Image credit: Sus
Early on I made a rookie error and bought a Bridal Magazine. After that trauma we decided to ignore the ‘Wedding Industry’ as the planning of ones special day should ideally not result in blood-shed. We made a list of everything, divided up the tasks and had semi-regular progress discussions. I will always be eternally grateful to Science Guy for dealing with the bureaucratic abomination that was two separate local English Councils (Ealing where we live and Maidenhead & Windsor where we got hitched); a process that at times felt like the plot of ‘Falling Down 2: What the Fuck Is the Name of the Form You Need NOW?’
A special thank you also has to go out to Time Berners-Lee who invented the Interwebs which meant we did not have to step into one real-live-literal shop. There was no snitty middle-aged woman judging my choices of ‘no veil’ and ‘not ivory’. There was just tried and tested online favourites and the universally fabulous and creative peeps from Folksy & Etsy, without whom the whole process would have been way less awesome.
Check ‘em out:
Frock: This was the only dress I saw that made my belly flip. I took a punt on the sizing and bought unsupervised - Ellana Couture you are a genius!
Frock finishing: Busting Diva (Christina brought puss-treats for Rex & Badger to thank them for ‘helping’).
Sandals: Boden.
Bag: Black Gypsy Designs.
Hair & Make-up: Sarah-Kate Thorne (hilarious, talented, totally relaxed).
Silk flower for my hair: Alaparisienne.
Earrings: a gift from the Californian Mungbean from Adesso.
Bracelet: A Wing and a Prayer (couldn’t resist!) from Elsie Belle.
Pin for the back of my dress: ZitaJohann.
Ash’s Country Gentleman Suit: Bookster (found online but required an in-person measure-up. Which required the spending of the night in a hotel nearby).
Flowers: Sonning Flowers who we found online before a visit to their fantastic barn-cum-floristry.
Table place-cards: Crafty Pagan Designs.
The Cake deserves its own post!
Comments
Did you forget:
DJ remixing/scratching/rickroll from…. who did that? (and yes, I need to get you the video – I’ll edit it down a bit, I got a LOT beforehand)
sas Replied:
oh the rickrollin’ was totally me!
watched a youtuber explain garageband and viola: DJ Sas.
Nic Wise Replied:
Brilliant! Did Ash know? I wasn’t looking at his face :)
sas Replied:
yep – am crap at secret keeping.
Happy to report that your wedding pressie was found on Etsy too :-D
sas Replied:
its so beautiful! we have it sitting on our coffee table :)
I’m afraid I did spend thankfully short time with a snitty middle aged woman judging my choice and, like you, found the designer online and bought one of her ready to wear numbers. I also found the invitations online, although it took hours of trawling through twee shite. I had no idea what I wanted but got exactly what I wanted, delivered in two days.
sas Replied:
I remember your excited tweet when you found it! so lovely.