Competition winner!

bead from beadcraftyA very quick blog post for a Fri­day after­noon — to announce the win­ner of last week’s wed­ding blog com­pe­ti­tion to win beads from BeadCrafty.com

The win­ner, cho­sen at ran­dom, is Anna who (along with every­one else) guessed that the lovely bead was indeed a pretty flower.

Well done Anna, I’m off to for­ward your email address to Bead­Crafty who will send your online code for £50 of beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds. You lucky thing!

Have a fab­u­lous week­end every­one :)

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Wedding planning or work?

rapunzel fairytale wedding shoot on Green Wedding Shoes blog

Photo credit: www.connectionphoto.com via Green Wed­ding Shoes

Happy Fri­day every­one! It’s been a bit of a manic week at Eng­lish Wed­ding tow­ers, all busy on the blog, out doing excit­ing cre­ative things and stay­ing in doing tax returns. Ick. If you’ve had a busy week too, then — don’t lis­ten to the boss — it’s offi­cially the week­end now. I’ve got you some lovely bits of wed­ding blog land to enjoy until home time. Feet up, pens down, notepads at the ready because there are some bril­liant ideas for you here…

Photo credit: McAvoy Pho­tog­ra­phy

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You mean the world to me… Harlaxton Manor wedding part two

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (30)
I love maps. I love pho­tos that stop me in my tracks a bit. I love see­ing some­thing just a tad dif­fer­ent. I love Alex and James’s wed­ding at Har­lax­ton Manor, with its tow­ers and tur­rets and old Eng­lish charm. I just love blog­ging wed­dings!

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (26)I shared part one of this beau­ti­ful Har­lax­ton Manor wed­ding yes­ter­day. I have loads more to share today (best bits till last, an’ all that). More of Alex’s beau­ti­ful lace wed­ding dress, some jaw-dropping pics of Har­lax­ton Manor (it’s a whop­per), cro­quet, maps (did I men­tion the maps?), huge smiles, romance and laugh­ter.

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You mean the world to me… Harlaxton Manor wedding part one

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (21)When some­thing new drops into my lap like this, it makes my world a more excit­ing place. Today’s wed­ding is one which has me (vir­tu­ally) gaz­ing sky­ward, admir­ing the gor­geous Eng­lish church in glo­ri­ous detail, and smil­ing very, very hap­pily in the direc­tion of Alex and James.

This is a two-parter: today I’m shar­ing the pre-wedding pho­tographs (spot the cat-mat and admire those fab­u­lous stained-glass win­dows!). Tomor­row we’ll head to Har­lax­ton Manor for a game of cro­quet with the bride and groom, shall we? Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Beau­ti­ful Life Pho­tog­ra­phy (click for the offi­cial web­site).

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What’s wrong with the wedding industry — and how YOU can fix it

This is what Eng­lish Wed­ding blog is all about. As well as lots of lovely real wed­dings, the blog was born because of my deep-rooted annoy­ance at our lit­tle indus­try. Brides, grooms: wel­come to our twisted and some­times beau­ti­ful lit­tle world. Wed­ding sup­pli­ers: you’ve heard bits of this before — but never quite so pub­licly. Aware­ness of the issues in the wed­ding indus­try is the first step towards change, and we need to start look­ing at and fix­ing prob­lems before the finan­cial and emo­tional pres­sures get too much.

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Beauty and class: Dartmouth House wedding

wedding blog by Brett Symes (25)Anthea and Nimish had a per­fectly ele­gant, won­der­fully styl­ish wed­ding at Dart­mouth House in Lon­don. An exclu­sive wed­ding venue for a cou­ple whose calm, sophis­ti­cated per­son­al­i­ties fit beau­ti­fully with the lux­u­ri­ous surroundings.

I will always believe that wed­dings should be ‘you’ in that they are a cel­e­bra­tion of your own style and per­son­al­ity — and whether your wedding’s held in a tipi or a man­sion, you should feel at home. Anthea and Nimish fit this venue like a glove. The wed­ding pho­tographs by Brett Symes Pho­tog­ra­phy exude the same ele­gance and style.

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Days to Go: 75

We have done the seat­ing plan! I feel as if it’s the biggest achieve­ment of the wed­ding! No one tells you how dif­fi­cult it is to do a table plan!

The top table was easy because we’d spent a lit­tle while decid­ing who was going to join us on the top table. We decided on our par­ents so that our best man and brides­maids could sit with our friends and socialise.

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A shameless plug…

Hmmm”, said Claire one Jan­u­ary morn­ing as she bat­tled with her stu­pid tax return.

Photo credit: Jean-Luc Benazet

Hmmm, I won­der if I can get away with blog­ging about my very own Eng­lish Wed­ding face­book page today.”

Over in the cor­ner, the tax­man nod­ded sagely, look­ing at his watch.

Thought Claire, “Well, I have just uploaded a batch of rather spe­cial wed­ding pho­tos from a few of the real wed­dings I’m about to blog.” and then, look­ing vaguely guilty, “and it did take a whole  five min­utes to do that.”

Photo credit: Mar­tin Pem­ber­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy

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Wedding planning workshop

Plan­ning a wed­ding — it must be one of the hard­est projects in a girl’s life! Sec­ond to A-Levels, wed­ding plan­ning must take so much time and effort — I hon­estly don’t know how you all do it. For some of you, wed­ding plan­ners will be the answer. But did you know there’s a very afford­able way to get a wed­ding planner’s knowl­edge in your own head? Over to Julie Daw­son aka The Wed­ding Genie to tell you more…

Wedding Girl Bridal WorkshopBridal Work­shops 12th Feb­ru­ary and 25th March: Plan Like a Professional

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New blogger bride on the blogging block!

Hello fel­low B2B!  Delighted to make your acquain­tance, espe­cially via Claire’s great site which I love perus­ing as I plan for my own wed­ding. I’m really thrilled to join Fran, Ang­harad and Loula­belle as a guest blog­ger bride and hope you’ll enjoy my posts here on english-wedding.com and maybe even have a peek at my own site: www.awarwickshirewedding.com.

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