We're Married & On Our Honeymoon

Or we will be by the time that you read this, if all goes according to plan.

We shall be away for 2 weeks in the exotic location of Cornwall... Whilst we away I have scheduled a series of posts about all the things I couldn't tell you about the wedding before it happened, for fear of ruining the surprise.

Look forward to sharing more details on our return, in the meantime my sisters are going to man this blog and perhaps write some guest posts for you.

See you soon!

See you on the other side

So, this is it. We are off. Travelling down today, setting up tomorrow, wedding on Saturday. My apologies that posting has been sporadic, things have been a little busy here.

Back in a couple of weeks after the honeymoon with some recaps and photos.

Thank you all for your wishes and thoughts.

x

DIY Details and How-To: Rose Petal Confetti

{Image by me}

In the beginning, I was going to buy rose petal confetti, beautiful, fresh scented rose petals to use as confetti. And then I was made redundant and my budget for such things dropped dramatically. So I had another look at the Real Flower Company and saw the dried rose petals which was a more realistic option to make myself at home.

I started by harvesting the pink roses which grow all around our kitchen window and drying them on a tea towel in the kitchen but I quickly realised that they would not be enough. So, each time I have been to the shop, or to the tube station, or lately, the job centre, I have taken a plastic bag and filled it with rose petals which I have deadheaded from all the beautiful rose bushes around my neighbourhood. I never realised quite how many roses grow up and down the streets of N5.

Sadly, this being England and last weekend being perhaps the only sunshine we will see all summer, the petals haven't been drying quite as well as I had hoped. So I had to give them a little helping hand in a low oven this afternoon.

Lastly, in order to hand them out to people at the church, I have made some paper cones which are rather sweet and can be made very quickly on the evening before {as I don't think we can transport them made up}. The petals also look rather beautiful in our vintage teacups but are less practical to hand to people after the service.

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and if you wondered how to do it yourself, it couldn't be easier. collect rose petals and separate. put oven on the lowest setting and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper. sprinkle petals onto the greaseproof paper and leave in the oven for 5-15 minutes depending on petals, temperature and how engrossed in the tennis you are, remove from oven and cool on a tea-towel.

Good Luck Michelle

The lovely Michelle from Lavender Bakery gets married today in London. Michelle is a blogging friend turned real friend and I lay awake listening to the wind and rain batter against our windows and watched the pressure on the barometer drop dramatically and prayed that they would have sunshine for their outdoor wedding this afternoon.

Well, it isn't the sunniest of days but the downpours of last night seem to have receded somewhat. Yet regardless of the weather I know that they will have a fantastic day.

Good luck Michelle, and see you after the honeymoon. x

One Lovely Blog Award

Rosalie from Tea & Whimsey has given me this award.

The rules are that I now have to choose 15 of my favourite blogs to pass on this award. Actually, they are supposed to be newly discovered blogs, but sadly, I haven't really had time recently to discover many new things at all, so I am going to ignore that part and award:

A Practical Wedding
Aubergine Ink
Canadian Bride
Marie Eve
The Coffee Girl
The Sweetest Occasion
Witty Title Pending

East Side Bride
Lovely Morning
Peonies & Polaroids
Project Subrosa
That Wife
Wife in the City

The City Sage
The Cwtch

Good Luck Krista

Krista from Canadian Bride gets married today. Good luck and hope that you have a fantastic day!

Looking forward to reading all about it when you get back.

T minus 1 week

And so the final countdown begins. Instead of spending the day doing wedding projects, I spent the day selling cakes with the WI and helping small children decorate cupcakes.

The to-do list gets shorter and shorter thankfully:

*Make bridesmaids earrings
*Make labels for the napkins
*Make seating chart and have signed off by my Mother
*Finish cake toppers.
*Make bouquets and buttonholes (this will happen the evening before)
*Ensure logistics for PA system and equipment are in place.
*Purchase beer, soft drinks, water, breadsticks and fruit.

Hopefully the first three will be done tomorrow and the fourth on Monday. The others can't be done until we get there and we leave for there in 5 days time!