Finally gotten around to taking some photos of the invitations I designed for a friend – you can see a bit of the construction process and tips here. Taking photos of invitations is hard! I also had to blur out the lovely scripty font I used in the interest of keeping names and details secret. [...]

Attended my first hens night ever over the weekend! We started the night at my place with champagne, snacks, photos and games, then went on to dinner, drinks and dancing. A fabulous night was had by all! I blame this wedding obsession for making me go a little over the top with decorations… but they [...]

I’m really feeling kraft paper at the moment. There’s something wonderfully earthy about it; the interesting texture makes simple, single colour designs look awesome; and in many cases it’s made of recycled material. Also, and importantly, it’s way cheaper than your average fancy shiny weddingy paper. I took a look around Etsy for some cool [...]

This is such a great cheat for getting beautiful hand-lettered (sort of) calligraphy without having to hire someone to do it. Basically it involves printing directly onto the envelopes/whatever so it’s just visible, then tracing over it with an appropriate coloured pen. I can imagine it being a little time consuming, especially if you have [...]

This morning during my pattern making class, I asked my teacher if she knew of any local dressmakers who could make my wedding dress. She suggested that I try making it myself, if the design isn’t too complicated (it isn’t). I’ll already have my basic blocks* and know-how from pattern-making class, and since I was [...]

Loving some of the ideas for decorating using old books posted on Re-Nest recently. The branch using the pages as leaves above is gorgeous, and the one about creating 3D art and ‘vases’ out of books could make a pretty easy, unique and cheap centerpiece. I’d feel a bit bad cutting up books, but if [...]

Chandeliers are awesome. I would consider hanging chandeliers as decoration, if I wasn’t terrified they would fall on guests. Not really something I want my wedding to be remembered for. Anyway, I was thinking that while a real chandelier could pose a bit of a threat (not to mention cost), a paper cutout would be [...]

Being a designer, I’m really really excited about the stationery part of this whole wedding planning thing. It’s way too early to even start playing around with ideas for mine, but I’ve offered to design invitations for a few friends who got engaged around the same time as me. We spent this morning putting together [...]

Living in one of the more small and isolated capital cities in Australia, you tend to not see very many local weddings featured in non-local magazines and blogs. So it’s always a nice surprise to see one, particularly ones done really well and that I feel like I can relate to! This wedding (+ part [...]

Just a few practical challenges that I want to try and keep in mind while planning this wedding. make, recycle or buy second-hand wherever possible if it’s not possible, try to buy handmade or from small local businesses never be ashamed to bargain never be ashamed to DIY things find a way to reuse, re-purpose [...]