Last week marked one year since my husband and I were married! It was quite the home-spun affair, held in the Bowling Club up the road from my where I grew up. I'd been thinking about all the efforts that went into our big day last year, so I thought I'd type a wee post about it.Probably the most labour intensive task I attempted was making forty metres of bunting to string through the reception. I had a bit of an idea of how to go about it, but after a bit of internet trawling I found some decent instructions.
I was going with a purple theme, and so collected a few metres of different quilting fabrics in different shades. My best buy was forty metres of lilac bias binding for $15 from a craft emporium. With a bit of help I made around 180 triangles, which filled out all forty metres of bias binding! A major sewing effort.
My favourite part of wedding preparation was putting together the invitations. I have a serious enthusiasm for fresh stationery.After drawing up a design for the invitation, they were printed onto A5 size card. All of the details were typed up onto an A4 sheet, including a hand-drawn map of the wedding venues. This was then folded in quarters, coupled with the card, and fastened around with a piece of lace.
In the days before the wedding I had some much appreciated help from my lovely now-husband, and our Best Man and Maid of Honour. A wee factory line was formed for the production of the favours, lavender shortbread.
For the table centrepieces, I used old Agee Jars, with scraps of fabric and lace tied around the middle. The flowers were various colours of pink and purple roses, along with bits and pieces from Mum's garden. My husband's Uncle is a florist, and kindly took care of all the arranging.
Finally, here is a picture of my bouquet! I chose the flowers in the same rather 'twee' floral code as Duchess Kate...Ocean Song rose "enchantment", lavender "pure of heart", white lisianthus "charisma and congeniality" and gypsophila "pure of heart".
