hshucksmith
Mumma to William
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I've been engaged since June 2012 to the man who saved my life 
We're getting married 27th July 2013, and time is going so quickly! I thought I'd start a thread to post about everything coming together, as up until now things have been organised in drips and drabs!
We're getting married at 11:30am, in our village church and then we're moving on to a pub about 13 miles away, where we have full exclusivity of the garden and interior.
We've got about 50 guests for the wedding and wedding breakfast, and a further 100 additional guests for the evening party.
I've got my maid of honour - my best friend, and 1 bridesmaid - my youngest sister. My mum is giving me away, as I never was close to my dad.
Our photographer is a young lady from Bristol called Sara Juliet, and this is her blog: https://www.sarajuliet.co.uk/blog/?tag=wedding-photography She does very 'of the moment' photos which are best for me as I hate hate hate staged photos! I think I always look so awkward!
My mum, MoH, BM and I are travelling in a 1937 Alvis in RAF blue. It's the only one left running in the country, and the guy who owns it lives about 7 miles from us. Perfect!
My fiance and his best man are arriving in an ivory Morris Minor!
My flowers are being put together by a lady called Lesley who lives near me, and her work is fantastic! I'm having ivory roses as my base and blue lisianthus as my colour piece.
My MoH is wearing a floor length Maggie Sottero dress in desert blue:
My BM is wearing the same dress, but knee length and without the centre piece as she is only 15 and I want her to look less grown up? She likes it, anyway!
They are both going to be carrying ivory rose bouquets.
Makeup wise, we are going for a natural look, being done by an artist who specialises mainly in vintage hair and makeup. Between us we will be doing my BMs hair and makeup ourselves, as she naturally has very long wavy blonde hair, and her skin is peachy!
On arrival at the reception venue we'll be having pimms, beer and J20s etc. The meal choices are:
Starters:
> Deep fried Camembert with home-made tomato chutney and dressed mixed leaves
> Ham Hock Terrine served with toasted rye bread and piccalilli.
> Confit of Duck, orange and sesame seed salad
Mains:
> Pan roasted corn-fed chicken breast with dauphinoise potatoes, wilted spinach and a tarragon cream sauce.
> Aubergine & char-grilled Mediterranean vegetable stack, served with halloumi, mixed dressed leaves and a tomato & basil dressing.
> Scottish salmon supreme served with new potatoes, fine green beans and a caper beurre noisette.
Desserts:
> Vanilla cheesecake with a summer fruit compote.
> Duo of Ice cream or sorbets in a tuile basket with fruit coulis
> Classic Eton mess
We will also be having an evening buffet, and canapes before the meal.
Drinks wise we are serving the entrance drinks, and then 1/2 bottle of wine per person at the meal, and then glass of champagne for the toasts.
Instead of hiring a DJ we are doing our own music, as my OH works for the most prestigious audio company in the world and we are borrowing speakers and a system from their test department (we have about 80K of stuff in our living room and the sound clarity is incredible!) so we will have better bass and clarity than any DJ unless we fork out 10K for the night! We will be putting all of the music on an iPod and streaming it across. We're playing 60's music during the wedding breakfast and then party music from 1830pm onwards.
We are decorating the pub with blue and ivory floral bunting across the beams, the chairs are all different and we will be having ivory chair bows across the backs. Ivory table cloths will reach about 1ft off the floor. We are having small centrepieces of candles, and then small tealight candles etc along the tables. Our florist is making 2 dinner sized flower posies for each table which will be blue based to add some colour. I think we'll probably lay some table confetti too.
Instead of name place cards I have made a thank you card (which is like a postcard) which I have tied ribbon around and then printed off names onto postage type tags. I'll upload photos shortly!
Our favour bags are brown craft bags, which are tied with a ribbon and thank you postage tag. They are held together with mini pegs that have a paper ivory rose stuck to them, but I didn't get a chance to take a photo with the peg!:
I designed all of my invitations myself, but never managed to take any photos of the finished goods! Here are some of the ones work in progress, when printed properly they were slightly less bright, and were more lilac and ivory than blue and cream!:
I did manage to take photos of them after they'd been put together and shut and taped in place, shortly before they went into their envelopes!:
I think that's about it for now... Apart from my dress which I'll post in a second
We're getting married 27th July 2013, and time is going so quickly! I thought I'd start a thread to post about everything coming together, as up until now things have been organised in drips and drabs!
We're getting married at 11:30am, in our village church and then we're moving on to a pub about 13 miles away, where we have full exclusivity of the garden and interior.
We've got about 50 guests for the wedding and wedding breakfast, and a further 100 additional guests for the evening party.
I've got my maid of honour - my best friend, and 1 bridesmaid - my youngest sister. My mum is giving me away, as I never was close to my dad.
Our photographer is a young lady from Bristol called Sara Juliet, and this is her blog: https://www.sarajuliet.co.uk/blog/?tag=wedding-photography She does very 'of the moment' photos which are best for me as I hate hate hate staged photos! I think I always look so awkward!
My mum, MoH, BM and I are travelling in a 1937 Alvis in RAF blue. It's the only one left running in the country, and the guy who owns it lives about 7 miles from us. Perfect!
My fiance and his best man are arriving in an ivory Morris Minor!
My flowers are being put together by a lady called Lesley who lives near me, and her work is fantastic! I'm having ivory roses as my base and blue lisianthus as my colour piece.
My MoH is wearing a floor length Maggie Sottero dress in desert blue:
My BM is wearing the same dress, but knee length and without the centre piece as she is only 15 and I want her to look less grown up? She likes it, anyway!
They are both going to be carrying ivory rose bouquets.
Makeup wise, we are going for a natural look, being done by an artist who specialises mainly in vintage hair and makeup. Between us we will be doing my BMs hair and makeup ourselves, as she naturally has very long wavy blonde hair, and her skin is peachy!
On arrival at the reception venue we'll be having pimms, beer and J20s etc. The meal choices are:
Starters:
> Deep fried Camembert with home-made tomato chutney and dressed mixed leaves
> Ham Hock Terrine served with toasted rye bread and piccalilli.
> Confit of Duck, orange and sesame seed salad
Mains:
> Pan roasted corn-fed chicken breast with dauphinoise potatoes, wilted spinach and a tarragon cream sauce.
> Aubergine & char-grilled Mediterranean vegetable stack, served with halloumi, mixed dressed leaves and a tomato & basil dressing.
> Scottish salmon supreme served with new potatoes, fine green beans and a caper beurre noisette.
Desserts:
> Vanilla cheesecake with a summer fruit compote.
> Duo of Ice cream or sorbets in a tuile basket with fruit coulis
> Classic Eton mess
We will also be having an evening buffet, and canapes before the meal.
Drinks wise we are serving the entrance drinks, and then 1/2 bottle of wine per person at the meal, and then glass of champagne for the toasts.
Instead of hiring a DJ we are doing our own music, as my OH works for the most prestigious audio company in the world and we are borrowing speakers and a system from their test department (we have about 80K of stuff in our living room and the sound clarity is incredible!) so we will have better bass and clarity than any DJ unless we fork out 10K for the night! We will be putting all of the music on an iPod and streaming it across. We're playing 60's music during the wedding breakfast and then party music from 1830pm onwards.
We are decorating the pub with blue and ivory floral bunting across the beams, the chairs are all different and we will be having ivory chair bows across the backs. Ivory table cloths will reach about 1ft off the floor. We are having small centrepieces of candles, and then small tealight candles etc along the tables. Our florist is making 2 dinner sized flower posies for each table which will be blue based to add some colour. I think we'll probably lay some table confetti too.
Instead of name place cards I have made a thank you card (which is like a postcard) which I have tied ribbon around and then printed off names onto postage type tags. I'll upload photos shortly!
Our favour bags are brown craft bags, which are tied with a ribbon and thank you postage tag. They are held together with mini pegs that have a paper ivory rose stuck to them, but I didn't get a chance to take a photo with the peg!:
I designed all of my invitations myself, but never managed to take any photos of the finished goods! Here are some of the ones work in progress, when printed properly they were slightly less bright, and were more lilac and ivory than blue and cream!:
I did manage to take photos of them after they'd been put together and shut and taped in place, shortly before they went into their envelopes!:
I think that's about it for now... Apart from my dress which I'll post in a second
I love your colour scheme.
