Sunday 20 January 2013

Favours!



So, Mark had ONE job this week. Which was to organise speaking to his boss about using the White Hart as a reception location. Did he manage to do it? Of course not!

So rather then turning into a bridezilla at such an early stage in the wedding planning I have decided to instead tackle the list that my VERY organised Maid of Honour has emailed me! (While glaring at Mark occasionally to make my point clear!) 

I've decided on some things I can get working on, one of which is the envelopes for my favours. I have decided on a bit of an 'alternative' favour, and have had some very mixed reviews about them so far! 

Im going to be favouring our guests with a packet of seeds. Yes, garden seeds. Probably seeds for some english tea roses, which are the flowers i plan on using for the wedding. Roses are perennials, which mean they blossom each year without being replanted. They often get off to a slow start the first year, with only a few flowers, but by the third year they are in full bloom. I like the poetic thought of this for our marriage, that each year it will grow and blossom more and more (just like the seeds!)

So while some people have looked at me like I have grown three heads when I have suggested this idea, I have decided that I love it and so it shall go! Im not a fan of the traditional almonds or chocolates and think the seeds are a more personal touch. 

They are also very budget friendly! I'm going to make the envelopes with some vintage, environmentally friendly paper (which I am yet to find) and I cant wait to get started on them! 

As for Marks job of talking to his boss...what a man can do a woman can do better! He has a three day time limit before I go down there myself! 

Let me know what you think of the seeds idea, and if anyone is an expert in envelope making, I'd love to hear any tips!


Sunday 13 January 2013

WHAT A WEEK!

I have not stopped this week, I recently went back to work from maternity leave and the last few weeks have been totally manic between mine and Marks schedules. It hasn't left much time for wedding planning (much to my frustration) and my project I was working on also didn't go completely to plan. Grrr.

My project was a card which I wanted to make for my sister, asking her to be my maid of honour. I had asked her informally, but I wanted to do something special for her. After a few total disaster attempts at making my own card (Grrr), I ended up ordering one (which the lady let me design parts of!) from a gorgeous shop on Etsy, which has since been taken down, and I now can't find it to link it (Grrr, again) It only cost about £3.50 for the card, and £2.00 for the delivery, which for such a unique piece, i thought was a bargain!



The picture of it isn't great. My lighting in my kitchen is awful (soon to be changed though thank goodness!) and I took the picture on my iPhone, but you get the gist. Inside I wrote a little note, asking my sister if she would take the job, and telling her I need her along for the ride! 

I then planned on posting it to her house, but since I haven't even had a chance to make it into town this week, I decided to just give it to her today at a family lunch we had. Obviously the whole thing was destined to go horribly wrong because I had a bag of her things and popped it in there so I wouldn't forget it and then ended up forgetting I had put it in there...so she found it rather unceremoniously while I had my hands full with Harry. (Grrrrrrrr)

ANYWAY! The basic idea of the project, was to give my sister a little something to mark the beginning of what will hopefully be lots of fun times planning the wedding. I couldn't do it without her (she is my go-to person in a crisis!) and she not only knows how to handle my emotional meltdowns but doesn't judge me for them either, so I think she's the best person for the job!

In other wedding related news, Mark has also asked his friend Dion if he will be his best man, and we are going out for dinner with Dion and his girlfriend on Thursday, where im sure we will discuss wedding business!!

While on the topic of Mark, he is desperately in need of a good kick up the bum, as he STILL hasn't organised a day for us to go and see Paul (the owner of the White Hart) about our reception - and because of that - all real planning business is on hold! Therefore, I should publish this post and get nagging him until he gets on with it!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend! 

Friday 4 January 2013

2013!

WAHEY! It's 2013, and I can finally start the wedding planning without Mark saying 'Lets just get Christmas out of the way first...' Im so excited to start making all my ideas into reality and blogging about it along the way!

I had hoped by now to be able to share my little project I am working on but due to some logistical issues I haven't had part of it arrive, hopefully it will make an appearance in the next few days!

One thing i have started doing is collecting various sizes of wine, beer and cider bottles for some of my table decorations. I know its a bit early to be worrying about table decorations yet, but until we have set a date, theres not much else i can do except the little things (it also gives me an excuse to drink more wine!)

I plan on using yarn to wrap around the bottles as part of a centre piece. I found this on Pintrest, and its very similar to what I will be trying to do.




Im thinking they will look very in-theme with the wedding, and will cost practically nothing to make.


I also want to say that I've had some really lovely and unexpected emails and messages since starting my blog, offering help, advice and even decorations and a hair piece to borrow for the day to help meet my budget.
It really reminded me how kind some people are, and I cant thank those people enough for being so unbelievably generous to go out of their way to offer help. Im feeling very inspired to extend on the generosity to other brides-to-be somehow...just need to work out how!
My email address for anyone who wants to contact me but isn't sure how is at the bottom of this post - I would love to hear from more of you!

I hope to blog more this coming week, about my project, my wedding planning schedule and hopefully our meeting with Paul - the owner of the pub we want to have our reception in. It's time to get this ball really rolling now!




My Email: rebeccabradleysmith@btinternet.com