Curiouser & Curioser - Real life wedding

Thought you might like to see a slideshow I put together for a wedding that we styled yesterday at Skendleby Hall for Gilly & Jimmy... 

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did styling it! 

Pop back soon though to see the professional photo's - 

these are just some snapshots that I took...

Click on the link below and 
Enjoy!! 

http://www.smilebox.com/playBlog/4e44497a4d4467304d44513d0d0a&blogview=true

Wedding colour trends 2015

Over the next few weeks we shall be picking and choosing our favourite pictures from the internet to show you how to work 2015's top trends and colours...

Here's the first...

MINT

We've chosen to mix it with pink and further down the page with pink and gold. 
But it also looks good with silver, blush and lavender, 

here's what we like so far...

Arrive in a pretty pink converted Herbie

Dress your bridesmaids in floaty mint green with pink corsages...

For more mature bridesmaids think of having corsages instead of posies, 

that can be worn on their dress, bag or wrist

Light the reception with paper lanterns and pom poms...

For the best effect use a lot in a small area rather than spreading them too thinly around the room. 

and serve your cakes on vintage china in a mismatch of pinks and mint...

Cakes are tall for 2015 and mismatched - Lots of different sizes and flavours 

- placed on tiered shelving or dedicated cake tables

or add some golds or silver and you have another 

completely bang on trend look ...

send out the invites to set the sparkling scene...

Urns are going to feature a lot in next years weddings decor- 

all shapes, sizes, colours and textures - we love these gold ones

Dress tables and chairs with gold accents, sequins and chiffons

Have a ribbon/sash backdrop made in your colours 

for behind your top table, gift or cake table

Add edible glitter to cake pops

and serve mini moets as favours 

or have them as a warm up on the morning of the wedding 

just for you and your girls 

Go tall with your cake - four and five tiers are predicted to be big for next year as are painted and "gilded" cakes

However you do it - 

we think that mint, pink and gold are a real winning combination! 

Pop back in May to see one of our real weddings, 

where the bride has chosen these colours to see what we do for her! 

Here's a taste of what'to come...

https://www.facebook.com/anniefloribunda

All of the images above can be found on Pinterest under the search "pink mint gold wedding"

Man creche and dog hats! Must be Christmas!

Christmas is now officially on it's way in the Harrison household! 

On Sunday we decided to take a walk down to the local Christmas Market, and were pleasantly surprised. 

First stop was the Christmas Tree Festival at The Methodist Church, Sleaford. This is the 13th year of the festival and it has become a real Christmas tradition for us and a lot of others to visit it each year. There were 85 trees in total - all made by schools, groups, business's and individuals - anyone can enter a tree and it's completely free!!! 

Anniefloribunda's tree

I always enter one for Anniefloribunda now, but this year I entered one for Mr H too (who is a butcher, for those of you who don't know us). 

His tree was The Great British Breakfast Tree 
and made lots of people smile that day! 

There were some really great entries this year. 

Katy Katezart entered a tree made from a wooden pallet and there were gorgeous little miniatures from the local miniaturist club too.

Next stop was the craft fayre at St Denys Church Hall. I'd promised friends I would pop by and support them. Picked up a beautiful glass Christmas bauble from Beatty Mae Vintage and also got a pressie for baby Flo' who is due to arrive on December 10th!

Coming out onto the Market Square, we stopped to listen to the children from Alvey school singing a funny song about the stresses of Christmas shopping - wish I'd videoed it now :-( 

Standing watching the entertainment I got a bit chilly - so popped into The Greek Taverna and warmed up with a scrummy, hot chocolate (with brandy & squirty cream!) - well it is (almost) Christmas!

We missed the Morris Dancers this year much to Steve's disapointment but Loved the Round Table's novel idea of raising money with their "Man Creche" - one of these is needed on every high street!!! 

We walked the whole route of the Christmas Market and popped into EDS on Southgate for a gorgeous glass of Gluwein and hand made Stilton cookies where Arlo modelled his Christmas hat for us! 

Hope you are having as much fun in your run up to Christmas! 

Merry Christmas!! 

Bride of the blitz...

I know I've posted it before... but I love this picture of a #wartime #bride..

This young bride is stepping through the rubble after her parents house was bombed during the war... Windows blown through, having to lift her dress and pick her way through the debris,

yet not even that can dull the obvious joy she is feeling on her wedding day!

Beautiful! What a feisty lady!

Seems a fitting picture for the blog today...

That's rather personal...

I often get asked by brides "How can I make my wedding really unique and personal to us as a couple?". So I would like to share with you today some ways that real brides we have dealt with in the past managed this. I hope you enjoy reading about them and it inspires you to bring some personal creativity to your day...

Matt and Amy, Loved vintage and wanted Matts career in the RAF to be incorporated into their wedding...

Amy wore a pretty vintage style dress and we made her table plan from an upturned vintage suitcase and small frames - the tables were named after aircraft types.

I love this photo taken outside on the steps of the Grantham Guild Hall where the grooms RAF friends are all resplendent in their uniforms...

The brides mum made this fabulous fun cake topper of 

Matt, Amy and their little girl...

 Another vintage suitcase provided a place for guest to leave their cards 

 We provided Matt and Amy with mismatched china crockery for 

their afternoon tea

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Kelly had always dreamed of a Caribbean island wedding, but not wanting to spend that much money on their wedding day, they opted to bring the Caribbean to Lincolnshire! 

Bright, bold and Desert Island 

 We made them a rich silk coloured ribbon backdrop for their ceremony table

The ceremony chairs were dressed in alternative rows of colour

 We made HUGE paper pom poms to go with bright fresh flowers for the table centrepieces- 

each table was a different colour

 And a fun "message in a bottle" alternative to a guest book was made up 

 We gave the couple the suitcase to keep as a wedding pressie from us - to use as a memory box 

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Matt and Suzy choose Stoke Rochford Hall for their wedding, a stunning location and their theme was love and lace. Their tables were all named after special places in Italy for the couple and the decoration was simple and elegant...

We used a lot of gypsophelia at this wedding and decorated the table candelabra and fireplaces with it

 We used a lace overlay over the teal satin sashes and tied them in a simple, classic, "overtie". 

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Jen & Wayne, wanted to incorporate their love of their allotment, beer drinking and steam trains into their wedding!! - here's how we did it...

 Jen's bouquet included stems of Rosemary and thyme from their allotment

 Ruth from Precision Wedding Coordinators lent me some wonderful old Hornby trains and accessories. The Steam train took pride of place on the top table, pulling trailers of freash flowers and again rosemary from their allotment. 

 Their table plan was centred around a vintage suitcase and tin plate train station from the 1940's

All aboard the wedding express! Destination - Party!!! 

Guests took their luggage label table names to the bar to get them clipped for a complimentary drink

We sprayed beer bottles with gold paint and decorated them with Gyp' to represent the beers frothiness and some rosemary from the allotment - 

the room smelt DIVINE! Jen and Wayne also had special bottles of beer brewed for their guests

Five very different weddings that Anniefloribunda has been involved with - all decorated to reflect the couples personalities. If you need help decorating your wedding and just dont know where to start, then please visit our albums on our facebook page or our website for lots of ideas! 

https://www.facebook.com/anniefloribunda

https://anniefloribunda.com

Or for some DIY ideas - take a look at some earlier posts on this blog for some great tutorials!