Category Archives: misc

Happy Christmas from English Wedding!

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Claire

Happy Christmas from English Wedding blog

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Once upon a time…

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Claire

A girl lived with her mother on the out­skirts of a smoky city. The girl was beau­ti­ful: she had a gen­tle smile and kind eyes with a lit­tle laugh­ter behind them. Her hair was the colour of sun­shine and she wore red. She loved red. She always wore red.

creative wedding photography blog shoot (1)

creative wedding photography blog shoot (2)The beau­ti­ful girl was in love. She was look­ing for­ward to see­ing her beloved for a spe­cial date, so she decided to take a short cut through the for­est to meet him. Smil­ing as she plucked her favourite cape from by the door – for she loved to be noticed – the beau­ti­ful girl stepped out­side. Heads turned.  Read more…

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Is it really ok to be different?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Claire

A bit of a funny blog post per­haps, and self indul­gent too. The Royal Wed­ding passed me by last week (I like wed­dings; I’m not a fan of roy­alty) and I feel at times I’m watch­ing from the side­lines as the biggest UK wed­ding blog­gers are team­ing up with wed­ding mag­a­zines for var­i­ous projects. (I’m not a fan of the wed­ding press either, and haven’t made any secret of that on this blog.)

Does this mean Eng­lish Wed­ding is miss­ing the mark? Not right for a par­tic­u­lar audi­ence? Or is there a dif­fer­ent audi­ence for this blog instead? Should I try harder to be like the other blogs, or stick to my guns?  Read more…

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A few sneak peaks..

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Sally

I’ve been a busy bee this week so unfor­tu­nately this isn’t a long blog post.. Just a few tan­ta­lis­ing tid­bits to keep you going until I get more organ­ised!  Read more…

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Happy Easter from English Wedding!

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Claire

Hello every­one!

I hope you’re all enjoy­ing the lovely sun­shine and — while it’s so nice out­side — maybe even tak­ing a break from wed­ding plan­ning, enjoy­ing a bit of cou­ple time and days out.

An exec­u­tive deci­sion has been made at Eng­lish Wed­ding Tow­ers (haha) to have the week­end off. But don’t worry — I’ll be sneak pre­view­ing some­thing very excit­ing on Mon­day lunchtime, and we’ll be back with a huge splash to reveal ‘The Future of Vin­tage’ on Tues­day at midday.

Now, where’s my choco­late… yum. :)

 

 

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Children and Weddings..

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Sally

The big debate: chil­dren and wed­dings. Some think a wed­ding wouldn’t have the atmos­phere with­out them, and oth­ers couldn’t think of any­thing worse than hav­ing a swarm of chil­dren ‘aero­plan­ing’ all over the dance floor. I think I’m some­where in between..  Read more…

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Daily wedding inspiration

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Billy Idol

This is more about love than wed­dings (but then, wed­dings should also be more about love than about wed­dings, shouldn’t they! So it works nicely).

note on tree by Alex Beadon Photography

note on tree by Alex Beadon Photography

A lovely post on Alex Beadon’s wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy blog: I dare you to make a stranger smile. I plan to. I even have a favourite tree in mind for my note.

http://www.alexbeadonphotography.com/blog/2011/03/25/i-dare-you-to-make-a-stranger-smile/

Love, Billy (click to see more)

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Royal Wedding Hilarity — feeling crafty?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Claire

There aren’t words for this one so I’ll just show you the pics and leave you to gig­gle. Thanks to my dad for find­ing the first two, and to Ama­zon for sug­gest­ing I might like to buy the third.

A very spe­cial edi­tion of Wednes­day Writes

Royal Wed­ding inspired literature…

Dress Up Dolly Royal Wedding Book

Dress Up Dolly Royal Wed­ding — William and Kate in pants. Love his!

Sticker Dolly Dressing Weddings - Royal Wedding Special Edition

Sticker Dolly Dress­ing Wed­dings — Royal Wed­ding Spe­cial Edition

Knit your own royal wedding

Knit your own royal wedding

Com­ments wel­come. I’m lost for words! Lov­ing the imag­i­na­tion behind every one of these though.

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Saving and sharing the wedding planning images you love!

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Claire

I love the con­cept behind Pin­ter­est. It’s a bit new, but any­thing bright and shiny and ambi­tious makes me smile.

Pinterest share images website

Pin­ter­est share images web­site — screengrab

For brides and grooms plan­ning a wed­ding, it’s a fan­tas­tic idea. Browse the web, spot an image you love, bang a pin in it. It’ll appear on your pin board at Pin­ter­est. Such an easy way to save all the ideas you find and love, and to share them with your friends and on wed­ding forums and stuff.

Thanks to Far­rell & Chase for their blog post where I found Pin­ter­est.  Read more…

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The wedding press: how lovely it would be to share…

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Claire

I’ve just had an email from Brides Mag­a­zine about a spe­cial issue where they’ll be show­cas­ing the very best in wed­ding sta­tionery and cal­lig­ra­phy. They seemed very keen for me to advertise…

Wedding magazines are all about the money

Wed­ding mag­a­zines are all about the money: mine and yours.

It almost had me tempted — only it got my back up a lit­tle. The email — not exclu­sively to me of course, but to all the cal­lig­ra­phers they could find — had FAR TOO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS and A LOT OF BOLD in it. As per­sua­sive tech­niques go, that one won’t work on me in a mil­lion years!  Read more…

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