Domestic Fantasies...

Ok, so Sophie Dahl's new cookery show may be a bit dubious, but for me the unequivocal star of the show is the set. Shot in a sublime North London home, AKA my dream home, it is every bit the domestic fantasy...

Ban.Do

I must confess, I'm not a big jewellery person. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate my share of diamonds and pearls, but big jewellery looks all wrong and try-hard on me. One area I can't wait to accessorize as a bride however is my hair, and having stumbled across a gorgeous brand called ban.do I'm even more excited now.

Their range of hair-wear is so chic, and knowing that h2b would like me to wear my hair down on the big day, I think incorporating a little number from these guys could do just the trick.

I Carry Your Heart

I carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

I am never without it (anywhere i go you go,
my dear; and whatever is done by only me

is your doing, my darling).

I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)

I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,
my true) and it's you are whatever a moon
has always meant and whatever a sun
will always sing, is you.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the
bud of the bud and the sky of the sky
 of a tree called life; which grows higher
 than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder
that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

EE Cummings

Joules

Lordy, have you seen the new SS10 collection from Joules? I hadn't previously considered myself a Joules type, but am totally in love with their 1950s inspired range, not to mention the photography. Hoovers have never looked so good...

And the Oscar for Best Dressed 'Sleb Goes to...

Demi Moore, without doubt...

This woman must be a Benjamin Button type, what else could explain her impossible regression ('surgery!' you cry - yes perhaps)? Still, her devastatingly beautiful Atelier Versace gown stole the show at last night's Oscars as far as I'm concerned.

And as for SJP? Shame on you. You let the side down so much that I'm not even going to post a picture. Orange, tattoo-transferred skin teamed with a yellow dress and bouffant hair? The word 'Chanel' doesn't even redeem you love. Tut tut. 

Vintage Postcards

After trawling the internet, I've finally sourced some vintage travel images to name our tables at our wedding! The idea is to name the tables after places h2b and I have been to as a couple.

I used to handle the PR for Photobox so I'll use their photoprinting service to turn these into postcards...hopefully with a discount. Yay - the first affordable idea I've had to date!

Donation Required

This is not fair. Why are all the best invitations so expensive? This is yet another gorgeous wedding invite, this time from Cheree Berry...

I love letterpress, it's so classy...but expensive *sigh*.