Weddingbee Blog

Meet our Little Blue Car.

Isn’t she gorgeous? Okay, well she isn’t “ours” technically but she will be on our wedding day! She is a 1930s Austin, lovingly maintained by my uncle’s partner’s brother in a tiny country town near Nelson.

Yep. My uncle’s partner’s brother. Try to say that ten times fast. He found out about our wedding through his sister, and told her to give us his phone number to see if his car would work for us. It turns out he just really wants his little blue car to get an outing as she doesn’t get many excursions these days.

So we went and had a look and completely fell in love! We have been having a hard time figuring out what we are going to do for transport for myself and my parents to the ceremony (everyone else is going in a big van), as I wanted something fun for photos but nothing fit in our budget. The Little Blue Car will be ours on our day for FREE! Ha, well, we will probably pay the owner in beer and chocolates (his preferred currency) for his trouble, but really you can’t get much better than that!

More pictures? Here you go:

The side windows and cover-thingy (oh I’m so smart *cough*) are down here, but they will be up on the day so my hair doesn’t get mussed

The owner and the car: “We’ll spruce her up a bit for the day” he says. It looks good to me already, though!

I don’t think I have ever been so excited about a car. I might even be able to go for a ride on it next month for my birthday if I’m lucky… these people really want to get it out of their garage!

Mr E and I will also use it to get to our hotel after the reception. Mr E’s idea of the perfect final photo: us in leather driving caps and goggles driving off into the sunset. I might just have to make that happen to see him smile so big.

This is just one example of how the grapevine has saved us some moolah for our wedding. What about you? What helpful things for your wedding have you come across from someone who knew someone else who knew something? (Unravel that sentence if you can!)

* all photos in this post are Mr E’s