Vanessa's Wedding

 And at last I can share the fabulous photos of Vanessa's wedding.Yes those gorgeous dresses being worn in real life!
Dan Jones is the brilliant photographer who caught these images on camera, excellent job done here.
The incredible pom poms and by The North Pom, this is how to decorate properly with poms, you want hundreds and this is the most spectacular vision of brightly coloured pom poms I have seen.

Vanessa and her super talented entourage made everything look totally beautiful for this wedding, the attention to detail was incredible and Vanessa even set up a crafting group to help with all the decoration making for the day. It's a great idea and you can continue on afterwards for the next wedding or event.

Even the beers were specially brewed and labels by Vanessas husband Mr B and they wrote the table plans on the windows of the village hall with glass markers. There are just so many wonderful ideas from Vanessa's wedding and all of it 'home made' which makes it all the more fantastic.


You can read more about Vanessa's wedding and her creative daily life along with her little son Joel's adventures here. 

Note: having creative friends and a designer husband to be is very handy indeed, value them greatly always. Congratulations Vanessa, Mr B and Joel!!!!!


Credits and links: 

Dresses: Us Alexandra King!
Photography: Dan Jones Photography
Pom Poms: The North Pom
Shoes: Rachel Simpson
Bus: Cumbria Classic Coaches 
Venue: A Local Village Hall - village halls make the best venues for DIY weddings.
Photobooth props, table numbers and decorations: all made by friends, family and Mr B (Vanessa's husband)

Tropical Yellow Bridesmaids

 The second instalment from Vanessa's wedding wardrobe. You can read about her smokin' wedding dress here. 
Vanessa chose a fabulously bright yellow, fuchsia and fresh green over sized Amy Butler floral print that when you see the pictures, couldn't have been a better choice. For ages the print tormented me from the corner of the studio whilst I worked on other dresses, it was especially vibrant during the grey weather at the beginning of the year.

The design evolved when Vanessa and her lovely maids came down to the studio (all the way from Cumbria!) and went from a sheer silk round necked bodice to the gathered strap design with the sheer keyhole back. This design worked really well on both the girls and I love the fine edging on the sheer silk. Anna worked wonders with her beautiful stitching here.

Teamed with huge three layer pink underskirts and a pleated silk belt to match some divine Rachel Simpson fuchsia pink shoes.

The pictures of the wedding are coming next week ...... if you click the Rachel Simpson link above there's a preview!

Vanessa's smokey grey dress ....

(I'm resisting 'shad of grey' here, my girls are way too intelligent for it to even be a joke).
 Today I'm going to show this first instalment from a colour popping, Pom Pom filled wedding up North. This is where that soft grey tulle dress you all love originated and Vanessa's beautiful deep grey and coral wedding dress was a dream come true to work on.

The dress made in a floating soft tulle in smokey grey was an inspiration making all colours around it totally pop. Vanessa art directed her wedding to the finest detail and this was also the case with the wardrobe, she really knew how she wanted everything to look resulting in some stunning ideas.

Vanessa's dress was then studded with coral Swarovski crystals, trimmed with metallic gold edging to the underskirt and finished with a coral silk belt all the match the gorgeous Rachel Simpson silk and leather shoes.

Coming up next in the 'Vanessa series' will be the bridesmaids .......... These are totally gonna brighten your day :)

N.B A few of you may have noticed that things have been quiet online for a bit and this is down to us loosing complete internet connection for 30 days! The mast has been damaged and the lovely 'three mobile' are less that quick about fixing it. It's still not how it should be but we are slowly getting up to date out here in the countryside.