annual bloom

Last year were given many lovely wedding gifts, but one of the sweetest was from our neighbours.

Do you remember how we asked each of our wedding guests to bring a flower, and with these they made the circle we stood in?



Well our wedding present from our neighbours were the actual plants they picked their flowers from. They dug the plants out of their garden and potted them for us. They told us that the flowers bloom at the same time each year... So we would be reminded that our anniversary was near when the flowers appeared.

Well last week, this is what happened to those plants:



This past weekend, one year ago, we stood together inside a ring of flowers, and were married. Now we get to be surrounded by those flowers each year, to help us relive the brilliant day we had.



Our first wedding anniversary was sweet. We spent the weekend looking through markets, art exhibitions, eating out, and listening to the recordings of the live music performances from during our ceremony.

Now I'm in just the right frame of mind to start a new project this week. A good lookin' couple from Melbourne have asked me to create personalised wedding invitations for them, in the style of ours. Perfect timing!