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By Word Of Mouth’s Beautiful Bridal Day!
As we all know news being spread by word of mouth, normally travels the fastest. Whether you’re discussing the brilliant movie you’ve just seen, your embarrassing message you sent on Facebook, which you thought was private, turns out you wrote it on someone’s wall… or that girl who used to go to school with you and got pregnant by the woodwork teacher, and is now selling jams outside the Spar on Saturdays… Point is, news travels fast when it’s being told, discussed, whispered or shouted, by mouth.
So, the aptly named events company who definitely needs no introduction in South Africa, By Word of Mouth made my task very easy!
Splendid Inspirations
Splendid Affairs is a wedding decor company specialising in bespoke wedding decor – something personal, unique, stylish and always glamorous. The inspiration behind this table was vintage glamor coupled with the latest trend of using cut glass, crystal and silver as a prominent wedding decor items. The flowers are kept to the minimum and the focus is placed on other decorative items. Each table can have different items displayed, which you can keep as sentimental keep-sakes from your wedding day to treasure forever.
A Splendid DIY project from the pages of Splendid Affairs Wedding Magazine
Follow these very easy steps to create this gorgeous rose box which can become a centerpiece, or a gifts table decoration, or even a ring pillow!
For more inspirational ideas flip through the digital pages of Splendid Affairs February Issue.
Inspiration from the kitchen garden
I was visiting mom’s vegetable garden and spotted her chernobyl spring onions overgrowing in the far corner. Out came the scissors and I happily snipped the ball-shaped buds of these unusually large species. On the way in I passed by the lavender bush and out came the scissors again.
I made this arrangement in minutes (without prior flower-arrangement knowledge), so I’m thinking: maybe this kitchen garden look could go with my Mad Hatter’s Tea Party theme?
- Budding spring (onion) and Lavender
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Decor Photos
Those of you who have been paying attention will know that I started my own wedding photography business, Kat Forsyth Photography, this year. A few weeks ago Mrz Splendid’s company, Splendid Affairs, did the decor for Toadbury Hall’s part in the ‘Rock around the Cradle’ event, and she asked me to come along and take photos. Do I ever say no to that sort of thing? Um…no. :-)
Mrz Splendid does such beautiful flowers! Here are a few of my favourites. You can see more on my blog.
Spring Fair in Kensington
Just a quick note to let you know that the annual Spring Fair at Rhodes Park in Kensington is taking place this Sunday, 6th September. I love these flea markets where you can browse through other people’s junk and many surprisingly grotesque wares. But as a bride-to-be, I am hoping to find some cheap ceramic pieces for my Alice-in-Wonderland décor. I saw this idea on Realsimple.com of using an old soup tureen for the flowers, and I just love it! I’m also going to be on the look-out for old teacups and saucers… Why not go have a browse yourself?
Soup tureen for the flowers
Take a look: http://www.kensington.org.za/spring_fair_kensington.htm
Bling Wedding Cake Toppers
Bling Cake Toppers
Wow, feels like forever since I last posted on here sorry guys. Been diagnosed with a baby lol! and just got over all the sickness and tiredness but promise to load more in the future.
So this is my new fab find:) they certainly didn’t have these unusual toppers when I got married I have noticed a big trend in the last few months for unusual cake toppers and the ones with the couples fishing, shopping etc are so expensive and I think are R750!!!! So I thought I would look around and see what else was out there.
I looked at ordering one for my friends wedding off a website in London and they were 99 POUNDS – ouch! So I thought I would get someone to make them for me
Email me: mrsmack@iafrica.com if you would like some more info.
They really are divine and you can custom make them
Blinged with crystals makes these initial cake toppers are a fantastic way to enhance any special cake whether it be a wedding cake, an anniversary cake or even a special birthday cake. This initial could show your married name initial and two smaller initials to show the first name initials of the bride and groom.
Wedding cakes are important parts of a wedding celebration. It is something that represents your style, and it adds pizzazz to your wedding celebration. Finding the right cake topper for the perfect cake is not going to be hard anymore. With these Bling Crystal Monogram Cake Toppers your cake will be the one of the many parts highlighting you special day. Each Blinged Monogram Cake topper is a custom art piece, and is handmade.
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53 Days & Counting!
I have had such a hectic time with the decor arrangements and trying to cut down on the quote. After thinking the first decor quote of R9000 was too expensive we ended up getting a much better decor idea from SA Wedding Decor which came to almost R20 000! We’re moving towards a similar theme and feel to the below but after scrutinizing the quote and remembering that I am very creative, the centrepieces will be done by me and I am scrapping the white sheer organza overlays and the large white painted trees we were going to have as features on each side of the main table. We have so much else going on that we can safely do without these things. I’ve managed to get the quote down by R7000!
www.mixmingleglow.com
We were also lucky enough to get the very best gift of all from one of our MC’s and good friend. Read the rest of this entry »
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The NEW Theme
Today its exactly 7 months to the BIG day, we now have the venue sorted….YAY!!!! And we had decided on the décor and colors.
Everything’s going well you think…….mmmmm well it is but with a twist.
Mr Daisy decided that we should add some black into the picture and black doesn’t mix well at all with the colors or décor we decided to use. So after much debate I decided to work on another idea to show Mr Daisy that having a black “theme” wouldn’t look as nice as the “vintage” theme we had already decided on. On finishing the “mock-up” theme that included black for Mr. Daisy, I very unexpectedly fell in love with it, it was just so much more…….mmmm what’s the word……..vibrant, than the color scheme and theme we had already decided to use. Ideas for the new theme just kept rolling in, one after the other, It felt so good having a fresh idea to work with that I completely forgot about our previous theme. So here is an update on the NEW theme we are going to use….
The new colours - Black, Lime green, Gold, Light pink, Ivory
Don’t Stress Wedding Tips
In Style Weddings www.instyleweddings.com has great articles, tips and ideas for your wedding day to save you time and money which as a result will take down your stress levels. I think there is no better way to add a modern and elegant feel to the day than by adding bright bold colours to your theme.
Get the waitrons to serve colourful cocktails. There is a minimal extra cost, if any at all, to replace champagne or wine with cocktails. Also, why not use something affordable and colourful that guests will notice straight away for the escort-cards? This is the first thing they see before walking into the reception so make a statement. Going bold and vibrant adds glamour and style to any event and can be achieved for next to nothing if you just scan through some ideas. You’d be amazed what you can achieve.
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- Cocktails add colour
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- Escort Cards
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- Bright & Bold
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