final touches

wedding is tomorrow... and we are all sorted! we have just delivered this awesome seating chart to the venue, which i spent a few hours stamping names onto yesterday. it's a blackboard that hangs on our wall, which until last week still had the menu from my friends wedding printed onto it from the last time i loaned it out. with some chalkboard pegs attached with a little blu-tack and some pieces of scrap booking paper cut in half, we were ready to go. easy as!

a close up... simple yet effective!

and our "wishing well" or in this case, a bird cage to put cards for the love birds. as you'll see eventually, there are a lot of bird cages going to be used at the reception, so it fitted in perfectly with the theme.

i am so excited to see it all set up and ready to go... one more sleep and it is wedding time!

♥

wedding favours

warning, wedding sneak peek! if you are lucky enough to have been invited to the wedding of the year (haha) and don't want to know what the wedding favours are going to be, then look away now!

i wanted to make the place cards and the favours one thing, so had settled on these gorgeous natural card boxes available here, which were conveniently located locally, so we were able to collect them (a necessity with our short time frame!) and as we received each rsvp, i hand stamped them with my alphabet stamp set (available here) and tied them off with navy ribbon from spotlight. easy done!

only thing is, with just days to go until the wedding, my plan of making brownies and cutting a large piece for each box fell by the wayside, when i sat watching our household devour a box of coles ultimate white chocolate chip cookies, to which i suggested having those in the boxes might be a better idea? it was met with such enthusiasm that i called the local coles, who were only too happy to make us a bulk order, which we collected the next day and boxed up ready for the wedding. coles for the win!! seriously, our local is amazing!

so there you have it, favours complete, and the countdown is on! 

p.s. if you live in australia and haven't tried these cookies yet, do yourself a favour and get into coles asap and try them, you will not be disappointed!

countdown is on

these monkeys are counting down the days until aunty's wedding, especially miss maddie who absolutely can't wait to get into her flowergirl dress! 

preparations are going full steam ahead in the kendall house, with vases, flowers and seating charts in a pile ready to go... we are all very excited.

i sat and beaded the sleeves on the dress this evening, here's a sneak peek... shhhh.

it looks amazing on her and i cannot wait to see her rocking it in just a few days! ♥

e n g a g e d !

oh surprise! our dominique is getting married! bryan popped the question on thursday, she gleefully accepted, and now we are madly planning a wedding for next month before he returns to the u.s.

what wonderful news! they have known each other for 7 years now and seem to be perfect together, so we are thrilled to bits for them. ♥

thankfully we found a venue that could accomodate us at such short notice, so after checking out the valley view restaurant in henley brook today (which just happens to be where my best friend and her husband got married a few years back...), we have booked in and plans are full steam ahead! i am so excited and can't wait to get to work!

congratulations bryan and dominique, we are so, so happy for you!

♥

wedding diy

my friend leigh is getting married in just a few short weeks... so we have been diy-ing here in the lounge - to make the centrepieces and petal cones for the wedding.

24 milk bottles wrapped in paper from a vintage copy of "what katy did" all i did was open the pages and snip out the cotton from the centres then peel each piece out. each is cut in three widthways and held in place with 2 pieces of double sided tape. then wrapped in a piece of 3mm white ribbon to hold it all in place. easy!

and 68 petal cones. each a single piece of story book paper, fold in two widthways and make a crease at the base, then fold in like an icecream cone. then add a piece of tape to hold.

ahhhhh wedding diy. there's not much i love more. ♥