Hello folks….This is real RMW bride group 1 number 4!

Have a good read and a butchers at the mood board and then please cast your vote for your favourite. You have now seen all 4 entires for group one and voting is now open. Good luck everyone!

I’m Kitty, and my fiancé is Al. We’ve been together for just over 3 and a half years, and engaged for 2 and a half of those! Our wedding is on Thursday 30 May 2013 – so we’ll have had quite a long engagement! We’re both quite laid back, and have the same silly sense of humour. The first time I met Al’s friends they apparently said I was like the female version of him, as we share a lot of interests, get each other’s weird little jokes and can be pretty geeky! We’re both into design and like quirky, pretty things and I really like anything that I can make (especially baked goods!).

One of the hardest things about being engaged for a while is having to wait to plan/book certain things. As a result of my enthusiasm/excitement, we’ve already got what we feel are important things (venue, photographer/videographer) booked – but we’ve now got to the stage where we’re starting to work with them a bit more on menu choices, engagement shoots etc etc. With just over a year to go, I’m just desperate to start doing all the PRETTY things, like looking at florists and sampling yummy cakes – and can’t wait to get stuck into some DIY stationery and table decor!

Please leave a comment on your favourite post to register your vote! Voting closes at midnight on the 27th April.

Hello folks….This is real RMW bride group 1 number 3!

Have a good read and a butchers at the mood board and then please cast your vote for your favourite from 4pm – there will be four brides to choose from in this group and they will be posted on the hour, every hour from 1pm.

Well, on the First of December 2010 Mr David Moore took his then girlfriend of nearly eight years to a restaurant in London for her 28th Birthday (an absolutely gorgeous restaurant, I may add) and after tucking into their wonderful first course he gave her one last present for the day, and after much blubbing and giggling and blubbing and more giggling Miss Rebecca Whitney said yes!
 
So Dave & I began our journey into ‘weddingland’, and after searching high and low had found the perfect venue, a field. But this was not just any field; this place had a treehouse bridal suite (I know!)We booked the field and started planning our wedding festival….sack races, coconut shys, camping and marshmallows around the campfire. Unfortunately there was a hitch with the venue and so after much discussion we sadly decided the field, with the treehouse bridal suite, would not be the place for us. Over a year after the proposal we were still searching for a venue, desperately seeking what we thought would be our dream wedding in the great outdoors, when we stumbled across something completely different, something even better…
 
The Gatsby is a 1930s inspired cocktail bar and restaurant that used to be the entrance to a one screen cinema. It may not be the field we were dreaming of, but as soon as we both entered the bar we knew we wanted our wedding reception there. It also didn’t hurt that the cocktails were yummy (well I had to test a couple, didn’t  I?!). Dave and I will be married in a small church in Hertfordshire on Saturday 22nd June 2013 and then we, along with our guests obviously, will spend the rest of the day and evening sipping cocktails in Art Deco heaven.
 
We are still in the early stages of planning our slightly 1930s inspired wedding and as with many couples we have a limited budget.  I am thoroughly looking forward to getting my hands dirty and making many elements of the wedding. Not only do I plan on making all the stationary, but I am also hoping to make my own fabric and brooch bouquet, thanks to RMW I have just made my first fabric flower hair clip, so a fabric bouquet should be no trouble, right?! Oh and being a cupcake addict I will be making cakepops for all! We have also discovered a new found love for charity shop hunting, we currently have 5 champagne glasses, 6 gold goblets and a wedding day handbag for me!
 
Ultimately we want to our day to be a true reflection of us; a couple who love nothing more than a night in with friends, drinking and eating cheese. Although this is usually accompanied by Singstar on the PS3 and I’m not sure how that will fit in…Suggestions on a postcard please…

Please leave a comment on your favourite post to register your vote. Voting closes at midnight on the 27th April.

Good luck everyone!

Hello folks….This is real RMW bride group 1 number 1!

Have a good read and a butchers at the mood board and then please cast your vote for your favourite from 4pm – there will be four brides to choose from in this group and they will be posted on the hour, every hour from 1pm.

You are my mountain, you are my sea

I’m Sarah aka One Jolly Girl aka RMW addict and kilt fan, leading nicely on to Angus, my dude, my lover, my Scotsman. Together we are Team A&S. He produced the 1920s aquamarine rock in September 2011, the night before my 4 week holiday to Australia without him….  He makes the World’s best Vodka, and I make the World’s best cakes. (My claim is personally biased, his however is fact).

I’ll marry my lover in a place to admire

We have no *booked* venue but by the end of April we will have the deal done & THE DATE. We are pencilled in for August 2013. 

Our top choice Venue is in Argyll, Scotland – We would have exclusivity of the whole venue and 20 acres of grounds – including indoor swimming pool, 3 hot tubs and a bouncy castle. Hopefully our ceremony shall be on the nearby beach (this would be our absolute dream come true) we’re planning a roaring ceilidh and late night disco as the venue has no curfew. 

I’ve got buttons for my coat & sails for my boat

 
With 16 months to the wedding still to go I am sure it is no surprise that I’ve found my dress – priorities. But I’m holding off the purchase until we’ve got that date.

Our friends seem impressed with the amount of ideas we have for the wedding so here is an attempted summary: a super sized house party, no church, lots of games, streamers, vintage china, bright pastel table clothes, hand tied flowers, lacey pretty, beautiful branded stationary, a gallery of cake, a barefoot bride, teal typewriter, dancing & bouncing, musical laughter, a pimped up campervan, a white dress change, a Team Quiz, & our closest friends & family.
 
I feel like a RMW inspired bride – and whether I am one of your real brides or not I am majorly grateful for the inspirational pretty.
 

Giggling on the ground, I’ll pick you up and spin you around

Please leave a comment on your favourite post to register your vote after 4pm. Voting closes at midnight on the 27th April.

Good luck everyone!

Following on from the automotive vibe that we are rocking at the moment, I present to you a car… Complete with stunning bride.

It’s one hec of a wedding folks.

The Weekly Roundup.

• On Monday morning we woke up and smelt the perfume as the RMW girls discussed Scents And Sensibility. The afternoon was all about city pretty courtesy of Christian Ward.
• Tuesday was a rustic affair as Lorna and Chris celebrated their big day on a farm in Together In Tandem and we gave you the chance to win some seriously pretty Hope And Grace goodies.
• Wednesday was all about the marriage of Martin and Ceri – after spending half of their lives together they decided to take the plunge. We also had a hair raising D.I.Y tutorial for you lovely lot when we presented you with The Messy Textured Bun.
• Christmas came early on Thursday and we also announced our requirement for a few more Rock My Wedding Real Brides. Exciting times!
• We finished the week with some expert advice on Bridesmaids dresses, courtesy of Twobirds Bridesmaids and we also indulged in a bit of classic car love in our Friday afternoon post Get Me To The Church On Time… Speaking of which, over to Charlotte…

Charlotte: *waves* I missed out on adding my favourite big day transportation on Adam’s Friday afternoon post so I thought I would let you know now instead.

Now then, On W-day I didn’t actually need any as it happens because everything was at the same venue however, if I could I would so be having me a Morris Minor. Oh yes – with a “just married” sign, cans tied to the bumper…. the whole works folks.

And if you want to see one in action in what is still one of my favourite weddings of all time to feature on RMW then here it is:

You can see the whole Smile Like You Mean It wedding photographed by David Jenkins here lovelies….

And those coral shoes….. loves.

Big Morris Love

Charlotte xxx

As in – here’s something for you gorgeous lot to swoon over.

This is the wedding of Jonathan and Emma by Kissing Gate Video – lots of pretty and just well…..love really.

And the dress? Vera Wang folks – it is all kinds of immense.

Emma The Bride: It is definitely a life changing moment when someone asks you to marry them -even if it is enevitable – but I was still so surprised how much it meant to me to suddenly want a big white wedding with all of the traditional elements with family and friends, even my beautiful Vera Wang was a dress so different from what I thought I would wear (more meringue than slinky!).

We had the most perfect wedding for us, very laid back, lots of Northern love (I’m from Leeds) and the most wonderful venue and staff, our smiles say it all, A Perfect Day.

A perfect day indeed.

Have a lovely Sunday RMW’ers

Charlotte xxx