traipsing round london sorting paperwork you would think would not be the funnest of days, but when combined with gorgeous sunshine, amazing venue's, food, cocktails and some lovely people, all in all i had a wonderful day. test shots of the incredible town hall where they would be saying their i do's was definitely my favourite part, it meant the build up for me had arrived and it was great to be able to get a couple of sneaky snaps of rikki and alix doing their final preparations.
as for the night before? it was the best kind of dinner in my opinion, intimate, beautiful surroundings, a handful of family and friends, lots of laughs, and much more importantly- giant delicious burgers! what more could you ask for?
what more you could ask for in fact, would be for rikki's sister rochelle to make possibly the most amazing scrapbook i have ever seen in my life.
it was a wonderful unexpected surprise, and to see the insane amount of effort and love that had gone into it was really amazing. made up not just of memories and gorgeous photos, but the detail surrounding each page was incredible and so beautifully put together. from the pictures of rikki and alix growing up, to the wedding party, family, them as a couple, trips they'd taken, even the cats! nothing had been forgotten.
however by far my favourite section of the book was at the end where rochelle had made pages for the wedding with an empty space ready for the first photo of them as a married couple, it was a perfect gift for the night before and made everything seem that little bit more real. so well done rochelle on being generally creatively wonderful and incredibly sweet, it gave the evening a real sense of what we had to look forward too.
as for me, what i'm now looking forward to is seeing alix and rikki's scrapbook again soon, with that last page finally filled in... x
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