If I'm honest, last week's unfortunate encounter with the seedy world of plagiarism and automated article spinning left me feeling a bit, well, gross. It was hardly the crime of the century, but I went into the weekend faced with the uncomfortable realisation that the fluffy, cuddly internet I knew and loved had suddenly rolled over to reveal a nasty, flea-ridden underbelly. I wasn't angry; I was disappointed. Which, as every errant schoolchild knows, is much, much worse.

But then, out of the blue, I received not one but two amazing emails from total strangers that had me gently cuffing the internet's ear and agreeing to say no more about it.

Back when I was wedding planning for myself (as opposed to playing out elaborate wedding fantasies for someone else), there were a couple of things that I simply couldn't bring myself to pay inflated wedding rates for. £300 for a five-minute car journey was one. £150 for a bit of net stuck on a plastic comb was another. So I rode to the church in the back of a friend's wonderfully cranky old motor and made my own veil thanks to a DIY veil tutorial from Rebecca Norris, formerly of Rock My Wedding and currently of the always enjoyable Florence Finds. The veil was just grand and the tutorial invaluable, so when my wedding was (finally, blissfully) over I decided to appease the wedding gods by sharing my own DIY hair flower tutorial with the fresh crop of bridelets. Off my post went into the ether, and with my debt duly paid I promptly forgot all about it.

Until, that is, an email popped up in my inbox on Friday from the gorgeous Steff, who only went and made herself a wedding hair flower using my tutorial! Behold the amazingness:

Doesn't she look beautiful? (And is it just me or is she a dead ringer for Florence Welch?)

Not only did she adorn her own head with my creative legacy, Florence Steff took it a step further and made hair flowers for her ENTIRE BRIDAL PARTY:

I am one proud mama right now. To think that something I cobbled together in my living room ended up being part of someone else's *actual wedding* is just the best feeling ever. I can even begin to understand why all those DIY bloggers devote so much attention to dip-dying and neon-spray-painting everything that moves. Thanks so much for getting in touch, Steff. You made my day.

Oh, and the other email I mentioned? Well, I can't actually reveal too much right now, but let's just say it has something to do with my planned blog makeover and made me squeal at my desk. Watch this space...

(YESSS! I've always wanted to end a post on one of those vague-dangling-teasers-that-hint-at-exciting-things-to-come-when-really-everyone-knows-it's-probably-something-really-boring type endings. What a week! First content-poaching, now teaser-dangling - I'm telling you, this blog is GOING PLACES. Maybe. Or, erm, not.)

The lovely ladies (and gentleman) over at Rock My Wedding are featuring the second part of our wedding today (see the first part here). Thanks for having us, guys!

Sadly, our photographers (Lillian and Leonard, in case you missed the seven thousand other references to them on this blog) had to leave after the speeches, so there are no professional pictures showing how the rest of the evening went down. Frankly, I'm glad. It was SWEATY. Nobody wants to see 1 million pixels of that.

But just to prove it did actually happen, here are a few of my favourite shots of the reception taken by friends and family. There aren't that many - I think everyone was too busy getting their groove on, which I'm pretty sure is a good thing. My hilarious aunt even changed out of her wedding outfit and into shorts and a Hawaiian shirt so that she could get fully into the dancing - see how many times you can spot her below. First correct answer wins a kazoo*.

The Hubster and I are over on Rock My Wedding today!! This is the happiest day of my life!! Um, apart from that other day. Obviously.

I was completely obsessed with RMW when planning the wedding - I even had a direct RSS feed on my work intranet home page, so I could get immediate access to every single post as it went up. I'm pretty sure the RSS widget was meant to be used for the Financial Times and suchlike, but whatever.

After the wedding I wrote RMW's Charlotte this crazy, rambling email about the wedding and how so much of it had been inspired by RMW and how I never thought our wedding would be nice enough to be featured and anyway another RMW bride had already worn my dress bla bla bla - I'm pretty sure she thought I was insane. But she is far too sweet to say that, and after telling me to stop being such a mentalist not to worry that the dress had been featured before, she writes the blog and wouldn't even have remembered, and anyway it looked totally different on me, the immortal lines were uttered:

"We would LOVE to feature your wedding. How could we NOT want to feature such a gorgeous W-day??"

Oh Charlotte. *Blush.* You are too kind. I heart you even more now.

Of course this is all down to the fabulously wonderful photographs taken by Cara and Nye, a.k.a. Lillian and Leonard, a.k.a. wedding geniuses of epic proportions. Thanks guys.

Also all of our amazing family and friends who  helped us put everything together - and especially my lovely mum - we could never ever have done it without you, there's not even any question, so thank you, thank you, thank you a million times.