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Reflections…

I’m not going to fol­low in oth­ers’ foot­steps and do a review of the year. I’m pagan — so my new year has been and gone even before Christ­mas. And while Eng­lish Wed­ding has had a lovely year, mine went bad. So: all eyes to the front on this wed­ding blog!

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FREE eBook for brides and grooms from Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog

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Christmas — the dream and the truth!

romantic snow photo

Photo credit: ARJ Pho­tog­ra­phy, Cheshire

I hope you’re all hav­ing a won­der­ful Christ­mas hol­i­day. If you’re work­ing today — ack. Well I hope your boss isn’t in and you’ve brought games. Or if you’re just engaged and explor­ing the world of wed­ding blogs — wel­come. Enjoy! There’s so much wed­ding inspi­ra­tion on the inter­web: start with my ‘wed­ding plan­ning or work’ fea­tures — they’ll keep you enter­tained for hours.

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On independence

A new year really makes you think, doesn’t it? It helps you reflect on what you should be doing bet­ter, and plan for the next twelve months. And I’ve been pon­der­ing the big things — well, for me. Here’s one I had to get off my chest!

rainbow at a creative wedding

Photo credit: Mark Carey

Eng­lish Wed­ding — an inde­pen­dent blog

Inde­pen­dence is mas­sively impor­tant to me, and to my wed­ding busi­nesses as well — and you might think that’s not the wis­est busi­ness choice. It’s not the biggest earner for my blog. But is Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog a busi­ness? I’m not even sure I want it to be.

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Is your wedding business stuck in a rut?

Mine is. There you go — let’s start a blog post with a con­fes­sion! My wed­ding cal­lig­ra­phy busi­ness is going well, I love the work but… there’s some­thing miss­ing. Is any­one else out there look­ing for a bit of cre­ative inspi­ra­tion to inject into their work?

I’ve spent the day with two friends who inspire me — and I’m going to make my New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion now. I know it’s a bit early (but the pagan side of me says the first of Decem­ber is surely some­thing a bit new-yeary in the cal­en­dar). I’m deter­mined to branch out a lit­tle.

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My Grandma’s real vintage wedding day

Hav­ing writ­ten about my par­ents’ vin­tage wed­ding recently, I wanted to tell you about my Grandma’s wed­ding day too. My Grandma is an amaz­ing lady, in her late eight­ies and as witty and forward-thinking as any­one I know.

Dorothy and Dave, April 1949

Dorothy and Dave, April 1949

Grandma was mar­ried in 1949, only a few years after the end of the sec­ond world war. She was 26 and Grandad was 27. They were together for 37 years and I have the loveli­est mem­o­ries of play­ing in the gar­den and feed­ing the ducks as a lit­tle girl in Bux­ton where they lived. My grand­par­ents’ wed­ding was all about the mar­riage itself: no fuss, just a very per­sonal cel­e­bra­tion with fam­ily and friends. Rationing was still in effect in the UK at that time so bud­gets were pretty tight, but my grandma still has fond mem­o­ries of her wed­ding day to share…

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English Wedding blog and friends

facebookPlease tell me I’m not the only one feel­ing con­tem­pla­tive this week — as the sea­sons change I seem to have relaxed into a very mel­low frame of mind! That’s not to say I’m feel­ing down: on the con­trary, I have some plans for my lit­tle UK wed­ding blog which I’m qui­etly excited about.

As ever, I’ll be shar­ing my thoughts and ideas over on face­book first of all — I’ve started to use face­book to jot down ideas, feel­ings and thoughts — the kind of wed­ding ideas I’d share with friends first before pub­lish­ing for the world to see… nat­u­rally, dear­est reader, if you’d like to join me on face­book I’d love to have your com­pany over there!

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And suddenly it’s September…

Wow. Where did sum­mer go?! Surely we’re still in it… no? It’s really gone then? Oh dear.

I hope you all had a fab­u­lous sum­mer, wher­ever you went, what­ever you’ve been up to, those of you busy plan­ning for Sep­tem­ber wed­dings and those of you like my star bride Sally who’ve just got mar­ried. It does feel like we’ve had some lovely sun­shine, good times and mem­o­ries to cherish.

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Vicky and Neil’s wed­ding on the Show­case: by Tux and Tales Pho­tog­ra­phy

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Who are we? New faces on English Wedding

There are new faces on Eng­lish Wed­ding — and my funny old one too. I’ve added the lit­tle wid­get in the side­bar on the right of the page which you’ll see when you click on a sin­gle blog post — to make it clear who’s writ­ing what on the blog.

I thought it’d be nice to rein­tro­duce every­one: some famil­iar friendly faces and some new guest blog­gers who are bring­ing their sto­ries to the blog. So by way of an intro­duc­tion, this is us!

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Why wedding blogs rock — and what the magazines can never do!

wedding blogs vs magazines in the uk rose veil credit cardI almost had a cri­sis of faith in wed­ding blog­ging recently. It was one of those scary moments that hit you some­times — I picked up a wed­ding mag­a­zine (that wasn’t the scary bit) and it wasn’t what I expected.

Wed­ding mag­a­zines were all about big brands and vaguely old fash­ioned trends, I thought. The appeal of the big wed­ding blogs is always from being edgy and chal­leng­ing, alter­na­tive and fresh — tear­ing away from the bor­ing old wed­ding mags.

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Wedding blogger photoshoot: mystery locations, fire, magic and crash helmets

Ciao ragazzi!

Ciao ragazzi!

In the inter­est of main­tain­ing a pretty dis­tinct niche for Eng­lish Wed­ding, my lat­est pho­to­shoot was all about cre­ativ­ity: hav­ing a blast and enjoy­ing the expe­ri­ence. And please do for­give me for a self indul­gent blog post today!

 

My Vespa! Carter was the star of the day

My Vespa! Carter was the star of the day

While the other UK wed­ding blog­gers look amaz­ing in their vin­tage wed­ding dresses and acces­sories, as a cal­lig­ra­pher and artist I like to be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. (Just as the wed­dings I love most of all have some­thing a lit­tle unique about them.)

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