Happy Friday everyone, have you made it to the end of the week in one piece? Tomorrow Nik and I have a rare night out as we are off to Matlock for my good friends 20th wedding anniversary party! Today I have a cinema and lunch date with Dexter as I start my weekend a day early. Hina and Joachim booked her to help put their dream day together and by the sounds of their write-up she did an amazing job.
The whole wedding looks fabulous, the colours, flowers, dream catches, the ceremony area, all so gorgeous. As for the reception area, just stunning! Hina and Joachim were married on 16th September at Villa Montefiano. Fiesole β Florence β Tuscany. We started looking at Italy and France and fell for Italy in the end. We both love to travel and we both love good food and wine, so Italy felt absolutely right. Hina got in touch with an amazing wedding planner Chiara Sernesi and she helped us pick the location.
We had 60 guests and we started planning a year in advance and went down to Florence to se different locations and venues. How they met We met on Tinder 2 years ago and have been inseparable ever since. The proposal was laidback and lowkey, just like us. I had plans on doing it at our apartment and surprise Hina when she got back from work. She was there in the morning when I got back from the airport to surprise me, really sweet of her but it kind of ruined my proposal plans. So I had to postpone it to later that day.
I knew she hated public, over the top proposals, so I just asked her while sitting in our bed and she said yes! How did you allocate your budget? What budget? We went way overboard but it was worth it. Thank God we had a wedding planner that controlled us, and helped us save and cut back where saving could be done. Chiara is the best! Where did you splurge and where did you save?
We saved on the flowers and ordering stationary from Etsy. The wedding planner also had a friend that generously offered to play the violin, free of charge, very generous!
