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Reminiscing on our first wedding anniversary

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date October 12, 2014
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Who can resist the urge to reminisce on their first wedding anniversary? I can’t believe quite how fast the last 12 months has gone or how much we have packed in, including half a year gallivanting around Europe and the US. It really has been the most brilliant start to marriage!

If you missed it at the time, you have to check out our wedding video. Of course we are biased, but we think it is incredible and cannot thank The Story of Us enough for giving us the perfect way to remember our big day and share it with friends and family for years to come. We have definitely looked at is so many more times than our photos!

But while we’re at it, here are a few of my favourite photos:

My bestie Danielle and I getting ready at the Four Seasons Sydney

Outside church with bridesmaids Danielle and Ruth. Check out my amazing flowers by Aleksandra!

A gorgeous shot of my dad and my husband

I know we all say it, but it truly was the best day of my life. Pure magic! In some respects, I’d love to do it all again, but in others, I’m happy to keep my perfect memories. It couldn’t have been any better.

But I’m pretty certain the best is yet to come! Thank you, Damian, for the happiest 365 days and here’s to many more.

If you’d like to read more about our wedding, check out the following posts from last year:

Get the look: the Interiors Addict guide to wedding styling

1o things I learned from planning our wedding

My wedding invitations

The best Etsy finds from my wedding

Photography by Matt Reed

Tags aleksandra, bespokery, bride, interiors addict, jen bishop, matt reed, wedding, wedding anniversary, wedding planning

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Get the look: the Interiors Addict guide to wedding styling

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date December 12, 2013
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Today it’s 2 months since I married my love. How times flies when you’re honeymooning, moving house and enjoying married life! Before I completely let go of being a recent bride and get on with being a wife, I thought I’d share one last wedding post with you, this time about the styling aspect.

It will come as no surprise that I was more interested in what my wedding would look like than what I’d look like! I don’t DO dresses. I do however, do decor! So I had a lot of fun with this part of wedding planning. Here are some highlights and details of all my suppliers.

Perhaps the most talked about things at my wedding were: the dress, the flowers and the vintage caravan which I had arranged to serve tea and biscuits (I know, how English) as a fun and pretty time-killer after church and before the reception. That Vintage Caravan were brilliant. I’d seen their pink caravan (Sweet Jane’s Travelling Teahouse) at events before but when I found out they had a new addition, Spencer, who was not only very handsome but also navy and therefore on colour scheme, it was just meant to be!

Suffice to say none of my guests had ever been to a wedding where they served tea from a caravan parked on the street outside the church before and everyone said it was “very Jen”. The priest, in his wisdom, didn’t hesitate to give us the go ahead. Kelly Holcroft and her team did a top job of styling the grassy area around Spencer too, which suited the relaxed, pretty vibe we were going for. Total event professionals!

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10 things I learned from planning our wedding

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date November 13, 2013
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1. A wedding planner or on-the-day co-ordinator can be a lifesaver! We used the lovely Katie Moore from Piccadilly Events. I was all over every detail of our wedding. I had spreadsheets and lists; LOTS of lists. So I wasn’t sure I really needed someone to help on the day (as well as my many generous friends who got stuck in) because I thought I’d already organised everything. Wrong! When there’s a wedding there is ALWAYS something else that needs doing! Katie was our wedding angel. So many guests commented on how fabulous she was.

That's Katie behind the flowers! — That’s Katie behind the flowers!

As well as the million things she probably did that I knew nothing about, she took the flowers from the church to the reception, made sure everyone knew where they should be and when and made sure my dad had a torch to read his speech with (he was seriously nervous that his eyesight was going to let him down, although I was of course oblivious!). When I arrived at the church, she produced a small tin of M&Ms, offered them to me and said: “Sugar hit?” Brilliant! Katie came to our rehearsal too so she knew the plan for the day as well as I did (we merged our respective run sheets!) and who all the key players were. I thoroughly recommend having someone like Katie as a go-to girl on the day. I told everyone that if they had any issues at all they should go and speak to the girl in the yellow dress (yes, she even told me what she’d be wearing in advance).

And she did all of this IN HEELS.

2. While we’re on the subject of extra pairs of hands, the next thing I learned (after a while) is that it’s okay to ask for help.

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Off Topic Tuesday: wedding planning

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date June 11, 2013
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I’m really bad at asking for help. Always have been. So when it comes to my wedding, and with all my bridesmaids overseas, it’s been a little tricky. I mean, you can’t ask non-wedding party friends to help. That’s just AWKWARD.

So I’m very grateful for friends who have offered their help (because that’s ok) and got all kinds of excited for me. And then there are the people, pretty much strangers, who have offered their help too, which is almost even more amazing. My future mother-in-law has been fantastic and one of the most excited people about our big day. Not having my own mum anymore and having no bridesmaids here to call on has left me feeling a little sad and lost at times, so I’m very grateful for her advice and enthusiasm.

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