the love party: flowers + candles

Hello! :)
And a giant, joyous, loved up hello at that. I am now a married young woman! Thank you to those I received well wishes off. It’s terribly difficult to sum up our day in a few words, or a few paragraphs or even a few pages. It was beautiful and intimate and natural and happy. I can honestly say I haven’t been so overwhelmed with happiness or felt so pretty, ever. You will remember me stressing a little over the snow melt up here, of how all I wanted was a white wedding. Well, that certainly didn’t happen, but the bright sunshine and blue-green mountains and burnt like grass worked together to present us with the most beautiful surroundings in what culminated in a hippies-run-to-the-field feel for our photos. Nothing could have been better. It was wonderful.

Now, who needs a photographer when you have friends and family like mine!? We collected everyones digital photographs, and I have spent hours upon hours editing them, (believe me, this was no chore. What that really means is I spent hours upon hours with the goofiest smile on my face reliving the memories that I otherwise would have forgotten due to unforeseen amounts of adrenaline running through my body!) and now we have a perfect collection of love laden images.

Having a bouquet made never crossed my mind, that whole idea just didn’t felt right to me. I knew I wanted everything to be as simple as humanly possibly, but if there were to be one big pop!, one element to be caught by everyone’s eyes, I envisioned that being my flowers; big, beautiful, robust natives. Colors of a blooming spring and a burnt summer, even though we were in a winter environment. That’s what I imagined: that’s what I got. I ordered cut bunches of Australian natives including a whole range of coccinias, leucadendrons, warratahs, proteas, kangaroo paw and an abundance of blue gum as foliage.
As I sat up in my room, my nerves were running wild! I had the shakes, I was sipping bubbles in an effort to calm them, and I was literally pacing while I thought of everything else that I still had to do… like flowers and candle arrangements and setting up! Low and behold though, Mumma Bear had it sorted, to say the very least. A few rubber bands and a rogue piece of ribbon: voila! My bouquet :)

She did well didn’t she? I spend $140 on flowers (best $140 I’ve ever spent) and we had loads left over, so they contributed to the rest of the flower arrangements…

So… I thought I would break the wedding review up into chapters. Not only will that prevent you from becoming bored, but I can, very vainly, draw out this process that I am certainly not ready to let go of! Next time I might write about the dress, or the tears (not from me, believe it or not), or the food or dancing… I’m not sure, it was all a highlight for me, and it was all something I am so happy to share with you, my online friends :) Happy Hump Day!