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.