Wedding Photos

It's been a long time coming (um, 2 years) but I've finally got around to hanging up some wedding photos in our home. During out wedding reception we had our photographer set up a blank background, and we provided some props for our guests to use in photos- we got some absolute gems, like this one of my great Aunt and Uncle,



This one of my Mum and Dad (on the left) with their University friends,



And this one of my cousins (note the thumbs up photo bombing.)



Michael and I also got in on the action- I've been meaning to frame this one for a while.



I took this old picture and popped the painting out of, then took to it with a can of spray paint.



I had the photo printed onto a block at Snapfish- A fun way of displaying photos, and a bit different to the usual canvas. I put them together, voilà! (Now I'm looking around to find other things to spray paint glossy red.)



The other photos I put up are a collection of my favourites in a multi frame from Briscoes. Although this family looks like they are having a rollicking good time at the beach, it was nice that my photos arrived so quickly from Snapfish.



I altered the frame a little, cutting out the divider between the two square holes at the top of the frame, so I could fit in the wedding car ute.



A nice wee tribute to our special day. And a not so wee tribute in an upcoming post......

Honeymoon

A few snaps from our honeymoon, we spent 3 nights at Warm Earth Cottage in Katikati, relaxing and unwinding after the whirlwind that was getting married!

Terrible slow shutter photo, which cannot convey the bliss which was this piping hot bath! It was light at dusk each night for us to enjoy.

I cannot recommend staying here highly enough, even if you can schedule just one night, the BBQ breakfast alone makes it more than worth it!!

Thank you

This weekend I made 70 thank you cards to send out to the wedding guests.

We used the leftover card from the invitations, and an image we had taken in the 'photobooth' we set up at the wedding dance, once everyone had consumed sufficient amounts of alcohol to put on really big sunglasses.

We also tucked in a copy of photos that people had taken, here are a few of my favourites:

My Great-Aunt and Uncle, who had their wedding reception in the same hall, 48 years earlier!

If you want to see the rest you can click on any photo which will take you through to my flickr page.

We plan on framing a bunch of these for in the hallway. If you're planning a wedding and have a photographer open to the idea, I'd really encourage doing this- we just picked up a few things at the $2 shop, I made some moustaches and the chalk board, and away we went. (All images except the first two are credited to our amazing photographer, who brought his studio backdrop to the wedding.)

So now I've just got to write in the cards!

Wedding Photos

We had our wedding photos taken by Glenn Bisdee, and I would highly recommend him for any photography you might be wanting done, especially in the Nelson area.

Also, I am probably the last person to discover and play with Poladroid, but on the off chance you haven't yet either, get yeself over there and download a copy- it's addictive and fun!

I'll let the pictures do the talking......

The Dress

We're back from getting married, back from the honeymoon, back to a puppy-dog with an infected neck (that Auckland humidity), an overgrown garden and 40 kg of peaches that snapped a branch off the tree. Is it possible that married life is better than just being engaged?

But I thought you might like to see a photo of the dress?

The 400 hours, made a hole in my index finger which still opens up when I handstitch, heirloom (when the thin lizzy comes out of the inside-thanks Mum!) dress.

Here it is after "finishing" it. When I got it home, Mum and Olivia pinned up the hem, and I had a few more hooks and eyes to sew on. I actually ended up stitching on the morning of too, I stitched down the wee hanger ribbons so they wouldn't ride over the top of the dress while I was wearing it.

Did you want to see it on? Well o.k. then!

Glenn Bisdee and his wife Thalassa shot our wedding photos, and I can't recommend them enough! You can check out a few online here, though you can be sure I will put some more up over the next few weeks.

Wedding Dress Update

I really didn't intend to be away from this space so long. No excuses, just life, and I don't like to apologise for that. I guess all I can say is that the blog is first to go!

I do offer up a appeasement though- not in it's final glory, but a few glimpses, a taste, maybe, of the 400 hours stiching......

I'm yet to hem it, when I get my shoes back I will stand and twirl while my sister pins the hem, and then maybe we will sit and chat and stitch with tiny stiches the hem, and then the lining to the hem.

I am back, but away for a week at a conference. When I get back, I hope to make room to be back in this space too.

Wedding Dress

Oh Wedding dress. Last time we met, I was struggling to make you work, and to take photos of you.

Now, you are beautiful. And deconstructed. If you want to see pictures, go here. If not, don't.

I bought fabric, and have unpicked my labour of love. From here on in, more cryptic photos as she starts to take shape, which should happen relatively fast now- I've already done the hard work!

Wedding Dress Muslin #2

Thankyou all for your kind words on how my dress is coming along- I'm so glad to have people to share it with that can see the potential!

Here's where we left off:



So the next step in the construction of this dress (once I worked out the funk at the back, which took a while, but when I stopped trying so hard it fell into place) was making the mock up of the next layer up.

Prehaps now is also a good time to point out I will be making the dress out of off-white silk, not a white sheet.



The bodice is constructed from two parts, with the bottom layer giving all the structure and support to the dress, and a fashion layer. My fashion layer will have lace and beading and embroidery and ruching and gathers. Phew! The part over the bust which is currently plain fabric will have beaded lace fabric, and the ruching across the hips will have bits of lace and beads sewn into it. And although I thought the ruching across the stomach and back possibly looked a bit weird the other day, it's photographed quite nicely. Because it's all about how it photographs, right?!

It's at this point Michael has asked to stop seeing the dress. So it now takes a few minutes of me bouncing around on my tippy toes, one arm twisted around my back and sucking in furiously in order to get the zip done up those last few centimetres. (Though it's actually quite comfy to wear, and somehow makes me stand up straighter. I suspect it's the boning. And I can breathe in it. Bonus!) It also took a balancing act (those blurs in the foreground are the pins in the pincushion the camera lens is sitting on) and a few trial and errors to get the camera self timer set up to take photos of my back and front for your viewing pleasure.



I haven't got that ruchy part round my hips right yet, I will be enlisting some help while I'm home.

But it's coming together quite nicely, and I'm not so far off buying the real fabric and letting loose. I'm not sure I trust myself!

Full length photo to come when I have someone to operate the camera!