Coming soon - Yummy Wedding Breakfast Marmalade

My partner makes the most delicious marmalade in the world - or so everyone keeps telling him. Seriously though, it is the most scrummy marmalade, and just perfect for the wedding breakfast, the one the day after the wedding, on bread or toast and served with a glass of wedding celebratory bubbly! So, I have decided to add this to my website, perfect as a wedding gift, handmade in Devon, and will be sourcing suitable English bubbly to go with it. So here is a sneak peak of the yummy stuff!

Testimonials

It is always great to get testimonials from very happy customers but even more satisfying to get a testimonial from far off lands. This one came from the lovely Laureline in France. After asking many questions she seemed happy and comfortable to order her confetti from me. I was a little apprehensive, knowing that some parts of France have beautiful flowers so why would a French bride wish to order natural confetti, from the UK. However she was sooooo delighted and sent me this, my first French Testimonial:


"Les confettis sont superbes et correspondent vraiment au photos du site. Merci à Julie qui a répondu à mes questions et m'a rassuré concernant les délais de livraisons. J'ai reçu mon colis 1 semaine après la commande. Je recommande ce site à toutes les françaises qui veulent un mariage nature et original !"

Best wishes
Laureline

‘Le Lancer de riz’: The French traditionally throw rice (le riz) over the newly weds as they leave either the town hall, the church / synagogue / temple / mosque etc. The act of throwing rice or any other confetti in France is, as in other occidental cultures, to promote fertility and to warn off evil spirits.

Another great blog from Essential Images http://bit.ly/cx9Xsw

A Little Creative Therapy Required
A little therapy required for me yesterday!

It was not a good day ....family stuff....but then we all get that from time to time! Anyway lots of little voices going off in my head, you know the sort of thing 'you should have done more', 'you must have deserved it', 'you should have known better' and on and on and on!

Right that's it I thought I am going shopping - ooops opened purse and that little voice in head said 'you've got to be joking'!

Where was my other half? Oh yes he was driving so couldn't bother him with it. Right, next! Text sister - 'are you near your computer' No, she said, but have iPad! Right I need to let off steam! Ooops! was her reply! I sent her an email that I am sure didn't make sense but think she got the gist!

(Thank you dear sister!) It helped .... the voices were not quite so loud now!

But then I shouted at the voices STOP! So moving away from computer hastily (before I found someone else to email with my rantings) I decided to get my creative juices working which is always very therapeutic for me!

Fortunately I am a hoarder - not bad enough to be in that programme on the TV - but quite bad! :(

I found some pretty pieces of wallpaper which I had left over from my interior design course (that was about 11 years ago and I actually found doing that course incredibly therapeutic and rewarding).

Anyway I digress once again.........I then proceeded to do something that I have wanted to do for ages but haven't had the time......didn't have the time now, of course, but this was absolutely necessary if I was to keep my sanity!

First I opened an old envelope - opened it up completely to use as a template to make my own envelopes! This thought came into my head last year when someone won a Makeover Voucher and I looked everywhere to find a pretty envelope for it!

After I had made a few I found there were triangles left over. So I went on to make DIY cones. These would be lovely for wedding confetti and what a lovely idea to make personal envelopes for wedding invitations and cones to match. You could even make pretty envelopes for children's party invitations and then with the leftover triangles make cones for sweets!

Ah I feel better now!



Oh and much better after the chocolate treat of maltesers - well I couldn't put them back in the packet could I! :)

Natural delphinium petal confetti courtesy of
The Natural Confetti Company

Wedding Yurts

A big warm welcome to our new follower Lizzie Jones from www.weddingyurts.co.uk. There are four gorgeous handcrafted yurts to choose from for your special day or why not just have them all and link them together. Take a look at their website for more info!

Simply confetti

These words were recently posted by our favourite photographer www.essentialimages.co.uk

So what does Confetti mean?

In English.......


Small bits of paper, usually coloured, thrown or dropped from a height to

enhance the fun of a festive event, such as a wedding or even a New

Year's Eve party.



In Italian........

"Confetti" is sugar coated almonds and usually

given out at

weddings, often wrapped in a small organza bag and used

as favours for the guests. The little bags of sweets are

said to represent the hope

that the new couple will have a fertile

marriage.

The Natural Confetti Company make fabulous biodegradable dried confetti

from real flower petals and can be bought online all year round.

Visit http://www.naturalconfetti.co.uk for more information






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The Corn Barn

We supplied the confetti this weekend for the lovely Lisa who was married in a church in Teignmouth Devon. She chose a mixture of red and ivory rose petals and blue and raspberry delphinium petals. The reception followed in this beautiful barn in stunning rolling hills of mid Devon near Cullompton. A full wedding service can also be provided here in the gorgeous Corn Barn.
www.thecornbarn.co.uk

HALLOWEEN WEDDING

  A sneak peak into this fantastic REAL halloween wedding, photos courtesy of www.essentialimages.co.uk

Who would dare to get married on the scariest day of the year!  This couple clearly did and look at this lovely dress.  Glad to see they didnt forget the all important confetti!!

I wonder if they flew off on a broomstick to a suitably haunted honeymoon location????