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Our wedding: handmade rustic wedding stationery with red and white string and luggage tags

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Like our ‘save the date’ cards, we also made all our wedding stationery. There was an invitation, a booklet of wedding details, a RSVP postcard, and a gift envelope. Everything was tied up together with red and white string with a tiny brown luggage tag onto which I hand-stamped our RSVP date.

I’m one of those people (I hope there are others out there!) who knows in my mind what I want something to look like, but don’t always know how to translate that into reality. So although here you can see lovely photos of the finished invitation set, it took a lot of attempts to get them ‘right’.

All these beautiful photos are taken by the fab man who snapped our wedding photos – Mark Tattersall.

Full details on how we made them to follow shortly! And would love to know your thoughts – anyone else as much a fan of brown card as I am?

Check back tomorrow for Part 1 of the ‘do it yourself’ series!

Images: Mark Tattersall Photography

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Sneak peek of our handmade wedding stationery

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Coming tomorrow…

And don’t forget to check out our handmade ‘save the date’ cards and details of how we made them if you haven’t seen them yet.

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Our wedding: handmade rustic ‘save the date’ cards

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Deep breath… I have been really nervous about sharing our wedding details, but I’m finally ready to take the plunge. Up first are our handmade ‘save the dates’. They are quite tiny, printed onto 100% recycled brown card and don’t need an envelope.

These shots were taken by our wonderful photographer Mark Tattersall and show the ‘save the dates’ open and sealed up.

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A special post delivery this morning – our wedding photos from Mark Tattersall

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I’m being told off by Mr Rigg for not helping tidy the house, but I was so excited by a parcel in the post this morning that I had to share it with you all.

A wonderful package arrived from Mark Tattersall, who did the photos for our wedding – two discs of our images, a booklet of all our photos in mini size, and a gorgeous black box with a stunning recycled wood memory stick of photos.

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Your help needed – where do I start with blogging about our wedding?

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1. Crafty DIY paper items
2. Collecting cow parsley
3. Sign painting
4. Jam jar lantern making

So I’m completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of trying to share photos and details of our wedding. I just don’t know where to start and decided the best option would be to ask where you think I should start.

Today we have finally seen the ‘official’ photographs taken by Mark Tattersall, which will obviously follow shortly (and are incredible!), but there were so many DIY projects, handmade elements, collecting of gorgeous treasures in the lead up to our wedding that I want to share those too.

I’ve included a selection of images here as examples (saving all my favourite bits for later).

5. Building an ice cream cone holder
6. Collecting old bits and pieces
7. Tiny flag making
8. Freshly washed vintage crockery

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I’m back and we’re married!

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On 21st May 2011, I married Mr Rigg at my family home in Gloucestershire. We had an incredible week leading up the ‘big day’, an indescribably wicked wedding day, and a fab honeymoon.

Today we are back to reality and still reliving the past two weeks. I have SO much to share with you all and can’t wait – not sure how I’m going to organise it, but really, really excited to tell you all about it.

Above it a picture taken on my wedding day of my little sister, my little brother (can you believe he’s only 15!) and me. Stay tuned for all the details of what we made, how we decorated the garden and church, what we ate, and of course what we wore (and more!).

Charlie

With two days to go…I haven’t got time to blog!

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It’s 10.30pm and we’ve just got back from a full day at my parents. Most exciting news of the day is that my uncle made a surprise appearance…from Australia!!! Can’t believe it, thought he wasn’t coming, and there he is at my house with my granny to help us get ready. Lovely.

Today:

My granny and mom have cleaned, sewed, and washed up many, many pieces of crockery.
My dad and uncle moved furniture, moved rubble, and painted.
My little sister has been helping amidst revising for a maths exam (tomorrow) and English exam (on Monday) – she helped me put up bunting, make mini flags, and put a lot of tealights into a lot of lanterns.
Mr Rigg has been the packhorse today, moving lots of tables, chairs, glassware and crockery.
And me…I have done stuff I just can’t remember what (and this is what leaves me to feel like I’ve not done enough about this time of night).

Loveliest part of the day (apart from my uncle’s surprise visit) was picking cowparsley with my mom as dusk fell, we even saw a deer.

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With three days to go…we are busy busy busy!

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A totally nondescript blog subject line, but a bit pooped this evening. All of us have been mega busy today:

Mr Rigg was up early to collect cider, then got to work ironing bunting, shifting gravel, painting guttering, to name but a few jobs.
My little sister came over to the cottage to help me print menus, decorate the flowergirl baskets, and a number of other making things.
My dad has been painting the living room and finishing off the downstairs bathroom.

The tents went up today (very exciting but can’t share photos yet!) and we ran through the plan for Saturday with my mom’s lovely friends who are going to be helping out.

And yes, with just three days to go until our wedding jobs like this are still going on…!

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With four days to go…we had a day out in the Cotswolds to remember why we’re getting married

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Today was all about having a day together to remind ourselve why it is we’re getting married. It seems so easy amidst the wedding chaos to forget that we’re just two people who fell in love and decided to committ to spend our lives together.

So today after we picked up my wedding dress (so, so exciting!) and cheese, we spent the day together pootling about the Cotswolds. We popped into Daylesford Organic and had a nice browse of their lovely products…

We went to The Kingham Plough for lunch and ate lovely seasonal, English dishes…

Then we had a wander around Lower Slaughter before picking up some freshly made mozzarella from Simon Weaver…

Somehow tonight we must find the energy to keep going with our long list of tasks to complete before Saturday.

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With five days to go…we are running errands and printing our order of service

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Today we woke up in our sweet little cottage that we are staying in this week and had a nice brunch…

We spent the morning (and will continue this evening) printing our order of service booklets (apologies for the blurring, but got to keep it a secret until after the day!)…