All the hard work and meticulous planning certainly paid off.....the wedding of our daughter on the 12th November was wonderful. An Autumn wedding could have been a disaster - but it wasn't freezing, it didn't chuck it down and although a little damp it was quite mild. A good job really as it had been our daughters wish to ride to her wedding in the old motorbike and sidecar she used to hate going to school in (you can imagine the comments she and her brother had to put up with!!) Hubby had spent many hours and many £'s replacing parts and getting it running. It finally passed its MOT just days before the wedding.
I had been tasked with a number of 'crafty' jobs.
I had used my embossing machine and die cuts to put together the invitations, made and written the place cards, decorated jars as tea-lights, iced the small top cake for the cake stand, and make yards and yards of paper bunting in colours to match the invitations. However, my biggest task the day before the wedding was to 'do' the flowers.
I had the guest sprays, bouquets, flower baskets, pew end sprays, car ribbons and 10 table decorations to do. I began at 8.30 in the morning and finished at 8.30 in the evening with just a quick bite of a sandwich and a couple of teas handed to me at some point! I am not a florist, nor have I had any training so this was quite a daunting task. My daughter and son in law play in local Brass Bands and the floral table centre pieces were arranged in musical instruments which seemed very appropriate and looked very good even if I do say so myself!
The teasels had been collected from the roadside, someone donated dried hydrangeas, greenery was from grandma's garden and other dried grasses helped bulk out the bought flowers. I had made 30 paper roses on sticks just in case too. I don't think I ever want to tackle another floral project like this ever again! I know the cost of flowers for a wedding is horrendous, but at least by doing the arrangements for my daughter myself she was able to save quite a bit of money.
I had given up with the coat I had been making to go over the lace dress I had bought - it just didn't look right - but at the last minute I managed to buy a jacket that didn't look too bad - and the hire hat looked good too. My big success though was with the handbag. The lace I had made (see previous post) for the coat seemed to be perfect for the bag - so all that time and effort wasn't wasted. The other job was to dye a pair of shoes from brown to grey as I couldn't find any to buy at all. So the big day is over, and now I can get back to my own 'crafty' projects.
