In The Beginning

The Venue was the easy part.

We got married at Monk Fryston Hall Hotel

On the 23rd December 2013

I wanted a christmas wedding, and this venue is perfect for it, it is so warm and cosy and old english. Can't ask for better. Plus all the staff are lovely :) and the christmas decorations were perfect, so we didn't need any venue decorations at all :)

Ok Venue and Date - Check

Next..............

December 2012, at this point I was thinking about the cake and the invites.

But it wasn't until very last minute that these were decided.

So next point of call was actually the ladies favours.

photos by ollievision photography

My mum bought all these robin tree decorations in January - now thats organisation for you.

But we wanted to personalised them somehow.

We tried stamping their bottoms with a stamp, however the ink never dried :(

So I bought some little wooden tags off ebay, painted them with either glitter or gold paint, then stamped my stamp onto the tag, and tied them onto the bird with twine - perfect tree decoration to remember our day by. 

(I have missed out how these birds were sat with mayonnaise on their bums for days, to try and get rid of the red smudged ink. We got there in the end -good as new ;)....)

Also My little 10 year old sister made all of the little santa sacks which we put the robins in, 

which she handed to all the ladies at the wedding during the meal.

Then it was time to dress hunt!!!