My Handmade Wedding by Marrianne Mercer
Synopsis
Ideal for creative, budget-savvy brides and grooms to be, this practical, friendly guide will help couples plan and personalise their big day. It begins with a chapter on organisation: assessing your needs and your budget, selecting a theme and a style and working out what to do when. It then covers every element you might want to consider making, buying or renting, providing money-saving tips throughout.
Marrianne Mercer’s sharing of everything to do with her own ‘handmade’ wedding. From the pleases right through to the thank yous. Marrianne incorporates her experience of pre planning and the enjoyable undertaking of what was, largely, a DIY wedding. The writing conveys an idea, it is a feature style presentation. Content falls under 9 main headings ; introduction, Planning the Wedding, The Stationery, The Wedding Party, The Ceremony, The Reception, After The Honeymoon, Templates, Index
Reviews
'A fabulous little book with some brilliant inexpensive make for your big day. There is a fair few projects in here I will use for our wedding, especially the paper flowers picture on the front page. Unlike many similar books most of these can be done by a novice. Would recommend. All in all fabulous wedding book!' Harley Richardson
'This book is packed with over 20 tried and tested projects, from a range of stationery designs, candle favours, wedding cakes, ring pillows and veils, to lanterns bunting and paper flowers. The book is full of beautiful wedding photographs, which show the reader exactly how the projects work in a real wedding setting. Readers might want to recreate the author Marrianne's wedding exactly, or simply picks and choose elements they love to personalise on their big day.' Hot Brands, Cool Places
About the Author
Marrianne Miall is a graphic designer for a book publisher and is a general all-round crafty creative. When she’s not decorating her home or growing her own in the garden, she is taking on all kinds of crafty projects from sewing curtains, to making beaded jewellery and festive paper ornaments.
She particularly enjoys upcycling items around the home, her most recent projects having been painting bedroom furniture, re-covering a lampshade and creating a dartboard cabinet.
Marrianne is a published author of two previous books by Search Press: Twenty to Make Button Jewellery and My Handmade Wedding. She lives in Kent with her husband and two cats.