As well as all the usual pre-Christmas bustle, we had to find the time to make the save-the-dates for our wedding this year (oh my goodness, this year!). We were determined to get them out in Christmas cards (and, for the most part, succeeded, although a couple of our international friends might have received their cards a little after the big day due to our last minute posting).
The idea for the bunting came from a blog post I read ages ago. I can't even remember where it was, but I absolutely loved the vintage carnival/garden party look that bunting so perfectly evoked and that we are very loosely hanging our wedding on.
My sister designed the bunting, right down to sourcing the fonts and sizing the flags. She also cut most of them out, while I was on stringing/magnet attaching (oh sticky backed magnet tape, how I love thee)/cellophane bag packing duty and Adam wrote pretty much every single accompanying Christmas card.
I am so thrilled with them, not only because they look absolutely amazing (thanks Charlotte!) but because they mark the proper beginning of the process of our handmade wedding, something that has seemed an impossibly long way off for such a long time. We have big plans for this wedding to really be about us and everything we value, which inevitably means a good dose of handmade goodies, a reasonable degree of eco-awareness and an awful lot of untamed children dashing around (and a baby, hopefully doing less of the dashing and more of the sleeping/burbling in an adorable way).
Edited to add: a bit of googling shows that it was Yeri's save the dates. I think I saw them on a wedding blog, but she's the originator of this fab idea.
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