Also found my wedding shoes today..........

I actually prefer my dress without shoes or at least flat shoes, as the bottom of the dress just sits nicely on the floor and moves beautifully. The added benefit to this is my H2B is the same height as me so I won't be towering over him as we say our vows, something I have been conscious of. Anyway I do feel I would be missing out....not to buy those 'bridal shoes' a somewhat important part of the outfit and the wedding photos it seems! But I cannot justify spending hundreds on a pair ( I love Christian Louboutin) so I have scoured the internet today and also read several topics on the You & Your Wedding website about shoes and I have ordered these:

very....well sort of, productive day!

I have found a clothes designer on Etsy who produces some gorgeous pieces. Her name is Holly Stalder, I sent her some photos of my wedding dress hoping she could suggest a shrug type thing that would go well with my dress. She came back to me with several of her designs:

and after paying $175.00 USD /approx. £108 I will in a few months have one of her beautiful designs made especially for me and my dress!

My Dress!

The hunt continues......

I absolutely must find these gorgeous drop pearl earrings! I found this image on a very interesting group on Facebook called Enchanted Garden Wedding World but no name or website is attached!! Dilema!! In my search to find these particular beauties I have found a lovely few websites (see links below) on my quest, that have alot of choice and the vintage feel I am looking for for my wedding day. But I will carry on my search for these for now as I haven't found anything similar....yet!

Magpie Vintage

Crystal Bridal Accessories

Regina B

Love this style, colour, theme.......

I came across these images on http://www.weddingconcepts.co.za last night and got very excited. I had been missing a base colour for my theme......not that there is a rule to say you have to have one, or that I had decided I needed one. But I had been planning on just having the flowers in a mixture of pinks, bright greens and then some more toned down displays of ivory and green and these being our main focal point. After seeing these images I'm loving the pinks, greens and grey together......looks awesome finished off by tons of candlelight and crystals......perfect!

Candy Bar!

www.rockmywedding.co.uk

I love this site/blog and can't recommend it enough, its a must read for any Bride 2 Be looking for fashion, beauty, trends, tips, ideas it has it all check it out:

www.rockmywedding.co.uk

Where I'm @........................

As I've said we have five months to go until our May wedding!!! I only started my planning a month and a half ago and have sorted alot of the main things out already, all over the internet so far.

Having a young son the internet really does it for me everytime, I rarely need to leave the house, groceries delivered, clothes, make-up, presents, books you name it bought online everytime!

Anyway back to planning:

Venue: Booked

Dress: Bought and collected *bought second hand, more on this later

Photographer: Booked

Entertainment: Booked

Marquee/Catering: Booked

Flowergirl dresses: Bought and delivered!

H2B's Suit: Ordered

Cake: Visiting a cake maker next week for a taste test.....yum!

Humanist Celebrant: Meeting in a few weeks

Our Plans:

We are having our ceremony and reception in the grounds of my h2b's parents Farmhouse in Normandy, Surrey. Weather permitting we are planning to have the ceremony out in the open followed by an English Country Garden Afternoon Tea Party with a contemporary harpist, garden games, shetland pony rides, a candy bar and all things pretty and a tad vintage! Then in the evening an adult only party in a marquee, starting with a formal sit down meal and finishing with a band. We're wanting the evening marquee to be different to the country garden feel during the day and have it more 'Hotel Chic' style .......oooo can't wait. Heres a very rough first attempt at a mood board to give you an idea. If you look closely you can see the flowergirl dresses from BHS.

First ever blog entry! SAVE THE DATE MAGNETS

Well I thought I would start my first blog with the first thing I did with my wedding plans. Save the dates!! I assumed everybody did these but it seems they are more an American thang!? Anyway I saw this idea....somewhere in my cyber space travels....to do a photo booth style strip with us holding cards with what we needed to say turned into into a fridge magnet so all our family & friends would have our wedding date to hand, genius! . I originally set out to order these online but found no UK companies did them, I tried the likes of Kodak, Photobox, Trufilm etc with no luck. I found a very good American company www.magnetstreet.com who did exactly what we wanted but shipping costs made the order a little out of our price range. I then decided to make use of the Photoshop software I use for my work and make them myself!













Quite a few out takes and arguments later we managed to take the four photos we needed.....this wasn't as easy as you would think! I then used Photoshop to crop them, adjust the contrast to try and make them like a photo booth type photo and created a logo to add at the bottom. Then a trip to Hobbycraft the following day to purchase spray glue, knife, magnetic A4 sheets and I was away......production line type working commenced. I also made an envelope sized backing which I attached the magnets to and then into envelopes. I made the 70 I needed in one day.

Photos of finished product to be added soon!