Paul and I got married on Hallowe’en, which was absolutely ages ago, and whilst I showed you the honeymoon pictures, I haven’t yet posted any pictures of the wedding itself!
Because most wedding photos are of people you don’t know, I decided to concentrate on showing you the things that we made ourselves, or that our friends made for us. That turned out to be an extremely long post, so I’m splitting it into two parts. Today’s is everything that we made ourselves, and tomorrow’s will be about all the beautiful things that were made especially for us.
The artwork for all of our wedding stationery, designed by Paul. There were plans for another picture of us in our wedding outfits, but we didn’t have time to make that happen!
Photo © Jon Stockham
Paul and Bob wore matching Portal cufflinks, bought from The Clay Collection on Etsy.
Photo © Jon Stockham
The buttonholes are made from silk violets and paper roses, with a few sparkly bits thrown in for good measure. The leaves came from the original bunch of violets, and the silver holder is a filigree corset-lace aglet. They’re held on by magnets, so nobody had to poke holes in their clothes with a pin. I also made the handkerchiefs, although they were a bit small and kept disappearing down inside the men’s pockets!
Photo © Jon Stockham
Silk and paper flowers, courtesy of Hobby Craft. Two bunches of silk violets and a lot of paper roses were reassembled into a bouquet. It’s simply held together with an elastic band, underneath the ribbon! The sparkly silver bee is a hair clip, but I didn’t manage to grow my hair long enough to wear it.
Photo © Jon Stockham
My parents went on a mission to IKEA to buy us a boxload of these little glasses. We filled them up with old-fashioned boiled sweets, from our local independent sweet shop.
Photo © Jon Stockham
We wrapped each glass in a piece of tulle, and tied it with a ribbon. They’re labelled using Moo mini cards, with the name on one side and the picture of us on the other.
Photo © Jon Stockham
I didn’t make the flowery feathery fascinator, but I did make the veil. Two yards of tulle, folded along the grain, and gathered onto a hair comb in the middle. Simple!
Photo © Jon Stockham
This was a bit of a last-minute addition! I’d been planning to make my dress from the purple fabric, and then I ended up buying a dress instead. I had a sudden crisis where I decided that I MUST have a train if I wanted to look like a bride, so I made myself a very long coat. I also added matching silk-covered buttons to the shoes.
We’re laughing because we’d just turned round and seen my Uncle Steve, wearing a bright pink wig!
We laughed pretty much all day, to be honest.
Wow, I love the coat! Nice wedding, pretty couple 😀
Aww, thank you very much!