Wedding planning or work?

For the first time this year, to brighten your Fri­day, here’s a bit of wed­ding blog love for you to enjoy!

This one’s been a long time com­ing, has it not? And I’m espe­cially sym­pa­thetic to every­one in an office out there this week: I feel your pain, hav­ing spent much of this week sur­rounded in piles of paper — I’ve been doing my accounts. Ick!

But this… now this is fun. For me it’s research. For you it’s half an hour or more, as you wish, read­ing and get­ting inspired and look­ing at gor­geous pics!

Real wed­dings

• Natasha and Fred’s Bar­tle Hall wedding-hugs, hilar­ity and humiliation
• Gor­geous One Maryle­bone wed­ding from Jodie Chap­man Photography
• A Chic City Wed­ding on Whim­si­cal Won­der­land blog
• Becky & Gary one fab­u­lous photo by Steve Gerrard
• Rock ‘n Roll Vin­tage Wedding
• A Belle Epoque Christ­mas wed­ding – all I want for Christ­mas is you…..
• A beau­ti­ful wed­ding at Cheshire’s pur­pose built wed­ding venue Styal Lodge
• A very touch­ing wed­ding story… and a bride run­ning on the beach! Corn­wall Doc­u­men­tary Wedding Photography
• River Cot­tage wed­ding | Rock My Wedding
• A 1940s Hol­ly­wood Glam­our Inspired Lon­don Bride…
• Fab­u­lously dif­fer­ent — Con­corde Wedding
• Ash­ton Memo­r­ial Wed­ding | Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog Sup­plier Showcase
• Great John St Hotel Wed­ding with the best wed­ding day gift ever?
• The Roman Hol­i­day Wed­ding “We vis­ited the Vat­i­can, where peo­ple were most bemused by the Bentley”

Be dif­fer­ent

• Third Fin­ger Left Hand wed­ding rings (and there’s shoes too!)
• Pet­ting tigers, a story and writ­ing prompt (Don’t Be) Too Timid and Squea­mish (this intre­pid blog­ger fas­ci­nates me — but kids play­ing with tigers? Do they drug them?)

Think cre­ative

• Love Let­ters: Sketch­book Project 2012
• owl really: DIY: Giant Sin­gle Bloom Fab­ric Bouquet
• How to Make Bath Bombs: DIY Wed­ding Favors
• New Year Wed­ding Genie Offers and News
• real wed­ding cakes: leanne & stephen’s aubergine orchid dessert table | cake blog

Have an opinion

• I Am Stag­gered My Views On TV Com­pa­nies Want­ing Participants
• How impor­tant are pho­tog­ra­phy qual­i­fi­ca­tions when choos­ing a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher? Eng­lish Wed­ding facebook
• What’s your favourite wed­ding mag­a­zine? Love My Dress (some great comments!)

Home time! Catch you next week, lots of love — Claire xxx