Jenny and Lee tied the knot back in the Spring in a humanist ceremony at Glasgow University Union. They wanted their wedding to be super personal with a hint of vintage style and lots of crafting.

I so love the origami paper flowers, the bicycle table plan and DIY favours which sound scrummy. Jenny looked effortlessly beautiful in lace with her hair curled to perfection, while Lee opted for a handsome kilt and herb buttonhole. Delightful.

Thanks to much to the wonderful Maureen Du Preez for sharing her photographs with us today.

Family plans fell through for Christmas in 2011 so we decided to use the opportunity to go away just the 2 of us. We hired a lovely secluded cottage near the banks of Loch Tay. I had insisted on bringing almost our whole flat to the cottage including the pre decorated Christmas tree to make it feel homely. On Christmas morning we had a walk down to the loch. It had been very wet and windy the day before, so we donned our walking boots and waterproofs and clambered down to the waters edge. I wasn't expecting the proposal at all, so he took me totally by surprise. Our parents called to wish us happy Christmas just as we were walking back up to the cottage and we were naughty and decided that we wanted to keep the moment to ourselves for a couple of days, so we didn't tell them or Lee's family until 2 days later. We didn't rush into wedding plans immediately after the engagement, but we decided in September to get married the following May, so once that was decided we didn't have ages to plan. To be honest I wouldn't do it any other way, we didn't want to spend years planning the wedding and 6 or 7 months was a perfect amount of time to organise things.

The Dress + Accessories... The dress was bought from: www.etsy.com - A designer in China I wanted blue shoes to tie in with the blue underskirt. I don't tend to wear heels a lot, so it was tricky finding something that I didn't think I would fall over in! In the end I actually found a pair when I wasn't really looking - from H&M. They were £15 and I loved the colour, probably a bit brighter blue than I had originally thought but I loved them with the dress, and I also managed to stay upright in them which was the main thing! I found a nice vintage blue hair clip from an Etsy shop ( http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ClarkandDiversey). It was simple but really pretty and I found some turquoise paper rose hair clips from ebay, so I think in total it all came to about £20. The only other bit of jewellery I wore was the pearls my mum got when she was born - I think it was quite traditional at the time for babies to be given pearls. I loved the fact that it was a personal touch and it sat really nicely with the dress.

I didn't want an expensive dress and from the start knew I wanted a shorter dress. I had gone to a couple of bridal shops and vintage shops but all the dresses were over budget. I had heard of some brides getting their dresses on ebay or other online shops. I saw my dress on Etsy and although the designer was so nice to deal with and very accommodating (I had asked for a light blue underskirt and also for sleeves to be added) unfortunately you get what you pay for with the quality. It wasn't a disaster though as some friends had recommended a local bridal alteration specialist called Fabricated Alterations. Andrina was great and managed to get my dress to exactly how I had wanted it in the first place. She's one talented and patient woman! I'm so glad I picked a short dress, it made the ceilidh dancing much easier and it felt fun and informal which was exactly what we were aiming at for the wedding anyway.

Groom's Attire... Although Lee is English, he wanted to wear a kilt. He bought an ex hire one from a local kilt hire shop. Again to keep with something less formal, he didn't opt for the traditional jacket, ghillie brogues etc. He found a really nice tweed jacket from Next and some brogues from Frasers and bought a blue tie and pocket square online to match with my shoes and underskirt.

One of our friends, Colin, plays the harp, so we had asked him if he would play at the wedding - it was beautiful and even better that it was played by a friend. One of our friends used to DJ, and offered to make us a play list for the background music and also for some dancing after the ceilidh finished. From the word go we knew we wanted a ceilidh band. Lee's family were coming up from England and he wanted to show them a good Scottish shindig. We found the Jim Jam Ceilidh Band online and loved their website (they have a funny little cartoon to advertise the band). They were exactly what we were looking for, ceilidh dancing with a folky twist. So many people at the wedding said they were the best ceilidh band they'd heard. There are many things that make a wedding, a good band is definitely one of them. We all danced our socks off!

For our first dance we had Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. I still remember the 1st played me it, he said the lyrics reminded him of us. It seemed right to have it as our 1st more upbeat and although we were initially reluctant to not use the original Edward Sharpe version, when the band played it, it was amazing and I'm so glad they played it for us.

Although maybe not the most ideal place to write your vows, it gave us loads of time to really think about them! We also included a more light hearted vow each, which we didn't tell each other until the day. Lee promised to me he would listen more (which sounds a serious one, but it was an in-joke) and I promised Lee that I wouldn't curb his obsession with 'collecting' bikes. It made the vows even more personal and added a bit of humour too.

Our photographer was Maureen Du Preez photography. We searched for a long time looking for a relaxed photographer that we could have fun with and felt comfortable with. Maureen totally fitted the bill. We had a pre wedding photo shoot which was included in the package, and went to a small beach that we go to quite a lot. It gave us a good chance for us to get to know each other. It also helped as we felt a lot more relaxed getting our photos done on the day. Having the confidence in Maureen took a lot of the stress away as we knew that we would love our photos.

Our stationery was created by Lee. Lee is a graphic designer and we never considered using anyone else to design our stationery. We did the majority of the wedding planning together and used to go to café's/pubs to do research, organise, etc. We found quite a lot of inspiration for the stationery on one of these visits and Lee did an amazing job. He also made activity books for the children coming to the wedding (there were 20 children in total), which went down a treat (although one of the activities had said the winner would get a prize - children notice these things, we forgot and had to improvise a prize!). We decided not to have orders of service as we were having a humanist wedding and felt it would be nicer if people could just listen to the ceremony without flicking through an order of service. My mum had sent through an idea for a table plan which we loved. It was a bike with the table plan attached. Lee has lots of bikes, and one of them is a lovely old antique bike (called Hercules). We draped fake ivy on the bike, attached some tin cans to the back and some flowers in a basket on the front, with white ribbon in a V over the basket (well we weren't having cars so it incorporated the traditional ribbons on cars). We then put the table plan on luggage labels and attached them to the bike. We decided to not have place settings on the table and although everyone was allocated a table, they could sit where they wanted at their table.

Our favours were little jars of chutney. I love making chutney and my mum makes great jams and marmalade, so we bought small jam jars from a wholesale shop online, which kept costs down and I made the chutney and mum the marmalade. It was a fun day to spend with mum and didn't take too long to do. Both me and Lee travelled up to my parents a few weeks later and put all the labels that Lee had made on them.

Memorable Moments... There were so many parts of the day that were our favourite, it's hard to pick. Walking to the park together, the ceremony - it was so personal and I would definitely recommend a Humanist wedding to anyone, but I guess most of all the favourite part was having all our friends and family celebrating with us and having them all there in the one room - when else does that ever happen?!

Venue | Glasgow University Union

Photographer | Maureen Du Preez Photography

Kilt | M acgregor and Macduff

Dress Alterations | Fabricated Alterations

Band | Jim Jam Ceilidh Band

Such a lovely lovely day. I so love how united Jenny and Lee were throughout their wedding planning.

Thanks so much to Jenny and Lee for sharing their beautiful wedding with us today XOXO Lou