The day did finally come. I've obviously not got into the swing of this blogging thing as we have been married for 3 whole months now.
The wedding was so magical, we were all beaming from start to finish and a little bit after until we had to come back to bleak 'ol blighty!
Everything didn't go to plan (all down to myself) I'm not the most organised person! Although it didn't go to plan, it worked out perfectly.
We had a visit from our Wedding Elf, Snowdrop on the day we arrived. She talked us through (briefly) what was going to happen. It's all a little unknown really, well I felt that way. She asked us what we'd brought along i.e music, cake topper, poems & such and we handed these over. Although, due to me being unorganised. I'd forgotten to do the music. I remembered in the middle of the night before the flight and all i could do was put it on Alan's Ipod. This was no good...boo! They needed it on a CD but hey ho. If your getting married abroad, I'd take your music in every shape and form to be on the safe side! They asked for it digitally so i thought an Ipod would be fine.
What we were going to have was Strange Love by Karen O. That song pulls
at my heart strings so much. I love Tim Burton films and this song is on
the film Frankenweenie. Anything about dogs ad I'm there!
Even though we didn't have the song we wanted out Snow Elf saved the day! She asked us what sort of music that we liked. I said nothing too new or pop/cheesy like boyzone. And what we got was this gem by another favourite Karen of mine....
How odd, both called Karen. I have only just realised this. Myself and Alan both love the Carpenters. In a nice and cheesy way. There songs, especially this one are great to mockingly sing to one another. Great car songs too!
Enough of me blabbering. All in all it was fabulous. I wish we could all do it again. It seems such a long time ago. Here's some Pictures of the wedding. Enjoy!
My lovely snow princess wedding dress
Me and my amazing Dad and stunning Sister just before we made our entrance into the Kota
Myself making my grand entrance (and tripping on my dress)
Lots of concentration
Whoop! We're almost married!
My handsome man laughing at me not knowing what the hell I'm doing!
The finished bouquet that Alan's mum made. It was totally gorgeous. I'll make sure i upload some closer images of it and also the boutonnieres too. They were fab!
The whole gang of family elf's
Rudolf's friend gave us a lift to the reception venue
It was amazing. Even though the pretty snow wet my face on the way.
Me and my big sister :D
Our gorgeous Rien Poortvliet gnomes. They are musical and play the tune 'You are the sunshine of my life' by Stevie Wonder. Another epic tune!
Having the wedding in Lapland, with all the pretty snow everywhere and being a massive Once Upon a Time fan I see myself a bit of a Snow White princess. My MIL to be is helping with the flowers and the boutonnieres. These will be made up of hand made fabric flowers. Partly because I want what I want and if I left it up to the wedding organisers I won't really know what I'm having. Also, on researching about wedding's in Lapland the cold makes the poor flowers wilt so quickly. And also it's kinda fun and I get to keep it for all eternity!
Here's some pictures to inspire for a Winter Wedding.
From top to bottom, here is where the inspiration lies
The colour theme for the wedding is red, green and golds. All my fave colours and inspired by the pretty emerald in my ring. I'm loving the flowing-ness of chiffon. I've seen a beautiful dress while I've been googleing away that I've become a little fixated on.
I've been searching around to see if i can get one similar on the internet, but haven't found anything with these pretty sleeves.
I went shopping last Saturday with my mum and mother-in-law to be to a few bridal shops and found one dress in each shop. One of them was the pretty chiffon fabric that I liked. It had a lace bodice and some pretty bugle beads decorating it. I think i need to try it on again after I have been to a few other shops.
I was hoping to get a wedding dress with sleeves but as I suspected there wasn't any in both the bridal shops that I went to the other day.
I love this bouquet, found on ruffledblog.com. The colours are just great and look very wintry too. I'd like to make my own bouquet to take over there so I might have a play around. Alan's mum is very crafty so I might ask her to give me a helping hand. I will post my experiments on here when I get round to doing it. I'm wanting to wear boots, one reason as I want my ankles to be warm and another reason is they will more comfortable to wear all day and I'll get to wear them forever more. And I'm not that keen on wedding shoes. My other thought was gloves. It's going to be so cold out there, so for the wedding pictures I could have some pretty white leather gloves on and my sister could be wearing some cute red leather gloves. I'm more concerned about my sister as she is super skinny and takes after mum with the cold. They are both always cold even on the hottest day they are cold?! Also thermals, we will all need thermals. I don't know if I'm getting carried away or not as we won't be long in the cold, most of the time we will be indoors. Hmm, better safe than sorry though I think!
I'm going to book some more dates in the diary to try on some dresses, once I've decided on the dress I'm sure everything else will come together.
Wedding is all booked for the 20th December 2013. This year!! It's already coming around too fast. I rang around a few places and found that most weddings are held in Dec/Jan so we thought, might as well do it this year.
The place that i loved the most for the venue was at the Snow Princess
Hotel. They have this cute little Kota (Tipi) that i thought looked
ultra cute. Here's a picture off the website.
There is a beautiful roaring fire in the middle of the venue. I've scoured Trip Adviser too of other peoples trips to Lapland, it's looks lovely inside. For the wedding they will decorate with candles and old fashioned lanterns.
My favourite colours are red & green so i am thinking, red, green and gold theme. Obviously I don't have as much to plan as a usual wedding so this colour scheme is for me, my bridesmaid who is my lovely big sister and the button holes etc for Alan and the other men. My dad, his step dad and the brother-in-law.
All the in's and out's of the wedding aren't sorted yet. Not sure what time we are getting married what we are doing after etc but we are sorting all this out now.
I've obviously been searching the web for ideas. I went wedding dress shopping last Saturday with my mum & Alan's mum. It was more fun than I though. I wouldn't say i was a total tomboy but I'm kinda in between. The thought of trying on loads of over sized dresses that made me look like a toilet roll holder was not very encouraging. All the dresses that I've seen on google too aren't too meringue like. But everyone kept saying that I'd like something that i didn't think I would. (Which secretly annoys me, I know what I like, OK?!) I was right, or maybe it was a bit of stubbornness but the big meringue style ones were not my cup of tea at all, however, they were not as bad as I thought and they did look good so I have changed my mind slightly. Not for me though as I have to get the thing over there so don't want to get anything too big.
I will do a little mood board and post again with my ideas.
So, my inspiration for the wedding is my beautiful ring that my new Fiance chose for me. Weddings are every girls excuse to have a little 'Princess' stylie fun!
I'm a big 'ole Once Upon a Time fan so something a little magical i'm thinking. We've decided to get married in Lapland. Alan's not one for big do's, (think he'd just nip to the registry office if i'd let him) but I don't want him to steal all of my little girl dream completely so when i showed him that you could get married in Lapland he nearly pee'd himself. Yeay! So we are both very keen to get our little wedding sorted in Lapland.
