Showing posts with label picture perfect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label picture perfect. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2016

part four - the pretty snaps.

as well as all the fun, on-the-go and candid shots of our big day (or days ha ha!), our photographer, luke (who took all of the photos in this post), also snapped some photos of us by ourselves, in a few different locations.

close up shot of wedding bouquet a snap of us in our wedding attire in the local park

the wee park a few houses down from our place in blackburn...

a photo amongst the vines on the roof of mr. price's food store

the roof of the restaurant we had lunch in after our wedding...

hanging out by the dam in our fancy clothes on my parent's farm a running leap into bb's arms in the bush allotment on my parent's farm

my parents farm...

taking a moment to rest on the couch, at the archies couch enjoying a quick refreshment break while waiting for all of our guests to arrive at the reception hall, a few doors down from the pub

aaaaaand the adorable country pub a few doors down from our reception venue!

as well as taking the time to take these shots, luke also took the time to capture the small details of our day...

close up of a pinwheel, with my bike behind close up of the make up artists palette

as well as some cute photos of photos! including me instagramming ha ha!

a photo of me taking a shot for instagram a photo of bb's grandfather, taking a photo of bb with his nanna

and then there were the fun bits and pieces, like a series of photos of me chopping wood.

an action shot of me chopping a piece of wood

why? why not!

it sure does make looking back over our photos a whole heap of fun! and they'll never not bring a smile to my face ha ha!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

part three - wedding celebration.

today's instalment of photos shares a little about our wedding celebration, the big party we had on the saturday following our little ceremony and celebration lunch during the week.

our original plan was to have this wedding celebration on my parent's property, and we had started looking into marquee hire and the like, when bb and i attended an event at an absolutely amazing little place...

the front of the archies creek hall, est 1901

the archies creek hall.
a super adorable little country hall, that had everything we had been looking at having to hire for our shin-dig, at a MUCH lower price tag. plus with a much cuter vintage spin to boot!

we invited everyone to arrive nice and early...

everyone finding a seat and a drink before we arrived

picking somewhere to sit, and settling in with a drink, to watch a little video from our special day that my father in law had edited together.

we then made a grand entrance...

dancing into the hall to 'come away with me'

dancing in for our 'first dance', right over to our wedding 'cake'

a stack of cheese wheels as a substitute for a wedding cake

being that bb isn't a big cake person, we opted for cheese! because who doesn't love cheese?

i was super grateful to my mother in law for putting this together, it looked so fantastic with all of the beautiful pieces of greenery and the crocheted band too!

slicing into our cheese 'cake'

we got the 'cake' cutting side of things out of the way too and while speeches were being made, our 'cake' was sliced up and served up for everyone to munch on as an entree.

handmade oregon cheese boards, getting prepped for the cheese entree

the cheese was served up onto boards that my dad and mum helped me to put together from giant lengths of oregon i picked up at a recycled timber yard.

cheese board nestled amongst greenery on the tables

i think they sat well on the tables among greenery picked on my parent's property earlier in the day.

oh and amongst the vintage crockery that came with the hall. a definite drawcard when it came to making my mind up about whether the hall was the right choice for us.

a vintage dinner plate, stacked with a vintage side plate, with a cloth napkin topped with a sprig of lavender side view of table setting with candle in the background

oh and the beautiful fish-bowl champagne glasses were a bit lovely too!

along with the cheese, we had a fabulous buffet-style dinner of roasted meats, vegetables and salads AND an amazing dessert buffet too!

and for entertainment, there was plenty of dancing...

guests dancing away to 'the nutbush'

nutbush is always a favourite.

and our awesome photographer luke (who, again, took all of these pictures!) hooked us up with a photobooth too.
it was SO much fun!

prop swap fun in the photobooth

the booth printed out picture strips for everyone to take home, and we got digital copies too. i think i might definitely need to share some of them in another post as they were just so cool!
for more details, check out the boothalicious site.

and finally, as our guests were on their way out, we encouraged them to take a plant...

trays of propagated roses ready for guests to take, accompanied by a chalkboard reading 'please take a plant home with you and help us to keep our love going'

roses that were propagated earlier in the year, from the yellow rose in our front yard in blackburn (i've shared it lots here on the blog!) but also, from the roses in my grandmothers garden.

it's been lovely having folks share how their little wee roses have been growing, some are getting quite big already!
i can't wait until they start blooming as there were lots of different roses that were propagated from my ma's garden. it's lovely to think that there are lots of little pieces of her garden out in the world.

i think i still have one or two more instalments to share... stay tuned ha ha!

Friday, April 15, 2016

part two - post-ceremony lunching.

after the ceremony, we had some fancy shots snapped (which i might share another day...) and met all of our guests for lunch at mr price's food store.

it was the perfect place for our post-ceremony lunching. warm and cosy and comfortable, with delicious food and fabulous service!

a quick smooch in the doorway of mr. price's food store everyone seated around the table, getting ready for lunch a single sprig of lavender on a cloth napkin, set with vintage cutlery and side plate fresh heirloom tomato, basil and bocconcini chicken and eggplant parmas, slow-cooked beed, vegetables, salad cutting the cake, complete with handmade cake topper made by bb's dad to look like us relaxing around the lunch table

i wanted to do a little something to thank our guests for coming along, and in true nicole style, it had to feature a little hand-made, or in this case, a lot hand-made!

screenprinted hand-made gift bags as wedding bonbonierre crocheted star wars figures, gifted as wedding bonbonierre

i mentioned that i worked on some screen printing at the craft session last year in an earlier post, but this was my main reason for wanting to do that workshop!
i screenprinted panels with our initials and a heart, and then whipped them up into bags for everyone.
i also got busy with some wool and a hook and crocheted up some little amigurumi star wars characters (using the patterns from this book) too! they went into the bags along with a wee jar of strawberry compote.

those few projects kept me very busy in the few weeks before the wedding, and as i wanted them to be a surprise for everyone attending, those closest to us couldn't work out why i was so stressed ha ha!

so that's day one pretty much shared... there's still day two to go to!
i'm really enjoying the process of going back through these photos are reliving the memories. so much fun!


the same as yesterday, all shots in this post were taken by our ace wedding photographer luke.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

a few wedding snaps...

i'm not entirely sure why it's taken me so long... but here are a few snaps from our happy day.
well day one of our happy day. we broke up our wedding into a few parts. our ceremony, in our backyard in blackburn with immediate family and close friends in attendance, followed by a beautiful celebration lunch in north melbourne. this took place on our 11 year anniversary which was a tuesday.
we then followed up the small, intimate ceremony and lunch with a bit bigger celebration on the following saturday, with extended family and friends helping us to celebrate!

i'll share photos over a few posts i think... today starting with the ceremony.

the front yard of our house in blackburn the backyard of our house in blackburn, complete with wedding bunting blue 'reid' cycle bicycle with hanging chalkboard sign and gerbera pots in the front basket white alannah hill dress hanging on garage door bb getting his buttonhole flower arrangement pinned in place slipping into my dress with my mum on zipper duty bb and i standing at the altar in the sunshine artsy shot of the peony that fell out of my bouquet mid-way through the ceremony and our feet having a little kiss at the altar a confetti shower of rose petals, raining down as we stride down the aisle, newly married a gathering of our guests and us, post-ceremony an awesome group shot of us and our guests, zany style!

all of our photos were taken by the wonderful luke lornie. my hair on the wedding day was done by my long-time hairdresser sool and my makeup done by the lovely candice.
bb and i both bought our weddings threads off the rack. mine was from alannah hill and is a style i KNOW i will be able to wear again!

next up will be a few snaps from our post-ceremony lunch... stay tuned!

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

100 days of creativity - week 2.

week two was a little slow going up onto instagram as the shorter days are definitely impeding on my photo taking time. i did get there eventually though ha ha!



a finish up of the beanie i started last week, as well as a start to a swatch for work, and a baby blankie with some yarns i was gifted as part of a yarn swap. ooh and there was a little fixing of my crocheted blankie that was developing a few holes after being on the couch for the last couple of years. and also a little end weaving on some wash cloths that my mum got to knitting.
i'm finding it quite hard to take interesting and different photos of my projects each day, so i think i'll keep juggling projects for the 100 days, so i don't bore everyone to tears...

what creating have you gotten up to this week?