Tag: Mr & Mrs Smith

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Nicola knitted Anne Hanson‘s Honeybee Stole for me. It took her the best part of a year, and matched my outfit perfectly. She even worked on it while she was in hospital, in labour with her daughter Gwen. Now that’s dedication!

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A close-up of Nicola’s Honeybee Stole. Isn’t it beautiful?

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The cake was made by my Aunt, Helen Harrison. I sent her a photo of my flowers, and she reproduced them perfectly in icing. Amazing!

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Helen ended up making more than a hundred cupcakes! My cousins Jane and Georgina helped to make all of the little flowers to go on top of them all. The larger cake on the top was a traditional fruit cake, the cupcakes were a mixture of chocolate and plain sponge fairy cakes.

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We had quite a lot of children at the wedding, so we asked Paul’s Mum to put together a party bag for each child. They went down really well – Paul’s cousins had set up a craft business worthy of Etsy by the end of the reception! They were making jewellery with lots of sparkly stickers, and having a great time. The little boys loved their cars and dinosaurs too.

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This is an idea we stole from our friends Nicola and Ian. They put Lego on each table at their wedding, so we did the same. We managed to give away Paul’s entire childhood Lego collection, and people made some amazing collaborative creations!

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Because the wedding was on Hallowe’en, my friend Heather and her two boys carved us a beautiful little pumpkin! It had a heart on one side, and our initials on the other.

Photo © Elaine Harrison

My Mum knitted this adorable little bride and groom from a pattern in Simply Knitting magazine. She customised them perfectly to match our outfits. Mum was becoming increasingly agitated when I kept changing my mind about what I was going to wear – and now I know why!

We liked them so much that they came on our honeymoon with us, and had an adventure of their own.

I have to say that we were absolutely thrilled to bits with everybody’s kindness and willingness to be involved. Almost everybody took pictures, and we haven’t seen them all yet, so there’s still more to look forward to! My brother-in-law Tim took hundreds of photos, and even made us a little video. We also received some beautiful hand made gifts, including an amigurumi skeleton bride and groom, and a fabulous quilt.

We had the best day, and many aspects of it were all the more special for having been made for us by our friends and family.

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!

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Paul and Bob wore matching Portal cufflinks, bought from The Clay Collection on Etsy.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.