Our Day by Design

Although I revealed what I was going to use for my old, new borrow & blue here , I wanted to show you the actual items from the day. Something old... My Grandmothers sapphire ring. {My sister is also going to wear it at her wedding, which is just 46 days away!} Something new... My dress. Something borrowed... My mums wedding garter. {My sister is also going to borrow it.} (Garter images by me) Something blue... 'I Do' rhinestones on the bottom of my shoes. and a silver sixpence in your shoe. My aunt gave me a sixpence at my hen weekend, which came in a little box with the traditional rhyme on it. I stuck it inside my shoe with sellotape so it wouldn't move around. {My friend Helen used it at her wedding in Italy in August too, as her something borrowed.} (Sixpence images by me) (All images by Craig & Eva Sanders , unless otherwise noted)

I have to admit I didn't give that much thought to my shoes. I knew I wanted something fairly comfy that would look good with my dress and I knew I wanted closed toe court shoes with a bit of a heel since I'm so short. Which ruled out peep toes, sandals, slingbacks, flat shoes, kitten heels and skyscraper heels. So, I did actually have an idea of what I wanted or at least what I didn't want! I toyed with the idea of wearing coloured shoes to match the bridesmaids dresses early on as I love that look, however once I had chosen my dress we decided that a coloured pair wouldn't look that great with it. Since they were going to be ivory, I didn't want to spend too much on shoes that I would only wear once and will probably get really dirty. However I also didn't want to get really cheap ones that would be sore to wear all day. Also, you are hardly going to see them under my dress! I knew that John Lewis carried the Rainbow Club range but I hadn't seen anything ...

Sorry for the lack of posting over the last few weeks, things have been quite busy as you will see from the update below: I ordered more card samples to start thinking about the order of service', placecards, menu's and table name design. I ordered more grey ribbon to use on the order of service' and for the favour boxes. I paid for the rest of our honeymoon. I paid 50% of whats left to pay for our venue and arranged to meet our coordinator on Sat 30th Jan. We paid for and picked up our wedding rings; I love how mine turned out! {A separate post will follow with more detail!} I bought my shoes! {A separate post will follow!} I ordered some samples of veil fabric to look at the different colours. I booked the hairdresser; they have another wedding that morning too so they are going to open at 8am for us! I booked my hair trial for the 6th of March. My mum spoke to the women who does the flowers at the church who will arrange all of that for us with a mixture of white, purpl...