Planning a wedding

So, four years ago my honey proposed to me at the festival Tons of Rock. It was our 4 year anniversary, and we found the date two years later, on our 6 year anniversary. That gave me two years to plan and arrange everything.

A picture of us at the festival the day after we got engaged.

Since we both are nontraditional and not really religious, a church wedding was not for us. We found a stately recognized religious community asatro who could wed us, and the venue was a viking-age inspired farm. We wanted a small wedding with just our closest friends and family, and set the dress code to medieval and fantasy inspired. It was optional to dress up, and we encouraged people to use bunad or rent something or use whatever they had if they did not want to invest. The most important thing for us was that they could come and celebrate the day with us.

I recommend everyone planning a wedding to go to some of those wedding sites that has a lot of good tips to how you should plan the wedding. I made a budget, and a list of all the things I had to get sorted at what times. Like the venue, cake, photographer, the dress, all the accessories, a horse!!, a hotell, the food, my hair, the program, gifts, logistics etc. Some of those things you have to start planning really early, like booking a venue at least a year before! The dress usually takes 3-6 months to get done!! There was so much stuff to sort out, and I did most of it. I had a lot of help from my sister, who was also my maid of honor. I had to take the last week before the wedding off work, so I could get all the stuff left done in time for the wedding. I stayed up late every day, and got up early, and worked my ass off! I got some good help from friends from far away who came to stay a few days early, they got put to work! Even on my wedding day, I was multitasking, sowing some clamps on the back of my dress so I could hoist the train and fasten it up for the evening, while my sister did my hair.

Multitasking on my weddingday!

I made the table decorations by walking in the forest, picking up moss, twigs and pine cones. Together with some glass domes and led lighting from IKEA, I was really pleased with the forest faerie look. The placement cards was made of sliced wood and a marker. So it wast mostly for free, and I saved a lot on my budget that I could use on other stuff.

From the wedding, we marked all the little bottles with stuff like "love potion", "troll blood", "angel tears" and so on, and filled them with different colored water.

This was the test to show the venue how I would like it to look.

The placement cards all done and arranged for seating.

I made a program for the wedding, so people would get a sense of what was going to happen for the day. The ceremony is really different, witch involves everyone to make an individual toast for the wedding couple. And the menu for those who were curious.

The program for the weddingday

Despite all the planning, things does happen that are not planned, or someone does not do what they are supposed to, or something takes longer than planned. This will always happen, so just relax, enjoy the day, and everything will usually work out just fine anyway. After my intens week of planning and racing to get everything ready for the wedding, I decided to just enjoy my weddingday and have fun. The day flew by so fast, so I am glad I could focus on me and my husband and all our friends and family just having a blast!

Walk in closet

So when we got our new bathroom, we not only had to do the old one, but we ripped down the wall into the bedroom and used it to make the bathroom more spacious. This also made room for a small walk in wardrobe, and also a door that leads to the other big bedroom. This makes our master bedroom en suite! I really love how it turned out, and I had room for two big wardrobes in there, from IKEA.

This is the old floor plan before we renovated the bathroom and bedrooms.

This is the new floor plan after.

A walk-through closet. The door at the end is into the bathroom, and the doorway closest is a slide in door.

I like to have a lot of drawers!

 Loosing one bedroom to have the bathroom of my dreams was worth it!

New Bathroom

The bathroom in the first floor was so old and horrible, I could not even bring me to take a picture of it before we renovated it.
I put the design together myself, and I am really pleased with how it turned out. I even had some really smart designs like putting in a space for a washing machine, a big cupboard with a mirror door so I can see the back of my head, and the piece the resistance: Cat toilet room.

Take a look at the pictures:

Hurricane spa-bath, toilet, and to the left is the cat toilet cupboard.

Inside the cat toilet, there is a opening in the wall for the cats to go in, there is a motion activated light, and a fan I can turn on if the smell gets intense. There was even room for a big drawer on top and a little shelf. 

Shower with rainfall and normal shower head, and a sink with drawers. The mirror cupboard has lights integrated on the sides.

Here you can see the mirror with lights and also the high mirror cupboard behind me, so when I open the door I can angle it perfectly to see myself from behind. Very practical when doing my hair!
(The look was for a Christmas-themed party, I was Satan's little helper..) 

 The sink, drawers, mirror cupboard over the sink and the long mirror closet is all from Ikea.

The finished kitchen

Hello.
I just now remembered I used to have a blog! After finding it again, I can now see that I never posted any photos of the finished kitchen. So here goes, as well as some pictures of the other rooms we did before we sold my apartment.

My dream kitchen, too bad we moved from this just as I was starting to enjoy it.

New floors and paint in the 2. bedroom

Livingroom got new floors and painted walls.