Hello, hello, hello!
I am so very very married!
Last saturday David and I had our wedding and it was the most magical day ever. We had planned for it to be a relaxed and joyful day without stress and rules. And that was exactly what it was! And so much better than we could have ever imagined.
It was a sunny day, but the clouds were dangerously dark around the time for the ceremony. No reason for worry, though. All those clouds just made for dramatic skies in the photographs and the day kept on in a sunny fashion.
I OF COURSE had my iPhone with me and so I documented parts of the preparations. Some of those photos you will see here but many of these are taken by our friends and their smartphones. I've edited most of them with the VSCOCam app (Love it!) except for some of them that's edited by the person who took the photo.
We had a few friends take pictures with fancy cameras too and you will get to see them too but for now: hope you enjoy a little peek at our wedding day.
David and Lotta. August 24 2013.

The day started with preparations. Inger, a dear friend of my family, helped with the table decorations.
Yes, it's a green house. Yes, this is where the dinner and party was held. Lovely, isn't it?

My mother was in charge of the flowers. We had picked them along the roads close to where we have our house in Rörum. Wild flowers and straws and some roses from our garden.

The view from the wedding couples' seat.

Decorations in 3D...

I walked up to the place of the ceremony to wipe off spider webs and bird poop from the chairs that we had brought there the day before. It was such a weird and lovely feeling to be up there all alone only a few hours before the wedding ceremony. I stood there for a few minutes and looked at the view and tried to imagine what it would feel like when it was happening four hours later. I felt such a calm and excited feeling and skipped down the hill to do the last of the preparations in the green house before it was time for me to be dolled up by my friend Johanna.

And here we are! Our friends and family had gathered in our garden for drinks and snacks and we had time to walk around and say hi to everybody before it was time to march together up the hill.

Hello!

David and I took the longer way because my dress prevented me from climbing the wooden stairs over the fence. Our guests looked like lemmings in the distance.

All of our guests made it to the top!

Here we are, soon on top of the hill!
And this is how you carry a very large tulle dress when walking up a hill surrounded by sheep poo.

We met up with Else-Beth who was going to marry us.

And then it was time to start.

I couldn't keep from crying. It was just too emotional standing there, at that beautiful place with all our favourite people around us, hand in hand with my David.

And then we exchanged pocket watches. We didn't exchange any rings because we are happy with our wooden engagement rings. Instead we had bought antique pocket watches and engraved them in the back (You will see more of them in another post).
This was such a lovely moment, filled with joy. And both of us managed to lock the chains around each other's necks without any problems!

And David gets his pocket watch too.

And we're married!

I love these photos so much! It looks like we're standing in a painting and that is exactly how it feels up there.

After the ceremony we made mojitos for everybody and people sat down on blankets to enjoy the view and the company. And I was back to taking photos again, haha!

This is Ida, Christian, Aili and Jonas. Lovely people! Aili and Jonas were our wedding witnesses, by the way.

Joel, Olle and Maja looking good in the sunshine.

My sister and niece Hilda.

Me, my sister and nephew Alfred. And my husband (!) lurking around in the background.

Then it was time to walk down the hill again. David and I took the longer way again and I had a bag of ice over my shoulder. Lots of skirt to carry!

We took photos of all our guests with the polaroid camera. And one of us too, of course.

In the green house before dinner!
Johanna made my hair and makeup. The flower crown is made by me and the dress was made by the amazing Jennie Lööf.

This is our wedding cake.
An enormous Kanelbulle (cinnamon bun) as a tribute to my all time favourite movie Äppelkriget that was filmed in this very part of Sweden and where a car motor magically turns into a giant cinnamon bun...

The bride gets to break the cake!

And the night came and lots of colourful lamps and candles lit up the beautiful greenhouse.
We ate the most amazing food you could ever imagine, all made of food from the farm we were on.
We danced to our favourite music mixed with some hits from the early 1990's since David and I was a couple then for the first time.
It was the most amazing day and night and we couldn't be happier.
This will be with us for a very long time.

Now we are husband and wife. YAAY!

Hello hello!

Last monday David and I went to Glasgow, Scotland to bring home my wedding dress.
My friend Jennie lives in Glasgow and since we got to know each other at a school where I studied theatre and she sewing I knew that she would be the right person for my not so traditional wedding dress.
She's working at a theatre so we were there a lot during the week for fittings and detail discussions and just goofing around with the play props laying around the room. David and I also had opportunity to walk around Glasgow and since we had some things we wanted to find for the wedding we spent a lot of time shopping. And eating.
Here's some snippets of our days in Glasgow.

Evening walk in Queen's park.

Say hi to Stand In Lotta.
Jennie made her last time I was in Glasgow, in may. I wore a t-shirt and Jennie covered me in duct tape so I could hardly breathe. Then she cut the duct tape in the back, stuffed me with left over fabric and taped me back together again.
Since last time Stand In Lotta had become a bit more wobbly and out of shape but she worked fine until I could be there instead. Then she was useless and stood there on her four legs and looked sort of left out.

Boxes for your everyday needs...

We found our wedding accessories...

Oh, how I regret that I didn't take this with me. Such a fabulous headpiece!

Awwwwww.

David and I spent a few hours roaming around West End with all it's vintage and charity shop heaven.

And we ate cauliflower and mustard soup. That was my favourite soup at a café in Midhurst, England, where I lived for a year with my dear friend Lisa (or Sambon as I usually call her). Such a nostalgic taste for me now!

Banana and blueberry cake and latte for me. One giant meringue with whipped cream and berries for David.

Jennie hiding behind a cloud of tulle.

David entertaining himself listening to podcasts in the background.

When we came home we spent a day sleeping and running around town searching for all those things we didn't find in Glasgow.

On saturday I thought I had theatre practice. Apparently I was fooled.
My friends threw me a bachelorette party! Such a great day with lots of nice things. I was so happy the entire day!

Today is a day of last minute packing. So many things to bring with us! Clothes, wedding surprises, makeup, and don't forget the wedding dress!
I have to get going now. FIVE DAYS LEFT, my friends and readers.
And for you with instagram I recommend you to follow me for more photos (lottalosten is my name there, as always) and check out the hashtag #lottvidwed to see photos from our wedding guests.

Wiiiiii! This is so exciting!

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hi!
These past weeks have been so weird. We have lots to do before the wedding (12 days left, eeeep!) and we're busy (but not stressed, luckily). It's a fun time: Planning, longing, making lists and then it's the rest of life happening as well.
I STILL have at least three big posts to blog but I just can't seem to get the time to edit all those photos so you'll have to be patient with me. And hopefully I will have the time and wifi to show you some of the wedding fun that will be happening soon.
Until then, here's a Two Two Two for you!

Two skies right outside our window.
One in dark pink and blues and one in a sort of apricot fluff.
Both of them seem to be taken straight out of The Neverending Story.

Two from last weekend when I was in my hometown Jönköping to meet with my friend Johanna who's doing my hair and makeup on the wedding. She was going to practice on my hair but it turned out she had some surprises for me as well.
One picture of me in Johannas boyfriend's russian 1940's motorcycle with sidecar. Erik is hiding behind Johanna's thumb.
That was a scary but fun ride!
And one photo of lake Vättern where we went for a swim and picnic.

Two of me.
One with a determined face and black clothes and one with a cheeky face and lot's of colour.

I have been very absent lately and I thought I'd show you some of all the things going on in my life through my iPhone.
I had 8 days off work and David and I had lots of plans for that week. First up was a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark.

We had these two happy people tagging along in our car and dropped them off in Malmö. Ida and Christian made the car ride such a joy and had even made sandwiches and home made elderberry lemonade for a short stop during the trip.

In Copenhagen! We ate a lot of nice food during our weekend. David had a pizza with potatoes on it and it was a hit!

I had this. Very very tasty.

And the day after we shared this.

Iced coffee break resting our feet.
We went to lots of fleamarkets and I took many photos with my camera so I'll be back to show you more some other day.

Breakfast sunday morning. We had plans for the day and David was eager to get going. I had to drink fast. Hurry hurry!

This is a rare sighting. David among alcohol.
We were stocking up on drinks for the wedding and since David doesn't drink any alcohol it was up to me to choose. So if we bought disgusting wine it's all on me..

Then we made our way back over the bridge to Sweden and came to my family's house in Rörum! My sister was there with my niece and brand new little nephew.

Alfred seems to be a bit confused by all the attention.

Hilda is a wild one.

Astor the cat was enjoying the calm outdoors. Poor Astor, the house was not a safe zone for him. He seemed to take it all in stride, though.

My sister and Hilda took their job as Fly Hunters very seriously. I love how Hilda is trying to make the same crazy face as her mother.

One day David and I was in Simrishamn to eat lunch at the beautiful garden café Apotekarns. This was the view from our table.

I was happy in my "Naughty farmer's daughter dress" and new sunglasses from The Shade Company (and pepper between my teeth...shhhhh).

Us.

We took evening walks among the hills and looked at "our" tree in the distance.

And we climbed the hill to see it up close too. This is where we're getting married on august 24.

And this is the feeling I get every time I'm there. It just blows my mind and makes me want to dance!

Running down that hill in a Kate Bush sort of moment.

Feeling the love strongly.
This is forever going to be a place that makes my heart squeeze. It has been special since I first saw it three years ago but now it will be associated with us too. You and me, David.

Contemplating, watching the sun set, looking at sheep.

One day we found a kitten.

I wanted to keep it.
As every cat I see.
Sadly it was not mine to keep.
And I'm a bit allergic.
Bummer.

Another evening stroll. This time under the full moon.

The last rays of sunshine brightened the straws of grass along the road.

Telling secrets to my nephew. He's not all impressed...

But here he's listening intently. Learning a lot from auntie Lotta. Who's the best auntie?

And then it was time to leave. The entire family waved us off and we went home to our quiet apartment.

This week has been all about work and preparations. I have lots of photos to show you. Part 2 from my Papyrus photoshoot with Hanna but also a post from one evening last week when we found half a bridge in the middle of nowhere.
That is going to be a great post, I know it!

See you soon!
/Lotta