Planning a wedding...?

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by Magaret Cassidy

Planning a Wedding in Miniature? Not sure where to start?

Start with a check list:

Scale:This is important as it may restrict your choice of miniatures.

Period: Victorian: Georgian: WWII: 1920s: Modern: (to name a few)

Theme: Hawaiian: Gothic: Western: Comic etc.

Season: Spring, June bride or Christmas 'white' wedding?

Venue: Church: House: Wedding Shop: Wedding Planner’s Office: Hotel room: Restaurant: Register Office: Dessert Island:

Guests: Bride: Groom: Vicar or Minister: Bridesmaids: Page Boys: Best Man: Mother of the Bride: Drunk: Family members: Chimney Sweep: Waiter Photographer, etc.

Accessories: Depending on the Venue: Flowers: Horseshoe/wooden spoon: Wedding Dress, Magazines, Invitations, Wines/Spirits/Champagne, underwear, menus, Bibles, Hymn books, Altar, Lectern, Cross, Goblet, Gifts.

Food:Depends on the theme, whether a sit down meal or Buffet, English or foreign It could be very grand or sparse, if during the War, for instance.

House:Perhaps you would like to create chaos, Bride in ‘undies’ with hair in curlers, Mother of the Bride with a Gin & Tonic in her hand! Drunk Uncle sitting in the corner, young bridesmaids with chocolate on their dress!

A Hotel room: I’ll leave that to your imagination!

Wedding shop: Bride and Bridesmaids trying on their dresses, Mother of the Bride with bottle of Gin in her handbag! A naughty dog!

Church: A formal scene.

Desert Island: Beach Bar with exotic fruit/foods & drinks, a couple of parrots maybe? The possibilities are endless.

Tiny Bride Dolls By Tower House Dolls...

My tips...

I would use at least 2 doll makers and ask for a family likeness to run through the dolls that they make for you, red hair or the same shaped nose, for example.Introduce a little comedy or tragedy – normally present at a Wedding!

I hope that our efforts in this magazine will tempt you to create something really special and the AIM Artisans are here to help with advice and that ‘special’ Miniature.

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