Escort cards
Something that stumped me for ages was escort cards - to have or
not to have, and then if we did have them, how would they fit in with the
vintage theme? Only a few weeks before the wedding we finally decided on
using skeleton keys, an idea we had dismissed before due to the lack of reasonably priced keys
in our local area and I couldn't think of an original way to display them.
Luckily we found a fabulous seller on etsy who sent us some perfect
keys super quickly, and we had a lucky find with a wooden ladder at my in-law's
house. I really wanted the keys to have some relevance so we attached a
white luggage tag to each key with a guest's name and seat number on one side
and the open ended sentence "the key to a good marriage is..." on the
other. The comments we got were priceless and I think the whole thing
added a little bit of fun to the evening while we were away having photos.
(All photos courtesy of Lauren Waye)
I am still trying to figure out the best way to display them
now – at the moment they are set out on a normal corkboard but eventually I would like to add a nice frame.
Here are some other ideas for escort cards I found on the net:
What to wear
We wanted our clothes to fit in with the vintage style as
well. There are some vintage wedding dress sites on the net, but I think the dress is one thing you really need to do in person. There would be nothing more terrible than ordering your dream dress only to try it on and be disappointed. Besides, it is so much fun trying on wedding dresses! I was very lucky to find the
perfect lace dress in a little boutique in Armadale, Melbourne - it was a new dress but in a vintage style, and a great price because I bought it off the rack.
My daughter Amelie and son
Oliver were naturally going to be flower girl and page boy respectively and
they also needed to look the part. I
searched high and low for the appropriate dress for Amelie, and could only find
frilly white taffeta numbers which are lovely in their own right but not what I
wanted. Then my sister told me about an
amazing Sydney
company called Tea Princess who make absolutely beautiful clothing for girls up to 8 years old, all with a
very vintage look. I chose the Amelia
dress (strange name coincidence) with matching headband – Amelie and I both thought
she looked gorgeous in it!
(Photos by Lauren Waye)
Oliver was nearly two years old at the time of the wedding and finding something for him to
wear was a lot more difficult. After a
lot of online searching we ended up using a lady in Tasmania who has a company called Blame The Baby . She was very helpful with sizing issues and it didn’t take long to arrive once
we had ordered it. But I must say, it
would be pretty hard for a two year old boy to NOT look cute in a suit:
(Photos by Lauren Waye)
Shoes were just cheap ones from Kmart because I thought all the formal ones looked too much like school shoes, and his tie matched the groom and groomsmen's ties - we bought them from an etsy seller called matilda and me.
The vintage touch my husband added to his outfit was a fobwatch, a great find at the Paddy's Market in Sydney:
(Photo by Lauren Waye)
Cute matching one for Oli too!
A bit of a break from wedding talk...
I know there are other things in life besides weddings, although when you are planning one it certainly doesn't feel like it! Cakes and their presentation is another of my obsessions that add sunshine to my day. My good friend Kerryn recently discovered a very cool plate stand called "Serve it Up" that can be attached to any plate by way of suction cup. It comes in large and small so you can even stack it:
They are made by Fusionbrands, and we just had to buy one for our friend Paula's recent birthday; we got ours from Kitchen Warehouse. What a great idea don't you think? Much cheaper than buying a whole plate stand and easier to store as well.
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