One year ago today, J and I were married.
We wanted our wedding to be a comfortable, fun, local, organic, vintage inspired party. To this end, J grew all of our wedding flowers in our community garden plot. Our bouquets and arrangements included zinnias, black eye susans, bells of ireland, snapdragons, and hosta leaves.
We used my grandparent’s cake topper for our chocolate cake. It was looking a little yellowed on the bottom, so I sewed it a little pleated skirt!
We strung up photos from our time together, as well as family photos along the porch for people to look at.
Simon served as our ring bearer. He really knows how to steal the show! I also upcycled my wedding dress– it was the same dress my sister wore the year before, but I had it altered to look like a new (and different!) dress.
I designed and made our save the dates and wedding invitations. They included sewn on mini bunting, and I made matching full sized flags to hang on the porch where we held our reception and over the outdoor altar where we held our ceremony.
I made quilts for our friends and family in the wedding party, and used this as an excuse to sharpen my quilting skills!
We used one quilt in particular as a backdrop for our outdoor photo booth. I love seeing this quilt in all of these photos! I want to make another like it. I’m also so glad we thought to have a dry erase board and markers available for guests to write us messages in the photos– these turned out to be my favorite of all of our wedding pics!
I really can’t believe it’s been a whole year! Time flies when you have a good partner. Love you, J! I’m so excited for the rest of our years together.
*** Here are links to the posts I’ve previously written about the things we made for our wedding.***
Things we made, reused, and grew:
Save the Dates
Handmade Gifts:
* Birdie Sling bags can be found here and here
* Stacked coins quilt
* Filmstrip Quilt (which can also be seen as our photobooth backdrop, here)
* Striped Quilts can be found here, here, and here
What a lovely and creative wedding! Congratulations on your first anniversary and the many more to come
I pinned this post so I could go back for inspiration! Only super cool people have their dog as their ringbearer. Jada better get practicing
what a great wedding!!! makes me wish I was getting married so I could steal some ideas LOL!
Oh, I love it all. What fabulous ideas and what beautiful pics! Congratulations on your anniversary!
What a beautiful wedding and incredible pictures! Congratulations!
Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary! I think that it was seeing pictures from your wedding on another website that led me to your blog. It looked like such a wonderful wedding that I had to see what else you had to show! Love that you made quilts to give as gifts to members of your wedding party!
Congratulations on your 1-year anniversary. congratulations to both of you for being so very brilliant as to recognize and commit to each other. I am so happy that you are BOTH treasured members of our family. We are all so very, very fortunate. Au revoir from the city of joy.
Congratulations on your 1st anniversary. What a beautiful & creative wedding you had. To give quilts as a gift is quite an undertaking and I know they will be loved because they were made & given in love. You make me feel bad though – I only gave my sister a Snowbabies figurine.
Wishing you years of happiness & joy as you & Justin journey through this life together.
Happy Anniversary! It looks like you two had a magical day. Can I tell you how much I love all the quilts you made for your wedding? Your attendants and family must have been excited to receive such great gifts!
Congratulations!
What an absolutely beautiful wedding – I love it all – especially that last picture of you guys with Simon in his little bowtie! And I’m still in awe that you made all of those quilts for your wedding party. The farmer’s market strip quilt is my favorite!
Happy anniversary – it looks like you had a good, fun, home-made (in the best sense) wedding!
It must have been a wonderful day! So simple, so thoughtful, so loving. Great ideas to steal if we ever re new our vows! Happy Anniversary! X
Yay! That was such a lovely day, I’m so glad I got to be part of it!
Definitely an amazing wedding! I’ve never been to one like that. Wish I could! My wedding was 10 years ago and my goodness – I would do everything different!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing the pictures. How wonderfulf that your wedding party not only got to attend what looked to be such a fun event, and got those lovely quilts too!