A Few of Our Favourite Things: Spring

Spring Reception Style

That dreamy-cool light as mornings get brighter, the April showers that bring May flowers, and the late-season country-village fêtes: spring was made for vintage-themed weddings.

In the first of our seasonal reception round-ups, we pick out our favourite style details for a perfectly pastel spring do…

Dotty About Cake

Because every bride knows wedding-day calories don’t count, we’re making up for our pre-nuptial sugar low with this candy-mountain wedding cake. If only more things came smothered in pastel icing and wrapped in a big white ribbon, we just know there’d be more celery in our life…

Tartufi Cakes\r\nDotty Gerbera cake, £420 for 130 people.

Budding Beauties

These funky flower favours are made of the one type of paper we can overuse guilt-free; ‘cause it just gets bloomin’ greener. As well as being recycled, it’s packed with petals, ferns and wild flower seeds; so guests can plant it and grow their very own country garden at home! Who needs to catch the bouquet with favours like these?!

Plant a Bloomer\r\nplantable flower favours, from £2.75 each.

Floral Flavour

Roses are red, violets are blue, we love the taste of both and jasmine too! Go full-on spring fever and get your cocoa fix with these dark chocolate favours infused with flower oil. Pick them up individually to match to your colour scheme, or tie together pink, apricot and purple with this pretty ribboned gift set.

Rococo Chocolates mini\r\nFloral Bee bars, £5.50 for three or £1.25 each.

Country Bunting

Since we’re a bit too big to be dancing round the Maypole like we did at primary school, we’re opting for this vintage floral bunting to nod at village-fête-cute. Just add a bouncy castle, candyfloss and homemade hook-a-duck for true back-in-the-day authenticity.

dotcomgiftshop\r\nEnglish Rose party bunting, £9.95.

Bit of Bubbly

Want spring wedding reception tables that scrub up (nearly) as well as you do? Crammed with fresh fragrance – geranium, jasmine, lavender, neroli and rose – these swish flower body-soap favours will have you cleaning up on the compliments!

The White Company Flowers single soap, £5 each.

Scent of Romance

Double points for these practical and pretty fabric heart favours: vintage cute, they’re perfect for livening up plain pastel place settings, and their relaxing lavender fragrance will have your wedding guests’ drawers smelling sweet.

dotcomgiftshop\r\npack of five lavender-scented fabric hearts, £12.95.

Bon Bon Apetit

Dished up in glass bowls as quirky centrepieces, or tuck-shop cute on our sweetie table as-is, we still can’t get enough of the powdery pink bon bons we fell for at the corner shop as kids. Just add retro weighing scales and stripy paper bags and take your wedding guests back to their childhood pick ‘n’ mix.

Sweet Shop strawberry bon bons, RRP £7.50, now £5.25 at Debenhams

Cover-up Cute

Possibly the cutest way in the world to keep pesky bugs at bay, we love these butterfly crochet covers for outdoor reception buffets. Way to keep our triangle-cut sarnies, mini sausage rolls and Mr Kiplings safe, at the same time as making them look as moreish as they taste…

Velvet Wedding butterfly crochet food cover, £12.

Crafted with Love

We’ve been crushing on Cath Kidston style from our very first notebook, so there’s no way we’d miss her out of our vintage wedding day! Make over your reception tables by hemming up this cotton duck fabric; we reckon it’s a spot-on start to a bright (and rosy!) big day.

Cath Kidston Provence Rose cotton duck fabric, £18 per metre.

Love Snaps

It’s the one day of our lives we can be as soppy and gooey-eyed as we want and no-one’s allowed to say anything; and boy, are we gonna milk it. Fill this super-cute (like, on a par with the cat out of Shrek cute) photo album with pics of your most loved-up moments, then swap them for snaps of your wedding and honeymoon after the big day is done. Or leave a stack of quirky blank postcards and a pot of pens next to your album and let your wedding guests slip in their own heartfelt messages. If you can’t say it at a wedding, when can you eh?

Velvet Wedding Love Birds photo album, £22.

Stylish Next Steps...

Now you’ve got your wedding theme underway, why not nab the dress, jewellery and – oh yeah – venue to finish it off!