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One year of building 4 vases, 68 roses, 16 thistles, 42 personalised minifigure guests, 1 table plan, 13 large letters and 8 boxes of Lego, the mega Lego Wedding build was complete!

I will keep this post short and to the point, as the images speak to themselves. The Lego Rose & Thistle Vases were setup per table, with their personalised favours. I also added some last minute Lego letters for the top table spelling out our new name – Mr & Mrs Johnson. Wooden letter boxes full of Lego bricks were also provided for our guests…. even if it did mean I ended up with a variety of Lego cocks by the end of the evening!

Our Lego Wedding Cake finished everything off nicely, courtesy of Cake & Lace from Newbury. The three layered cake had two personalised and edible Lego version of myself and my wife. Each layer had sections peeled back revealing a Lego brick interior. It was perfect and tasted great to!

Time to finally close this chapter and plan my next Lego build.

Photography Credit: Adam Hillier Photography

Mark!

Lego vase with 17 Lego roses and 4 thistles in a wedding table

The Lego engagement box used to propose to my wife to be. Reused to hold both of rings before the big day.

Lego themed wedding cake. Includes personalised and edible minifigure groom and bride, three tier cake with lego bricks and minifigure chefs

Letter shaped boxes full of Lego for Lego themed wedding. This one spells out the grooms name "MARK".

Lego wedding table plan setup with four Lego vases with 17 Lego Roses & Thistles each. Taken at Wedding Venue

Lego wedding minifigures with bride and groom wedding rings, on top of edible chocolate lego bricks

Letter shaped boxes full of Lego for Lego themed wedding. This one spells out my wife's name "LYNN".

Lego vase with 17 Lego Roses & 4 thistles on a wedding table

Lego wedding party minifugure table plan. Taken at wedding venue.

Lego Mr & Mrs at the top of a wedding table

A Lego themed wedding wouldn’t be complete without personalised mini-figure guests!

Every guest who attended the wedding got a personalised Lego version of themselves to take home. Unfortunately I was unable to construct everyone as a Lego Star Wars character (courtesy of my childhood), so logged into BrickLink.com and ordered a set of heads, hair, torsos and legs. Using everyone’s Facebook profile photos online, I built the whole wedding party (44 day guests) in a few days.

In addition to this each guest received 4 bags of Lego chocolate which we found on Amazon sold by Gwynedd Building Blocks. We ordered a small taster kit initially and then a 2 kilogram box! We would both highly recommend them to anyone else. Yum!

Two Lego Minifigures on top of Lego chocolates

Lego Wedding Table Plan

Once my army of Lego minifigure wedding guests was complete, I started to build the table plan. At first I expected this to take a few hours, but this escalated quickly into a few evenings after work and a whole weekend!

I started by setting up a mini photo studio in my living room (you will notice by now I have a very forgiving wife!) and started to snap comical scenes with each wedding guest. Every scene was personal to that individual person. Highlights include:

Arresting the Groom: Father-in-law was setup to arrests me whilst my wife and mother-in-law looked on laughing.
Catching the Bouquet: Yet to be married women attempting to catch my wife’s bouquets.
Hide the Sausage! Two of my friends from school were set up to play hide the sausage… granted in this case I was just having fun!

You get the idea. You can see all of these at the end of this blog post.

Once I had finished with all these photos, I added them to my table plan using the photo editing software Gimp (emphasis on the words photo editing). Even the tables and miniature flowers on the plan were Lego! I finished the design off by using a Lego font across the by naming everyone on the plan. You can learn how to do this by following this useful post by Persialou.