Last week an indieBerries reader sent me a message asking if I would be sharing any more of our wedding pics - and that she was particularly curious as to why I was noshing from a box of KFC at my wedding. After the "incident with the wedding photos" it has been pretty disheartening to trudge through the half-pile of screen grab pics, semi-edited shots, facebook-friend-shots and complete mess-pile that is our "wedding album".
I have tried to slowly sift my way through the mash-up of folders on my desk top to try and create some kind of album for us. As I was searching for some food pics to share - I have begun to realise just how much of our wedding I haven't actually shared on indieBerries. Partly because after we found out that our photos had been sabotaged by a dog - I didn't really feel like trying to sort through the shots we do have.
On the semi-positive side of having our wedding photos destroyed - I have actually been in touch (via email) with another bride whose wedding photos were on the same hard drive as ours. We have exchanged a few emails - mainly containing words which are not appropriate for this blog. We're internet pals now. It's cool.
Perhaps, because it feels like SO MANY people got engaged at the end of last year, or that wedding season is kicking off and people are looking for inspiration, or that our very first wedding anniversary is fast approaching (whaaaat?!?!?) or perhaps it is because I am currently busy with two different sets of wedding stationery, bespoke wedding cartoons and three different wedding guestbooks.... whatever the reason, I am suddenly feeling all wedding-ish! So I've decided to share some of the snaps that never made it to the blog last year.
Before I share the food - and the story of the KFC, I thought I would start off with some of the detail/decor that we had.
These photos were taken by our photographer and are screen-shots of a computer screen (I know). I have had inner turmoil about whether to a) leave these photos completely un-credited, or to b) credit the photos appropriately and give a bad impression of the (very popular) wedding photographer that we hired.
MORAL. CONUNDRUM.
Note: I have nothing bad to say about the photographer we hired, we loved his style and portfolio and think he is a great photographer - which is why we chose him. I do however have some very choice words for his dog. Will leave his work uncredited so as not to petrify anyone who may read this and has recently hired him. (Trust me, I'm pretty sure he won't be making the same mistake again.)
So anyway - here are some of our wedding decor details!
I love rich bold colours: golds, bronzes and coppers. So we opted for a "Moroccan-esque" wedding theme to be able to incorporate those ideas into our day. I also knew I didn't want too many flowers taking over the show, so it was great to have a few quite striking "stalks" in the gold and coppery pots dotted around the room. Very dramatic and statement-y. The "theme" also worked so well with our wedding venue, Netherwood - because of how well the coppery/bronze pots toned in with the wooden sleepers (behind in the pic above) and the rough/textured walls (below).
The glass pots, bashed copper kettles and mosaic bowls we had on the table centres looked so gorgeous when the sun went down and the candles were lit. They created such an awesome warm glow! I wanted all the tables to be different - so although each table had a similar vibe going on - no two tables were the same.
We wanted to incorporate bright and fun colours into the day - (take a look at our flower girl dresses here!) so we put bright pops of colour over the chairs, and onto the name cards which were laid on gold chargers.
As wedding favours for the ladies, my aunt and uncle embroidered some throw blankets with our names and the date -
We had a variety of different coloured throw blankets (above: purple/mauve and below: orange). We also had some bright pink blankets and turquoise blue blankets.
I wanted everything about our day to have a textured "made with love" kind of feel - so we used lots of different papers - tissue papers, metallic papers, coppery papers, recycled papers. And washi tape. There was a LOT of washi tape. More on that to come.
As favours for the men, we bought different sets of games including dominoes, playing cards and pick up sticks. I wrapped each of the games in brown paper and added different coloured strips of "feature paper". I then hand stamped messages onto each one. Messages included things like "hearts" - on the playing cards. "game on!" - on the dominoes and "pick up lines" - on the pick up sticks. Other messages included "play", "happy" and "thank you".
Will share some of the foodie pics we have soon!
I can't believe it was almost an entire year ago - MAN ALIVE - time has FLOWN!!!