our wedding part 3

 

 

I realised that I haven't really shown much of the decoration side of our wedding. How silly of me! We kept it fairly simple as the building we were married outside of and held our reception in was pretty amazing. The beautiful stone, brick and wood was stunning on its own and we really didn't want to over do it.

Our decorations were handmade out of recycled materials. Bunting was made from vintage napkins, doilies, felt balls and handkerchiefs, which were given to me as gifts over my childhood years from my grandmothers. Tables were covered in vintage linens and lace. Flowers were popped in glass jars, bottles and tin cans. We drank eldeflower, apple and rosebud punch out of jam jars, the cake sat upon a beautiful pine tree stump and the aisle was marked out with fabric hearts.

 The wedding favors were hand made fabric bags with hand made tea bags inside. Decorating our wedding was extremely low cost, mostly because Tom and I hated the thought of buying lots of 'stuff' to use for just one day. Most of the things I made were made out of materials we already had and a few things were purchased from local op-shops. It felt so lovely to use decorations that were handmade and familiar. It's a good feeling knowing that nothing was thrown away either! Linens, lace and fabrics are back in my sewing room ready to be made into something new; the jars are being used for jam, as vases and for all sorts of bits and bobs. I now have an abundance of bunting too, about 100 meters all up.... Yikes! x

our wedding part 2

    

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wedding tree

 Instead of having a guestbook for our guests to sign at our wedding we had a beautiful tree, hand-drawn by my brother, for all of our guests to pop their fingerprints on as leaves and initial. It's so simple and personal! You can easily make your own, or if that's not your thing then you can buy them. I found some cute ones here, here and also here. x

our wedding part 1

My, what a perfect day it was. We were blessed with the most beautiful warm, sunshiny Autumn day.

 

Where: Under the peppercorn tree at the Portarlington Mill, Victoria
Dress: Vintage 1950's from Yo Vintage!
Shoes: Seychelles
Ring: Vintage spoon
Bridesmaids Dresses: Handmade from vintage linens by my dear friend Annabel
Flowergirl dresses: Handmade by some lovely friends at Frank & Dolly's
Walked down the aisle to: 'Should Have Know Better' by She & Him
Celebrant: Wed By Ned

we got married!!

We did it!! We got married! It was such a huge build up, yes I had cry in the supermarket a couple of days before even. The day was perfect though! It was like a dream, I still can't believe how perfect it was. I am so exhausted now. I will share with you all the finer details over the next few days!

xx

one week

Yes, it is one week until our wedding. By golly, ONE week! All morning I have been putting together playlists. It's a long process! It's quite emotional and so many songs take me back. How good is music?! Photos can capture so much but music... well music takes you back to that very time and place. I have found it tricky to pick a song to walk down the isle to. I made up a shortlist but one song was a standout! Would you like to listen to my shortlist? If you know me I'm quite sure you'll guess which one won. It was a no brainer in the end really ;-)

xx