I thought a short article showing some of the highlights of our wedding preparation was a good idea and a nice way for us to look back on all of the crazy and mundane things we have done. This is far from complete as its surprising how many hours are taken up in wedding related preparations. Its mostly been fun, there have been some stressful and confusing moments.. though given I'm actually writing this 2 days before the wedding (publishing right afterwards, so if you are reading this and the photos haven't gone public I'm sorry) there are bound to be a few last minute moments of stress...
Flowers, Flowers, Flowers....
Oh the joys of flowers and the wonders of cool fake ones :-)
A trip out to the excellent Mr. Latifs in Brum was had... we got just what we wanted for the ceremony room. For me this was great, I'm a person who likes to plan well in advance and real flowers really don't allow for that as the day before is really the earliest you can do that.
For the real flowers it was a trip down to the massive Birmingham Wholesale Market. The highlight of the trip for the trial flowers was, for me anyway, the reminder of how Birmingham once was - all dingy and a bit crap. The highlight for Lizzie was probably the graze she got my falling over.
They looked quite good too:
The Venue...
For both of us the natural choice was the stunning Birmingham Botanical Gardens. It also nicely satisfied close to the Brides home (not that is far from t'other side of the city for me). We actually now live in a tower block overlooking the place - its a lovely area.
All I'll say is hopefully no one will end up in with the fish...
Centrepieces... lego, lego everywhere
Our centrepieces were lots of fun to make...
Invites and other arts and crafts
We made our own invities, well we had the design laser cut out but all of it was our own work. It was very satisfying but a bit awkward on how best todo it. Was quite a lot of fun and we think we ended up with a great looking invite...
The table plan was a bit easier, once we found a nice big piece of card from Hobbycraft..
but the fancy idea I said "yeah no problem" to Lizzie for the menus provided me with a desktop publishing nightmare.. I think I was just being a numpty but they came out quite nice in the end
Sweets!
Any finally it wouldn't be a proper party without some nice hard boiled sweets..
