Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day, and this usually means having bridal hair and makeup done. There was no question about getting my hair done – by my usual hairdresser. As for the wedding makeup, I had no idea whether I wanted to DIY or book a makeup artist. I wanted to […]
DIY wedding bouquets for under £25
When pricing wedding flowers, I was really shocked at the hundreds of pounds that they would cost. We agreed on a friend doing them, but when we found that we couldn’t get what we wanted for under £200, I decided that I would attempt to make the bouquets myself. If it all went horribly wrong then […]
Sparkes Photography Review
Wedding photography is a massive expense on your wedding day, but we managed to get our wedding photography for free. That’s right, free! As most of you will know, I love entering competitions online. When we came back from Florida after Tony proposed, there was a letter on the doormat telling us that we had […]
Debenhams wedding hire Review (or How Debenhams almost ruined our wedding)
When choosing what Tony and his groomsmen would be wearing for the wedding, we had no idea where to start. Would we be buying the suits? Hiring them? We had heard horror stories about many formal wear hire places, including Moss Bros. So when Debenhams came highly recommended we decided to give it a try. […]
Sweet Ally Scoops Ice Cream Van Review
We had no plans to hire an ice cream van for our wedding, but after a lot of people invited couldn’t attend, we were left with a nice chunk of our budget available. We first met Ally at a wedding fair at our venue, and immediately we were drawn to both her lovely ice cream van […]
Things I’ve learned from planning a wedding
Planning our wedding has been a roller coaster of emotions. I finally lost it about two weeks before the big day, throwing an almighty strop, similar to a toddler’s tantrum. I have cried a lot, laughed a lot and felt so stressed out. I can look back at laugh at it now but hindsight is a […]
Our Wedding Day
This post has taken a long time to put together – trying to find the right balance of sharing our special day without a. revealing too much and b. boring you. There’s also so much that I’m proud of and wanted to share. I hope I’ve managed to strike the right balance, and I hope […]
