Married on November 5th (with pics)

MsShopper

You look absolutely stunning! I love all your dress, hair and make-up - so elegant. And your photos are fantastic. Congrats on what looks like an amazing day.

wanchai_2

Wow wow wow wow. Possibly the most gorgeous wedding pics I've seen on here. You look amazing! Love everything about your wedding. *swoon*

Please don't delete the pics, I want to look at them again for hair/headpiece inspiration!

What dress did you wear btw? And have you got a link to your headpiece?

Zimm190

Thanks Wanchai - this is the headpiece

The dress is Justin Alexander 8353, bought as a sample a full 16 months before the wedding! Bought it six months before we even booked the wedding.

I'm sure the guests thought the wedding cost more than it did. The venue was utterly amazing and they gave us a fantastic deal as the room was still a building site when we booked. We were only the third wedding they'd had but were absolutely brilliant throughout the planning and on the day. They even let us serve our own wedding cake as dessert at no charge, and didn't bat an eyelid, just said "Yes of course!" when I asked if we could have black peas as the canapes (a Bonfire Night tradition in certain parts of the North West for those of you who may not know!).

wanchai_2

Thanks for the link. You look absolutely stunning, and yay for the MSE-ness of your wedding!!! You took a gamble on the venue and it paid off, well done xx

sugarwalsh

Zimm190 wrote: »

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!

I have just looked at the picture and agree - you should submit yours. It looks far, far nicer in your hair!

Megan

nickki44

Fab photo's - and you look GORGEOUS!!

love the dress - it's amazing

xxx

NoAngel

These pictures are great, so beautiful! I love your flowers and buttonholes - They're fab. did you already know what you wanted when you went to the florist?

stir_crazy

Wow Zimm, you look amazing! You look like you had a fab day!

Robinred

Golly gosh it all looks AMAZING! Can I copy you please?!

Zimm190

NoAngel wrote: »

These pictures are great, so beautiful! I love your flowers and buttonholes - They're fab. did you already know what you wanted when you went to the florist?

I sort of knew in that I definitely wanted pine cones and a wintery feel to the whole thing. I emailed the florist some pictures of bouquets I liked the look of before we met and when she came over she had loads of ideas herself and understood exactly what I was after. She brought all of the flowers and button holes on the morning of the wedding, with a little card addressed to me and OH. We opened it the day after the wedding and she'd written the names of all the flowers, berries, and leaves that were in the bouquet, which was just lovely.

She also made three crab apple wreaths, one for the top table and two to go on the banisters of the stairs in the wedding room, and two willow tree arrangements that had tealight candles in jars hanging from the branches for the church and then she moved them to the venue - we were there for lunch last Sunday (can't get enough of that place!) and they still have the trees in the room! We'd have taken them home but we live a three-hour drive away from my home town and they won't really go in the car. Plus our flat is tiny with no outdoor space - so I'm happy they've stayed at the venue, looking amazing!

Here are some closer pics of the flowers (can you see the knitted ones?! I'm a bit of a knitting obsessive so I knitted the bride and grom cake topper too and the shawl I wore when we went outside for the sparklers - it was freezing!) Again apologies for the ridiculous photo size!









This is a guest's pic, didn't get any pro pics of the shawl :-(