, again because there’s nothing you want more than to be married at home.