As featured in Elle UK, May 2012

{words & images via Elle UK}
On meeting the Obamas: “I was so starstruck… we were at the White House having cocktails and this woman said, ‘Would you like to meet President Obama?’ They introduced me and then he turned to me and went, ‘Oh. Oh. You are a wonderful actress.’ And I laughed, screechingly and hysterically, I couldn’t stop. They had to usher me away. I fell apart. I don’t know what happened to me. He looked nine-feet tall. I think my eyes rolled back in my head. I gave Michelle a hug and she had skin like silk.”
On having a stutter as a child: “It was hard. I’d want to ask to go to the toilet but couldn’t get the words out.”
On being freaked out by bugs: “We (Colin Firth and myself) were filming in this really damp, run-down old house in North Carolina. I was sitting with my make-up artist and all of a sudden she just went, ‘Oooooooooooooooah!’ I looked around and it was like the sound had cut out – everything went into slow motion. It was a cockroach, like, this long (she holds her fingers about four inches apart) just sitting right on my shoulder.”
On her red carpet style: “I like to mix it up, but I don’t care what people say about what I’m wearing on the red carpet, because there’s inevitably going to be someone who hates it, even if you wear something that a lot of people like. I don’t care. I know what I like and what I feel good in and I like to take a few risks. They’re not huge strides.”

Much of my spare time is currently consumed by wedding planning… which, for someone obsessed with weddings and indeed planning, is no bad thing. Luckily my two favourite pastimes of lifestyle blogging and organising our big day often combine. It started with some Kate Spade china (final image) and escalated into all things ‘confetti’, and is now the theme of our invitations. Can’t wait to show you the end result!

{images via Bash Please, Kate Spade, Ban.Do, Wanelo, Raspberri Cupcakes & Pinterest}

Although I love showing inside celebrities homes (somehow it makes them seem more human), they’re not always entirely to my taste. Until now. I’m not sure there’s much that I would change about Brooke Shields’ drop-dead-gorgeous Manhattan townhouse. I’ve only recently been swooning over grey walls (see here) and kitchen pendants (see here). And you know what? I’d even go so far as saying I’d happily live with that brown bedroom… with that fire lit, I bet it’s cosy as anything. Finally, can we please discuss her four-poster bed? *thud*

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Mila Kunis has been on the ‘Girl Crush’ list for a while now (pretty much since this red carpet appearance), so when I heard she was the new face of Christian Dior and fronts the label’s spring/summer 2012 Miss Dior handbag campaign, I had to take a look. Wowzers. Natalie, who?* As for those bags, I’ll take the red quilted one please. Or any of the others… let’s be honest. Tell me, lovely readers, which one would you go for?

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*Portman. Obv.

Good morning all! I hope you had lovely Easter weekends and that your days were spent demolishing chocolate eggs and napping somewhere cosy (April Showers? They’re not kidding around). I had a great time at a country wedding on Sunday (when the couple were delivering their vows, the farmyard animals outside were answering for them – brilliant), and it gave me butterflies knowing that it will happen for us in the not too distant future. Although I promise that {weddings you fancy} will be up and running in the next few months, to give you an idea of the details that will be incorporated into our w-day – which include a bright, non-regimented colour scheme, whimsical lighting and a homemade feel – here’s a sneak peak:

{images via Neither Snow, Style Me Pretty, Once Wed & Green Wedding Shoes}