Going to the chapel....

One of my best friends got married this weekend, and I was her bridesmaid, which was rather exciting. The couple requested money rather than gifts as they already have things for their house, but I wanted to give them a little something with a personal touch as well. (For our wedding two years ago, they gave us a Welsh love spoon with our names and the date engraved on it).

So I decided to knit them a pair of wedding teddies, with the outfits personalised to them. The pattern came from a book called Twenty To Make - Knitted Bears by Val Pierce, which I picked up about 18 months ago in WHSmith, before I learnt to crochet.

The bride wore a full-skirted dress with beads and sequins sewn onto the skirt. The colour scheme was black and yellow, and the groom wore a black suit, white shirt and yellow tie and pocket square. I had to text my friend to get her to send me pictures without letting her know why I wanted them, lol. 

The pattern says to use beads as eyes, and sew the nose and mouth with yarn, but the bears ended up looking rather evil for some reason, so I scrapped that idea and cut pieces from fabric and glued it on instead.

The bride wore a bubble veil (had to Google that! lol).

I lent her my blue garter, so of course, I had to put one on the bear! 

...and she carried a bouquet of pale yellow dahlias (could only find these yellow ones in The Works but I think they suit).

Some pics from the actual wedding...

View of Tintern Abbey from the car (the wedding was in Merthyr Tydfil and we had to take a detour through the valleys as the Brynglas tunnel near Newport was shut due to an explosion. I didn't mind though...the scenery was wonderful!)

A close-up of my bouquet. The lovely little yellow flowers are a type of Australian daisy and are called Billy Buttons. The groomsmen wore them as buttonholes too. 

Obligatory shoe shot! Mine is on the right!

The reception venue

 The tables were named after Welsh theatres (bride studied Drama and is involved with the theatre) or tools (groom is a carpenter!) 

Funky cake toppers! 

My present for being bridesmaid was a gorgeous charm bracelet, including this cute little yarn charm! 

                                                                 Me, the bride, and our other friend who got married this year comparing our bling!

All in all, it was an amazing day! I'm now impatiently waiting for more of my friends to get engaged!

PS - I have it on good authority that the bears now have a happy home on the mantelpiece!