Goodness me, I can’t even believe how long it has been since I have blogged. Far. Too. Long. I’m not really sure what my excuse is. The winter months have just had me watching a lot of Buffy and a lot of Daria, doing a lot of crafting and some home improvement. But mainly I’ve been snuggling under a blanket with a husband and/or kitty.

I decided that to make return after so long I would have to do it in style and so here are our pro wedding pics. Massive thanks to the beautiful Grace Elkin for capturing our big day at Halstead House.

Our colour scheme was pink and green of every shade – I tried to make sure we went for brights over pastels but a few pastel shades managed to sneak in there.

One of the best parts of our day was the first look photo session we did. It was so calming to spend a little time together before the ceremony to enjoy the farm, and to get a lot of our couple shots out of the way so we could spend the rest of the day with our guests.

“It must be love” by Madness was our theme for the day. We used it for processional, and recessional performed very kindly by Andy’s best man on the guitar. It was also featured in the band’s set during the reception (again fronted by Andy’s best man).

For anyone else planning a wedding right now I guess my advice would be to make use of Google Docs, it definitely made planning a breeze for us! And, don’t sweat the last minute things – there will always be something you remember at the final hour but that says to me that it really wasn’t that important in the first place, so forget about it. Oh, and good luck!

Andy & Christina – Highlights – 27/08/12 from Enter the Treehouse on Vimeo.

I’ve just received an email from our videographers Enter The Treehouse to release our amazing highlights video. Hope you love it as much as we do!

Well hello!! It has been far too long since I posted. Crazy long. Ok, so what have you been up to? Oh, you want to see photos from the wedding? OK!

Each order of service came in a little bag with a tissue “for happy tears” – you might recognise that idea from one of my earlier posts that featured Smitten On Paper’s blog.

The bridesmaids dresses were made by my sister (based on this dress pattern) and the flowers were all done by my mum. We had hoped to use flowers from our gardens, and although that worked perfectly for the table centres, my mum bought flowers for the bouquets that would last all day out of water.

The weather on the day was a little too cool and windy for the outdoor ceremony that we planned so we decided to switch to the small barn at the venue which turned out to be perfectly intimate. We went outside afterwards to take advantage of the gorgeous landscape for the family and formal shots.

After a few drinks in the bar we headed into the reception barn which looked stunning covered in fairy lights, bunting and ribbon curtains. I’m so glad we decided to hire chairs instead of just chair covers, they looked great with the handmade cushions.

The dessert buffet made a huge impact and although at first looked too beautiful to eat soon everyone was digging in to the cakes (so many cakes!), cupcakes, cake pops, macarons, sweets and cheese board. I would fully recommend this is as an alternative to the traditional savoury evening buffet, it was one of the best decisions we made.

These are some of my favourite shots from the day, all taken by guests and posted on Facebook. We’ll have the professional shots very soon, can’t wait!

I also have all of the engagement shots now. I’ve offered them to a couple of wedding blogs but if they aren’t picked up then I’ll post them here next week, in the mean time I’m working on a honeymoon post.

Photo layouts by Pugly Pixel.

I just wanted to give a shout out to two of my fabulous vendors who’ve been posting pics on Facebook of the custom things they’ve been creating for our wedding.

The first is Lorna Dunn Signage who has created these gorgeous chalk signage boards for us. She’s also created another that says “Let’s Celebrate”. I love hand lettering and chalk is so big right now with artists such as Dana Tanamachi, it would be a crime not to have some hand lettering wherever I can. Check out Lorna on Facebook for more beautiful examples and contact details for your next party or event (she offers calligraphy too!).

This is a snapshot of our macaroons resting before they are popped into the oven by the fabulous Candy Cakeory. They might appear bright but the colour will fade once cooked unfortunately – however, the brighter the better! The brightest colours of macaroons are the most luxurious. I can’t wait to feast on these beauties.

I’m feeling pretty tired tonight, I’ve banged my head and burned my wrist within and hour, but just trying to finish everything up ready for Sunday’s set up and rehearsal.

Right now I’m waiting for the wedding cake to cool before I ship it over to Candy Cakeory tomorrow morning so she can frost it to match the cupcakes. We were planning on buying a fruit cake off the shelf and then having it frosted but we decided that buttercream on top of royal icing would be too likely to slip and could taste pretty gross. Instead we have a fruit cake which we’ll cut up, plus a deliciously DIY sponge.

Less than 70 hours to go!

Excuse me for being so quiet, I just had to check what day it is. It’s wedding central right here. Andy and I took leave from work as of Wednesday to focus on everything that we want crafted for the wedding.

My mum has also been here every day except Monday making paper flowers, sewing cushions, cleaning jars, cutting out menus and stuffing bags. These photos are a few sneak peeks of what we’ve been up to.

We did find time today to host a little picnic with my flower girl Clementine and her big brother Morley. Clem arrived dressed as a ballerina and proceeded to steal and take a bite out of almost everyone else’s food at the picnic – it was hilarious.

Today was the perfect distraction to the dark shadow that has appeared in the shape of my dad. My not-invited, not-welcome dad. But of course he has butted in just at the right point to stress me out. More on that perhaps in another blog… I’ve played it very safe with my blogging in the run up to the wedding so as to not upset any family members but it’s becoming too much to keep it all in.