{quotable thursdays}

This weekend I'm travelling to Edinburgh to celebrate a dear friend's wedding...
So, I've chosen two quotes from a 19th-century Scottish poet:

'Books are a finer world within the world.'

'In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.'

                      -both by Alexander Smith (more from him here)

I was in Edinburgh a few years ago, and here are some pics I took (more here):

& some Scottish wedding inspiration:

{church pews}

{double decker trouble}

{golden mile true love}

& these are some of the fun guests who will be attending the wedding:

I'm staying in a lovely boutique hotel, which was once the home of the 19th-century essayist Christopher North...

{the facade}

pictures to follow for sure, 

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L