Category Archives: Get Grounded

All that glitters… can be pure gold!

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Claire

Wed­dings don’t have to cost the earth, and in Ang­harad from Edi­ble Glit­ter blog I found a bride who inspires me so much. A truly cre­ative bride-to-be, Ang­harad offered to share her wed­ding plan­ning story so far as a guest blog post. This is all about think­ing cre­atively: cast aside what the indus­try says about wed­dings, and do some­thing com­pletely ‘you’. Lit­tle did I know from my ini­tial chat with Ang­harad on twit­ter just how much I’d love what you’re about to read.

By Ang­harad  Read more…

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Thought for the day

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Claire

A few key con­cerns come up again and again when I lis­ten to brides… wed­dings on a bud­get, pres­sure to meet friends & family’s expec­ta­tions, and the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing a unique and per­sonal wedding.

All of these wor­ries make sense to me, but I really think it’s pos­si­ble to bypass them all if you can think cre­atively about your wed­ding. Cre­atively enough so that your friends and fam­ily have to throw all their pre­con­cep­tions out of the win­dow: then they can relax and enjoy your wed­ding.  Read more…

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Wedding readings

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Claire

A bit more from my lit­tle soap­box about Get­ting Grounded when it comes to your wed­ding — I had a lit­tle think about wed­ding read­ings. I write out so many of these in my day job as a cal­lig­ra­pher, I have some firm favourites and some I see which don’t appeal so much to me on a per­sonal level.

The best wed­ding read­ings for me are those which look for­wards from the wed­ding day to the years of mar­riage ahead, and which have a cer­tain depth and matu­rity. They’re worth a read if you’re get­ting bogged down in all the plan­ning and details of your wed­ding day.  Read more…

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Wedding perspective list

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Claire

I decided to write about “the basics” — a bare min­i­mum per­spec­tive on wed­dings. Sur­pris­ingly and per­haps a reflec­tion of how sophis­ti­cated or elab­o­rate wed­dings have become, I got stuck on where to start!

It’s a very sub­jec­tive thing and you will prob­a­bly dis­agree with me I think! I do have a bit of an unusual view on cer­tain things, like for exam­ple hav­ing a legal mar­riage cer­tifi­cate — but a fresh per­spec­tive is always a good thing, even if you don’t agree but it gives you a few ideas.  Read more…

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The very basics

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Claire

As part of my train of thought that I'm loosely calling "Get Grounded”… For­get­ting about wed­dings for a minute, I got to think­ing: what is a mar­riage then? I do think the wed­ding indus­try has lost per­spec­tive. Big time.

Mar­riage is just two peo­ple in love. Your basic boy / girl or any com­bi­na­tion of the two. Once you have those two things, it’s down to per­sonal opin­ion. How should your mar­riage be recog­nised? If you’re reli­gious it’s easy: your church will have rules to fol­low. If you’re not, it’s your choice to have a legal cer­e­mony or not. For me — not. I live with my guy, and I sup­pose we’re a life­long part­ner­ship, for bet­ter for worse… which in my mind makes us mar­ried.  Read more…

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