Well the wedding was fantastic and the day couldn't have gone better. It was a little windy but the rain held off and we were able to have our reception outside which was really nice. The food was fantastic too. It was nice to see all the family there and catch up. I only wish the day had lasted a little longer as it went so quickly.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find video footage our friend Si so kindly put filmed and put together. And the music we chose.

Brian Adams - Everything I do I do it for you - walk in

Delta Goodrem - Butterfly - Registar

Areosmith - Don't want to miss a thing - Registar

Beyonce - Halo - Walk out to

I'd like to before I talk bout the photos to say a huge thankyou To Vicky my Sister in Law - with out her I don't think the wedding would have happend, she helped out so much taking us to appointments, getting bits in and coming up with ideas that I loved and thankyou for being my Bridesmaid. I'd like to say thankyou to my best friend Heather too for taking time from your holiday in cornwall to come and be my Maid of Honour and be a part of our special day. Next to my parents in law and to my parents thankyou so much for all your support and love over the years and financing such a perfect day love you all soo much xxxx

Next I'd like to thank Adam at The Coppleridge Inn for letting us hold our wedding there. Joanna Payne for making my wedding cake it was gorgous and tasted wonderful. Heather for doing the flowers they were wonderful I loved them so much. Liz at The Coppleridge Salon you did wonders with my hair from cutting, highlighting to putting it up. And last of all thankyou to the staff at Sarah@Mimosa you did such a fantastic job with our make up and nails.

Now on to the photos I've only picked out a few otherwise I think my blog would crash lol.

First of all here is a photo of all of mine and my Hubbys family

next is me, hubby, Our Bridesmaids Heather, Vicky and my neice Keira and our Best man Tom


Another photo of us together but with out our Best Man

Next our stunning Wedding Cake it was absolutly gorgous and tasted lush. The two bottom layers were Chocolate and the top was Carrot Cake :)


And last of all a picture of the part of the Coppleridge grounds. It was beautiful there and I can fully understand why my hubby wanted to get married there :)

Well I think this is the last post for this blog anless I manage to get some of the professional photos put on to disc in which case I will upload them. But it has been fun keeping this blog and looking back over and seeing how much was changed in the planning over the months from when I started to the big day. And looking back now I wonder what all the stress was about as everyone said the day would be perfect and it really was.

So to any future brides out there that have stumbled across my blog the only advice I can give is don't panic, have fun planning and then when your big day comes enjoy as it really does go by really quickly. Make sure you get lots of photos and maybe start up a blog yourself so you can look back on how your plans changed and led to you perfect day. xxx

I can not believe it's only 2 weeks away til our big day and I can't believe how many changes have been made a long the way. But I can now say Im getting excited to see everything in motion, but most of all Im looking forward to marrying the man of my dreams, he has stuck by me for 7 yrs, we have an amazing family.



These past few weeks have been buisy, filled with wedding preparation. I had my Hen Night, had a pampering session at a health and beauty spa called Oasis. It was fab, had a facial, Reiki Head Massage, Back and foot Massage. Then in the evening went to our local Indian Restaurant Chutneys. Which really do lush food. Then Dave had his Stag Doo, where they went on the raz round town.



I had my nails gelled and shaped and my eyebrows shaped (first time may I add lol.) And also had my haircut and highlights put in. :)



Flowers have all been sorted, think all outfits are now complete, just need to get myself some tights or popsocks, havent decided as of yet. And need to get my two younger boys some shoes to go with their outfit.



I bought each of my younger boys a Corduroy Drivers Cap from Baby Gap, Checked Train Driver shirts and Two Tone Cord Trousers from Mothercare, and lets Just say they both look gorgous in their outfits.

We Have had all the replys back for the Wedding and Reception, Just waiting on a few people to get back to us regarding the evening.

And I still got Thankyou gifts to sort.

Been for final dress Fitting last week and it fitted perfectly, I was so worried that I may have put on weight lol all the worry for nothing.

Invites all done with inserts, BUT I MADE A MISTAKE :( I put in the wrong start time. But not to worry my mum came to the rescue and they have all been sorted. My mum is sending the ones shes addressed this week off and I'm hopefully seeing her tomorrow so I can correct the ones I have to send and get them delivered out too.

As for Evening Invites still to be made, but we havent as many to make so no worries there just need to talk to Dave.

Had the Meeting with Jo and the Cake is all sorted, going to ring her this week to see if there's anything else I need to do and whether she needs a deposit.

Had a Meeting with Jo's friend Heather regarding the Flowers and I have to say I loved how enfuseiastic she was and the ideas she had using the type of flowers I was interested with. I'm also going to ring her to double check that meeting up in her shop on the 4th July is ok as she has said to come to the shop and have a play will be more fun and get a better idea of what we would like.

Hen Do is being arranged by my sister in law and were thinking of going and having a pampering session at Oasis and then a meal at an Indian Restaurant in the evening. And the theme to be Cowgirls. Blue hats hopefully :)

Stagdo - I have no idea what is happening, as of yet I don't think anything has been planned let alone sorted. Think paint balling was on the agenda though.

Shoes - still on the search for, I'm needing white in a 2 inch heel. You'd think they would be easy to find lol

Order of Service - need to make these, but need to talk to Adam ( owner of the Coppleridge) first.

Seating Plans - Once I know for Definant who is coming then I can get on with making them. I know how I want them to look so they should be pretty straight forward. Have the font sorted too.

And I need to get some more butterly glass toppers and Chocolates.

Think on the whole were nearly there.

All 35 Wedding and Reception invites complete. Just the inserts to do now and a lady Susie.A on Ukscrappers kindly sent me some sample paper to see if they'd work with my invites and they were perfect. The paper is Irediscent Sparkly White 100 gsm A4 20 sheets per a pack. I have sent my mum on a mission to pick some up for me.

The bridesmaid outfits have been found in Debenhams and both my Best Friend and Sister in Law have tried them on and love them and sorting out ordering them. The Dress is Midnight taffeta ball gown

Found a lady who has quoted 150 pounds for the same cake I wanted and so in the process of organising a meet up and she also knows of someone who does flowers and is going to speak to them see if they can help out. So my fingers are crossed, Because I have to say all though I have ideas I'm unsure how they will turn out, whether my ideas will look right etc, I need some reassureance and ideas on how to make the place look the best it can be.

Managed to make two Invites so far. The embossed flowers arrived to day :) and I cut and embossed all the butterflys yesterday. But im not all that organised as I now need more Royal Blue card which my friend has picked up today so just waiting for her to come up with it. And I got to get 350 adhesive stones all the same size. they are apparently 2mm. And get the inserts done.

Here's my invite.

It's amazing how much changing of ideas has taken place since I first started planning.

Invites

As time was running out I decided to put a post on Ukscrappers forum the other day, as I was having no luck coming up with any ideas as I had been so set on Pocket invites. And there were some good ideas and finally decided after seeing this card by a scrapper called Scoobiesue. I love it and going to change the red to blue and possibly have silver though personally I don't think Its needed as I can use silver rhinestones.

I bought the Cuttlebug Combo butterfly die and tested it out usinging my BigShot and they turned out stunning. Another lady on the forum called Tanya has kindly offered to cut emboss the flower part of the card as she has the die and hopefully I should have them some time in the week.

I had bought some bits to have a go at making my invites before I saw the above card but think after coming up with a design they are better suited for thankyou invites. Though haveing the butterfly die has given me other ideas lol. So we shall see.

These were the stamps I bought

and I bought some wedding invitation peel offs and evening invitation peel offs silver adhesive stones indigo ink it up Denim heat embossing powderand a pack of Anita's A6 50 quality white cards and envelopes

Flowers - got an appointment with Shirley Snells Florist in Salisbury tomorrow to have a talk about Flowers. I haven't as of yet heard from the other lady.

Cake -

Been trying to get some quotes regarding the Cake now I have a design. Lisa Knotley was charging 375 pounds and a 20 pound delivery fee. Which is a bit to much for our budget which is a shame as her cakes are devine. I had a quote from www.cakelady.co.uk which my middle son's nursery teacher recommended us and she quoted 180 pounds but we would have to supply the square mirror pillar and have to pay a 50 pound deposit. My folks would be able to pick it up if we do decide to go with her, along with the flowers if we go for a Salisbury Florest.

Here are the cake details -

Square Butterfly Cake

9" & 7" Rich Chocolate cake with a layer of chocolate fudge filling

5" Carrot Cake with a layer of cinnamon butter cream Each Cake covered with a layer of white fondant icing.

Cake boards covered with a layer of white fondant, the board edged with ribbon.

Bottom two tiers stacked on top of one another, the top tier seperated using a square mirrored pillar

Cakes finnished with handcrafted sugar butterflys in different shapes & sizes colours :1/5th of butterflys to be "solid" Royal Blue, 1/5th silver, 1/5th white and edge piped Royal Blue, 1/5th blue piped with silver, 1/5th white and dusted with silver shimmer

Top Tier decorated with butterflys on silver wires. A small arrangement of butterflys on wires to be placed on the tope ledge of bottom tier.

Bridesmaid Outfits - Were going to have a look in Southampton on Sunday 5th April. I have asked my Sister in Law Vicky to be Bridesmaid too :)

Make up - Trial is booked for the 4th July 2009

Hair - Vicky is going to make an appointment with the salon at the Coppleridge as there's only us two.

Where to start..........The dress I bought for my neice is to big so were going to keep as its a pretty dress anyway and she will grow in to it and also in hope she will have a growth spurt before the wedding.

My Maid of Honour is on holiday at the time of our wedding but hoping to come down for the day and still be my maid of honour so im really hopeing she makes it.


CAKE -
We went to see Lisa Knotley on Saturday with my SIL Vicky and we discussed the cake and put a design together. I'm really excited to see the end result. Her cakes are divine and I was even given a chocolate cake to take home. I'm haveing a 3 tier cake, two bottom tiers chocolate and the top tier carrot cake. square so its easier for cutting and a butterfly topper on top and butterflys on wires on the 2nd tier in one of the corners and then butterflys dotted round the cake. Need to do a Colour Swatch for Lisa so she knows the colours.


INVITES -
I don't think I will find pocket fold invites any cheaper than I originally found but the costs of the wedding are starting to mount up so I'm now thinking maybe just getting some plain white square cards and using a stamp and some blue and silver inks to create my invites and for the day invites add inserts with the rest of the details I wanted to add and a ribbon to hold the inserts in.

I found a stamp I adore but not haveing any luck finding it to buy.

I came out with this design below using a paint programme forgetting with a stamp I wouldn't be able to mirror an image which is a shame as both me and Dave love the design I came up with.

I emailed BoBunny to see if they could help and this is what they came up with

Going to give my self till the end of this weekend to make up my mind what I'm going to do.

FLOWERS -

Had a think about flowers and keep swaying more towards artificial, I like the idea having them to keep after the wedding. I had come across a lady online who I love her work but with the distance and not being able to talk face to face I feel rather nervous.

Vicky's sister in law gave us a name of a florest who I have spoken to today and when she has got mothers day and a wedding shes doing out of the way she will call to arrange a time and day to talk through the ideas I like and see what we can come up with. She does both artificial and fresh so I think she will do well on advising me a way forward. Feeling rather relieved now.

Heres the link to the lady I found online who I love her work http://www.flowergem4u.co.uk/index.htm and heres the pics I like of what she can do -

Here's a table decoration for the registrar table, I would like silver butterflys and blue bling.

All the below we would want Royal blue satin ribbon and silver organza ribbon and silver bling.
There's two Bouquets we like - Top one we prefer

I like the shape of this one too.

Dave love the way the bow and ribbon is on this bouquet and wanted it to be on either of the above bouquets we like.

She does Wands and I thought something like this for my Maid of Honour with Royal Blue satin ribbon and silver organza ribbon. And the same for the Butterfly wand which I think my Neice who is bridesmaid will love.

RINGS -

Well we went in to town the same day we sorted the cake and came acros some rings we liked better than the ones we were thinking of getting before, So they are all paid for and ready to collect. Heres the link to my wedding ring - http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/detail/R/6367674/ and heres some pictures - first one is Dave's ring, I really like it, much better than the other one he originally chose. The rest of the picture are of mine.

My wedding ring on its own -

And here are a couple of pics of my wedding ring and engagement ring on my finger, unfortunantly it didn't fit at the time so Could only perch it as far as it would go lol.