A 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 
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
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!
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
“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
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…
Bridal Workshops 12th February and 25th March: Plan Like a ProfessionalHello 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.
Hello! I’m Claire and this is my UK wedding blog. 
January 19, 2012: Find yourself a winning wedding supplier!
January 18, 2012: Is that Cinderella? A Northbrook Park wedding
January 17, 2012: Win beads, get crafty…
January 16, 2012: Doing sunflowers with style: Mitton Hall wedding
January 15, 2012: Days to Go: 82
January 14, 2012: Competition time! You could win…
January 13, 2012: Wedding planning or work?
January 13, 2012: New sponsor welcome: Wendy Bell Designs
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