Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

Monday, June 17, 2013

DIY Wedding

One of my favourite parts of planning our recent wedding was collecting and making props to place around our ceremony and reception locations.  Our wedding took place in Hobart, Tasmania and as we were living in Dubai when we got engaged the majority of our wedding was planned over the phone and email.  Gumtree and ebay became my favourite web sites at the time and my lovely Mum became our much needed 'on the ground' resource.

My favourite finds were the box of vintage glass bottles and decanters that Mum picked up from an old farm (she drove over 3 hours each way to pick them up!), the hundred or so old vintage plates that we sourced and the old apple picking ladders we picked up for only $5 each and the seller even delivered them for free (that's the helpful Tasmanians for you!)

We also had lots of help from our amazing friends and family who helped collect bits and pieces or donate their treasures.  We had a loose theme of 'Vintage Travel' and had so many ideas of what we wanted to use but at the same time we didn't want it to look too gimmicky.  We were really happy with how it came together on the day and had the best day!




M xx

- If you know anyone getting married in Tasmania that would like to hire any of the above let me know x





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Monday, March 25, 2013

Drinks Dispenser


You may have noticed in my last post the mason drinks dispenser I had on my DIY drinks trolley.  I bought the drinks dispenser from Pottery Barn a while ago as I had plans to use it for a drinks station at our wedding.  My plan was to buy several vintage looking drinks dispensers and serve fruit cocktails which were to be served in mason jars. 

Unfortunately we didn't get to use them on the day but I have been able to put my mason drinks dispenser to good use at home since.  We've used it to make sangria for our Sangria Sundays sessions with friends, we've taken it to parties to make a pimms cocktail in or simply used it for water with fresh lemon and lime at our bbqs.  It has been a really useful purchase and  visually looks great with what ever you put inside.

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With Pottery Barn soon to be opening in Sydney you will be able to buy from their great range of drinks dispensers directly and save on shipping fees.  If you can't wait til then Down That Little Lane has a great range too.  You can shop their range here.

M xx



Images: here, here and here