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wabi sabi wedding

This post is about some of April and Andrew's wedding decor

The couple made gifts for their guests - ceramic salt and pepper bowls by the bride, a wooden tray to hold them by the groom

April used cyanotype to print ferns and wild-flower silhouettes on the boxes that held those gifts.

The bride also made thirty of these dotted pots to hold lavender plants.  The pots were carried by (and gifted to) her friends and the lavender has since been planted in our rock garden at the cottage.

Live plants were used for the centrepieces - above maiden hair fern, below, juniper.

Each plant was carefully planted and arranged with moss or rocks in glass bowls, the whole grounded with a flat porcelain plate made by the bride

April made other blue and white plates for the wedding. The ones in the above photo were used to hold the seating name-tags (little gift boxes full of candy made for the couple by the groom's co-workers, seen at the back of the table).

A denim aesthetic.

She made blue and white birds as gifts for children who attended.

wedding

 Mr and Mrs

 with father and

pine cone boys

who is the better cook?

new wedding flag for the cottage
the couple was sung Handle Me With Care by the guests

ritual

We have a family ritual

 on the final night of the visit, we go by boat to the bell buoy and wait for sunset

the water gleams at this time of day

 

 

 life is meaningful

sky
sky
water

celebrations

we made tin foil decorations for Grace's birthday on Wednesday. baby hair spiral celebrate

Feeling blessed

We had a wonderful Christmas here. It was busy and beautiful and unplugged. My very best holiday wishes to all my friends who read this blog.