Tristan Davies

Here are some of our wedding photos as taken by Tristan Davies. Tristan is a friend and also a newly graduated young photographer.
Check out his work at ... http://www.tristandavies.com/ or http://tristandavies.tumblr.com/

All photographs are copyright of Tristan Davies

Bridal Shower

On the Saturday before our wedding i was thrown a wonderful "Surprise"Bridal Shower.
I say surprise because i knew when it was on, and i was casually invited to lunch by my mum & godmother, but apart from that i knew none of the particulars, which is just as i like it.

So after being taken to Cold Rock ice creamery, Mum said she just had to pop into Lewis' parents house, well i knew this must be it, especially when i recognized all the cars out the front.

I was greeted by my beautiful bridesmaids who dressed me in a headband veil and bride sash.

The party with lovingly hosted by Lewis' mother Maggie in their gorgeous East Malvern home.
The girls even organized some games, such a 'how well do you know the bride' quiz, wedding word scramble and a contest to dress three of the guests in toilet paper as brides, which was very funny.

It was a lovely day, and that evening me and some of the girls went out for dinner at Taco Bill (my favorite) had half price fish bowl margaritas and they wouldn't even let me pay! the night was topped off with drinks in my backyard.

It was absolutely what i wanted when it comes to a bridal shower/hens night, i didn't want clubbing (i get too tired), i didn't want strippers. So i got a wonderfully relaxed and fun afternoon/evening with the girls, exactly what i needed a week out from the wedding!

Thanks again to everyone who made it so wonderful.

Sadie, Sadie, Married Lady

Yes, as of Saturday 5th February i am Hayley Williams Pawley.

To see more photos of our special day please visit Flash Photography

I will post a more detailed account of the day very soon, but hopefully these photos will tide you over for now.

Wedding Invitations

My wedding is coming around so fast but at least one thing that i am almost done with is designing the invitations. All i need is the grooms approval and then off to the printers they shall go. Seeing as my invitations aren't the sort of typical 'girly' invitations...
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Picture from: http://www.marjeane.com/wedding_invitations.htm

I thought i'd share some of my inspiration when it came to designing invitations that would represent L & I.

Pictures from: Sorry i don't know!

As you can see i am quiet in love with typography, and wanted our invitations to be fun & funky.
But to give you just a taste here is my 'Save the Date'...

I have completely copied the design off my favourite blog of all time, Young House Love. I take no credit at all for the idea. But i do thank my wonderful Daddy for taking the photos.
Apart from the idea the making, printing etc of the Save the Date is all me. As i mentioned my Dad took the photos of L & I holding the signs, which i just printed out on some card from Officeworks.
Then i put the whole thing together using Adobe Illustrator (Thanks to my year of Graphic Design), then printed 4 strips to a page on glossy photo paper, and then set to cutting them out. NOTE! Do not use a scalpel, or you will almost cut off the tops of two of your fingers, not one but two, and on two separate occasions! (Silly Hayley). They turned out amazing so it was kind of worth it.
Once i'd cut them out and patched up my fingers i attached flat sticky magnets which i purchased of eBay to the backs. 100 flat self adhesive magents for about $5 including postage! and i've still got so many left.
Then printed up the address on some cute industrial looking yellow envelopes (this took quiet a bit of playing around with Word & my printer to achieve, but all worked out in the end)

Keep an eye out for the real deal invitations very soon, hopefully.