My Italian Wedding

When I went to visit my mum at her house near Venice, last month,  I didn’t know I was supposed to help her getting rid of all the old stuff she had stored in her basement for ages…

Not too bad in the end, because I discovered an awful lot of little dusted treasures we all had forgotten of a while ago.
Hundreds of postcards from the ’30 or ’40 with lovely photos of the good old Italy (from Venice to Lago Maggiore), which had the same intense smell of old books; a complete pottery set whit floral decoration belonged to my great grandmother; an old coffee grinder rescued from a bin by my grandfather at least twenty years ago…and so on, I was so surprised every little object has a story behind it…

So, guess what I did?
Yes, I selected the ones which I really liked because of their shapes, colours or past and I created a wedding table composition! The only thing I bought was the blue hyacinth and pink buttercup bouquet.
I used an old table my mum had in her garden and moved it under an olive tree…I really wanted to give the idea of an Italian wedding table…

Since I had hundreds of postcards I thought to use them in two ways: one was like placehorders – so a postcard from Venice or from another wedding destination for each guest, maybe with a nice message from the couple (I will work on it to try and show you something), plus guests could keep it as a little present to bring home.
The second way was to hang some postcards on the olive tree using old pegs, just to decorate and make the “venue” more personal and warm…

Hope you like it! By the way,  my mum and I spent the whole afternoon going through all these things just to realise we didn’t have the courage to throw anything away – so we close all the boxes we open and promise to check them again in another couple of years!