So, I begin my blog of everything to do with event design with my wedding.
From past experience, I have an active realization of just how expensive weddings can be, so when it came to planning our own we kept it small and simple, but extremely personal-- not to mention the fact that I was limited to
just a month to plan our day-- simple was essential.
Wedding Day Details:
Date: Monday, November 5, 2012
Guest Count: 50
Ceremony Location:
Chelsea/Kensington Registry Office
Reception and Dinner: Bluebird
Restaurant, Chelsea, London
Planning Highlights:
-Engagement photos all over
London with my close friend and wedding photographer, Jennalise and her husband Toby (www.jennalisephotography.com)
-Customized Invitations and Save the Dates:
-Customized Invitations and Save the Dates:
-Menu and champagne tasting at
Bluebird with my future mother in law, Sarah (http://www.bluebird-restaurant.co.uk)
-Columbia Road Flower Market with
bridesmaids to make bouquets and centerpieces (http://www.columbiaroad.info)
Pre-Wedding Highlights:
-Bridal hair at TopShop Blow Dry Bar (http://www.hershesons.com/blow_dry_bar):
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-Mimosas in teacups to keep with English tradition!
-Spending the morning with the most important women in my life...
-The Look! Classic lace, beige, white and black with a gold heirloom pin of my grandmother's...
-Pre-Ceremony Revealing of the Bride at Home:
-Bride and Groom Gifts (Vintage china and heels for the bride and a classic timepiece for the groom)
-Jack's love for bright patterns and mine for Burberry...
-My dad first seeing me as a bride by surprise during photos:
-Sharing our happiness, love and silliness...
Ceremony Highlights:
-Guitar chorus of “Dog Days are
Over” played by our close friend Toby
-Taking Jack as my “awfully” wedded husband by mistake
-Almost kissing before we were supposed to!
-Our own vows:
-Almost kissing before we were supposed to!
-Our own vows:
Jack,
I remember saying very early on that my life would
be happy and complete if I was able to have you in it everyday. At the time, I
meant it in a friendship sense, but now I know I just loved you from the
beginning.
The last year has brought all kinds of challenges,
but each day the one thing I looked forward to was working by your side,
chatting endlessly and doing anything possible to make you laugh in the way
that lights up your entire face and makes you clasp your arms around your
sides—the arms that once they wrapped around me, I knew I would never let them
let go.
I promised you then that I would never hurt you and
I mean that even more now. You are my best friend, the one I look forward to
snuggling myself asleep with, and look forward to waking up with each day. You
are the man I am meant to spend my life with, the one I will have many, many
babies with.
I choose you for life. I promise you my deepest
love, my fullest devotion, my tenderest care through the pressures of the
present, and the uncertainties of the future. I promise to love you, commit to
you and support you. I pledge to respect your unique talents, to lend you
strength for all of your dreams. You have shown me what true love feels like
and for that I thank you.
You have my heart and from this day forward, I give
you my life to keep. I love you, Jack.
---
Brit,
My darling the day we met started us on several paths. For
me, the most important path is to spend my life with you. The days this
year where we've spent every hour together amounts to many years worth of
getting to know each other.
To me, you're everything: the one who best deals with my
every mood, the one whose caring spirit is unrivalled, the one I miss when we
are apart. You make me laugh, you make me cry, and you make me feel at ease
always. Together, we fit. We hide nothing - in fragile times we bear all - you
open up to me, as I do to you like no other.
Forevermore I promise you my undivided devotion. Through
good times and tough times. I will be by your side to offer all I have, to
laugh with you, care for you, comfort you, and to love you with all my heart
unreservedly. I love you, and want to spend the rest of my life hand in hand
with you.
I give you this ring as a symbol
of our marriage and as a token of my love.
I love you, Brit.
Reception Highlights:
-The Menu:
Canapes: Mini Yorkshire Puddings, Imam Bayeldi and Queen Scallops
Canapes: Mini Yorkshire Puddings, Imam Bayeldi and Queen Scallops
Starter: Mixed Beetroot Salad
Main: Breast of Guinea Fowl with Pomme Puree, Seasonal Vegetables, Pancetta Jus
Dessert: Wedding Cake from Olivia's Patissiere, Macaron Trees by the Groom, Truffles and Mini Cupcakes from close friend Emily Yeo.
Late night snacks of American Sliders and English Fish ‘n Chips
-Picture place cards instead of name cards for seating assignments
-Picture frames in place of a guestbook
-Decor of vintage candleholders, a mixture of flowers from the Columbia Flower Market, bunting and table runners made by Jack's sister, Emily
-The toasts—inclusive of a hard hat, nostalgic music clips, laughs and tears...
-Dancing late into the evening--where even the staff joined in...
-Photos of the guests in the bridal veil...
It was a day of great memories, lots of fun and personal touches,
and of course, the first day of the rest of my life!
xoxo
and of course, the first day of the rest of my life!
xoxo
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