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to leave mine down as a contrast. We did our own
make-up.
Our flowers were simple hand ted bouquets,
and Rosie had a litle wand made of three roses.
We also had a matching arrangement made in a
shabby chic bucket for the ceremony room table.
We had decided on a few key
elements to our decoratons and
the rest just spiralled from there!
We shopped at local markets, car
boot sales and charity shops and
bought crafmaterials fromHobby-
craf. Most of what we bought was
repainted and decorated to te in
with our fabric choices.
We decided against a traditonal guest book
and went for a wishing tree, which Nete made
from twisted willow arranged in a pot, and we
decorated with wooden hearts that we’d painted
with love poems. We arranged this on a barrel with
a tray of blank tags and wooden twig pens and a
poem asking people to leave us messages. it was a
real talking point and everyone seemed to enjoy
writng litle messages to us.
We wanted birdcages as our table centrepieces
and found exactly what we were looking for in the
sale at matalan! We decorated them with flowers
and litle doves and wrapped the candleholders in
fabric to match our colour theme. each of the five
tables had a birdcage and napkins, but the rest of
the decoratons were different on each table – it
gave people different things to look at and talk
about during the day.
We chose pink gingham and rosebud fabrics
for the napkins and then folded them to look like
cupcakes by placing them in homemade muffin
cases and placing a jellybean on top. We also made
matching buntng, which we then printed with our
names and hung on the bridge outside. We used
the lefover fabric for some of the other decora-
tons and to hang in strips on the wishing tree.
Jugs that we bought at a car boot sale were
repainted and covered with old photos of us growing
up, and we made the table numbers from wooden
hearts stuck in mini plantpots and decorated with
dried moss and doves. Watering cans, wooden ducks
and blocks were also repainted and decorated to
match our colour scheme. Nete found an old book
enttled ‘How to be a good wife’ at a car boot sale
and we recovered it. We found large cardboard
initals at Hobbycraf, which when painted looked like
wood, and put these on the head table. a scatering
of rose petals finished the tables off nicely.
Nettie aNd tammy