So... I have some news

For those of you wondering about the pause in my regularly scheduled programming, I have some news! I went for a wonderful holiday in the lake district with my mum, and when I got home I was welcomed with a proposal!! We’re getting married!

I am so excited for the wedding, but mostly to be finally married to my boyfriend of 10 years who is now my fiancé.

Arthur would like me to tell you that his hair doesnt usually look like this

As we are planning to do it really soon, at the start of July, it has been all systems go. I have been trying to get some key things into place - work has been a bit all over the place, like my brain right now. It’s stressful isn’t it?? There is definitely a balance to be had between having a budget wedding and making sure all 120-150 of our guests feel full and happy - definitely tricky. It’s a challenge that should be fun though (provided I don’t have a nervous breakdown!).

There are so many ways that style systems are influencing my thinking. I did a brief breakdown of this on reels, but I thought I would dive into more depth here

The dress

I have actually already ordered a dress!!! I am so desperate to show you guys but I’m going to wait until the day, it’s only right. But I can tell you a little about my thought process. I’ve always known I want a vintage dress - it’s always been a dream of mine that I want a DIY wedding as much as possible, and keep the costs low, and a vintage dress is a great way to do that. I love vintage clothes, and I find them much more exciting than modern dresses as they have a story and a history - I love that. They also tend to be more modest, and frankly made with better materials and better quality - if they can last a few decades, they can last for my day.

When I was younger I always wanted a 1950s dress, but the more I’ve learned about what suits me I think the very poofy style may not be right for this day, as I want to feel elegant and simple is better for my features. I had my eye on a couple of late 60s-early 70s dresses on Etsy, but decided ultimately that the ones I could find were too white for my features and would overwhelm me. I did lots of searching, and finally came to the dress I have ordered (which hasn’t arrived yet - so it could still not be the one!). I won’t tell you too much about it, but it is from the 1960s and I adore it, I am so excited to wear it - you will get a full behind the scenes look after the wedding of me trying it on etc

Bridesmaids dresses

I knew from the first moment that I wanted a colourful, bright summer wedding, and so having different coloured dresses for my bridesmaids makes so much sense. This also gives me an opportunity to make the dresses somewhat colour season and body type friendly. The types in my wedding party include:

• medium short round / light spring

• wide medium straight / dark winter

• wide medium medium / true autumn

• wide short round / true autumn

• narrow short medium / dark autumn

So the majority of my wedding party has quite similar body types and seasons really - we have a lot of autumns! At the same time I know I want pastel-like shades, so I will try mostly to fit warm with warm, cool with cool

Theme

collage made from pins in my personal Pinterest board you can view here

My flower style root is absolutely going to lead this wedding. Essentially, I want it to feel sweet, feminine, delicate. It’s a great example of how different style roots from your 3 might come to the forefront for different things - it makes sense for my flower root to take the lead here as weddings do tend to be soft, romantic affairs! But my other roots are here too - my flower root says “be colourful” but my mushroom root says “but muted”, my mountain style root says “feel expensive” and my mushroom root says “but simple” (my budget says that too 🤣). I can really feel how the three roots are bouncing off of each other. Of course, I also take my boyfriends roots into account - but we have mushroom and mountain in common which makes things simpler.

I think style roots can play a huge role in your wedding as the idea is to create something you love. You might be tempted to opt for a neutral, elegant wedding that you see on pinterest and then find it doesn’t bring you enough joy if you have the sun root, or opt for something light and girly and find that it doesn’t feel like you if you have moon or stone roots. My cousin’s fiancee (now wife) has a little emo streak and this came out in her wedding for example with darker, moodier table designs which I absolutely loved. Similarly with wedding dresses, it can help you rule out dresses that don’t feel like you - I knew I wanted mine to be elegant, soft and traditional, a little nostalgic because of my style roots and that helped me to completely ignore things like tighter dresses that I just know won’t feel like me.

For the theme, I also wanted to take into account the fact that it’s a countryside wedding, have it feel very English and to honour where I grew up (which is where the wedding will be). Our wedding is going to be in our village church where Arthur and I went to primary school together, and the reception will be in my parents back field

Us 10 years ago where we’ve just got engaged!!!

I want our wedding to feel like this period of our lives when we first starting “going out” which mostly consisted of holding hands and going up the woods with our mates 🤣. We fell in love (lol it sounds so gooey I know) hanging out in nature, chilling in meadows and fields and I’d love our wedding to capture that feeling - lots of grasses, lots of flowers.

I feel so happy that we are going to be married, and that we’re going to have a wedding. I do apologise that my one week break ended up in a two week break - but I promise I am back - if a little mentally scattered right now.

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