22/06/2025
We're engaged! A shift in crafty time ahead 😁
Hello!! My dear love proposed on the 10th of May... 17 years since a mutual friend introduced us... and after very, very little hinting from myself... and our neices, he finally resigned himself to the inevitable.... and presented me with the most perfect and beautiful ring ever.
Now I'm thinking, there are plenty of bits I would love to do for our wedding, and I'll start sharing those with you over the coming months.
I do have a theme in mind (barring my princess dress, never worn one, never even had a proposal before this, so my dress is going to be FAB-U-LOUS) and that theme is rural/rustic/bohoish.
I'm not one for flowers, they die and dry on my mantlepiece, im not responsible enough even for a cactus! So I sure as heck am not gonna spend shed loads of money of a one day event! Uh uh! No way!
Soooo, I'm going the diy route, spending as little as possible on dried flowers!
And I'm even gonna see if I can dry and use flowers from the garden.
I hung some gyp last week, and it's so hot I think it's dry already. I only bought 5 stems, just so I could experiment. As my bouquets are going to be simple, the gyp is going to be the most expensive thing, so we've even planted some.
The florist also gave me some dried, presumably destined for the bin, and I'd brought a little mixed box of dried flowers from etsy, laylasprettythings, so I made a bridesmaid size bouquet which im really pleased with for a first attempt.
Now ive got the fresh gypsophila that's dried still hanging, and tonight I've also cut from the garden and hung. It'll be interesting to see if any of my garden flowers dry nicely.
Anyway, fun trying, and as I now know I like trying to arrange, that means I'll save money by diy, even if my garden doesn't work out and I have to buy dried flowers in.
Anyway, that's me for now, do keep an eye out for my successes/failures and fun along the way
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