Category Archives: Jewellery

Wedding jewellery ideas — gold colours

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Claire

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!  Read more…

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Engagement Rings: Taking the First Step towards a Perfect Wedding

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Claire

This guest blog post brought a wry smile to my face this morn­ing — so for any men plan­ning to pro­pose in the near future, here’s some advice to help you pro­pose with­out a hitch!

engagement ring by wedding photographer Alison Groves

Photo credit: Ali­son Groves (click to see fea­tured wed­ding blog)

Of course the first step in any wed­ding is the pro­posal, and what is a pro­posal with­out the per­fect engage­ment ring? Tak­ing that first step can be a fright­en­ing prospect as there is always some amount of doubt in the back of the man’s mind as to whether or not his pro­posal will be accepted.  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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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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Win beads, get crafty…

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Claire

Ladies (and the more flam­boy­ant gents out there) I have a lit­tle com­pe­ti­tion worth £50 to tempt you today… the folks behind gor­geous bead store Beadcrafty.com have got a £50 online voucher for one lucky Eng­lish Wed­ding blog reader to WIN!

beads from beadcraftySo. Are you mak­ing your own wed­ding jew­ellery? For sophis­ti­cates among you, how about a pearl bracelet or a string of pearl beads to dec­o­rate your bridal decol­letage?pearl beads If you’re rock­ing a 1950s look, you could make a red bead bracelet to go with your dress.  Read more…

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How to buy wedding jewellery with a clear conscience

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Sarah de Souza

When you start plan­ning your wed­ding, there is so much to think about. Huge deci­sions often need to be made and some of the smaller, but still impor­tant issues can eas­ily be forgotten.

Ingle and Rhode fair trade gold wedding rings

Ingle and Rhode fair trade gold wed­ding rings

One of the deci­sions that may be over­shad­owed by which venue to have, or where to go on hon­ey­moon, is where to buy your wed­ding jew­ellery from. It’s easy enough to walk in to a high street jew­eller and select some­thing you like, but have you and your part­ner con­sid­ered where the gold, plat­inum or stones comes from?  Read more…

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Autumn, the wedding industry and Narnia

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Claire

Do you love or hate autumn? When there’s a crisp chill in the air, you wake up in dark­ness at 7am, the heat­ing goes on and win­ter wool­lies come out — do you hide or rush out to play in the rusty leaves?

I had the idea of a new wed­ding blog post with my friend and Tiararama designer Suzanne Laugh­lin: to shout out and share the things we love about autumn. Because at the end of the wed­ding sea­son the wed­ding indus­try doesn’t sleep: instead, we get inspired. The smell of autumn on the air, the hazy sun­shine and being all toasty inside… it kicks off that cre­ative buzz. I wanted to share some of that with you!  Read more…

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Wedding Day Jewellery

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Sally

As I’ve said before, I’m a com­plete sucker for sen­ti­ment. Every day I wear my engage­ment ring, my mum’s sil­ver ring that she bought when she was a girl, the ring David bought me for my 21st, and the ear­rings he bought me from Italy. Until it recently broke, I also used to wear my great grandmother’s ring that she brought back from Rus­sia for my grandma (who said it was hideous, which is why I have it!). None of them ‘go’, they are all dif­fer­ent met­als, stones, styles… but I have to wear all of them on my wed­ding day! The way I see it is I am wear­ing a piece of jew­ellery from each cor­ner of my fam­ily, and the sen­ti­ment means so much more than hav­ing every­thing ‘matchy-matchy’.  Read more…

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No. 16: My 8th Wonder

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Claire

Days to go: 22

Noth­ing wedding-related had made me cry before today.

I’d been very ner­vous about my bracelet that was being made for me to wear on my wed­ding day. I was very con­fi­dent Emma knew what I wanted, but I was anx­ious about whether she could actu­ally make it, as my design was very dif­fer­ent to any­thing else I’d seen on her web­site. I even dreamt last night that it was made of plastic!

This morn­ing I ner­vously made my way to Chester to pick up the bracelet.

Upon arrival I was greeted with this box.  Read more…

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Affordable bridal accessories from a business that’s fit for a princess

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Claire

Olivier Laudus bridal accessories in the UKAn inter­est­ing title for a post: shouldn’t the title be “bridal acces­sories fit for a princess”? Well per­haps not quite (if these were full of the very best dia­monds and pre­cious stones they would be) — but that’s not what this blog post is about. This is sim­ply about a gem of a wed­ding busi­ness: ethics, cus­tomer ser­vice and dedication.

Every once in a while I meet some­one who really inspires me. While I’ve blogged Oliver Laudus designs and acces­sories before, I had only spo­ken to Sangeeta Laudus online (on twit­ter and by email). We had a long chat a week­end or two ago, and hav­ing orig­i­nally wanted to fea­ture the new bridal tiaras from Olivier Laudus I knew I had to write a bit more about an inspir­ing, eth­i­cal and admirable wed­ding sup­plier.  Read more…

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