Anniversary

One year ago...

...we were blessed to have all our friends and family here, in Italy to share in alot of love,  our wedding day was made by their love and this is our greatest memory.

Lancashire Love

Just got back from a fantastic 4 day break in England, it started with a wonderful family wedding in the Lancashire countryside near Clitheroe. After all the fussing and worrying about what to wear (english weather) the sun couldn't of shone brighter, the location was perfect , the ceremony perfect and so proud of my husband and how beautifully he read this Petrarch poem in church, he made me cry a little...

Il Canzoniere

Benedetto sia 'l giorno, et 'l mese, et l'anno,
et la stagione, e 'l tempo, et l'ora, e 'l punto,
e 'l bel paese, e 'l loco ov'io fui giunto
da'duo begli occhi che legato m'ànno;

et benedetto il primo dolce affanno
ch'i' ebbi ad esser con Amor congiunto,
et l'arco, et le saette ond'i' fui punto,
et le piaghe che 'nfin al cor mi vanno.
Benedette le voci tante ch'io
chiamando il nome de mia donna ò sparte,
e i sospiri, et le lagrime, e 'l desio;

et benedette sian tutte le carte
ov'io fama l'acquisto, e 'l pensier mio,
ch'è sol di lei, sí ch'altra non v'à parte.

Il Canzoniere

Blest be the year, the month, the hour, the day,

The season and the time, and point of space,

And blest the beauteous country and the place

Where first of two bright eyes I felt the sway:

 

Blest the sweet pain of which I was the prey,

When newly doomed Love’s sovereign law to embrace,

And blest the bow and shaft to which I trace

The wound that to my inmost heart found way:

 

Blest be the ceaseless accents of my tongue,

Unwearied breathing my loved lady’s name,

Blest my fond wishes, sighs, and tears, and pains:

 

Blest be the lays in which her praise I sung,

That on all sides acquired to her fair fame,

And blest my thoughts! for o’er them all she reigns.

Wedding details

the day after

 One of the saddest parts of our weeding weekend was having to dismantle all the beautiful flowers...and desperately not wanting them to die in a couple of days. Flowers evoke different emotions for different occasions, I can honestly say our wedding flowers made me so overwhelming happy I just didn't want to think of them dying...I'd shared collecting them and choosing them with Kim, then had the honor of Natasha spending the day in the basement with us creating our beautiful bouquets and filling jar after jar with her amazing creations...SO much happiness and happy memories were bunched up in our wedding flowers. So on the Sunday dismantling most of the posies was kind sad,  but then we put them in a wooden chocolate crate...where they once again created a visual delight of happiness to everyone who saw them.
Shared out amongst friends and family they then filled the homes of our friends & family for another week.

Our Wedding

Unfortunately because I was the Bride there wasn't much time for me to take photos of the venue and the details...but here's what I have...

Table settings

Welcome hampers

Bunting!

Wine list

Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue.

Menus & Onion chutney stand

We did it!!

weekend

We've had a fab weekend preparing stuff for our wedding 3 months this weekend Argh!!!! Still SO much to do, but this weekend we made great strides forward and had a great time in the process...

 36m of mini bunting

 even Michael got creative with painting.

getting very excited now!

glass obsession...

I have a problem and it's almost getting out of control...I collect and keep every glass vessel I see...it started out as a need for a couple small glass vases, of which the yogurt pots just happen to be perfect, then I had the excuse of our upcoming wedding and the flower arrangements, along with all the other DIY projects I'll be doing for the day...so the glass obsession extended to Ebay, flea markets and the supermarket.

Much to my roomies relief he saw progress this weekend when we started putting them to good use...and started thinking about the table decorations for the wedding...in reality we'll have to wait to see whats in bloom in September, but it's a great excuse to have the house full of flowers and smelling amazing!

                                                  Thanks Emma for your little inspiration

a perfect day

As you all know I have been getting increasingly excited about the up coming nuptuals of the beautiful & super talented Natasha and the beyond amazing Stefan.
Well that day came and now sadly has gone, but I can only describe the weekend as truly magical.
The setting was at the pretty Gorse Hill near Woking.....where we were all looked after for the entire wedding weekend.
With half of the party coming from all over the United States and the other half splattered from around the UK not of course not forgetting the Danes. It really was an International affair.