From Our Wedding Pinboard

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I'm starting a new feature today which is a little overdue... Obviously since becoming engaged I have been pinteresting like no tomorrow, collecting inspiration images for our wedding. All of our ideas a very broad at the moment, I'm reluctant to settle on a theme just yet... But I thought I would share a few of my recent favourites from our pinterest board here, so we can all bask in the pretty wedding loveliness. 

These images conveniently happen to be from some of my favourite wedding blogs, which I am now even more obsessed with: 

// Rock n Roll Bride (of course, my absolute fav - has anyone been getting the new magazine? So great!!) 

// Festival Brides - has great advice for outdoor weddings

// Love My Dress - so many beautiful and touching stories, as well as amazing images. 

// Whimsical Wonderland Weddings - I particularly love the village hall wedding linked above! So cute, and along the vibe we will probably be going for...

Do you have any favourite wedding blogs you recommend? 

x Rachel 

Photo Shoot Preview

On Monday we held a little Easter picnic in our garden, and combined it with a photo shoot for some new Pointless Pretty Things products. It was so fun! I made a ribbon backdrop and set up a lounge area, and we ate lots of food and drank tea from teacups. Thanks to two of my beautiful besties for being wonderful models. 

I've been working on this new range of wedding accessories for a while now, and I am SO excited to finally release them next week. 

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine...

x Rachel 

Fun Save the Date Ideas

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We've just set our wedding date for next year (eee!), so naturally I've been having a look around for inspiration for our Save the Date invitations. There are so many great ideas out there, but I thought I'd put together a bit of a round-up of some of my favourites. How cute are those hand illustrated options from talented Etsy sellers? And my personal comedy favourite is the "SAVE" the date, literally... So silly but so good. 

I think we might end up going with a mix of photo/DIY/collagey sort of vibe - but it is so hard to choose! 

Which is your favourite? 

x Rachel 

Wedding Planning - The Big To-Do List

As I mentioned in this post in January - Jake and I got engaged over Christmas! It's been a very exciting time behind the scenes over here, visiting venues, drawing up budgets and pinteresting (obviously)... We're getting excitingly close to booking our venue, so I thought it was high time I wrote the first (of many I'm sure) wedding planning post. 

We're looking at Summer next year, so we have plenty of time - but having designed weddings for other people before and knowing how much work is involved, we knew that we wanted to get organised as soon as possible. To start us off, we made this big planning board to act as our master todo list - it really is the list to end all lists! 

We sat down together and just blurted out every possible thing we thought might come up during the wedding planning, organised them into different categories, and wrote each task on a separate bit of paper (colour coded of course). The board is divided into three sections: the main list, the area of focus, and the "done" area. As you can see, we have barely started! But it's so satisfying to move things over to the completed section. 

What I like best about this method, is that it's a really great way to look at everything all at once in a digestible way. Having each task on a separate bit of paper that you can move around, or take away all together, is so helpful. We can decide what tasks we're focusing on each month, and just concentrate on them rather than being overwhelmed by everything all at once.

Our list is probably a little bit over-kill, and a lot of it will probably be irrelevant as decisions start to be made, but it has been really useful to have everything we're thinking about out in the open and in such a visual way. I'm sure a lot of people think we are total freaks - some of our friends have definitely had a little chuckle/eye roll on seeing this up in our house! But putting on shows/events is what both of us do for a job, so we can't help but geek out a bit... 

Does anyone else plan like this? Any tips from any of you? 

x Rachel 

Coming Soon - New Sparkly Wedding Stuff.....

Lots of exciting things happening in the studio this week! I am in super making mode at the moment, working on lots of new prototypes for the wedding season... I am right in the middle of designing and testing a few new lines for the Pointless Pretty Things shop, which will be released soon, but I just couldn't wait to share some sneaky pictures with you! 

Expect luxe, sparkly copper tones, new breeds of paper flowers, and most excitingly.... a whole range of flower crowns! I just can't wait to reveal them all soon, but for now - back to work...

I'm also now accepting custom requests from brides with a vision they want to accomplish for their wedding - so if that's you, and you have an idea you would like help realising, just drop me a message to say hello at pointlessprettythings@gmail.com. 

x Rachel 

A Most Curious Wedding Fair

On Sunday we went to our first wedding fair, and it has certainly set the standard high! A Most Curious Wedding Fair at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, has left me a quivering ball of excitement. We were tempted by AMCWF because we wanted something a bit different from the classic, slightly tacky, chair-cover filled wedding fair... and we were not disappointed! 

See what I mean?! Excited Shivers!! I had too many favourites to list here, but for a full list of the super inspiring vendors go to the Most Curious website.

As a dabbler in the wedding industry myself with Pointless Pretty Things, this experience was doubly amazing - not only did I get loads of inspiration for our own wedding, but it was brilliant to see so many businesses that I look up to all in one place! I only hope to be where they are some day :) 

Did anyone else attend the fair? What were your thoughts? 

x Rachel 

Elegant Vintage Inpirations: The Wedding Boutique

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Today I'm teaming up with my spotlight sponsor for the month The Wedding Boutique to share some gorgeous vintage style wedding inspirations. 

I am so in love with the beautifully intricate tiaras - and those lace up shoes! The barefoot jewel sandals would be perfect for a beach wedding, I love the glitzy bohemian feel they have to them.

The Wedding Boutique is a UK based wedding wonderland with an amazing stock of everything from dresses to tiaras, shoes, and other finishing touches in a huge range of styles. All the beautiful pieces above can be found on their online store. They also have a new bridal blog page with the latest news and tips from the frontline of the UK wedding industry. It is an absolute pleasure to have such a wonderful company on my sidebar for the month! 

Any Brides-to-be out there? Let me know what you think. 

x Rachel 

This is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own. 

Autumnul Pinecone Centrepiece

I think Autumn decorations are my favourite. I love earthy tones mixed with moss and hints of gold here and there - it just makes everything so cosy. I was doing a bit of styling experimenting yesterday and put together this Autumn inspired centrepiece. It would be perfect for a wedding or for a special dinner party - or you can just have it on display in your house like me...

The process is very very simple, it's just about layering up pinecones with moss in a giant jar really. I sprayed a few of my pinecones with gold spray paint to add a little bit of variety - then finished it off with some dried wheat.

You can probably expect a few pinecone crafts from me in the next few months, I have a big bag of them in my cupboard from a past show. Plus I just feel in quite a pinecone-y mood at the moment - nothing says Autumn better. 

x Rachel 

New Wedding Invites

I'm really excited to share these with you today! I've been working on these pretty wedding invites over the last few weeks (the cause of all the creative mess!) and they are finally finished and in the post to the lovely bride :) 

It's a summer wedding in a barn, so the invites have a sweet whimsical feel and reflect their yellow and white theme... The backs of the pages are all stamped by hand! 

The above picture shows the front and back of the pages that are piled up and tied in a little parcel with yellow bakers twine. I hope the happy couple are as chuffed with them as I am! 

There are lots of busy shop-related plans happening around here at the moment... More on that later, but expect to see these invites and plenty more pretty things again very soon! 

x Rachel