Let's smell the roses and eat cake!

Finally back with round 2 of the wedding story - sorry it's taken longer than expected.

The wedding flowers were roses and thistles. The fabulous team of flower ladies at Church decorated the church itself, whilst out Aunt made the bouquets and table centre pieces for the venue. The name of the roses made me laugh, given the theme of the wedding being snowboarding, they were aptly named avalanche roses! The wedding flowers survived two weeks without any problem, the centre pieces and bouquets less well, but we still got a few more days of enjoyment from them.

 

 

At have to say at this point that the fabulous bridesmaids dresses were made by Cheryl's mum - they were so comfortable to wear and everyone commented on how flattering they were. My favourite part was the sash with big bow at the back, which had adjustable Velcro fastenings! which meant that as the waistline expanded due to over indulgence of food, so could the sash - brilliant!

 

And finally, the cake. Mum really wanted to make a pretty wedding cake - no such luck. Matt and Cheryl wanted a snowboard run instead. Ha! the bottom two layers were fruit cake. The top two layers were madeira cake in vanilla and lemon and then we made a chocolate sponge cake to be cut up in the kitchen as well (no wonder we're still eating cake!)

 

Matt made the figures for the top and I dutifully made about 50 trees to decorate the cake (which took forever!) and some appropriate signage too.

 

The cake was a great success, but I think Mum might cry if she ever has to make anything like it again. Lol!



 

So there we have it - all the crafted elements of their wedding. I promise I'll do a blog post with the wedding card I made them, but I realised the other day I never got a photo of it 100% complete - I made a couple of tweaks after the last photo I took of it, so I've got to pop over to theirs to re-photograph it.

 

Until then though, happy crafting!