Category Archives: english weddings

Alternative wedding invitation ideas

How is every­one on this beau­ti­fully sunny Mon­day morn­ing? It’s bliss­ful here at Eng­lish Wed­ding tow­ers — I’ve been for a walk around my lit­tle vil­lage, along the seafront and through the fields already! Time now for a bit of inspi­ra­tion in the form of some papery good­ness, I think.

Five great alter­na­tive wed­ding invi­ta­tion ideas

alternative wedding invitation image (2)Alter­na­tive wed­ding invi­ta­tion 1: the Lotus Flower

Lotus flower alter­na­tive wed­ding invi­ta­tion found on With­out A Hitch — the flower is cut from blue pat­terned paper and becomes a stun­ning, dif­fer­ent wed­ding invi­ta­tion via the magic of origami. A tag attached to the flower has all the infor­ma­tion a guest could need!

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Thinking creative!

I can deny it no longer.  I have become an addict. Deny me my fix and my crav­ing just gets stronger. It’s not drugs or drink or nico­tine.  No, I am obsessed with read­ing wed­ding blogs and wed­ding mag­a­zines.  And even though we’ve more or less cho­sen just about every­thing for our own wed­ding and don’t really need any more inspi­ra­tion or ideas, I just can’t stop read­ing about other wed­dings.  And I par­tic­u­larly enjoy hear­ing about brides who have taken up Claire’s call to ‘Think Cre­ative’.  What a lot of tal­ent there is out there!  From brides who stitch their own dec­o­ra­tive bunting or ice hun­dreds of cup cakes to those who hand-write every sin­gle invi­ta­tion or painstak­ingly thread crys­tal bead neck­laces, I am hum­bled by those B2B blessed with a cre­ative spirit.

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Wedding jewellery ideas — gold colours

Today’s Eng­lish wed­ding blog is ded­i­cated to Trudie. Hello there Trudie! A lit­tle while ago I asked for wed­ding jew­ellery design­ers to share their best sparkly cre­ations over on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Show­case. It works a lit­tle like the wed­ding mag­a­zines: I sug­gest a theme and ask design­ers to show off their wares, pro­vid­ing all of you won­der­ful cou­ples with ideas for your wed­ding. This time we did jewellery.

Gold wed­ding jew­ellery ideas — an inspi­ra­tion board

English wedding jewellery ideas for brides gold and coloursFallen in love with a bit of sparkle? Click on these quick links to see the wed­ding jew­ellery designs on the design­ers’ web­sites!

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Creative wedding ideas collaboration — and not a union jack in sight!

I’m avoid­ing union jacks and red-white-blue fea­tures with every glance at my inbox these days! There are gor­geous ideas out there, and yes a lit­tle inspi­ra­tion from cur­rent events is nice… but before we all plan red-white-blue wed­dings (and before I start buy­ing red-white-blue acces­sories for my new home!) I’m going to try and win you over today with some regal wed­ding inspi­ra­tion done a lit­tle dif­fer­ently. Which is what we love here on Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog, yes? Enjoy…

Photo credit Meg Hawkins (1)

Dav­en­port House wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot

On Eng­lish Wed­ding blog — shared by Big Lit­tle Things with pho­tog­ra­phy by Meg Hawkins. All sup­plier infor­ma­tion is towards the end of the page
Photo credit Meg Hawkins (2)
Photo credit Meg Hawkins (3)

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A wedding cake spectacular: 14 contemporary cake ideas

wedding cupcakes idea

Photo credit: McAvoy Pho­tog­ra­phy. Cakes by Beth

Good morn­ing! Who likes cake? And have you cho­sen your wed­ding cake yet? I’ve picked some of my favourite wed­ding cakes from all the real wed­dings on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog over the last few months, and thought it would be a great way to get a lit­tle wed­ding cake gallery going!

Click on the images to see the full wed­ding and please — if you’re the wed­ding cake designer and would like a credit, get in touch. (All of these pic­tures are taken from my real wed­dings, sub­mit­ted by wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers)

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Getting featured on wedding blogs (video blog)

Hello! I have another video blog for wed­ding sup­pli­ers today: how (and why) to get fea­tured on a wed­ding blog. Once again, ‘scuse the face — but I hope you find the advice really use­ful. Enjoy the movie — there’s a quick recap in words below the clip for you to cut out and keep as well.

get­ting your designs fea­tured on wed­ding blogs from Claire Gould on Vimeo.

As a wed­ding sta­tioner, jew­ellery or cake designer you might not have con­sid­ered sub­mit­ting your designs to be fea­tured on wed­ding blogs. This short video explains the ben­e­fits of spon­sored blog fea­tures, and looks at the dif­fer­ences between wed­ding blog adver­tis­ing and the printed wed­ding magazines.

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Erica Stacey couture wedding dresses (Manchester)

photography Hannah Dornford May (1)Morn­ing every­one! Wed­ding dresses and some behind-the-scenes pic­tures today… I wanted to tell you a lit­tle more about cou­ture dress designer Erica Stacey. Erica has made a real splash in the Man­ches­ter and Cheshire wed­ding scene (if that’s the right word: is there a ‘scene’? Answers on a post­card please…) with the launch of her cou­ture bridal wear brand at the lux­u­ri­ous Tat­ton Wed­ding Show in Jan­u­ary. I’ve come across her name on Brides Up North wed­ding blog and seen her dresses fea­tured in fab­u­lous cre­ative shoots by some of my favourite wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers. This lady is mak­ing waves — with gor­geous designs and a fan­tas­tic com­mer­cial launch, allow me to intro­duce Erica Stacey Bridal Wear.

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Wedding Planning or Work? Bumper Edition

Fairytale French wedding blog photo credit www.janisratnieks.com

Fairy­tale French wed­ding blog photo credit www.janisratnieks.com

This week’s Wed­ding Plan­ning or Work is ded­i­cated to my new friend Scar­let Blue. Last Fri­day I skived off WPOW entirely, as I was up to my neck in cal­lig­ra­phy… only to find an email on Sat­ur­day from Scar­let (which she’d sent on Fri­day) say­ing how much she enjoyed my weekly blog roundups… Oops!

Today I’m not skiv­ing off — I’ve made you a bumper edi­tion of Wed­ding Plan­ning or Work to enjoy. Happy Fri­day everyone!

romantic Spanish inspired wedding on Green Wedding Shoes blog

Span­ish inspired wed­ding Photo credit: www.joielala.com

Real wed­dings

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The most beautiful civil partnership and handfasting celebration

photo credit CT Images (40)
I’ve always thought I’d love a hand­fast­ing for my own wed­ding — and when I saw Cat and Jocelyn’s hand­fast­ing cel­e­bra­tion I loved every­thing they’d done to cre­ate a truly beau­ti­ful day. Their civil part­ner­ship was at Leighton Moss nature reserve in Lan­cashire, and images are by Cat and Suz at C. T. Images Pho­tog­ra­phy in Bolton.

The atmos­phere on the day must have been won­der­ful: an out­door cer­e­mony, the air filled with live music from friends and a tra­di­tional hand­fast­ing before friends and fam­ily. Cat and Joce­lyn have writ­ten all about their day to share on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog — so I’ll hand over the reins to them to tell you all about it.

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5 famous British wedding venues

A guest blog post this morn­ing to make you smile. Fancy step­ping in the hal­lowed foot­steps of the floppy-haired secret-crush induc­ing naughtier-than-he-looks Hugh Grant? Here’s how…

Even if you don’t live in the same parish as the famous UK wed­ding venues men­tioned in this list you could pull a few strings to try and stage your wed­ding at one of them. It might be a bit tricky to arrange a wed­ding at num­ber five in the list though!

Luton Hoo Hotel wedding venue by Calotype46 on Flickr

Luton Hoo Hotel wed­ding venue by Calotype46 on Flickr

Luton Hoo Hotel as seen in Four Wed­dings and a Funeral. Photo by Calotype46 on flickr

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