Diego proposed at home.
How did you style your day?
Diego and I are a very relaxed couple. We are not into anything expensive or luxurious and we wanted the whole vibe of our day to be relaxed and fun.
We had no real theme or colour scheme, but kept the idea of the coast in mind. We didn’t bother with chair covers or anything like that as it just felt too ‘over the top’ for our tastes.
Polhawn is already so different and beautiful inside that we didn’t really add much.
Polhawn is already so different and beautiful inside that we didn’t really add much.
We had white table cloths with a hessian runner. On top of the hessian runner we scattered some shells, sea-glass and driftwood and also placed jam jars of flowers.
We used cocktail umbrellas for seating places and mini rainbow colour donkey piñatas as the favours.
To us, it looked great – touches of the coast but with splashes of colour from the cocktail umbrellas and the mini piñatas – very individual and not super co-ordinated or designer-y! We just did what we wanted and kept everything fun/not too serious. It seemed to work as so many of our guests said how they had never felt more relaxed or able to just enjoy themselves at a wedding, which is exactly what we wanted.
To us, it looked great – touches of the coast but with splashes of colour from the cocktail umbrellas and the mini piñatas – very individual and not super co-ordinated or designer-y! We just did what we wanted and kept everything fun/not too serious. It seemed to work as so many of our guests said how they had never felt more relaxed or able to just enjoy themselves at a wedding, which is exactly what we wanted.
Did you have bouquets/flower decorations?
My mum’s friend Karen did some beautiful flower arrangements for us – most of the flowers for which were grown by Karen and my mum in their gardens.
I know pretty much diddly-squat about flowers, so asked for natural/wild flowers with a coastal feel.
Karen made jam jars of flowers for the tables and a few jugs of flowers for the windowsills and the table where we signed the register. They looked beautiful.
Ruth Andrew kindly made three bouquets for me and my two bridesmaids using the same types of flowers as Karen had for the decorations, which were also beautiful.
We did send save the dates as our guest list was pretty international so we wanted to make sure people had plenty of time to arrange flights. Diego and I designed them ourselves on the computer and e-mailed them out – cost nothing!
Invitations wise, we used an online design from a shop on etsy. It was a world map design and we could change the wording to whatever we wanted. We sent these out mostly via Whatsapp/e-mail, although printed a few for some of our ‘older’ guests who would’ve preferred a more traditional ‘paper’ invitation.
My mum and I made the table planner using a cork-board, white travel tags and some mini bunting. The whole thing probably cost about a tenner and looked simple but effective!
Who took your photos?
Our photography was done by Liberty Pearl. Amber was fantastic – she took the time to find out what we wanted and stayed until late snapping pics of all the dancing.
We didn’t bother with a videographer.
Photo booth wise, we did a DIY version – we bought an instax camera and some silly hats/moustaches and put it next to our guestbook. People came up, snapped a photo of themselves and stuck it in the book along with their message.
What was your favourite part of the day?
Way too hard – all of it. Actually marrying each other was obviously a highlight!