Too much of a good thing is wonderful

When planning a wedding, it’s not hard to get sucked into the massive inspiration catalogue that is the internet! Following as little as an hour, you can have produced a whole book of ideas on everything from venues to napkins to underwear!

As overwhelming as your collection may seem, this is actually a good thing! Weddings  have a funny planning timeline which means you often do a lot at the start and in the final weeks coming up to the big day, but you are left with a giant hole in between... this is the ideal size and shape gap for getting down and dirty with the prit-stick and scissors, working all those amazing ideas in to your day!

So many brides worry about sticking to themes and that a mish-mash of different ideas pulled from different places won't “go” together... but at the end of the day, if YOU picked these things, and YOU love them, it will all work together for YOU.

We went through a similar phase!- Shooting weddings mean that we get to see peoples different ideas on an almost weekly basis, and we picked up loads of tips in the months leading up to our wedding day from other brides and grooms. We also spent hours on blogs such as “Rock n Roll Bride” scoping all the unique weddings that get posted on there, and scooping up every ounce of individualism as we went... 



A medley of mix and match madness from our marriage!
(Photos by John Alexander: http://www.jeaphotography.co.uk/)



We ended up making EVERYTHING for our wedding, and it pretty much all had a different feel to it... we mixed travel theme place settings with vintage boating ticket favours, modern photobooth save-the-dates with country garden flowers, an old-school juke box with purple stripy socks!



Everything was different, but everything was relevant to us, and people knew it as soon as they walked into our venue- the creativity and uniqueness of everything was one of the biggest talking points of the day, and we are so proud to say that our wedding was truly US.

At the end of the day, you can never have too much of a good thing.

In fact, too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Love,