While planning our wedding we decided to cut costs by getting a family member to film our wedding video. Only a few days prior to our wedding we decided to hire a professional video photographer instead.
Jaco Diedericks did a spectacular job and in such short notice! He truly captured the emotion and unique style of our wedding.
After our engagement on the 5th of November 2010, we tied the knot officially on the 2nd of April 2011, at a beautiful farm-style venue in Lydenburg called The Cow Shed. It was truly the happiest day of our lives. What a blessing to celebrate such a special day with those you love!
The weather was gloriously sunny, with a pleasant breeze. All our meticulously made wedding plans came together beautifully, but I can assure you that nothing would have been possible without the hard work of our family and friends. A simple “Thank you” to all those who helped will never be enough!
I would describe our wedding as quirky and farm-style. Our theme was inspired by many of the blogs we visited, but we still wanted the day to be unique to us. After many brainstorming sessions and loads of DIY projects, we successfully hosted our dream wedding.
Wedding featured on the following blogs:
Coordinator: Adoration Events ~ 0723748604
Accessories: Head Piece~Accessorize, Earrings~Lulu Bell, Cufflinks~Lady Peculiar, Badges~In Good Company
Bridesmaids dresses: Trudie Groenewald (Family Friend)
Cupcakes & cookies: Baked with Love ~ Cornel Smit (cornelsmit@vodamail.co.za) 0727552103
Décor & Stationary: Adoration Events ~ 0723748604
Flowers: Pollinationstation
Dress: Gerrit Pienaar – Claris
Music: Bernhard Breytenbach (Family Friend)
Food: Prep’ed by Sasha
Hair: Coreen Welmans (Family Friend)
Hiring: In Good Company
Make-up: Isabel Nel (Family Friend)
Photographer: Welovepictures
Video photographer: Jaco Diedericks – (jcedericks@gmail.com) 0722951027
Venue: The Cow Shed
After blogging about our Save the Dates I couldn’t wait to do a post about our wedding invites. We wanted our invite to reflect both our personalities with a clever twist between modern and vintage design. After browsing many wedding blogs we came across the most unique wedding invite concept. The couple (Iaan & Christine) used their invite as a platform to tell their love story. We pulled LOADS of inspiration from their invite for our own design. We also added to our invite a “Survival Guide” to give our friends and family more information on our wedding weekend. The “Survival Guide” information was also placed on our wedding site: fradri.wordpress.com
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I always had an idea of how I wanted my wedding Save the Dates to look, but when I finally had to make them my whole concept changed! So much for planning ahead. Looking back now, I’m ecstatic about how they turned out:
