Category Archives: Advice

Who To Bring (and Not) on Your Hen Party

If you’ve started plan­ning your hen party then you’re prob­a­bly think­ing first about who to invite. This is a very impor­tant part of your hen party, and it has the abil­ity to make or break your hen party. Who you bring on your hen party can make it cool and fun – or it can make it lame and totally pathetic. Now we know we’ve got your full atten­tion! Here’s our advice, on who to bring and who to leave off the invite list to your hen party:

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Wedding planning or work?

Star Bride Sally gets married! on English Wedding Blog

Star Bride Sally gets mar­ried! on Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog

Hi again ladies and gents — nearly the end of the week and time to down pens, up feet and slurp a cuppa while I bring you another great blog post full of wed­ding blog updates I love most from the week just gone. By the time you fin­ish read­ing these, you can get your coat and grab your car keys / bus ticket / overdue-Friday-afternoon-glass-of-wine-in-the-bar-over-the-road.

Enjoy x

wedding photography by Martin Beddall

wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy by Mar­tin Bed­dall

Real wed­dings

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What next for vintage wedding photographers?

Hands up any­body in wedding-land who hasn’t heard about last week’s arti­cle on The Huff­in­g­ton Post about the end of the vin­tage wed­ding trend? Yeah, I knew there wouldn’t be any hands up. So — what does it mean for the wed­ding indus­try? Not much. Trends come and go. But there is one thing…

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Get the English Wedding FREE eBook here!

FREE eBook for brides and grooms from English Wedding Blog

FREE eBook for brides and grooms from Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog

I have a lit­tle free­bie for you: the brand new Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog eBook full of gor­geous wed­ding pics and down-to-earth, use­ful advice.

Includ­ing “You are not a sausage”, “It’s only a wed­ding” and more tips and thoughts from a top UK wed­ding blog.

Sim­ply click the links to read online or go to issuu.com/englishweddingblog/docs/ebook to down­load it as a pdf or embed it in your own wed­ding web­site (which you’re very wel­come to do!)

Enjoy! xxx

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Adding Sunshine to a Winter Wedding

Every bride puts her heart and soul into plan­ning her wed­ding.  From the biggest ele­ments through to the tini­est details, each piece is care­fully thought out to cre­ate a dream day. How­ever, there are some things which you can’t con­trol, and Mother Nature can wreak havoc on your wed­ding with unex­pected bad weather.

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Photo Credit: Hay­ley Ruth on Wed­ding­ton Boots

Here are a few ways to ensure that a rainy, dull day doesn’t put a damper on your wed­ding day:

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9 best wedding traditions from around the world

Morn­ing every­one! Today I’ll tease your learning-buds with a list of nine things you prob­a­bly didn’t know. This is a guest post by John Greed Jew­ellery, who’ve found the best wed­ding tra­di­tions from around the world. Will you be incor­po­rat­ing any in your day? Or do you think we have any bet­ter tra­di­tions here in the UK? I’d love to hear what you think!

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I thought YOU were booking the band?”

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Wed­dings used to be sim­ple affairs; reg­istry office in the High Street, a few pals as wit­nesses, bowl­ing club for some egg sand­wiches. After a few dances one of your cousins has too much to drink, starts a fight then all the pre-ordered cabs show up at 1am. Job done. Oh, how things have changed. Today’s bride expects a pro­posal in a gon­dola, the cer­e­mony must be at the base of Vic­to­ria Falls and catered by Gor­don Ram­say and that’s before you’ve even thought about the enter­tain­ment.

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Be young, be foolish, and be happy

I have a few major inse­cu­ri­ties when it comes to Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. I love writ­ing it, I love that I have an hon­est and beau­ti­ful blog that brides, grooms and busi­nesses find inspir­ing. But some­times I worry: I’m not a bride, I haven’t planned my own wed­ding, every­thing I know about wed­dings comes sec­ond hand.

A wed­ding blogger’s confession

Some­times I feel a bit of a fraud: how can I pre­sume to advise and try to help brides and grooms when I haven’t been there myself?

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How to find creative inspiration

I blogged a very cre­ative pho­to­shoot ear­lier in the week — a lit­tle adven­ture I loved being a part of! It wasn’t a bridal shoot, in fact it was like noth­ing I’ve ever blogged before. But the process of doing some­thing dif­fer­ent was just brilliant.

But why would I post some­thing so bizarre on a wed­ding blog? (I hear you ask!)

I think we’re all here look­ing for inspi­ra­tion in one way or another. Brides, grooms, wed­ding busi­nesses — cre­ativ­ity is impor­tant. Find­ing some­thing new shouldn’t always be about the lat­est tiara design. Some­times it’s about tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from some­thing unex­pected. That was the mes­sage I wanted to share.

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Sophisticated Ideas for a UK Hen Weekend

Today’s wed­ding blog post is def­i­nitely for the ladies — any­one plan­ning a hen week­end and won­der­ing how to keep things classy should read this fab guest post by Jes­sica Lambert.

With lav­ish hen par­ties becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar, the pres­sure is really on to choose ideas that are unique, spe­cial and mem­o­rable. Still, there’s no need to go abroad; with so many sophis­ti­cated hen party ideas avail­able right on your doorstep, you can keep the cash from the flights to spend on the night.

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The cos­mopoli­tan cap­i­tal of cul­ture, a Lon­don hen week­end pro­vides you with an eclec­tic choice of things to do:

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