Our Day by Design

Inspired* by Kirsty from a safe mooring , I thought my last post about our wedding should share the marriage advice given to us by our wedding guests. As you may remember the guest book had different questions for them to answer, one of which was 'Any advice for the Newlyweds?' We received lots of wonderful wisdom from our guests; some funny, some helpful, some we already followed and only a few that were really silly! Here is some of the fabulous advice: "Always listen to Gaynor" {sound advice from our very wise flowergirl} "May the best days of your past be the worst days of your future" {a perfect reminder that your wedding day shouldn't be the best day of your life; there is plenty more to come} "Be happy and treat life as an adventure to share together!" "Never let the sun go down on an argument" {and loads of other variations of this theme} "Keep a sense of humour" "Be best friends!" "Always remember t...

Time for some of the details from our day! Ive already written about all of the DIY items but here is how everything looked on the day! The ushers welcomed everyone to the church by giving them an order of service . I ended up making too many of them but it was better than not having enough. After the receiving line, the guests were able to look at the table plan to find which table they were sitting at, then there were table names on each table. Once the guests had found their tables, the placecards indicated their seat. The guests favours were placed beside the placecards. All of the kids also got Easter eggs we well as the box of mini eggs & a chocolate bunny that each guest received. We also had the menu's on the tables, which looked just like the order of services. The G & G letters were placed in front of the cake, then there was the little Lego bride and groom on our cake. We had sugar flowers on the top of the cake but since we had a glass cube vase separ...

Just before I start my recaps, one of the last things I wanted to tell you about was what I was up to the week before the wedding. I ended up being busy every single day and the week involved lots of shopping for last minute stuff; I think I was at Ocean Terminal, my local shopping centre, every day! Sunday 28th March: Honeymoon shopping in Edinburgh {sunglasses, sun hat, 2 dresses, 2 tops, a skirt, 3 books & a DS game}. Monday 29th March: Picked up our marriage schedule ; had lunch with bridesmaid Lucy; some shopping {pens for guestbook, plastic wallets for the stuff for each table, toothbrush, tissues & contact lens drops for honeymoon, glue pens, blotting tissues & underwear}; ordered a couple of umbrella's {post to follow about the terrible weather all week} and had a meeting at our venue. {While we were at the venue, we also booked to stay on the Sunday night too, rather than having to come home before we left for honeymoon on the Monday.} Tuesday 30th March: Spoke...

The last bit of DIY I did was to amend our guest book. We got the book from my mum and dad for Christmas. It came with a box to keep it in and they also ordered a metal tag with our names and wedding date to put on the front of it. We already knew that we wanted to make sure space would be left in the book for us to stick the Polaroid Pogo prints of all of our guests. I also didn't want to just leave the book plain inside as I felt that everyone just writes the same things and I thought it would be good to give them some pointers of what to write. I came up with 5 questions as follows {most of which I got from other bloggers ideas & the guestbook store books}: Name(s) How do you know the Bride & Groom? Where did you travel from? Any advice for the Newlyweds? Your Special Wishes for Us I got the 5 questions made into a clear stamp from The English Stamp Company as they could create anything you wanted and they could do it in the same text that I had used for all of the oth...