#bashprep

Nov 11, 2014
2 min read

Gearing up to get married is supposed to be this wonderful experience, apparently you spend days/weeks drinking champagne with your bridesmaids, deciding on which shade of taupe is the RIGHT shade for you and trying on multiple white dresses only for everyone around you to tell you HOW STUNNING you look ... and so forth.

This has not been the case for me.

I have spend my 'engaged' period, telling people that 'no' we still haven't set a date or picked a venue or in fact decided on anything except perhaps the year (the next one) that the bear and I will get hitched. It's not that we haven't been looking and researching - we have! It's just that this is also the year I launched this business - so negotiating it and upcoming nuptials is proving to be quite ... trying lets say.

Anyway, luckily quite a few of my chums are also getting married soonish and they tend to bring/force me into their bridal situations in the hope that it might ignite some instinctual bridal gene within me - it tends to not work, but lovely times are had regardless.

Last Sunday, one such friend invited me & another similarly lackadaisical bride chum to Bash Prep, 'a day of creative wedding prep', hosted by the ever-stylish and lovely Kate O' Dowd. The day involved delish sandwiches and coffee and DIY tutorials from terribly-helpful, wedding suppliers in the know.

After hugging the breath out of photographer-supreme and general girlcrush Rincy, and forcing myself on other equally amazing and gorgeous gals ( I'm talking about you Louise & Jo), we learned about making Boutonnières (what grooms wear in the lapels of their suits), creating your very own handmade wedding invitations and how to add unique DIY touches to the table setting at your wedding.

Twas a really fantastic day, full of great tips and insider secrets but what I really loved was chatting to like-minded brides-to-be that haven't necessarily spent their lives dreaming of 'the perfect wedding', not that there's anything wrong with that but it is nice to know I'm not the only one!

BIG THANKS to the great gals at BASH especially Kate & Jen and the wonderful suppliers that were so generous with their time and expertise - Annemarie O' Leary (florist) Kitty Moss (illustrator) & Ciara O' Halloran (stylist).

S x