June 8th 2013 - Our Wedding Day

Just a few of my favourite photos from the day, throughout the day...

Brooch Bouquets

Bridesmaids and Page Boys

Here Comes The Bride

Signing the Registar - Its now official 

Our First steps as Husband & Wife

Wedding Cake

Till Death Do Us Part

Wedding Party

Throwing the Bouquet - a special flower one, not the brooch one (ouch)

Our First Dance - John Legend, So High...

With This Ring...

We have had these rings pretty much from the get go.

 We knew from the offset how we wanted our wedding bands to be, so pretty much as soon as we set a date we went and ordered them.

They were a pretty large amount of our budget, but we agreed that no expense was to be spared on the rings we plan on wearing for the rest of our lives.

We based both mine and Luke's wedding band on my engagement ring.

White gold with diamonds and sapphires.

Luke opted for a plain band with 4 diamonds and 4 sapphires evenly spaced around it.

(Luke's Wedding Band)

I knew that i wanted a band that would link/fit into my engagement ring to make the look of one ring. I also knew i wanted it to sparkle so when we were discussing the design with our jewellery makers they showed me this 'cut' which when hit by the light dazzled the eye.

I also has 8 sapphires evenly spaced around the band.

(My Engagement Ring & Wedding Band)

I choose not to have any diamonds as i already had the diamonds in my engagement ring.

(All 3 Rings)

(Love)

I also knew that i wanted my band to be quite thick, i wanted it to stand out and be a focus point, a statement to show how proud i am of my commitment to marriage.

Its that one visual show to tell the world that you have already made that bond with someone, which is why i truly believe in wedding bands.

And if you havn't guessed already, the reason we chose to have 8 stones in each ring, is to pay homage to our wedding day and anniversaries to come

June 8th 2013

(only 9 weeks away, eek)

Send it in a Letter

3 months and 4 days till I become Mrs Kayley Jane Facey

I can not tell if I am more scare and anxious or super excited. Im not scared about marrying him, I knew from the first week i met him I was going to marry him, but standing in front of all them people...arghhhh

Im so anxious about how close it is aswell because i still have sooo much do. I still have the last few invites to send out, its thats crazy. At least they are all finished with now though. It was a very much long winded process.

I knew how i sort of wanted them and what i wanted to include in them, it was just a matter of getting it all drawn up, edited, printed and put together with a few fiddly hand bits along the way...

(first initial sketch)

Once I had my sketch for the main imagery sorted out i scanned the image in and produced the wording on my trusty mac.

Then a few lines and swirls added in around it and i had the main informative part of the invite done and dusted. 

(finished evening reception invite)

Next was my R.S.V.Ps. I didnt want the usual plain returns that you normally see, i very much wanted all the aspects of these invites to be very visual.

 but at the same time i didnt want the returns to be too over the top.

(Printed and ready for the scissors)

Next came the not so fun bit of making the Accomodation List and Directions. because there was going to be a vast amount of information and wording on here i wanted to keep the imagery very simple again.

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Now i had all the contents of the wedding invitations printed out on our snazzy paper and put in order it was a matter of next large task

envelope making

This took what felt like forever. i made each envelope by hand, drawing up the pattern, cutting it out and glueing it together. All the large red envlopes to hold everything in and all the little red envelopes for the R.S.V.Ps to be returned in.

however long winded it was i definately felt it added the personal touch to the invites and everyone so far has commented on how unique they are.

So well worth it i think!!

(Stuffing Envelopes)

And the last part of it all was creating what it was to be sent in. 

I knew that i did not want the usual envelope that gets opened and then discarded. So i opted for a fold out envelope that the information can be attached to.

Once again i drew out my own pattern and cut them all out one by one. I must say this was the easiest part to it all and the most rewarding because once they were all cut out and everything attached to them, i could look at the finished piece.

I was so happy with them.

It was then a matter of the finishing touches, i few gems here and there and the names and address and then...

the wax seal!!!!