Royal Wedding No.2

What did you think? I have to be honest here and say I was not expecting great shakes from this wedding BUT I was wrong! I loved the dress and the tiara was spectacular - good for Granny who obliged for "something borrowed". 

TIM ROOKE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

 (Image: PA)

The Greville Emerald Kokoshnik tiara, made by Boucheron in 1919. In platinum and diamonds, the tiara has an enormous 93.70-carat emerald at its centre, and six smaller emeralds either side.

I also take convincing about (lots) of flower girls and page boys - but they were so cute, well behaved and gelled. Also liked the idea of the sashes being multi-coloured. It's hard to be different with little ones without making them look like they're in fancy dress!

Lots of lovely autumnal colours from the family as well as the cobalt blue that featured a lot. Definitely a day to hold on to your hats!!!!

GETTY IMAGESGARETH FULLER

Caught my eye ...

I had in mind to do a post this week about flowers as it is almost Spring - please, let it be almost Spring! However, I have been side tracked slightly.

A couple of weeks , I wrote about Pantone colours and Marsala being the colour for 2015. This morning I came across a wedding from last year where they were ahead of the trend. The flowers (so not completely sidetracked!) were really lush and plentiful and the bride's bouquet was more an armful than a  handful. Everything was beautifully colour co-ordinated - dresses, flowers, cake, groom's tie even down to adding additional colour from the bouquets to the table arrangements to highlight the reception barn interior wood.

But ..... have you noticed what REALLY took my eye and made be go "Wow"? Shoes!!!!! The groom's shoes!!!!! They are so on colour!!!!! 

You can see all the images from this wedding on StyleMePretty

Inspiration

I follow a blog - BowTies & Buttercream - based in Toronto. They have published some amazing inspiration boards. I couldn't wait until the morning to show this one; it's just SO ...

Would you? could you? wear that dress? 

If not you could think about an ivory one and still use the bridesmaids' colours. 

Think the word I was wanting is 

BEAUTIFUL