On November 23 2013, I married Neil Stevens. It was the loveliest day I could have hoped for, so I figured I would share it with you and tell you about some of the fabulous people that helped to make it perfect!
We started planning roughly 12 – 15 months before the wedding. We looked at a few venues, some of which were unnecessarily expensive and eventually settled on the Future Inn in Plymouth. When we booked, they had only just been given a license for civil ceremonies, so it was all a bit new to them. Luckily we had Ellie – a magnificent wedding co-ordinator from the Future Inn who was always on hand to reply to my emails and my many queries! They were incredibly accommodating on the day and couldn’t do enough to help us!
One of my first questions for Ellie was could I have confetti (a lot of venues have restrictions on confetti – so always remember to check with your venue). I was thrilled to find out I could have as much confetti as I wanted! So I set about making my own. I didn’t have a theme as such for the day, I wanted to do my own table decorations, eventually I decided our love of literature was the way forward. I made my confetti using heart shaped hole punches and set about creating a tonne of my own confetti made from a haul of Poldark books from a YMCA charity shop!
I made little pouches for my confetti out of more pages of Poldark and a few Hamish Macbeth books! I ordered some personalised stickers from eBay to secure them. I was so proud of them! Later in the evening, I noticed the hotel staff still hoovering up our confetti – it was even in the dining room the next morning. I wonder if they have reconsidered their confetti policy since!
I made my own table decorations too, out of cardboard numbers that I covered in more pages of more books. My husband decorated the tables on the morning of the wedding. I was very proud of the job he did!
We decided on cupcakes for our wedding cake, with a Lego cake topper. We used Cupcake Cotty who was marvellous and produced exactly what we wanted. She picked out the perfect greens and yellows and they were really tasty!
I was overjoyed with the bouquets, so I also ordered a button hole for Neil to match my bouquet. I also ordered a vast number of single stem buttons, which I turned into button holes for the guests (doubling up as another wedding favour!) and used the rest as intended – for table decorations.
I made my own sweetie buffet – sourcing sweets and jars from eBay, Amazon and my mum. It was a hit and there wasn’t much left over!
The Groom and Groomsmen had hired suits from Burtons Menswear.
So, in a nutshell, that was our wedding.
I’d love to hear about your wedding day, or are you planning a wedding?I’ll end with an excerpt of my amazing husbands speech, can you guess where its from?!
To paraphrase a very wise man; When we first met I think that my soul knew something that my body and my mind didn’t know yet. It knew that our hands were meant to hold each other… fearlessly and forever. It’s never really felt like I’ve been getting to know you, it’s always felt like I was remembering you from something. As if in every lifetime that you and I have ever lived, we’ve chosen to come back and find each other and fall in love all over again. Over and over. For all eternity. And I just feel so lucky that I found you so soon in this lifetime, because all I want to do, all I’ve ever wanted to do, is spend my life loving you.
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