Category Archives: inspiration

A wedding cake spectacular: 14 contemporary cake ideas

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Claire
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)  Read more…

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Wedding inspiration, French style: pink and glitter

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Claire

So pleased, and happy. I’ve dis­cov­ered a real life French wed­ding blog in La Mar­iée en Colère (trans­lated: The Angry Bride). So the plan for today is I’m blog­ging Nathalie’s gor­geous inspi­ra­tion shoot for you, then I’m off to brush up on my français.

wedding blog inspiration France (1)French inspi­ra­tion shoot from La Mar­iée en Colère

This shoot (“shoot­ing d’inspiration”) is deli­ciously girly: with per­fect pinks and del­i­cate pas­tels, beau­ti­ful lit­tle flower arrange­ments for tables, a bright and sum­mery bou­quet plus wed­ding sta­tionery (ele­gant as you’d expect!) — it’s just divine. The pic­tures speak for them­selves, and I’ve cred­ited all the sup­pli­ers involved below:
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wedding blog inspiration France (8)  Read more…

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Wedding planning or work?

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Claire
Somerset wedding photography by Belinda McCarthy

Som­er­set wed­ding. Pho­tog­ra­phy credit: Belinda McCarthy http://somerset-wedding-photographer.co.uk

I’ve found some bril­liant bits of inter­net for you this week: real wed­dings, DIY projects, dis­cus­sions and — a new bit of Wed­ding plan­ning or work: wed­ding busi­ness stuff. I’m just going to jump in. High­lights today include Alex Beadon’s busi­ness blog­ging advice, and dis­cus­sions on beauty from Anna (Far from the wed­ding crowd).

Enjoy. And have a won­der­ful week­end xx

Real wed­dings  Read more…

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Wedding jewellery ideas — oops!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Claire

As my dar­ling Gareth would say in his best Frank Spencer accent, “I think I’ve done a lit­tle whoop­sie.” I’ll elab­o­rate: in March I asked wed­ding jew­ellers to share their spark­li­est designs on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Show­case. I intended to share them with you all the very next week… I made two inspi­ra­tion boards and put them on the Eng­lish Wed­ding face­book page, but for­got to share them with you here! Let’s fix that :)

Wed­ding jew­ellery: deli­cious sil­ver inspi­ra­tion board

Bridal jewellery from the UK silver sparkle

Bridal jew­ellery from the UK — wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board  Read more…

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Sweet as candy wedding inspiration board

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Claire

Get your pink-sunglasses out, quick! Because we’re still in the land of marsh­mal­lowy, fluffy, girly, princessy won­der­ful pink. Today’s wed­ding blog is an inspi­ra­tion board — I saved some of my favourite bits from yesterday’s pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot for you and made a wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board for all the girly girls out there. And just for today, I’m one of ‘em. Join me?

Sweet candy pink wedding inspiration board

Sweet as Candy — pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board. Photo credit: Cristina Rossi

Click on the image to see it a lit­tle big­ger and read all the sup­plier details with­out squint­ing!  Read more…

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As sweet as candy — VERY pink wedding inspiration

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Claire

wedding blog by Cristina Rossi (19)
Some­times the girl takes over. When faced with a sea of pink in, say, Toys R Us, I run in the other direc­tion. But today, see­ing this pink­ness… it’s like can­dyfloss, marsh­mal­lows and cherry blos­som — every­thing the girl inside me adores. This inspi­ra­tion shoot is beau­ti­fully indul­gent, unashamedly pink — and full of ideas for a deli­ciously fem­i­nine wed­ding style.

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Pink is still a favourite colour for brides — and an indul­gently pink wed­ding theme has to say some­thing about the groom too: he’s either head over heels in love and just wants his bride to have the day she’s always dreamed of or he’s in touch with his fem­i­nine side! So girls, boys — join me to enjoy lots and lots and lots of pink­ness on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog today.  Read more…

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Bridal accessories showcase — quick, follow me!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Claire

Morn­ing every­one! I hope you’re hav­ing a lovely day so far. Espe­cially if you design wed­ding jew­ellery or know some­one who does — because I need you! Back in Feb­ru­ary I asked for wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers to show­case their wares and so many of you did: with bright, sum­mery wed­ding invi­ta­tions to appeal to every taste and wed­ding style.

sparkly wedding accessory

Photo credit: Chris Han­ley Pho­tog­ra­phy (at Hen­grave Hall)  Read more…

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Wedding planning or work?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Claire
wedding typography

Typog­ra­phy wed­ding inspi­ra­tion on Green Wed­ding Shoes (credit www.onelove-photo.com)

You deserve a lit­tle rest. You’ve been work­ing hard all week! It’s Fri­day. Take ten min­utes and enjoy this wed­ding love­li­ness instead. No one’s watching…

Real wed­dings

Photo credit: Julie Ann Images via Whim­si­cal Won­der­land Wed­dings blog  Read more…

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Wedding planning or work? (clue: work later)

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Claire
Texas vintage wedding

via Green Wed­ding Shoes blog. Photo credit: claytonaustinlovestories.com

Time­keep­ing is impor­tant. I’m crap at it: only this week did I realise my email sub­scrip­tions were land­ing at 3am!!! (thanks to Chris Han­ley, who very politely men­tioned his iPhone beep­ing in the early hours every day… Chris I do hope you got up to read my updates!) — and that’s just the start of my organ­i­sa­tional problems.

Another exam­ple would be Fri­day after­noons: you know when it’s nearly the week­end and you just can’t be both­ered fin­ish­ing work you could do on Mon­day morn­ing? That’s what I do. But then again… a lit­tle break, a breather, ten min­utes of wed­ding plan­ning instead of work… can’t do us any harm, can it? It might do us good: fire our cre­ativ­ity, per­haps.  Read more…

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Wedding Planning or Work?

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Claire

Time for a lit­tle Fri­day after­noon blog hop, anyone?

wedding dress cake

wed­ding dress cake from Foodista.com

I have to con­fess: I’m out and about this week and writ­ing this blog post in a bit of a hurry. But I still have to share a few of the best bits of inter­net I’ve been enjoy­ing over the last week or so.

Real wed­dings

Love my dress wedding blog

Wed­ding on Love My Dress blog. Photo credit: Lil­lian & Leonard

Think Cre­ative

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