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In My Lover Era: Handpicked Wedding Essentials For My Fall Wedding
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items Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are tying the knot… but so am I! With just one month to go until my big day, this list is packed with the wedding tips, tricks, and must-haves we’ve used so far (just incase Taylor needs some ideas 👀)
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Wedding day decorations
Gifts
Stationary
We chose to DIY a lot of our stationary and it was so afforable and looked so good!
IF YOU MAKE A WEDDING PURCHASE, LET IT BE CANVA PRO. Honestly everything has been somewhat designed on canva, and whilst we didn't use the pro version for the Save the Dates, I found it was a lot easier later having the pro options, especially for th...
Designing The Invites
So after a wave of weddings in our circle using Save the Date magnets (which are still on our fridge) we knew straight away that we also wanted to do the same and found vista print to be the best for printing any stationary we designed our selves, in...
Save the Date Magnets- actually not that expensive!
Again with the vistaprint (we used them for literally everything possible) We did find that you can chop and change a little bit depending on your preference so we ended up not actually ordering the ‘Wedding invites’ but rather a ‘details card’ as it...
DIY Wedding Invitation Cards
Vistaprint should just sponsor me at this point, because you guessed it, we also used them for almost all our signage. Using canva to design them, we found vistaprint foam boards to again be the best option on the market, i was slightly concerned the...
What To Do For Wedding Signs?
They very much are a trend these past few years and i found crosswordlabs to be the easiest place to generate your crossword…please dont try to make it from scratch in canva, it really isnt worth the pain! I found creating it on crossword labs to be ...
Sip and Solve Wedding Crossword- how to?
We actually haven't had to do these. In the list of things Hawksmoor have been amazing for- they have offered to make these for us, which was a wonderful surprise!
If i did do them it 100% would be a canva and vistaprint job!
If i did do them it 100% would be a canva and vistaprint job!
Wedding Day Menu and Place holders- the freebie we didn’t expect!
Is this technically stationary? Eitherway- this was a lovely Tiktok find and is currently the number 1 contender for our guestbok!
Playing Cards As A Guest Book
Wedding day decorations
We decided to choose the fun and difficult route of DIY, which has definitely been a learning curve. The amount we have saved has made it all worth it… however our flowers are not quite at the level of the Swift/Kelce Proposal
As we are doing bud vases for our wedding- these have been amazing for adding a pop of colour but still keeping the green!
Small Orange Flowers
I ordered so many of these, you can cut them into smaller stems with a pair of pliers (or pull really hard) so these have been in my bridesmaids bouquets and our tablescapes!
Romantic Rose & Peony Bouquet
You do have to stab the heads onto the stem but these are such a lush colour and are one of the main flowers in my bridemaids bouquets!
Artificial Peony Flowers
These have been my faving grace for my bouquets as they work really well to fill it and add some more dimension that you would usually get with real flowers, im loving having some of these sticking out!
Lush Green Faux Pine Needle
We actually used two of these, initially as decor for a spiral staircase at our first planned venue but then for fireplace decoration at our new venue ! We did cut off the leaves that stuck out too much which made the world of difference!
Autumnal Artificial Flower Garland
I loved these! We got these ones and then a similar pair on Amazon to go on our welcome sign and seating chart and they are so easy to place and look so good!
Vintage Artificial Flower clips
DO NOT SLEEP ON THE RANGE These were amazing to separate and put in our bouquets!
Rose Hydrangea Flower Bunch
Another little bouquet which we used in our own, they look so good!
Rose Stem Bouquet
Nice and easy this one- we have put this along our staircase for a little pop of colour, luckily not only did we buy some- our venue and our friends also lent us some with fairy lights for cover the balconies and stairs!
Decorative Vine Garlands for The Stairs
We wrapped this with an orange rose version and have used this as decoration for the ceremony table which looks absolutely lush! We debated using them in the stairwell but wrapping them with the orange version really bulked it up. Thankfully our frie...
White Rose Garland and Orange Rose Garland
Thankfully our venues are both really happy with us using real candles and due to 3/5 members of book club all getting married in the past year- i have been donated a lush collection of candles!
Pillar Candles- please check with the venue!
Sheins finest on this one- as our venue doesnt supply linens, we have supplied our own tablecloths (thankfully my grandparents used to own a guesthouse so have tonnes) To spruce them up, we have just ordered some table runners from shien which also m...
Table Runners, table clothes and tiebacks
IS this decor though? As a huge book nerd, it seemed like a no brainer to have book page confetti. We chose to make our own, thinking it would be cheaper, however we broke 3 heart hole punches and just about lost our sanity with how long it took… jus...<3
Book Confetti- a personal touch
Gifts
We have had such a mission trying to find gifts for people, and even a month out- we still havent got these all sorted!
Etsy has been awesome for these, as everyone is travelling up to the wedding, we have been cautious not too do too much and also not to end up getting the parents generic tat that they wont use, so as something they will use but also highlights their...
Mother of the Bride/Groom Candle
Again with the etsy finds, both mothers have a personalised trinket dish (the one we have found allows for you to add a photograph in as well), these are keepsakes that will actually be used and a better option than using our money on something that ...
Personalised Trinket Dish for the Mothers
As our families can lean towards the sentimental side, both sets of parents have a poem from the bride- thanking them for their involvement and paying tribute to their influence. I think this is such a sweet way to show appreciation- without taking u...
Personal Poem For The Parents
Another one that likely has been seen everywhere but is such a cute touch- as a family of criers, this was a nice keepsake that again has its uses! i was amazing to see how much you can personalise these and the variety on them!
Happy Tears Hankies
We are providing ties for the fathers of the bride and groom so have got these to iron into them as a hidden touch- neither father is overly sentimental however the small touch is just enough!
Photo Tie Patch
Very generic fathers gift,however as neither father is a huge drinker or into the typical ‘father’ hobbies - we have got them some funny personalised socks as an extra little gift
Father of the Bride Socks
As a groomsman gift, we have got each of them personalised cufflinks in an engraved wooden box. Ours surprisingly were from shein however were really good quality! These are going with a small bottle opener and a miniature bottle of whisky in the gro...
Customized Cufflinks for the Groomsmen
As my grandparents used to live in Skye, it is somewhere very close to my heart that i have always wanted to share with my other half, so we did a 14 hour road trip up to Skye and to the Skye candle factory to get all the bridesmaids (any myself) one...
Isle of Skye Candle for the Bridesmaids
As we are having quite an autumnal wedding, I dont want my girls getting cold in the morning or once they go back to their hotels so everyone has a mini hot water bottle with fluffy socks. As a cosy girl at heart- i did also treat myself to some!
Hot Water Bottle And Socks Gift Set
As we are trying to keep gifts small and easy for travel- nothing beats a mini travel jewellery box! especially as theyre all getting a pair of earrings and some hair jewellry to go in it!
Small Jewellery Boxes For The Bridesmaids