Light the way

Part of my concern about having the reception in the marquee is that there is no significant change over to the evening part. The other concerning matter as we have already established is that the marquee is a large, white, blank canvas and I'm frightened it'll look bare without adequate decoration.

We are having the walls uplit with LED's on the evening provided by Ace Entertain. Hopefully this will give the walls a nice wash of colour. Whilst I've decided that the bar and walls should be uplit, I've yet to make a decision on colours.

Here's an example of what uplighting can look like:

I thank you

Another USave find here. I'm using these cute ceramic tealight holders as favours for the ladies. I won't tell you exactly how cheap they were but let's just say they were on sale for an insane price. I intend to buy colour co-ordinating tealights for them I think. The jury is still out on how to present them on the tables but I think it'll end up being a cellophane bag and ribbon job.

I feel like organza bags would take the prettiness away from them (although they are mega cheap on Ebay and very useful) and they are too large for a standard favour box. I tried looking into larger ones but then you get into muffin boxes and the dimensions are all wrong. I kind of like the cellophane idea (as suggested by my sister I might add) and whatever favour we end up buying the men (probably chocolate) can go in cellophane too.

Place your bets

Simon and I saw a casino table at the Tall Trees wedding fayre. I must admit, even I was entertained. They don't bet with real money, of course. Every guest gets a token at the start of the night with so many tokens. The guy taught me how to play Roulette but I lost all my chips. Simon kept winning and he had that boyish grin on his face that made me certain he wants it for the wedding. However, it is a large cost of £450 for 3 hours and you get both a Roulette and Blackjack table. It would, however, provide something to do for those not wishing to dance. I'm a little paranoid that we have such a big space to fill in the marquee and not enough entertainment.

It is an on-going conversation and because I'm pretty certain it'll be a "no" on my part I'm having to work hard to justify everything extra that I want there. Eek!

Wrap it up

If you recall my post here about the wraps for ladies on the evening, we found this basket at another bootsale:

It was a bargain so we snapped it up and it's rather large so should hold plenty of colourful wraps. See, I can be colourful!

Tweet?

Most of you already know of my love for the fabulous shop that is USave (Portrack Lane for locals). We were in there last week and browsing the Christmas aisle (shut up - I'm festive already) and I came across these adorable clip on birds. I wish I'd bought more. I intend to clip them to the receiving box/birdcage (which we still need to sort). We want to buy rather than hire a birdcage for the card box as we can then keep it as a reminder of our day.

Ignore the lamp, I was lacking something to clip them to for the photo. They had them in a really vibrant purple and I am KICKING myself for not buying them. Simon's mum went there a few days ago for something else and they were sold out.

I have an obsession with vintage style lovebirds. I'm ok with that.

Mum find, Daughter like.

My mum picked these up from a bootsale (we're trying to add a bit of thriftyness - did I just invent a word?!) in the summer. As you can see from the pictures, they need a little bit of TLC in the form of some glue but they're still pretty! I can imagine them with ribbon tied around the handles and confetti (possibly dried rose petals) in so people can grab a handful. I keep having ideas that rely on it NOT raining. I'm doomed.


Sidenote - I have also heard horror stories about people that use coloured confetti only for it to get wet and have the dye run out onto the wedding dress.

It ain't easy being green

I finally tried to take photos of the fabric I've decided on for the bridesmaids dresses. As a reminder, this is the dress we're having made for our three bridesmaids:

Now, the photo of the fabric I've chosen isn't really true to colour. It's kind of an olivey/sage and it's chiffon. We've got it ordered from Dainty Supplies in Washington and it's code G75. As with all things I seem to choose, this fabric is discontinued now but yay me for getting one of the last rolls. It was pure fluke we saw it, too.


I know what you're thinking. Pea soup, right? Or other yukky colour. I swear it's a lot nicer when you're holding it and looking at it. Plus, remember the green satin that I posted when I was looking earlier in the year? It's the exact same colour code as that so we've ordered the satin from Anglian Fashion Fabrics (as, surprise, surprise it's discontinued) to use for the men's cravats and maid's wraps. It really lifts the colour even if the following photo suggests otherwise:

Now, I am fully aware that our wedding is in August which has all the potentional to be a summer month. I have noted I'm using a "dull" colour for the dresses. I think it's just a nice natural colour which will suit all of my maid's, no matter what hair colour and green is timeless and fits with the venue. However, I do realise I'm now going to have to try very hard to liven up the colour scheme a little. I'm almost certain I'll be going with ivory (to match waistcoats and my dress - which I still haven't found) and a nice rich "Cadbury's" purple!