The wedding frenzy part of the summer is well underway; yesterday, Alkyoni and I arrived in Ionnina, a beautiful city in north-western Greece, for one of our closest friends’ wedding. As we haven’t been here in many years, we’re anxious to catch up with friends, explore the city, visit the small island located in Ioannina lake and eat our weight in savoury pies and local desserts. While doing all and practicing my rusty Spanish and French with some of the guests, I’m also getting jittery about our own wedding. It’s coming up in less than a month and here’s a few things that have so far inspired my planning:

An easy way to a beautiful flower bouquet.

Vintage jewelry as a hair accessory? Yes please!

On the same note, easy breezy hairstyles, perfect for summer.

If we manage to take a small break from the wedding preparations, we’ll escape to Skiathos; it’s one of the most beautiful, greenest Greek islands and where we took our first holiday together, seven summers ago.

Alkyoni is making the crowns we’ll be wearing during the ceremony and has been getting lots of inspiration here.

Very chic coral earrings, perfect for a laid back summer wedding attire.

Annoying wedding guests (damn, I think I may be ticking a couple of these boxes).

We’re not doing a wedding cake (I don’t know what we’re doing instead), but if we were, it would be a toss between this molten chocolate cake and this berry pistachio cheesecake. Or we’d just have both. Maybe we should.

* The most beautiful card for this happy couple, hand crafted by the most talented girl, Myrto. I wish I came up with things like that when I was 18.