My own bridal button bouquet!

As you all know, the reason Cute as a Button got started in the first place is because I saw a button bouquet on the internet and fell in love with it. I decided , to save money, that I would attempt to make my own and the rest is history!

Im glad I had a chance to make other bouquets first. Its given me a chance to perfect my technique and find out what style I wanted for my bouquet. I’ve gone with a 100 stem teardrop bouquet. The teardrop is slightly different to teardrops I’ve done on other bouquets, but I really like it. Its not quite finished I’d like to add! I need to finish the collar and handle but at this present moment I’m not quite sure how I want it.

 

Every single button in my bouquet was either given to me by friends, friends relatives, relatives of ours, found in antique shops or car boot sales which makes it so more special to me.

We’re going to use it as our table centre piece at the reception.

EmX

Some Very Special Table Centerpieces

If any of you have read some of my previous posts, you will know that as centerpieces for the tables at the reception, we had the idea for edible flowers (with a little help from our friend Bill!) We both thought it would be a fantastic idea. However, the idea of making edible flowers was a little daunting to me. I like to try my hand at most things, and would like to think I’m not too bad at the crafty bits and pieces but I’m the first to admit, I’m rubbish at baking!

So imagine my excitement and joy when Alison uploaded these little beauties to Alli’s Cake’s Facebook page!

I wrote a post about Alli’s amazing cupcake making abilities at the start of the month and had some great feedback from it. (See, Some Very Special Cupcakes). I’ve been keeping a close eye on all the new and mind blowing designs that she has been posting and these absolutely blew me away! And, it solves my problem of how to make the edible flowers!

When I saw them, I got in touch with Alli straight away, and lucky me! She agreed to make us some as centerpieces on the tables at our wedding reception! I need to have a look around for the buckets for them to sit in, but we’re going to have one cupcake per person per table and I’ve given Alli some colour and theme ideas. I’m going to get some little, Alice in Wonderland type signs to go in them that say “Eat Me”. Vintage Twee do some amazing Alice in Wonderland stuff!

I’m so over the moon with this idea, I can’t thank Alli enough for her amazing creative ability! We will be meeting up very soon to discuss ideas over a coffee! I can’t wait! I’ve even ordered one for my mum for mothers day!

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together!

Big Luv

EmX

P.S Follow Alli and her amazing Cupcakes on twitter @bespokecupcake! She’s new to twitter so be nice! 🙂

Wedding Table Centre Decorations.

For a while now, we’ve had this idea for the names of the tables at the reception and what to put in the centre.

We’re very into our music and I’m sure whenever anyone think of us that one way they would describe us, and especially James. So our idea is to name the tables after our favourite albums. I’m sure its going to take us a whole year to agree! We have similar music taste on a few levels, but mainly very different! I think we may have to divide the tables up equally to save arguments!!!!!!

What I was thinking was that in the centre of the table we could a vinyl copy of the album in question. For example:

(A band both me and James agree on!!!!)

And then have sitting on it, a banana split boat with edible flowers in it. (edible was our friend Bill’s idea, I cant take credit for that!) With a Alice in Wonderland type message saying “eat me”!

Big Luv

EmX