The Hostick-Boakye Home-made Wedding

19/09/2011 by Sophie Kingo 3 Comments

Those of you that follow my wedding blog (Sophie Kingo’s Getting Married turned Sophie Kingo is Married) will know that the wedding of the Hostick-Boakyes – that’s us – on 20th August this year was a pretty hands-on affair.

The ceremony was a civil one in Hull City Hall, and the reception was a relaxed event in a marquee in the Hostick family garden in the lovely East Yorkshire. The (dreaded) ‘theme‘ was “us”, which I guess could be construed as British-cum-Danish-cum-Ghanaian. 

Those of you who regularly follow this blog will know that a few things make us “us” – music and poetry courtesy of Projectbrownman and Unseen Flirtations respectively (both the husband), while I primarily sew, knit and make jewellery (with the occasional dabbling in music).

So, I guess the (dreaded) ‘theme’ could be construed as British-cum-Danish-cum-Ghanaian home-made because naturally a fair few things were made for the wedding – notably for the marquee which, when it went up I found horribly ivory, fussy and drapey, but which, with everything my Mum, Dad, sister, husband-to-be and I had made, turned out a treat.

Here’s a list of what we made, and some photos for you to feast your eyes on:

• 25 ‘Save the Date’ cards
• 25 Invitations
• 64 fabric birds
• 6 lengths of bunting
• 57 place cards
• 24 paper flags
• 50 small wooden hearts
• 2 large painted wooden hearts
• 1 Akwaaba sign
• 1 hideously difficult and time consuming Victorian lace shawl
• 10 or so crocheted jam jar cosies
• 25 vases of home grown flowers
• 5 hours worth of mixed music, which unfortunately we didn’t get through
• 1 song, which we didn’t get to share on the night but will

the completed marquee

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