wedding scrapbook...loved making this :)

 This is the front cover. I used a polaroid camera image from Nancy and Betty (so fabulous!) and some delicious fabric paper from the Love Elsie range, can't get enough of her stuff! The title is made up of my new Thickers from Hobbycraft, thought they looked quite Cinderella-ry :)

 My beautiful bridesmaids! I don't think i'm going to ever get bored of the shade of green that their dresses were. The embellishments down the side are a mixture of Jillibean Soup, October Afternoon. Love Elsie and Making Memories.

 This was David's face as he watched me walk down the aisle.  Thankyou Kara for getting some pics of him in this unforgettable moment :)

The Order of Services, a labour of love but these jobs always seem easier when done infront of a good TV programme :)

  Our families...quite a size difference!

It was pretty fun having photos taken after the service, the weather just about held!

Our reception location. It was a complete miracle that we found this place but it was perfect for us :)

 Who doesn't love apple printed paper?!

                                                         
The funkiest cake ever!

                                                   
Some mates from curch :) Was fun making this paper bunting, much less hassle than the real stuff!

This is the back cover.  There is a tiny button on the car and when it is pressed, the whole embellishment lights up and flashes, so tacky but very appealing!

 Hope you liked.  I've done a ton of scrapbooking during my mahussivly extended summer holiday! I fear that when I go back to work it's going to be a bit neglected :(

Succulents

In keeping with the out-doorsy, natural theme of the wedding, my Mum had the genious idea of making up little succulent pots for guests name places.  Thankfully, she had this brain wave in the very early stages of wedding planning so that gave us 11 months to collect baked bean tins...95 of them!  I roped in relatives to start eating baked beans from the smaller tins and the old ladies at church started collecting them as well.

Mum started collecting lots of varieties of succulents and taking cuttings from them so that they'd multiply.  By July, the conservatory window sill was covered in trays of succulents, ready for planting.  About 3 weeks before the wedding, we painted all the tins, tied rafia around them, filled them with soil and planted the little succulents.  It was tedious and time consuming but this was a repetitive job that mum was actually looking forward to!

On the day, they looked great, all lined up together at the entrance of the marquee.

Everyone took theirs home as a little momento of the day :) Some people thought I chose each succulent to represent them (i.e short and fat, tall and prickly, wide and hairy!) but I can assure you this was not the case!

Our honeymoon in Slovenia :)

I bought Elsie Flannigans book '52 scrapbook challenges' off Amazon a while ago and have used some of her pages as inspiration to do this scrapbook.  Alot of her pages are made up of circular backgrounds using different elements which is a great way use those tricky embellishments.

We stayed at Lake Bled for the week.  This page is mainly made up of a customised chipboard arrow, a jillibean soup fabric flower and some yummy thickers :)

I used a masking technique on this page and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  I have hundreds of little diamantes left over from making our wedding invitations so i've put a few on every page. Have also used some obligatory 'Love, Elsie' embellishments!

This was a very cool day out.  We went on a long walk through a few Slovenian villages before reaching this gorge which has a long wooden walkway through it.  We took loads of pictures and mini movies which was fun. The force of the water was incredible!