Category Archives: misc

Wedding blogger photoshoot: mystery locations, fire, magic and crash helmets

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Claire
Ciao ragazzi!

Ciao ragazzi!

In the inter­est of main­tain­ing a pretty dis­tinct niche for Eng­lish Wed­ding, my lat­est pho­to­shoot was all about cre­ativ­ity: hav­ing a blast and enjoy­ing the expe­ri­ence. And please do for­give me for a self indul­gent blog post today!

 

My Vespa! Carter was the star of the day

My Vespa! Carter was the star of the day

While the other UK wed­ding blog­gers look amaz­ing in their vin­tage wed­ding dresses and acces­sories, as a cal­lig­ra­pher and artist I like to be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. (Just as the wed­dings I love most of all have some­thing a lit­tle unique about them.)  Read more…

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Would you move your wedding for royalty?

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Claire

Imag­ine the sce­nario: you’ve booked your wed­ding date, chat­ted to the vicar and are look­ing for­ward to get­ting mar­ried in a pic­turesque lit­tle church that prob­a­bly means a lot to you… would you move over if another cou­ple wanted it more?

the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh

the Canon­gate Kirk in Edin­burgh — from the BBc

Or, would you move over if another cou­ple just wanted it, and were more famous? Or if they had more money?

The road to Scotland’s first royal wed­ding in 20 years

The story that Zara Phillips and Mike Tin­dall are get­ting mar­ried this sum­mer in a church that was already booked by another cou­ple is really mak­ing me think this morn­ing. Read the full story on the BBC web­site.  Read more…

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Plan your own wedding like a professional — with a genie for the weekend!

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Claire

When I chat to brides as part of my day job or for all those of you who send me lovely emails about your wed­dings I’m always impressed and often amazed. Why? Because so many of you are plan­ning your gor­geous wed­ding recep­tions with a hun­dred or so guests… it can be a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion and it’s almost always a once in a life­time expe­ri­ence for you — so hats off to you, ladies and gents, for plan­ning your wed­dings. I don’t think I could do it!  Read more…

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Fairy Liquid honours the royal wedding in soapy style

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Claire

fairy liquid royal weddingThis post is for you, dear read­ers. Because I’m a lit­tle at a loss for words: inwardly chuck­ling, and yet slightly alarmed that I find this funny: “Proc­ter & Gam­ble is devel­op­ing a special-edition plas­tic bot­tle of Fairy Liq­uid to com­mem­o­rate the royal wed­ding in April”.

Emma Hall, Lon­don edi­tor of US mag­a­zine Adver­tis­ing Age, con­tacted me to ask for a quote and — try­ing not to be insult­ing but fail­ing, I think — I obliged and have been quoted in her arti­cle here:  Read more…

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The Great British love poem: Trust, Tea and Two TVs

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Claire

You might remem­ber back in Novem­ber on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog we revealed the secret of ever­last­ing love — well, kinda: Alanna and Mike had trav­elled across the Amer­i­cas inter­view­ing cou­ples in love and com­piled a heart­warm­ing film about the rea­sons rela­tion­ships last.

They then set out across the UK to extend their quest and find the answer to the secret of a last­ing rela­tion­ship. Some­how they’ve ended up with a poem… a quirky and light­hearted read­ing which I wanted to share with you.  Read more…

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Can Google predict your wedding date?

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Claire

Weirdly enough, it would seem Google knows a LOT about your wed­ding. Last-minute wed­ding shop­per? Aha.… Google can see you! And it knows what your guests are up to!

As I know a lot of you read­ing are very web-savvy I thought this arti­cle might be an inter­est­ing read. Can Google pre­dict your wed­ding date? Over to guest blog­ger Mike Doyle to reveal all…  Read more…

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The Wedding Show Stars: Mossy

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Claire

Walk­ing around The Wed­ding Show about this time last week I was delighted to spot Mossy in the cor­ner in his famous — yes, famous! — stripey jacket.

Mossy Caricatures at The Wedding Show 2011

Mossy Car­i­ca­tures at The Wed­ding Show 2011

If you don’t know who Mossy is, you should! Luck­ily enough, in just a sec­ond or two, you will! I first saw Mossy’s work years ago when I began my cal­lig­ra­phy busi­ness. Mossy is a wed­ding car­i­ca­tur­ist with tons of per­son­al­ity, instantly recog­nis­able across a crowded mar­quee (be it at your wed­ding day or at a show like Tat­ton) and some­one I’ve admired from afar for years. It was a plea­sure to have a quick chat to Mossy last week­end — I hope I man­aged to con­vince him that he IS famous!  Read more…

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Wedding Awards and Creativity

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Claire

awardsReac­tion to the Wed­ding Ideas Mag­a­zine Awards last week was mixed, and really got me think­ing. While I don’t want to crit­i­cise the organ­is­ers and I accept the results reflected pop­u­lar opin­ion, I felt more than a lit­tle deflated after see­ing the win­ners’ list on Fri­day evening. Why? It took me a few days to think about that one.

I’m a cre­ative type. I wear rose-tinted specs. They go with my image.  Read more…

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Valentine’s Day charity scrolls

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Claire

Evening every­one :) I have a quick post to write this evening, and if any­one can help I will be really grate­ful. My fel­low wed­ding sta­tioner and good friend Julie from Carol Miller Designs has designed Valentine’s Day scroll gifts in aid of char­ity and is look­ing for loved-up folks to sell them to!

Julie spot­ted that PC David Rath­band is run­ning the Lon­don Marathon to raise money for his char­ity The Blue Lamp Foun­da­tion. Hav­ing a heart of gold, Julie came up with these Valentine’s Day scrolls, with every sin­gle penny of her profit going to the char­ity.  Read more…

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BBC3 Pilot Looking for Engaged Couples to Test Drive Their Marriage

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Claire

I’ve just received this press release from BBC3 — and unlike some other wed­ding pro­grammes I’ve seen, this sounds like a really inspir­ing pro­gramme to watch and be involved in. So — hot off the press:

Love productions wedding planning pilotHave you ever won­dered how peo­ple view you as a cou­ple? Would you like the chance to delve into some­body else’s engage­ment and see what they’re plan­ning for their big day, and their future lives together?  Read more…

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