Thesis submission and a wedding article!

Hello blog world!

I apologise for disappearing for the vast majority of January so that I could finish my thesis, but I am all submitted not and officially back.

This post is just a little prod to remind people I am here and also tell you about another project of mine that was recently published.

I wrote an article for Your Perfect Wedding 2013 magazine on the process of choosing and ensuring you get your perfect wedding dress.

It was a fun project and I ended up putting quite a bit of work into it (and got to talk to lost of people about their weddings) although they did cut some of it out. But its still my first in print freelance article!

Here's a couple of pictures from my article. I'm quite proud as you can probably tell...

On a side not the magazine looks quite helpful if anyone happens to be planning their wedding. I know looking at things like this certainly helped me.

Wedding Invitations for a Vintage Inspired Wedding

I thought I'd do a little post on wedding invitations for those of you I only know from afar!

I spend quite a lot of time stressing about the cost of wedding invitations. I had it in my head that I wanted those pouch style invites for a long time but seeing that the ones were available we're so expensive (around £5 each) I started to wonder if this was really what I wanted.

However during my blog reading I came across a post by Jeni Yesterday that mentioned Bride and Groom Direct for stationery.

Upon looking at their website I saw beautiful pouch style invites that I had longed for at the very reasonable price of £2-3 which was around half the price of so many of the others!

The style I opted for (upon the approval of my, at the time, fiance - thank goodness) were a lovely blue with the pink floral design and they were just what I had been looking for. Include in the price were envelopes for the invitations, printing costs, personalised messages, RSVP cards and envelopes and ribbons for tying it all together. It really seemed like a full package. You could also easily add notecards for a bit of extra cash but I printed my own to add to the invites.

I had a lot of fun practising calligraphy to write out the invitations although it got a little bit dull towards the end. I  currently writing out thank you cards an I have to say that this task is no less dull and time consuming.