wedding series #4: last chapter

With sadness I announce the end of the 2012's wedding series.

No such events are scheduled for year 2013.
So far that is, let's see if there will be any surprises ;o)

So..
Rena&Giorgos got married! 

This wedding invitation came quite unexpectedly.

Rena is a friend from the university, who I hadn't seen in years.
Just before her wedding we met casually through a mutual friend and...
ta taaa, she invited me to her wedding!

I was thrilled, because to be present at her most glorious joy
was more than I could ask. She is such a joyfull and
down-to-earth person and I am really keen on her.

Luckilly I was halfway prepared, I was just finishing this skirt...

front

back

Although the skirt can be worn on each side,
the zipper is invisible and sewn on the side,
I prefer to wear the bow on the back.
After all this detail was the starting point of this creation..

the bow

And coming to think of it right now, it is funny.
My nickname within the family as a kid was "bow",
in greek φιόγκος.
Being tempted to tease on my big sister I would say it is,
because I was the youngest and cutest :o)
The truth is that nobody knows why, except my mom of course.

So getting back to where we were,
the perfect occasion to make the test drive was found!

The party was held at a beautiful winery, modern construction as you will see.
Old friends from the university: we all met around the round table...

Cute touch was this detail: the wishing table!

All handmade from Craft Box:
freshly baked cookies ready to be eaten and
autumn leaves to write your wishes for the newlyweds!
So, wishes were written

and hung on the tree.

Waited for the newlyweds,


who arrived in time and

didn't leave us from their sight ;o)

Wishing them great happiness!

cars here, there and everywhere

Presenting mm's shirt full of cars.

It isn't black, like Juanes claims in his song,

nor light blue like Dalaras does.
[And speaking of shirts couldn't miss this classic by Kazantzidis.]

Well, it is light blue to be exact,
only covered with thousand little colourful cars.

I found the fabric in Ribes y Casals,
in the department with baby and infant textiles.
R&B was and is one my favourite spots in Madrid..

As soon as I saw the fabric, I knew who would love it. And I was right.
Turned into a shirt for mm it was.

Like true paparazzi she resisted me making photos of her at that time.
The shirt dates a couple of years ago, when I was living in Madrid. 

But the right time has come and she has indulged me.

It must be the new haircut ;o)

wedding series #3

The wedding series posts must continue,
and it is ana'n'antonio's turn.

Their wedding was the high-expected event of the year.
We were given notice a year in advance
(people from different ends of the world were coming),
so I had time to think well of what to wear.
Wanted to make a new dress of course, but, alas,
the mediterranean spirit is too strong.
Months of brainstorming and no decision was never made.
Reaching two weeks before departure I just had to invent something,
plus to find the superduper wedding gift,
mission impossible for indicisive persons like me..
But under pressure everything goes swell in the end,
the gift was found, plus there was a last-minute surprise made from my mom.
(she is even worse than me in planning things,
it runs in the family I would say..!)

 and the dress..oh my the dress.
The fabric I had chosen had an original design and,
making things simple, I decided that no elaborated pattern would do.

step 1: gathered all the width of the fabric in pliegues to fit the chest.

front 

back

step 2: made a removable belt to mark the waist.

step 3: added a touch in the back to give it character.

As simple as that.

With Antonio and Ana we go a long way back.
We met in Vienna as Erasmus students.

With Karinne together, all four of us aka AAAK, had lots of fun...

...and action!

We later met in Seville and shared flat..

It is to them that I owe my lovely sewing box!

 K didn't follow the team to Seville, but she came to visit.

It took a lot of persuasion from our part as she is hard to get (busy woman),
but love wins in the end!

So when the breaking news of their wedding arrived, I was thrilled:
we would reunite after so many years!
And of course going back to Seville meeting old friends
is only an adventurous pleasure.

Antonio was so elegant in his suit.

All of them were that is.

Anita in her wedding dress, she was smashing,
it fitted her style and form perfectly I would say.

Seville, even in September, is incredibly hot.
Thankfully our hosts thought of that and gave us sun umbrellas, japanese style.

madrid's notorious team

Here we are intenting a quick photoshoot on our way to the buses
that would get us to the party...

oops... 

...but paparazzi photos are always the best.

It is an art that mm knows well.

The party was held in an historic urbanisation of the 60's,
it is where ana's grandparents live.


The place was ever so beautiful:
green*green grass all around an ever so blue*blue pool.

Saved from sunburning we were by two friends of AA,
who constructed this singing-with-the-wind white sky..


So, walking on the grass around the pool we had time to chat with friends..

karinette and me

..and taste all the goodies that were dancing around!

After 4 hours of doing that, we sat by the table to have a 3 course meal (!)

The food was sooo good and I ate everything up to the last bite.

Only natural it was to end up like this!

an oh-my-god-I-will-explode expression

Removing the belt was a lot of help and standing up was possible again.

Paparazzi mm hits again!

 

Anita, spontaneous as she is, 

improvised a parade in order to animate the guests

And animated we were!

Bottom line: everything was great and we had so much fun!

The day after: bidding our farewell to Seville and it's locals,

drinking coctails opposite the cathedral and having fun with old friends,

what more could one ask?!

Let's just hope there will be another excuse soon for reunion and parties ;o))