Wedding Guest - What to wear from the High Street

I've been invited to 3 weddings this year. I love weddings! Such a great excuse to dress up, celebrate the love between people you care about and obviously all the food, drink and dancing!!

The most difficult thing is deciding what to wear... I dress in slightly more of a rockabilly / 1950s style, such as full skirts, dresses around or below the knee, petticoats and hair accessories. This is often great for ensuring that you don't end up in the same dress as someone else, but high street stores can sometimes be a little limiting.

High Street - All under £50

ASOS has a wide array of different styles and is pretty affordable too. All of the dresses listed are under £50. They also offer Premium Delivery at £10, which gives you next day delivery for a year. A great option for those last minute outfit changes!


This botanical dress was recently added to the site. A really unusual print, with some lovely summer colours. You're sure to fit in with any wedding colour scheme and find accessories to match one of the colours featured. This dress is also only £30, so even buying the premium delivery will give you change from £50!

ASOS midi dress in botanical print, £30

There are a wide selection of 'skater dresses' on the website and this bird and floral print one for only £28

ASOS midi skater dress in bird and floral print, £28

I LOVE polka dot print, so couldn't do an wedding outfit post without posting this gorgeous pencil dress. There is also a lovely waterfall detail, which definitely adds to the vintage feel. I would team this with a bright red lipstick and a red rose hair flower or bag.

ASOS Pencil dress in Spot with waterfall skirt, £45

This kimono wrap dress is really unique, but simple style and the green is such a great colour. I would team this with a big hair flower or fascinator. This also comes in black or orange. If you like the wrap style, but not keen on the kimono sleeves, there is also this lovely wrap dress.

ASOS kimono wrap dress, £40

You can't go wrong with a classic wiggle dress. This print reminds me of some lovely vintage china that my Grandma has.

ASOS Wiggle dress is summer days print, £48

ASOS have a great range of dresses for all shapes and sizes. This Bardot pencil dress is part of their petite range for women under 5"3. It is also available in their main collection

ASOS Petite bardot midi dress, £40

A lovely wiggle dress from their tall range for ladies over 5"9.

ASOS Tall wiggle dress, £48

Then the amazing print on this pencil dress from their curve collection for Size 18 or over. That sweetheart neckline - swoon!

ASOS Curve pencil dress, £45

Then finally this gorgeous maternity dress. The colour of this is beautiful, I really wish that this was in the main collection, although it would give a bit of room after eating too many canapes!!

ASOS Maternity Bodycon Dress, £28

Please Note - All views are my own and I have received no sponsorship from ASOS. I just bloody love their clothes and wanted to share some of my favourites!

Birthday Wish List

As much as I love that the weather is getting warmer and flowers are blooming, my asthma does not. I've been suffering all week and have been given some steroids, which have made me feel pretty poorly.

So as I am spending a Friday on the sofa, thought I would do a birthday wish list (12th of May if you wondered!)

Home

The lovely Laura at Last Gang Emporium stocks some amazing items, including some great bits for a new homeowner (hint hint!)

Loving the old fashioned swallow tattoo design on these His & Hers Towels, only £11.95 by Sourpuss - these would also make cute wedding gift for a rockabilly or tattoo loving couple, don't you think?

Last Gang Emporium, £11.95

Not a good start!

Ok, so after a positive start by actually setting up the blog... I've posted absolutely nothing!

As I'm still so fresh with sewing, I'm going to hold off on these posts until I have all the equipment I need.

However, that doesn't mean I can't talk about my first projects! We are currently in the process of building a little home to live in and I've already planned a few little things to make.

We've created a cute little vintage inspired kitchen in blue and yellow, so what would look cuter than some bunting - I'm thinking plain yellow and blue gingham.

Yellow and blue bunting

Our living room is going to be a bit brighter - red, black and white. We've ordered some amazing Barbara Hulanicki skull wallpaper and I'd like to make some skull or polkadot cushion covers to fit in.

I think both of these will be nice and easy (hopefully!) to get me started and it will be great to have some bits in my home that I made myself.

I'm struggling to add pictures at the moment, so will have to add these later.

Hope you are having a good Sunday :)