My Childhood Wedding Vision...

Look at me I'm getting married! I never thought I'd see the day....

WELL that is a massive lie as growing up all I could think about was wedding dresses and what I would and wouldn't have on the day. I used to draw dresses over and over and they always looked like a mixture of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice and Alice in Wonderland. But as I got older and a little more cynical, I became anti marriage. Deep down the desperate need to arrange my day and be happy was still there but due to ex relationship upsets, I'd gone off the idea... all this before I turned 25... amazing!

ANYWAY...

Now I am getting married I want it to be just how I pictured it back then. Just like every little girls dream.... but without the dodgy Disney princess option... I don't do Lovey Dovey Princess!

So what was that dream?

It would be Crafty and Handmade, with everything Mad Hatter like,

Vintagey with Lace and Wild Flowers like a summer tea party with doilies.

It was a bit old school Alice in Wonderland with Jane Austin influences.

It was Fun and Exciting with twinkly lights and dancing.

It had Tea Cups and Fish and Chips.

It had Silly Games and Bouncy Castles.

It had live music from Guns 'n' Roses (well I was marrying Slash),

I had the most amazing yet ridiculous wedding dress that showed my legs like on the November Rain Video but with more a more classy feel like a Jane Austin Novel. (I have no idea how that works either).

I had a lovely Catholic church and a big long veil.

Oh and we had...

Sweets, Sweets and more Sweets!

So where did all this random stuff come from in my head?

Well, I love Alice in Wonderland because my sister named me at birth after her favourite book, I just thank the Lord I wasn't a boy as my Brother's favourite thing at the time was The A Team... Murdock Hannibal Face BAillie does have a ring to it but I can see the school bullies having a field day with that one. So the reason for the wonderland theme was from my name sake.

I was always making and drawing stuff when I was little and I have always had a creative streak. My mum is an artist and has always made us be hands on in the craft department each of us Baillie kids having Art as our favourite subject, The thought of someone else making my wedding things makes me feel like I'm flushing money down the toilet with my head in it too. I love making things and handmade is always the best I think.

Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice was on the TV when I was wedding planning in my head. Although I didn't understand the appeal of Mr Darcy I did fall in love with the era and the simpleness of the designs. I decided there and then that I must have lived in that era in another life and that deep down I was Miss Jane Austin. I had a very active imagination.

I have always loved lace and doilies. I remember sitting and playing with them at old peoples houses and thinking how pretty they were. Lace always reminded me of curtains until I saw a wedding dress on the TV and I instantly fell in love. I don't even know what I was watching but I can picture the dress in my head as I type.

I grew up at the seaside and fish and chips in paper just tastes amazing in the sea air. My mum used to work in a nursing home not too far from the beach and I used to love that the ladies who lived there used proper tea cups and saucers with teapots and everything. It seemed so silly when you could get more in a mug but I remember one lady who I grew really close to telling me that 'a lady only ever drinks tea from a tea cup' I don't know why that stayed with me but I strangely now agree! Tea tastes better from a tea cup just like fish and chips taste better in paper.

I hadn't been to that many weddings but the ones I did go to were very adult orientated. Looking at a wedding from a child's eyes it is very boring. Often the kids are tired of sliding across the floor on their knees really early on and by the time the drunken adults get on the dance floor the kids are either asleep in the corner or shoved into a corner out of the way. I still don't like this idea so my aim is to get the kids involved in the planning and ask what they want. Why not they are more adventurous than us. Although games still in my head I'm not sure I'll be able to justify a bouncy castle in my budget... although I may be able to talk Hoff into putting it in the budget... 

OK so Guns 'n' Roses are not going to be playing at my wedding, which is sad really as I think Axel would be a huge hit with the crowd. But I do want Live music so this WILL happen. I did want to marry Slash but I think Hoff will do... I'll buy him a top hat and a curly black wig that will have to do. (Just kidding Hoffy).

Twinkly lights and lovely decorations that I made myself were always high up on the list. I love the idea of them looking like the nights sky but indoors... simple minds. I think whilst everyone is dancing away they would look amazing. Dancing and fun is a must at a wedding so this was always key in my head. How can people have fun. Hence the games, music and the bouncy castle. I was a funny kid.

Dresses, ohhhhh dresses were amazing in my head. Big and bouncy and showing some flesh without being too much. Yet with lace and ruffles like a Pride and Prejudice dress... it looked better in my head at the time, I think. I loved the Guns 'n' Roses November Rain video so much that I cried every time. The bride dies you see and they bury her at the end. But at the beginning they have an amazing wedding in a tiny church with the most Rock Chick dress ever. I wanted that dress. I am NOT getting that dress.... it is awful but at the time was amazing. lol. The church, however, I can do. It isn't in a desert and it's not that tiny but it is beautiful and it is the one my nan used to go to, so that is a plus.

All kids love sweets! and I was no different I wanted sweets everywhere in my dream wedding and I wanted non of those hideous sugared almonds!! Ewww I hated those they just sat on my windowsill after each wedding as a keepsake, then got thrown away because they'd gone funny in the sun. I love sweets. We will have every bloody type of sweets you can think of if it kills me..... or makes me obese! Why not ay? Everybody loves sweets.

Right so that's my childhood wedding vision... a little bit odd but then again so was/am I. I will do an up to date version in my next post and see how much I keep in... I'll work on Guns 'n' Roses but don't get your hopes up.