Cakes

All images by www.iced-online.com

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Off for a last beach trip of the year but I foresee nothing but walks in the rain and cosy inside reading with pots of tea. Back Monday but in the meantime I leave you with these fabulous creations courtesy of Hannah at Iced-Online. More about cakes next week. Have a great weekend.

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'Custom' Inspiration Board

Images previously credited here before except:

2nd from top left by Leigh Miller

Top middle by The Real Flower Company

2nd from bottom right from Peonies & Polaroids

Bottom middle from photo stock

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Apparently, people are prepared to pay quite a lot of money for customised inspiration boards. I, however, had great fun trawling the internet, saving the photos, noting the credit and then creating the board. This board is obviously inspiration for what I am going to wear. Next up, the reception venue.

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Oh My!

Images from Boring Sydney
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Just how fab is this fascinator/head piece? How fab would it be for my peacock theme? But just how to incorporate it with a veil I have no idea. I am so tempted to order it and wear it at the reception! I love it... (and I love etsy too)

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Our Wedding Vendors: The Venue

{Image from Author's Personal Collection}

Thought you might like to have a quick glimpse of part of the venue. This particular shot is of part of the walled gardens. As we visited at the end of August I am not sure which flowers will be in season in June but I loved the riot of colours and the old wooden bench. I shall be e-mailing this to our photographer along with a selection of others from around the grounds as ideas for our posed photographs. When I get a moment or two spare - perhaps tonight - I shall try and upload some others taken on the same visit.

Ring Pillows...

Image by bklyn bride

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... are not something that I have considered but these are very sweet and made by fellow blogger Brooklyn Bride. As it is September I have chosen an autumnal colour to show you and don't you think they are pretty. Beautiful though they are, we are not having any flower girls and I just can't see the Best Man producing a small cushion from his pocket. I think we shall just stick to a ring box. Boring but I need to limit the things I have to think about. If my boy wants to choose or to make one then he can organise it (so perhaps I should send him the link to Brooklyn Bride's shop!)

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2 September 1978

On this day, 30 years ago, a young girl from Surrey got ready at her parents home in Leatherhead and in the bright autumn sunshine she headed to the church with her father. Awaiting her arrival was a young man from Yorkshire who stood at the front of the church with his best man. On this day, 30 years ago a love affair which started in the meadows of Oxford on the banks of the Cherwell and played out across the city of dreaming spires culminated in a beautiful wedding.

And how do I know this? Well, that young girl and young man became my parents, 3 and a bit years later and I have heard about the wedding and gazed at the photographs in their frames and albums, sepia tinged with age. The young couple, 3 years younger than I am now, for this year I am exactly half their age, look identical to their present selves, give or take a line or two. Some of their guests look so very seventies but somehow my parents themselves look ageless.

So, happy 30th wedding anniversary, Mummy & Daddy; thank you for the best start to married life I could wish for next year - the love and support of two people whose marriage encapsulates everything I hope for my own.

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Not tagged but borrowed

Peony was tagged a few months ago to write 4 things about herself you didn't know. She complied but then changed the rules to read 4 things you didn't know about your betrothed. She didn't tag me (I wasn't a bride-to-be then, so my boy was simply a boy) but I thought I would join in the fun.


There are already plenty of things that you didn't know about me that you do now so I will jump straight to my boy: 4 things you didn't know about M:


1. When we first met he didn't want a girlfriend. Seven years and 4 months on and he shall have a wife. Of course, he just hadn't met anyone who he liked enough to be his girlfriend rather than not wanting a girlfriend per se. It just sounds better the other way.



2. He is a fantastic cook and provides the vast majority of the meals in our household. He also does the washing up, for which I cannot thank him enough. The provision of regular meals and the subsequent washing up are two of my most hated household chores. Funnily enough I don't mind doing the washing, cleaning the bathroom, loo cleaning, toiletry and cleaning product provision, ironing or mending. So it works rather well.

Image by The BestMan

M is the one in the pink jumper

3. I love the fact that he only wears trainers to play football. He sometimes wears converse if we go raving or partying and spends much of the summer in flip flops but the rest of the time he wears proper shoes; beautiful shoes.

4. He has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of music and films and can always be counted on to select the right music for the occasion. Much like the BestMan and my boy's longest and best-est friend. Causes a fair few arguments over whose turn it is with the ipod though...

And one thing I'm sure you did know: I love him, I think he's fab and I can't wait to be his wife!

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