Category Archives: Jewellery

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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Beside the seaside… (brave) UK brides and grooms take note!

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Claire

This is a guest blog post by Tracey from Bridal Designs wed­ding jew­ellery. Have you always dreamed of a beach wed­ding but need to stick to a strict bud­get? Do you love the feel­ing of sand between your toes but hate fly­ing? And most of all… Would you brave the British weather for your wed­ding day? Here’s Tracey with some ideas for intre­pid UK seaside-inspired brides and grooms!

British beach wed­ding ideas

Say ‘Beach wed­ding’ to any­one and they auto­mat­i­cally think of a beau­ti­ful clear blue sea and sandy beach with palm trees in a far flung place. But what if I told you that the pos­si­bilty of get­ting mar­ried on a beach in good old Blighty might not be so far away?  Read more…

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Chic bridal photography

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Claire

Greg from TP Pho­tog­ra­phy sub­mit­ted some­thing just a lit­tle dif­fer­ent for the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog, and I’d love to know what you think.

This is bridal pho­tog­ra­phy as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between local wed­ding sup­pli­ers: the kind of team­work which builds a close rap­port between sup­pli­ers — and I love that these infor­mal lit­tle teams are dot­ted all around the country.

The shoot involved the fab­u­lous Green House Hotel — an eco-friendly wed­ding venue in Bournemouth, Bridal Designs Wed­ding Jew­ellery and Cloud­light Pho­tog­ra­phy,

Find a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher you love, and you’ll prob­a­bly feel the same about the florists, cake com­pa­nies and sta­tion­ers they rec­om­mend to you as well.  Read more…

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The Wedding Show Stars: Jean Ellis

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Claire

Jean Ellis Designs tiaras fascinators hats and accessories

Jean Ellis must have flown down from heaven or some other mag­i­cal realm: surely no one can really have an imag­i­na­tion like this! A real star of The Wed­ding Show last week­end, Jean called me ear­lier in the week to say hi. I’d only met Jean’s daugh­ter at the show, and had a quick chat about the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog — but promised to write about Jean’s incred­i­ble creations.

I don’t know quite what to say — Jean Ellis’s work is out of this world, cre­ative and inspir­ing. My writ­ing sim­ply can’t do Jean Ellis hair­pieces and fas­ci­na­tors jus­tice — so look at the pic­tures — and be amazed!  Read more…

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Choosing bridal accessories to suit your dress

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Claire

When, how and where should you choose jew­ellery for your wed­ding day? Could you use a lit­tle bit of advice about styles of wed­ding neck­lace, types of pearls etc? Wed­ding jew­ellery is a com­pet­i­tive mar­ket for sup­pli­ers and there is a huge amount of choice for brides out there — I know I wouldn’t know where to start (so many pretty sparkly things!) but with a lit­tle help from guest blog­ger and wed­ding jew­eller Julieann it all becomes crys­tal clear.…  Read more…

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