Friday 15 July 2011

Wedding Belles






































Its been a loooonnnnng time since my last post. I have been busy in the last months since my last posts....My TV show aired, I found out I was pregnant (BIG surprise!!) and I tied the knot with my wonderful (and often long-suffering) husband who I has stuck by me for over 8 years (and now hopefully many, many more!!) in a lovely ceremony and reception in the Peak District!

Our wedding day was a great sunny day surrounded by family and friends. We found a great barn last summer that fitted the bill, down a tiny leafy country lane in the glorious Peak District countryside.

We decided to go down the route of a DIY wedding as it fitted the venue, fitted us as a couple and also meant we could have the wedding we wanted.

Because of our decision to have a DIY wedding, we had to call on help from our friends and family ALOT. They did SO much to help us over the days leading up to the wedding and the day after's enormous clear-up (that is one of the downsides of DIY weddings-all the setting up and taking down!).

My mother-in-law (aka Queen of Cakes) made not only the wedding cake but wedding favours, and tonnes of other sweet treats. She literally makes the best cakes EVER!.

My brother was photographer for the day, my sister-in-law was cinematographer (on the cool old Super8 camera!)they also helped out with a last minute snack food to have at the beginning of the reception (mini PB&J sandwiches wrapped in little parcels and sweet and spicy popcorn) and my Mum and Auntie did the church flowers.

So we had palmed off quite a few jobs but we still had a lot to do ourselves! Chris designed the invites, order of service, menus, stickers etc. I made my wedding dress (which became a bit more difficult once I knew I was pregnant!) and accessories. I made our wedding favour seed packets, the place cards, the popcorn cones, the boutonnieres, badges, cutlery ties, curtains, cushions, wooden signs, and sourced everything for the wedding. (It started off being a lot of fun, but when morning sickness decided to rear its ugly head for a straight 8 weeks before the wedding, things started to feel a bit like hard work!)

Me and my fab bridesmaid, Amy, did all the flowers at the venue too on the morning of the wedding, which I thought looked pretty good in the end as we were going for country wildflower sort of look, it didnt need to be neat (which was a good job, as we were just chucking them into the jam jars towards the end!).

Getting hitched probably never goes without a hitch and we had a few hiccups: One involved me buying fitted sheets instead of flat sheets (which we were using as tablecloths). Needless to say fitted sheets did NOT look the business and my so brother dashed off to Sheffield on a flat sheet emergency mission! I also over-ordered the flowers (I was panicking so much about under-ordering that I went a bit berserk at the flower wholesalers). Likewise, Chris was a bit keen in ordering the alcohol and went well and truly overboard on that one!! But the sun shone on the day and there were no big problems.

The day was just as I had always dreamed (with the exception of not being able to drink due to bump of course!) and I had my wonderful new husband by my side and we were surrounded by the best group of family and friends and all the hard work was definitely worth all the hard work but I definitely don't plan on doing it again (he he!!!!)

10 comments:

Pocketful of Patterns said...

Awwww...what a beautiful wedding - looks like the perfect day! Congratulations...and BIG congratulations on the bump too!! :)

Zoe said...

Congratulations are soo much! I love your wedding it is beautiful. DIY weddings are the best, my friend is getting married next year and doing it DIY, including her own dress, I'm so excited! I live right near the peak district, it's so beautiful and such a wonderful place to get married!

Kat said...

Wow, many congratulations on the TV show, the wedding and of course, the bump! You both look so happy in the photos (which are gorgeous by the way -- love the light!), and the DIY props are just too cute for words.

It's all happening at once, isn't it! :)

Emma (Sugar Cane) said...

A big congratulation Lucia :D:D:D Thank you for sharing your wonderful wedding photos. You looked so beautiful & happy, a big best wishes for your bright future and you your bump :D:D:D love & hugs Emma xxxx

Kiss Prudence said...

Gorgeous wedding pics, big congratulations! I'm in the 'bun in the oven' club too....v.exciting! X

Bettyjoy said...

Thanks for all your kind words and Congratulations Kiss Prudence:) - Are you still making those adorable elephants? Perfect to keep a tot company !!

Kiss Prudence said...

I am indeed still making elephants...recently branched out into dinosaurs too! I'm at Reetsweet in Leeds next Saturday (Aug 6th) peddling my wares, will be the last fair before bambino time (due 1st October, not long to go now!) Love the VW on your pics too, we have one of those too (but in red)!

Kat - Housewife Confidential said...

Wonderful pictures! Billiant news! Congratulations all round x

Unknown said...

Nicely captured abstract, love the photograph feel it's got. Awesome picture! And it's actually somewhere I've been. Sweet! Meeting Rooms London

Unknown said...

what a beautiful wedding! we are looking at townfield hall barn for our wedding reception. I also noticed you got married in Hathersage church - how did you go about sorting and booking that? We aren't in the parish and don't meet any of the qualifying legal requirements, but do have some connections with the church and are keen to marry there - would be great to hear from you! Jen

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