Touchy felty

Why spend lots of money on flowers that are going to die? That is a question I have been dealing with. It seems like such a waste of money, and also such a shame to buy lovely fresh flowers that will die, only being kept alive by the photographers. But on the other hand I do love flowers, I have always planning to have white rose of Jamie a 'Yorkshire man' and lilies for me a 'Jersey lily'. Well I have finally found a solution that allows me to have the flowers I want and keep them forever, plus it is cheap!

I am lucky to have a very talented future mother-in-law who just loves felting.Read it carefully...F-E-L-T-I-N-G...the process and art of making felt. She has kindly agreed to make felt flowers for the wedding! This mean not only will the wedding be even more indie, it will also allow the wedding party to forever keep the flowers as a memento...they could be refashioned into a bracelet, necklace, garland or other decoration! Of course they can also simply be stored in a keep stakes box and looked at fondly every 5 to 10 years.

Either way I am very excited for this fuzzy touch, especially as it confirms my status as an offbeat bride!

2012

So it is now officially 2012, in fact it has been for almost a month. This of course means this is the final countdown towards my wedding. both very exciting and terrifying at the same time, as it remind me of how much i have left to do. However I am making steady progress, and with the help of friends and family everything should be ready on time. We have come up with a lot more crafty idea to make this a totally tailored wedding, at not too great a price. My vision for the wedding was always for it to be unique, one of a kind, the sort of thing that could never be exactly reproduced and would reflect myself and Jamie as a couple. With what i have planned I think this is exactly what I should end up with! 

As you may have guessed from the site, the wedding colour theme is pink, Jamie is very tolerant and supportive of me and his allowing the entire wedding to be covered in pinkness and hearts really is a shining example of what an excellent husband he will be. Most people who know me will be aware I don't do things by halves, in fact I tend to err closer to the side of extreme, so if you hate pink stay away from this wedding!! I am of course working hard to ensure that it doesn't all look like a giant marshmallow festival.

We have started buying a few items, so my giant list is getting some beautiful ticks. I am slightly nervous we still do not have two of the biggest items, the photographer and the dress. Hopefully by this time next month I will be blogging about the successful acquisition of at least one of those items. 

This weekend I will be starting to play around with some ideas for the centre pieces. I will also be pinning Jamie down to ask about table names and to buy our very special custom shoes!!! (Super exciting) Things are starting to move forward nicely x