So much going on!

Wow! I have to say this is all very surreal. Not only am I seeing my husband's and my face in my favourite wedding magazine, but I'm now seeing our faces on one of my favourite blogs! 100 Layer cake have just posted about our wedding on their site... Crazy. When I decided that I wanted to design and style weddings and start up a business, most of my friends and family thought that it was just "another one of Gabrielle's big dreams" and it is only because of the support and shared passion from Mary that this dream is now unfolding into reality. We cant wait to share our visions and style with everyone and hopefully inspire a more creative wedding market in Adelaide and perhaps push new boundaries in events throughout Australia.
Make sure you visit me here at A Summer Picnic Wedding over the weekend, because alongside Mary&Gabrielle's series of posts on our wedding (going from getting ready to the details of the reception), I will be making more personal accounts of the day and sharing with you the details and stories that Jarrod and I felt really made the day ours.

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Some travel photos...

1&2 London and Sommerset, England
3 Paris, France
4&5 Paris, Latin Quarter, France
6&7 Antibes, South of France
8&9 Rome, Italy

Salt Harbor Designs

This is such a beautiful set up by Salt Harbor Designs. But make sure you head over to M&G to have a look at the amazing baby shower Mary did, it has some of the most incredible floral arrangements I have seen in a very long time!

Colouring my life

I'm all jet lagged. I hate it. Its 4am and I have been awake for a couple of hours now dreaming about all the wonderful things I could have if money grew on trees. I've been dreaming about the direction I want to take the design on our home. We have some money aside that people gave us as gifts for our wedding and we have decided that we are going to put it towards and new dining room setting. After much research on my behalf, going from Eames Eiffel bases with a vintage table, to stock standard IKEA settings, Jarrod and I have finally agreed on a setting style that will reflect who we are.Different coloured Thornet Bentwood chairs with arm chairs at either end of a worn oak table. And I feel that it is the perfect inspiration for the future design development of our home.first image from here
other images from here

Back from the Honeymoon!

What a trip! I cant wait to post some of the photos. But that can wait. Right now I have more exciting news...Very very soon (any day now) we will start posting on Mary&Gabrielle pictures from Jarrod and my wedding. But because there are so many, it will probably have to be done in a series starting with us getting ready and so on. Also, more exciting news, 100 Layer Cake will be posting about the wedding on their blog too (one of my very favourite for inspiration), so stay tuned to their blog also! And if you don't already know, the Wedding Style Guide's newest issue is out! It is a very surreal feeling seeing yourself in a magazine... strange.

Couldnt resist

I couldnt resist but leave you with one last amazing table setting before I jump on a plane today to Europe. We are ending our trip in Rome and thought this Rustic Italian setup (with a make it yourself Martini bar!) by Sunday Supper would be a perfect way to leave the blog for three long weeks.

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Honeymooners

Tomorrow Jarrod and I finally begin our honeymoon! First stop London to see my family who couldn't make it to the wedding and to catch up with some of our ex-pat friends, I cant wait to go on my Soho shopping spree! I have been saving for ages to do this! We are in London for 5 days, 2 of which are in the lovely country setting of Sommerset to see my Granny. Then we hop on a train and head to Paris for three romantic nights then we fly down to Nice where we will hire a car, and drive for 1 and a half hours west to Feyance in the picturesque hills of the Provence where we will spend 4 glorious days lying by the pool in the most beautiful house all by ourselves. Got to love having the kindest most generous family friends lending us their holiday house! Then from there we fly to Rome for the last three nights of our trip then head home to reality. Cant wait to lose ourselves in Europe for a while!

See you all soon!

Oh and keep a look out for us in Wedding Style Guide!

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A Summer Picnic Wedding

The weather was a perfect 36 degrees, maybe a little too hot to be driven to your wedding in a vintage Buick with no air conditioning, but no body seemed to mind while they sipped on pimms cocktails (except for the hydrangeas in my hair).

A Summer Picnic Wedding

Only a couple of weeks until the Winter issue of Wedding Style guide comes out with our wedding in it! Its so exciting! I cant wait for you to all be able to see it finally! It has been killing me not being able to show you the photos and descibe exctly the feel and nature of the wedding but only a couple of weeks left so hold on! Gosh I miss our wedding! It was so much fun!

I do need to apologise

I have neglected my blog yet again.

Now I don't know if it is the weather, or something in the Adelaide water, but I have been quite unmotivated lately. After slaving away at work I barely have enough energy to change the channel on the TV remote. Don't get me wrong I am LOVING work at the moment. I have designed 2 schools, 2 offices and a waterfront restaurant and all in 5 months and am excited that I am gaining my bosses trust in my designs (which is hard to do when you are new to a firm no matter what you have done in the past). I am just in one of those phases where I feel quite run down all the time and it is rather annoying!

There is so much to do for Mary&Gabrielle, Mary has been wonderful in keeping our blog afloat! I have been trying to get all our quotes right and figuring out our GST calcs and how we keep our records and I am now trying to get together our business plan which we really should have done months ago. Its all very excited that things are coming together and we have got some great clients on the books already!

So now, from today, I need to get motivated again, get inspired again and get back to my life again! I only have 3 weeks till my honeymoon in Europe so there is no excuse to squeeze the last remaining energy I have left and get fit healthy and motivated!

Hope you are all well!

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