valentines day ideas........

If your a sucker for lurve then I can't think of a better day to get married than valentines day!! 


So do you go for the red love heart theme?? 

 bravobride.com

or what about alice in wonderland theme????? 

check out these bad boys!!!!!!!! ( above!!!)

what about this cake?????? :) 

awesome table centre pieces!! :) very d.i.y

love this group shot

very effective and keeping with the red love heart theme :) 

who can resist vintage china ?? and then add cake in there too?????? oh hell this girl has gone to heaven!! hahahaha would make amazing favours or a cute litlle dessert :) 

mmmmmmmmmmm cookies :) these would make gorgeous favours aswell!! might even do a few for our engagement party!!!

Or how about a corpse bride theme????? Hell how many more tim burton films can we get in???!!! hahaha!! 























so thats it from me!! I narrowed these pics down from over 150!! haha so thank you google!

monday links part 2

1. http://www.mywedding.com i've set up a website for our wedding!! people can suggest music rsvp get directions to the venue etc!! thought it was a good idea and the budget planner is amazing!!!!!! :) really helps me trying to afford and keep on top of what we are spending!! :) 


2.http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2012/01/how-about-a-tattooed-wedding-dress/#more-103035 how cool!!!! If you were having a relaxed wedding and were into the rockabilly style! I love it may even do it to a few of my own dresses at home :) 


3.http://www.reception-wedding.com/make_your_own_wedding_guestbooks.htm a brilliant idea if your having an alternative theme wedding!! Make it your way!! :) You can get a cheap book from the pound shop!!!


4.http://offbeatbride.com/2010/03/husband-doesnt-wear-a-ring is your hubby to be wearing a ring?? The oak says he will but we both want something tattooed aswell on the ring finger not each others names just a nice pattern or something???? :) 


5.http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2012/01/a-shabby-chic-wedding-with-vintage-touches-hannah-andy/#more-102486  gorgeous wedding!!!!! love the brides brown fur shawl :) 


6.http://offbeatbride.com/2012/01/bridesmaids-in-white-dresses white bridesmaids dresses???? 


7.http://www.missvintageaffair.co.uk/ if anyone is in the surrey area??? 


8.http://folksy.com/items/2324033-OOAK-White-Satin-Bridal-Fascinator-with-Vintage-Buttons-and-Embellishments how cute is this????!!!!! 


9.http://therockpeople.co.uk/your-wedding.php I love rock!! (my teeth and dentist don't!!!) ace idea if you didn't want to go down the sugar almond favour route!! could even have them on a sweetie bar if you were doing one!!! 


10.http://www.instructables.com/ For absolutely anything you want to build!! this site has it I've been checking out how to build your own photo booth figuring out if it is cheaper than hiring one............still undecided on that one!!! :) 






I think that's it for todays monday links :) hope you find them useful !! 


                               love bon xxx

weekend rambles of a very tired blogger mama!!

What a week!!!!!!!!! Oh my days I was so ready for the weekend!!!!! i didn't get out my pjs saturday which was lovely i did the bare minimum!! hahaha I also set up a group on fb called blushing brides of the west midlands on fb!!! :) 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blushing-brides-of-the-west-midlands/333986706624895 

check it out if your in the west midlands area!!! :) be great to hear from other brides!! 

So Saturday I was pretty much a slob!! haha I will admit I didn't even have a shower just brushed my teeth.........o.O 

Sunday well today I have been mainly throwing up..........joyous!!! Think I'm getting a tummy bug but it's making my blood pressure low so I'm not much fun to be around today!! But we got out the house and went for dinner at the yummy wing wah....... do not want to know how many calories I ate and the kids destroyed the chocolate fountain!!! haha They basically just ate pudding!! but hey! I'm feeling bit better now think the past week with lettie being ill it's just got to me!!!!!!!!! I really do love my sleep and having only a few hours here or there has killed me!!!!!! :( sad bon!!! 

Tomorrow I want to start my diy project of this cute little hall table I got from useful things round the corner from me it was only a fiver!!!!! got to sand it and repaint it! will look very shabby chic when i'm finished fingers crossed!!! :) I will finish it!!!!! promise!!! 

My hair is finally I think fading I keep thinking it's going then see a picture of it and change my mind it's still very much blue!!!! I was hoping to be pink by now but this blue is oh so stubborn!!!! try for another week then i'll just have to bleach it!! 

OHHHHHHHHHHHH and most important thing happened aswell!! wahey!! finally got a date that everyone is happy with for the engagement party!! not where we wanted it but I think it's going to be a better venue with kids running everywhere we are having it at the westwood club ( same place as our reception for the wedding !!) 

Soooooooooo I think thats it.............another week gone and it's nearly february!!! eek might do some valentines style wedding shizzle next week what ya all think??? 

                     bon xxx

friday lurve list

Friday lurve list.........

1. I made these felt flowers as a mock up for the real ones that I'm going to make for the wedding!!! Not to sure on the colour yet got a feeling these may be too bright!!! 

2. i got bored of making flowers so i made this cute little blue purse :) yay me!!!! haha I don't actually need anymore purses but hey can never have too many!!! 

 3. my new hat!!!! cute :) 

4. trying to catch up on my 365 day project on facebook and failing i've lost loads of pics when my phone broke!!!! gutted 

5. this is a pic from my mums wedding last year :) don't she look gorgeous!!!!!! cake was yummy too!!!! 

6. i went out saturday with my mate K to the           

delightful coventry and was very brave and went to the chavvy end!!! I survived!!!!!!!!!!!! :) 

7. bit I tell you what the next day I was starving I could probably have eaten this!!!! 

this is called the kid breakfast from a cafe in great yarmouth! If any one knows the actual name of the cafe please tell me!!! it weighs 10lb and if you finish it within 60mins you get it for free. No one has EVER finished it!!!!!!!!!!! 

8. Ok so this isn't really a lurve but had to be in here for a week round up!! my youngest daughter lettie has had chickenpox!! I have had hardly any sleep for the last week and she's been in such pain but done so well not itching!!! very proud of her!! So I got her a batman tshirt to say well done!! Summer wasn't impressed as she just got new school shoes!! hahaha nasty mummy!!! :) 

lettie finally getting less spotty!!

flowers flowers everywhere

today I've been thinking about flowers... well I know I'm not the biggest fan of flowers they are very pretty but I just don't like the fact they die!! Especially if the wedding is going to last all day plus I really want to make this our wedding!!!!!! I really want to diy the whole thing so I was looking at brooch and felt bouquets I really like the style of these so I'm going to go hobbycraft tomorrow and make a start eek I've looked at a few tutorials online and I think The Oak may get a wee bit pissed off with all the bits of felt I'll be leaving everywhere!! But hey!!! The final result will (fingers crossed ) will be amazing!!!!! Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 


Below are a few examples I've found of alternative wedding bouquets on the internet :) 

                                                icafewomanmoderne.blogspot.com

instructables.com

missyellowshoes.blogspot.com

modern-wedding-ideas.co.uk

                                                   tightwalletwedding.blogspot.com

wordless wednesday

Ok so this wednesday is all about The Oak and I :) enjoy xxx

Now you can go throw up :) hahahahaaha 

Bon and The Oak xxx


p.s really sorry about it being a day late yesterday was manic!!!! :) 

monday links

There is some awesome d.i.y tutorials on line some are pretty hard and not going to lie just plain fussy and I really don't know if I could be that bothered!!!???? But here are a the ones I love that I could see myself doing or asking my mum haha :)

http://sewlikemymom.com/little-red-infinity-dress-tutorial/    these are called infinity dresses basically the same as twobirds bridesmaid dresses!! but hell of a lot cheaper!! Been around for years and look ok to make may try tonight and see how I get on!!!!!


http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2012/01/diy-tutorial-vintage-china-cake-stand/   ok I'd probably end up smashing the plates some how but if I don't find enough cake stands I might give this a go!!


 http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2011/11/diy-tutorial-multi-layered-tulle-petticoat-make-your-own-rainbow-petticoat/   This is awesome!!!!!!!!


http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2011/07/how-to-create-a-1960s-inspired-beehive-hair-style/   I've did this before I chopped my hair all off!! was really easy to do and you can choose how big you go!! :)


http://offbeatbride.com/2010/06/diy-brooch-bouquet  I really want to have a go at this!!! I'm not a big flower fan they die and just seem like such a waste of money I like things to last!!!!


http://www.stylemepretty.com/2010/01/18/diy-confetti/  ooohhhhhhhhh how pretty!!!! you could change the colours do this with copies of your favourite books or a soppy romantic mills and boon book!!!!! the possibilities are endless!!!



thats all for now!!!!


bon xxx

monday monday

I'm a happy bunny today! lost 6kg last week!! thats amazing and hell of a lot!! I'm hoping to either stay the same or loose a little more this week!! don't think I'll get the same amount of weight loss this week! But just goes to show how much I need to loose!!! 


It's freezing outside and I'm so hoping it snows for our wedding next year might get a bit crazy but the photo's would look so awesome if it was all white (not horrible slush) nice crisp white even a frost would look ace!! So that got me onto thinking I'll be freezing my tits off if I just wear a dress so really I need a little something to go round my shoulders a cover up........ but me being me I don't just want a little fur shrug no I want something a little bit different!!! :) ohhhhh google............. 

the bridal party in fur jackets!! absolutely awesome!! 

Can't beat a bit of retro glamour and I love the leopard print!!

I definitely prefer the darker colours!!! 

And as always the joys of google it gives you the most random images that well just don't go with what you were looking for!!! 

a bald bear............... yeah not quite the look I'm going for on my wedding day!!!!

weekend rambles

Saturday: Jack frost has well and truely been today so we are having a family day snuggled up inside!

 Can't believe I got 109 page views yesterday thats mental!!!! :)

 if your on facebook and want to catch up with more of my rambles i've got a facebook page too!!! (major facebook addict!!)  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Future-mrsO/362845720395470 so check me out on there too!!!! lots of snippets and sneak peeks of what I blog on here!! 


Sunday: had some amazing news today!!! we are having some engagement photos done by our wedding photographer ( terri warner ) :) how exciting!! now seriously time to loose some weight!!!!! (oh and grow this hair!!) 


I've had a lovely weekend been nice to take a little break from wedding planning and hopefully tomorrow i'll be all bright eyed and bushy tailed!! :) 


I've finally written a list of everything I / we need to do before the big day how effing scary!!???? there is loads!! we've got rid of some things that aren't important to us and added a few things that are. So fingers crossed I'll be getting through it slowly!


see you tomorrow!!!! 




Bon xx 

TGIF!!

Ok so I was thinking of doing some kind of round up on a friday night of how my week of wedding planning is going what i've been up to etc??!! so here is our first friday lurve list!!! 

got to love a vintage sailor jerry style tattoo!!! wahey!!!!!! 


ok so number 1) i've finally decided on what i want tattooed on my sleeves 

what you think????!!!! 




2) I think i need these in my house :) 

they are from stepheneinhorn.co.uk

3) finding random things that have nothing to do with what you were searching for!!!! how funny cat in a jacket!!!  (more animals dressed up here!!!!! http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam/10-fashion-rules-for-weddings-presented-by-cats  ) 

4) realising how awesome my mates are!! i'm a very up and down person and today when i needed people they were all there and made me feel fantastic again!!!! (my mum is in this category too!!!!) 

5) getting through my list of things to do slowly very slowly!!

6) friday nights and kids being in bed early :) just a glass of wine missing!! :)

so here is to a happy friday evening to you all!!!!! thanks for reading!!!!! 

 bon xxxxxxx

diamonds and toasters

OK so I just set fire to my toaster r.i.p Mr toast!!! but it was all these gorgeous pieces of jewellery i found!! a girl needs sparklies don't you know!!!! and sparklies in shapes of skulls and flowers??????????? O M G i may have just died!!!!!! here you are!
1st check out these beauties from http://www.butlerandwilson.co.uk/

OK i know they are 148 pound each!!!! (eek) but they are gorgeous!!! and I'd wear them over and over again for the school run you name it!!!! :) promise ha ha 

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee * insert high pitch girl squeal* OK OK  calm down now!!!! 
This is from butler and Wilson but they no longer do it so i searched high and low......... well googled it and you can find them on ebay :) 
think it would look so nice next to pink hair....

OK I can't find who has made this one but I really like it's Gothic elegance definitely something about it..... :) 

Found this one on etsy from moon dust jewels http://www.etsy.com/shop/MariePoutine85?ref=seller_info she does some gorgeous pieces I like all the vintage bits all put together very very pretty and girly :) 


1 question I keep asking is can you have too much jewellery on your big day!? I know that in "normal" weddings the bride tends to just wear a simple pearl necklace something that a member of the family has given them.......... nah don't get me wrong if someone would like to lend me some jewellery thats fine but how many people have my taste in jewellery?? not in my immediate family anyway!! :) 




i've tried to get a link to an amazing lady who makes amazing jewellery for really reasonable prices but she's doing some work to her website etc at the moment so you will have to wait for her info ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  :) optional evil laugh xxx