You may remember earlier this year when I posted about the bunting I made for our wedding out of old shirt fabric… I ended up loving the combination of colours & patterns I was working with so much that I incorporated them into various other aspects of our wedding as well!
a string of bunting & some tin can lanterns on display at our wedding
Well, Martin & I tied the knot back on 25th May, so I can now reveal just how far I stretched out that little bundle of shirts I brought back from the charity shops all those months ago…
Martin & I looking out over the Solway Firth
My wedding dress was handmade by Etsy seller Funnelcake Boutique. The very talented Christine worked the bunting fabrics into the roses & ruffles at the back of the dress, & I was absolutely thrilled with the result – guaranteed I was wearing a truly one-of-a-kind dress on my wedding day!
my dress
On discovering Etsy shop, Sew Smashing, I fell in love with the beautiful origami butterflies seller Alexis makes. She very kindly agreed to make some for us using, you guessed it, some of our bunting fabrics!
origami butterflies
She fashioned 2 of the butterflies into boutonnières, which Martin & his best man wore in their lapels, & 2 of them into clasps, which my bridesmaid & I wore in our hair.
Immediately after the (humanist) ceremony, celebrated with homemade elderflower champagne served in glasses decorated with ribbons of the fabric…
our champagne flutes
…& later on in the day we enjoyed a delicious chocolate wedding cake, made by Martin’s Mum, which was decorated with a string of mini-bunting in the same fabrics!
our wedding cake (DIY cake toppers from Goosegrease Undone)
About a month or so before the wedding we had a surreptitious request for some of our bunting fabrics from Martin’s Mum! Rather mysteriously, she wouldn’t say what it was that she wanted them for, but we posted some off to her nonetheless… All was revealed on our wedding day, when she presented us with a beautiful patchwork quilt, incorporating several of the fabrics into the design.
the quilt which Margaret made us
So I am certainly pleased that I stumbled across what seemed at the time to be a bit of a mismatched jumble of old shirts in a charity shop all those months ago – without them we wouldn’t have had all these wonderful handmade touches at our wedding.
Martin, the dogs & I
Thank you to all the people – family, friends & professionals – who humoured me by going along with my slightly crazy sounding ideas & helped weave a little bunting magic through all these aspects of our wedding 
our wedding guests
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Your wedding was absolutely lovely in every way! The personal touches sprinkled throughout everything made a happy day even more memorable. I am honored to have been able to create custom items for such a wonderful couple on such a joyous occasion.
Jane it all looks so fantastic and I love how you carried the colours and fabric thru to the other parts! all so beautiful
well done!
How wonderful! Absolutely love all the touches and your dress turned out beautifully! Jealous of that cake and quilt too.