South African Handmade Wedding: Carin + Casper

Carin + Casper live in London and run a super rad design shop, Shotopop. They thought about going to Vegas to get married, but then decided to throw a huge party for their wedding instead – in South Africa! They planned the wedding weekend around what they liked most and what they thought their friends were really like. So that meant: good food (lots of it), movies, music, games, crazy cocktails and whiskey! Their wedding took place at the Old Mac Daddy in Elgin Valley, South Africa – such a super rad venue with breathtaking scenery, Scandinavian architecture, and 12 Airstream trailers that were imported from the US and designed into boutique rooms by South African artists. A bit more about their wedding weekend from Carin + Casper:

Our wedding started with a nice dinner on Friday night, followed by a few drinks and a movie screened on a sheet! Saturday morning guests could walk around and enjoy the amazing area. The garden party started at 3, and we both were there for the garden party as well. Garden games, live dixie jazz, delicious snacks and merriment in the afternoon sun. The 2 of us and the photographers ducked out for a quick shoot in the area, while our guests slowly moved to the deck, where we then had a short ceremony followed by amazing sunset cocktails. The rest of the night was dancing, eating, sitting around the pool, and more dancing and eating. We had a make your own pizza station as well as a constant supply of small dishes coming out of the kitchen. No formal table settings, but enough places for everyone to sit and eat, if they wanted to. What fun.

Big thanks to welovepictures for the gorgeous photos and congrats to Carin + Casper!

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Kind of majorly obsessed with Carin’s gown + necklace!

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We have to mention all the help we got. If it weren’t for our amazing support team of friends and family it never could have been the amazing weekend it was. Our friends, Pieter, Aldie and Erika cut and spray painted hundreds of meters of bunting. Carin’s mom made 50 pillowcases and blankets, sewed up all the bunting and made aprons for the staff to wear. Carin’s dad jumped in to string up hundreds of meters of lighting outdoors because the day the lighting designers came it was too rainy to hang them. Rachelle, his girlfriend, organized flowers and cushion stuffing. Casper’s mom and sister went to raid fields for flowers to make confetti. Erika ran around doing numerous errands, from extending a necklace chain, to folding hundreds of cones, to emptying pilchard cans and wrapping gifts. She also organized 2 amazing hen parties, one in Barcelona and one in South Africa. CF was integral in making the best wedding playlist ever and staying up till stupid o’clock in the morning putting the music in order song by song. Casper’s brother and his friend Mo were incredible over the weekend party, jumping in to do all the dirty work, hanging bunting, stuffing cushions in their cases and so on. As you can see, it was a very hands on wedding.

venue name: Old Mac Daddy, Elgin Valley, South Africa // florals: Rachelle, Casper's dad's girlfriend bought all the flowers and then she roped designing and adding the laser cut leather, cut by Cut Laser Cut // bride's shoes: Dune // groom attire: Alexander McQueen, Trousers from David Mayer Naman and Shoes from Hudson and the tie we had made by a lovely lady in Brick Lane // paper goods: We designed the invitations ourselves (we're illustrators // catering: Brinny Breeze (Old Mac Daddy) // photography: welovepictures (more from their wedding here)