Wonderful Wedding!

Well - finally the wedding day arrived! It was an absolutely wonderful day and everything went very smoothly. The weather was beautiful on Saturday, the Bride was absolutely stunning in her dress, the church service was full of laughter, and the reception venue really pulled off everything that was required of them - and I danced the night away (barefoot! no stillettos) with family and friends!!

Here are a couple of pictures of the day:

The Bride and Groom!

Ushers, Best Man, and Bridesmaids included! (I'm the bridesmaid on the end to the right of the Bride)

I can't stop saying that I now have a wonderful sister-in-law!! They're lovely together and I wish them all the happiness in the world for their future together :-)

Anyway - enough soppyness - here is a pic of the (unframed) wedding sampler. I'm really proud of this - and I enjoyed every single stitch.

Vervaco - Private Moment

There were less than 10 colours which made it really quick to make progress. My only slight gripe with it was that there was *only just enough* thread in the kit, and I realised too late that there was a warranty in the original packaging to get more thread from Vervaco. I was ok in the end, but it would have been helpful not to have had that niggle at the back of my mind.

The other thing I changed was the beads that went in her hair. The beads that came with the kit seemed far too big, so I changed them for some seed beads that I had in my lace spangling stash. I'm much happier with the smaller beads as they don't seem to take it over quite so much.

I'm hoping to get this framed and give it to them when they get back from their honeymoon - everything has been so frantic for us all recently that it will be good to give it to them when they've had a chance to relax a bit.

Phew! I can't quite believe my brother is married - it's still all a bit surreal at the moment....