Our florals featured avalanche roses, pale blue delphinium, marguerite daisies (in honour of our daughter, Daisy), pale pink roses, gypsophila, eucalyptus and wedding fern. I asked the florist if she could tie my blue rosary around my bouquet as my something blue. Tucked away waiting to go down the aisle, I could hear my family playing their instruments while they sang Marie’s Wedding, a traditional Scottish song. The Scottish influence continued when my mum read the Robert Burns poem, A Red Red Rose, and we walked back up the aisle to 500 Miles by the Proclaimers with everyone singing along. Our centrepieces were inspired by various fictional worlds. We used bits and pieces we found from around the house and bought others – it was a lot of trial and error! Our sweetheart table, Atlantica, was decorated with netting, shells, pearls and a dinglehopper (aka the fork Ariel finds aboard a sunken ship in The Little Mermaid). This was my favourite film growing up so it was nice to have that nod. As the tables were named after different fictional worlds, we used Marleybrook’s suitcases to display the table plan. Our place names differed according to table. For Hogsmede the place name was a key, while for Wonderland they were playing cards and so on. Tortuga was particularly fun to do. We gave everyone the pieces of eight as a reference to the film quote: “Those aren’t pieces of eight. They’re just pieces of junk!” So while one person got a necklace, another got a wooden eyeball! Other tables include Neverland, Wonderland, Hogsmede, Oz, Gotham, Westeros and Tortuga. 41 REAL WEDDINGS
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