today one year ago

Such a beautiful day - and so much fun.

Autumn Wedding

This weekend we went to some friends' wedding...

It was held in this beautiful house on a little island... almost magical with the fog and the autumn colours.

We had to go there by boat - a hundred people...

The house had so many beautiful old handcrafted details - like these carvings.

We all helped preparing the dinner - lots of nice talking while chopping...

and to decorate the dining hall with leaves and berrier from the surrounding woods...

And the bride's mom had made lots of cookies, stored in beautiful old cans...

Now we are tired and filled with beautiful impressions. Hope you had a nice weekend as well.

Little details...

I am sure that most of you will agree that little details count. I really enjoyed preparing all the little details for the wedding - but also didn't have time to post about them during the preparations. So here are some of them - hope they will not be too boring for you, soon I will stop telling more about the wedding :)

Vintage paper napkins for the cake (with little violets because of Frida Viola's name)

Very nice straws from this very nice Etsy-shop that has all kinds of funny stuff for your party.

Rosehips from the area around my grandmom's house - we made a lovely chutney with them.

Napkins made by vintage fabric for the dinner.

And little gauze bags with lavender (instead of rice) and vintage ribbon.

And look here - Camilla from Annas Camping took some very nice photos while she and her family stayed in our apartment! I love to see all the wellknown things and surroundings through the eyes of someone else - end especially sweet little Melvin in Frida Viola's room!

Finally: New blog roll on your right with lots of wonderful blogs - have a nice weekend!

Our Summer...

Yes, we are back - and what a wonderful summer! After 4 weeks away I feel like a stranger here in my neighourhood and it is almost a paradox that at the time of year when you experience the most and take huge amounts of photos blogging is almost dead... I guess you all feel the same and I hope you don't mind that I will bombard you with summer photos :)

First of all our wedding was marvellous. In the midst of this very wet summer we had a full day with sun from morning to evening. Everything was better than expected and I can only highly recommend getting married - you will never regret this massive feeling of joy and wonderful people.

This is how it looked...

From the village church where I was also baptised...

And from my grandmother's house at the sea where the party were held and from where I have so many nice childhood memories...

My sister and my mom did the delicious wedding cake with raspberries, fragilité, praliné and white chocolate. My childhood friend Vibeke made the fantastic ceramic figure on the top depicting A and me in our wedding outfits...

And some photos of some of our very beautiful guests - my mom and my grandmom at the bottom...

 

The tables were set with all different plates and tablecloths from local thrift stores and with flowers from the nature around the house. The pennants so fine and very festive...

The food was heavenly - only fish and local grown vegetables...

And the party went on until morning with lots of singing and dancing....

All photos are taken by our fantastic friend Kenneth Sperling who is also a fantastic photographer - look at his beautiful photos from Uganda here.

Now we are happy and tired and all filled up with wonderful memories - and I guess I cannot help posting more about the wedding later.

In the Mail

 

Last week we finally sent out the invitation for the wedding.

Despite my coming husband is a graphic designer he very early claimed that the invitations were my responsability - so they turned out very handmade: The text is handprinted with a stamp and the cards are decorated with little handcut garlands. Now they have hopefully found their receivers.