Married on November 5th (with pics)

Zimm190

Finally got round to uploading some pics of our wedding from November 5th (sorry about the size!).

We had the best day of our whole lives - everything was perfect, even the weather! We had six ivory umbrellas ready and waiting but it didn't rain all day and we even got some photos in the sun.

The only very minor mishaps were that the venue played the whole ipod rather than the "wedding" playlist my husband had spent ages preparing, so that Driving Home For Christmas came on while we were cutting the cake! And we forgot to hand round the guest book until almost midnight.

It was very much a family affair in that my mother-in-law and I made my veil (very MSE - total cost about £8, including making a mockup version!), the photos are by a professional photographer friend of my brother-in-law, the same brother-in-law's girlfriend's sister did the flowers, and my friend made the cake. (I made everything else!)

It was an autumny/wintery wedding and it was Bonfire Night so we had mulled wine, black peas and black pudding canapes, winter soup, sausage and mash, and parkin. The tables were decorated with pine cones, conkers, logs, hessian table runners, acorns, and crab apples and the favours were canvas bags containing bonfire toffee and cinder toffee. My bouquet had pine cones and winter berries in it, a fabric flower made by my sister-in-law, two I knitted, and one knitted my mother-in-law. I loved it!

The blue socks (had to buy white ones and dye them as could not find plain, pale-blue socks anywhere!) were for Coventry City, husband's team.

In the evening we had fireworks and sparklers and we ended the night running through a sparkler tunnel.

It was the most amazing day ever!











Here's the link to some more photos!

I still pop back onto the Weddings board to check how everyone else is getting on and to have a look at all the pics!

Hadley1

Oh wow.... Congratulations!!

(You were the lady who posted on the thread about confetti) So glad you have posted your photos:T.

I really really think you look amazing. So happy and I love the dress.

Hollie84

wow fantastic,what beautiful pictures and i love the table decor,amazing.congratulations

lisajane8482

You look absolutely stunning. It looks like you had a lovely day, Congratulations :T

Hadley1

I love your hair... without being too nosey, what did you ask your hairdresser for (don't suppose you have a closer one of it).:)

sugarwalsh

They are just gorgeous photo's. You look so beautiful and happy. I love the sparkler pictures too.

Lovely, lovely, lovely.

MEgan

Zimm190

Thanks everyone, it really was the happiest day of my life! And surprisingly, I didn't suffer any post-wedding blues but had 100% expected to as I just did so much planning and making beforehand and loved it!

Hadley 1, here are some closer pics of my hair (really close one is from hairdresser's website). She did both my hair and makeup and I asked her for old-Hollywood-glamourama-1930s-Poirot-esque-razzle-dazzle-Eva-Green-timeless-gorgeousness - and she got it absolutely bang on, I loved it! I remember at the trial she asked what I had in mind, did I want a natural look, and I was like, "Nope, full-on glamour please, this is my one chance!" I don't normally wear lots of makeup so wanted to go all out for the wedding!

(Sorry the pics are so huge, can't seem to make them smaller! Will probably delete them after a few days so that I don't have my mug all over the board!)

trying_2_b_good

Really fabulous! Congratulations!

sugarwalsh

I love what you have in your hair - where is it from?

Megan

Hadley1

Thanks Zimm. The pics are great. You look absolutely stunning!:)

I think I'm with you on the basis that this is the one day to go all out. Also love the hair piece.

I still need to find someone to do my hair and make up, but will have to remember your description he he. :rotfl:

Zimm190

The hairpiece is from Glitzy Secrets. It didn't look much on the website and it wasn't quite what I expected when it arrived but in the end it was perfect. I'd ordered a few bits to try out at the trial and as soon as she saw it the hairdresser said "That's your Hollywood glamour right there!" I don't know if it's normally meant to go that way but she put it in sideways and it gave the look as I was after.

The Glitzy Secrets website has just changed so that now you can see the pieces on an actual head, whereas when I was ordering (September) you had to just imagine how it would look, hence I ordered about four things and sent the rest back. The website is much better now, but having said that, I wouldn't have ordered the one I went with if I'd seen it as it is on the new website!