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Have you discovered Pinterest yet? I wish it had existed when I was planning my wedding…

Its a fantastic place to pin anything and everything you think you might want to incorporate into your own wedding, and its SOOO much easier than adding a website or a link to your shortcuts or favourites list! I don’t know about you but half the time when I am looking for something I’ve seen- I go to Google, not my “Favourites”. Using Pinterest you can immediately see a picture showing you why you pinned it to your board, and clicking on the picture will take you back to the link you liked in the first place!

Its awesome!

I now have several wedding-related boards on Pinterest. It started out with just one, but I’m gradually splitting them up so they’re easier to look at… Here they are:

In various parts of the USA, the bride and groom write special love letters to each other, and these letters are delivered by the maid of honour and best man- or other trustworthy person- whilst the couple are preparing for their big day!

I think its a glorious idea.

There’s so much happening on a couple’s wedding day that often the romance disappears until they wake up the next day! Imagine sitting having your hair done and you get a love letter from your fiance! Its a special little reminder of why you have spent months planning and emailing and organising and driving yourself and others crazy!

This is Cassey and Jerrall’s story, in Cassey’s own words!

Our engagement was no elaborate affair. After we’d been dating for about 8 months, we were just hanging out and chatting about something arb. We decided that it would be something we’d do after we’d both finished our studies and were in a good spot financially. It was very important to both of us that we’d be able to pay for our wedding ourselves. When Jerrall got a job in Durban, I decided to go with him even though we weren’t engaged yet, and it seems that time when we only had each other was just what we needed to get the ball rolling for marriage.

We’d been together for about four and a half years when we started planning our wedding.

Our wedding was tiny- 30 people including the two of us.

It was on a wine farm and we did most of the stuff ourselves, but had help from friends. A friend’s sister worked at the wine farm, and helped us get a discount on the venue due to it being so small. She also put us in touch with the person that did the most amazing flowers. Everything for the venue, food, flowers and photos was done via e-mail as we planned for a wedding in Cape Town while being in Durban.

Our friends helped a lot, one made our invitations, another the table cards with our thank you notes inside them, one gifted the wine and champagne and the other had a very talented younger sister who we hired to do our photos for next to  nothing.

I had my dress made for under R1000 including the fabric, and my shoes were a gift from a friend. I borrowed a friend’s tiara and wore it as an aliceband, and we bought my husbands suit the day before the wedding – he arrived back in SA just two days before the wedding!

I did most of the planning, but he had some input, our starter was a mini burger coz he loves them.

We also used our cake for dessert and it had green, white and pale pink polka dots on them – our theme and colours. I think the burgers and the polka dots made it unique to us. Oh, and the fact that my maid of honour was a guy!

Not to forget that we sat with our guests and rotated during the courses. Oh, and there was the music as well, mostly osts from animes we both enjoyed. I even walked down the aisle to music from one of our favourites. It was another thing friends helped with, a friend’s brother has a band and he loaned us his speakers etc. So I’d say the help we had from friends also made it unique to us.

Although the day was our big day, it was special to our friends as well. Many of them helped, and they were all along for another part of our journey as a couple.

Cliched I know, but true.

Their photographer was Nielen Bottomley and she’s on Twitter as @NielenB.

And now, for your viewing pleasure, here are some photographs from their wedding!

And you can make your own one here!

Another thing I believe is going to be big in South Africa real soon- biscuit bonbonnieres! Used as gifts for wedding guests, or even table decor. They’re so pretty!

They won’t be cheap though, these are an awful lot of work.