Pregnancy winter wedding outfit

I am 22 weeks pregnant and last week I was a guest at one of my oldest and best friend's wedding. It was a church wedding and I also had the honor of reading a poem at the church which the bride's mum wrote.

I have lots of gorgeous dresses. However, they aren't maternity dresses and I soon found my expanding stomach wasn't going to fit in my usual special occasion attire. 

Luckily, my mum had a lovely dress I could wear for the wedding which was both comfortable and suitable for a winter wedding.

This dress is a 3/4 sleeve stretchy cotton dress from Matalan, I believe it costs around £20. 
I teamed it with opaque black tights - essential for a winter wedding in a church! My shoes are black patent court shoes with a strap, these were from M&S, my long necklace, which has silver snowflakes on it, was from Dorothy Perkins' sale. 

The wedding was amazing, I read a poem in the church which was written by the brides' mum. The wedding breakfast and reception was amazing with lovely food. 
This was the first winter wedding I had been to, it was lovely and the bride and groom were lucky with such fabulous winter weather, crisp, bright and chilly. 

Have you been to any winter weddings this year?

My Wedding - April 13, 2013

I haven't posted in a while, I got back home from honeymoon last night. In the run up to my wedding, which was on Saturday, April 13, I didn't write on my blog. The weeks leading up to the big day are a bit of a blur, there was so much to sort out.  

 

The image below is of Hartland Abbey in North Devon which is where our ceremony took place. We had our wedding breakfast and evening reception at a place which over looks Westward Ho! beach.

This is Alice, one of my bridesmaids, we had three bridesmaids and a bestman and two ushers.

 

I did my own wedding makeup but had a lovely girl from a local salon do our hair.

The picture above is me with the bestman.

These are just a few pictures taken from friends and family, the professional pictures haven't come back yet.

The day itself was wonderful, everything went smoothly, no dramas.

I had a shellac manicure done for the day and I went for a vibrant teal.

If you would like a step by step on how I did my make up, let me know!

A May Time Wedding

Last Saturday was my other half's sisters wedding, the day was amazing, the weather was beautiful.

Just a few pictures of the day...

My best friend's wedding

On Saturday it was my best and oldest friend's wedding.

I did a reading in the church and was so nervous but I got through it without any mistakes. Public speaking doesn't bother me, it was who I was doing the speaking for. Alice looked gorgeous and I am so happy for her. The ceremony was lovely and not a dry eye in the house.

So many people wore white dresses, I am not sure how others feel, but I always thought wearing a white dress to someone else's wedding is a massive no no. I wore a bright blue dress with sliver embellishments round the neckline. It was from Monsoon around three years ago.

I woke up bright and early to go into town to get my hair done for the day, Ricardo my amazing stylist created this masterpiece.

As you can see from the top pictures, I had a bit of height on the top and a side pony tail with curls. Then he created this gorgeous hair piece at the back. Lots of hair spray and grips were used as well as my clip in extensions.

I had lots of compliments on my 'do', so thanks to Ricardo for this.

Here are some more pictures from the day:

It was the most amazing day and Alice looked stunning, I got so emotional when her dad mentioned me in his father of the bride speech. The couple are off to Rome on their honeymoon shortly. I am so glad the rain held off on the Saturday, Sunday was terrible, it did not stop raining all day.