Magic Mushroom

Yesterday, we attended the wedding of some friends, one of whom used to be CBC's house-mate.  We remember when they got together and it has been lovely to see their relationship develop from meeting on-line to getting married.  Curiously, we live in their old house.  They moved out into their new house last summer and we took over a week later after our honeymoon!

As with a wedding, what does one wear?  I decided a while back, since it was an Autumn wedding, I would wear my Poppy England Grace dress worn with a petticoat.

I decided to pick out the tiny bit of red in the dress and wore my ruby slippers and an ASOS red spot pillbox hat.  My husband was VERY insulting about this choice of millinery and told me I looked like Super Mario's mushroom friend! Fine, thanks!




My handsome husband wore a lovely wool Next suit  with his groom's waistcoat and a super paisley tie from Coe's in Maldon.


He bought himself an Autumn buttonhole from the florists which made us laugh as there was one thistle too many! Any time I tried to hug him, I got spiked in the chest!

We've had a few things to do with the wedding. We helped try lots of prosecco in order to choose this.  In addition, I leant them a series of items including wedding umbrella, camera tripod, hats and accessories for a photo booth and I helped making the table names- well, I worked with a Sharpie to write them anyway! Behold my handwriting....

The hats were strewn all around the place by the end of the evening and there were some funny moments on the dance floor with them.

The food was delicious and what was amazing was that we were served a trio of desserts:
Eton Mess, Chocolate brownie, Apple crumble plus ice-creams and a large chocolate slab!


The whole day was chilled and relaxed and the bride looked utterly beautiful!

Hope all is well with you.

xx

I'm pretty sure Hat Attack is coming up soon so linking with the beautiful hat Queen, Style Crone.

Red roses and ruby slippers

My spare room has once again become a tip because it is littered with summer dresses I have worn for a day and somehow not wanted to put in the washing basket yet.  I love the plethora of summer dresses I own which I have found in charity shops over the years, like this one. On Wednesday, I wore this polka dot number which I really like for its sort of roll neck. Red and black and white polka dots are a favourite combo for me. You may think it's too matchy but I don't care! It's the type of outfit that pleases my kids at school.  I had a whole host of little hands grabbing at my brooch! And I match my environment!
Somehow though, I lack the ambient, crisp photos to make the lovely romantic looking shots other bloggers would manage with this combo. Ah well.
















Seems a bit self-indulgent to do just a post of shots of me but I did like this combo.

A few updates: My work colleague got an Outstanding for her observation! She was so chuffed!  The laptop is still in the airing cupboard, I am still too nervous to know the answer to whether it works or not.
My kids called me cool today. I rode my pink micro-scooter to the station and school today as I was running late and didn't have time to walk the mile to the station. When I got to the station near school,I rode my scooter down the road.  At the first bus stop, I saw one of my year 6 recorder pupils. She was just about to board the bus. I said to her, "Let's see who gets there first!" and bombed my way down the road to school, being careful to stop at each road.  Just as her bus pulled up to school,I wheeled up to her as he got off and "Tie,".  At lunchtime, my music girls said they'd seen me, and used to the usual reaction, I said, "Did you laugh at me?" and she said, "No, we said you're cool!" which another child told me too, 5 minutes later. That's so nice. I have never been regarded as cool ever. Sweet, yes. Funny, yes. Other things but not cool!

Sorry, not much to say.I am super tired.

Hugs to you.
xxx