It is not often you are given two weeks notice to put together a wedding 🙂
We all knew Nigel and Olivia from Chez Vous were getting married and Reviva Weddings were pencilled in to oversee the day.
But with all of us working in the events and wedding industry, our work and weddings ran away with us over the summer as normal and lo and behold with two weeks notice we managed to pull off a most fantastic wedding for one of the most hard working persons I know apart from me!
Nigel, from Chez Vous Events, had approached me earlier this year to help him coordinate and style his wedding. He wanted us to oversee his day to make sure it all went smoothly and to style everything, adding in the details and fun elements and wave my magic wand over his special day.
I was very honored that Nigel had chosen me to help him with his wedding.
I really wish I had had the luxury of spending more time on this fabulous theme as when I finally saw the venue, two weeks before the big day, it just screamed magical fairy garden, Alice in Wonderland theme.
So we quickly set to work to achieve as much as possible in such a short space of time but of course I knew we would do it and come up trumps!
Much frantic ordering was done over the internet however sadly some things did not show up in time or indeed are still not here.
I did order some themed tags from a site called Folksy from a girl called Rowena who runs Crafty Pagan Designs, but they never arrived and I have not had a reply from my emails asking where the order is or if I can have a refund, how disappointing is that?
But many fabulous suppliers came up trumps, including the wonderful designer Angela from Red Star Designs on Etsy. Angela created a really cool Alice in Wonderland menu for me based on my brief and some lovely Drink Me stickers which we placed on small milk bottles and mason jars for the guests welcome drinks upon arrival at the venue along with paper straws.
Luckily for us arty crafty girls here at Reviva, especially my daughter Isabel, who is the real talent behind our styling team, the rest of the decorations were created in-house.
It did involve an all nighter to complete everything the night leading up to the day as we were busy with weddings all week before and after!
Isabel handpainted and wrote the fabulous signs with directions and quotes which we placed around the venue, along with some giant paper flowers.
We created table names with white roses supplied with pots of red paint and brushes for the guests to paint the roses red. It was funny the next day to see what the guests had created!
All the tags for the placecards were beautifully hand written by Isabel and attached to some really cute vintage keys, courtesy of Jess, and these were displayed with the menus on each place setting.
I arranged for Nigel to create a large entrance door to the reception and we styled this with different height logs, clocks, moss, a giant key, a mini door and more signs.
We went shopping and found some beautiful pink and gold vintage style teapots and teacups from the designer collection Carolyn Donnelly Ecletic at Dunnes.
They were perfect for this theme and Nigel and Olivia´s florist filled them with flowers to use as display props on the buffet tables.
The gardens were turned into a Fairy Wonderland using upturned logs decorated with moss and tealights along with our mini silver candelabras adding a magical touch as guests wandered through the maze of this quite extraordinary venue.
Loraine created some lovely woodland twig displays to decorate the buffet tables using moss, plants and flowers along with mini vintage clocks and more silver candelabras and teapots.
The star of the show had to be the cake by Sweet Things By Fi. I quickly drafted in Fi to make the cake as I knew it would be amazing and she would be excited with this brief.
Fi of course came up trumps and the wedding cake was absolutely delightful. It was beautifully decorated with stop watches, mice and vintage style teacups.
The other star of the show, and we will have more photos soon, was my fairy berries, which amazingly were ordered from Washington on the Tuesday and were here on the Thursday. A big hats off to this supplier as it was going to be a risk to get them here on time but I was determined! I think in the mist of memory a bit hats off to to DHL as well!
We will showcase more of Nigel and Olivia´s wedding soon, I am rather looking forward to seeing Nigel´s wedding car which apparently was a giant hotdog on wheels?!
I would like to send my hugest thanks to Joseba Sandoval and his beautiful wife, Mar, who bravely came along to photograph us setting up this wedding.
We were running at this point on pure adrenalin, having been up all night, and they were patiently following us around and around the venue trying to take photos of our details.
I have worked with Joseba now a few times and I am sure he thinks I am completely mad!
My hats off to Joseba and Mar, they are a gorgeous couple and amazing photographers and had they not patiently followed us around for the afternoon we would not be able to share these images with you.
If you would like to see Joseba´s beautiful weddings please do hop over to his website.
We will post more of this wedding soon, these are just a few of the details we created for the day that we thought we would be fun to share with you 🙂
