A Personalised Embroidered Wedding Gift

Marcus and Emma’s wedding on the weekend was beautiful. I’m still on a high from having all my Gibson cousins together, and seeing two people in love get married. Marriage is such an awesome gift, hey!?

I thought I’d take a moment to show you what I made for them as a wedding gift. I embroidered this saying, and then included their names and the date of their wedding below. What do you think?

The saying is “Home is wherever you are…”. It’s meant to be like a husband saying to a wife “Home is wherever YOU are”, but in hindsight it just reads like home is wherever you happen to be at the time… :-/

But anyway, I thought their names and the date was a nice touch. The fabric is glued around the back so this can just hang on the wall ‘as is’! We gave it to them with some of those cool thick white letters (an “M” “&” and “E” for Marcus and Emma).

I also quickly put together a little card. This type of card is seriously SUPER easy and you can do it in so many shapes for so many different occasions. As this was a wedding I just used a hot glue gun to make the heart shape and stuck the red buttons in. I dusted it with glitter afterwards, which stuck to the bits of glue that were showing. Easy peasy!

I’d love to know what sort of handmade gifts you’ve made for a wedding. Let me know in the comments!

Tags: button, embroidery, gibson, handmade, marcus&emma, wedding

Marcus & Emma’s Wedding

On Saturday my cousin, Marcus, got married to his beautiful bride, Emma. I appointed myself chief babysitter to Deegan, who was as adorable as ever! Basically the was day awesome because it included two of my favourite things- weddings and babies! Better yet, family weddings and babies!

Usually weddings spell disaster diet wise, but with our ‘no sugar’ thing we could eat all the food except dessert! Win! (BTW: of course we were careful to not just eat anything, we did check that things didn’t have sugar before we ate them).

My brother Rhys and I held all the drinks, scarves, purses and babies for the Gibson cousins as they got their family photo taken.

Luke and Deegan. Lovin’ it.

The cake- they’re wearing the same thing on the cake as they did in real life! Also, that’s their dog, Mojo down there on the green!

My stunning mother.

My Uncle and Aunt, David & Judy.

Our Rodgers-Carbis family.

Everyone wants a hold of Deegan, even the bride!

Valentines Day

I don’t really have any ‘Ghosts’ of Valentines Past. But 5 years ago I was 18 and celebrating my first valentines day. Albeit, it was a little strange- a phone call while I was out camping, to start going out, and nothing more. It wasn’t a big fuss of a day by any means, but it was the start of a big fuss of a life- one filled with love and forevers. Valentines Day 2006 was when I started going out with Luke, and we’ve never looked back.

In the last 5 years we’ve gone out, got engaged, got married, travelled to nearly a dozen different countries together and adopted the most beautiful puppy we’ve ever laid eyes on. Pepper.

On Monday night, after my first day of relief teaching (!!!) we went out for dinner to a local Italian resturaunt. I broke my diet to eat the most amazing ravioli, and it was well worth it.

What did you do for Valentine’s Day?

This is part of Blog This Challenge 68.