Category Archives: autumn weddings

All things vintage — a Fawsley Hall wedding in Northamptonshire

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Claire Gould

I loved Anna and Craig’s Fawsley Hall wed­ding as soon as I saw it — and when they say ‘all things vin­tage’ they really mean it… there’s even a steam roller thrown in! Not to men­tion the fam­ily heir­looms as wed­ding decor. This is truly beautiful.

Photo credit Benjamin Toms Fawsley Hall wedding blog (1)

I also admire Anna and Craig’s approach to sourc­ing wed­ding sup­pli­ers. They sourced items locally and saved money that way, as well as work­ing together with fam­ily and friends to make their own acces­sories for the big day. But most of all this is a beau­ti­ful wed­ding full of smiles and laugh­ter, love and fam­ily. There’s men­tion of a gig­gling fit at the altar (love it!) in Anna’s wed­ding report which you’ll find at the end of the blog fea­ture today.  Read more…

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Jayne and Steven’s traditional English wedding at Rowton Hall in Chester

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Claire Gould

Hello lovelies! I hope you’re hav­ing a nice week — any­thing excit­ing planned for the week­end, any­one? I’m feel­ing ever so loved-up this morn­ing as Jayne and Steven’s Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog report is just won­der­ful. So rather than me wit­ter­ing on, I’m going to share a quote from today’s beau­ti­ful bride Jayne to intro­duce today’s real wed­ding on the blog:  Read more…

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A quirky, bright, handmade wedding blog — made with love and sunshine!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Claire Gould

There’s a lit­tle clue in the title of today’s wed­ding blog for you. This is a very bright wed­ding, an absolutely fan­tas­tic theme and a blog post to make you grin from ear to ear in delight.

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Emily and Alan are a great cou­ple — full of fun and cre­ativ­ity. And while Emily is stun­ning in her Jas­mine Cou­ture wed­ding dress, Alan steals the show in a bright. yel­low. suit. (There’s a photo to watch out for with a hand­writ­ten note from Emily: “I love you even though you look like a bowl of cus­tard”! which is won­der­ful! Seri­ously though — he looks great, and every­thing about today’s wed­ding blog is bril­liant. Lit­er­ally!  Read more…

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Vintage military wedding ideas — real wedding inspiration

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Claire Gould

If you’re styling a vin­tage mil­i­tary wed­ding then I’ve a feel­ing you’ll love Sara and Dave’s wed­ding blog. They’re a fan­tas­tic cou­ple with a great sense of style, and used lengths of bunting and tra­di­tional dec­o­ra­tions to theme their gor­geous wedding.

vintage wedding (1) Not only are there loads of ideas for you from Sara & Dave’s big day, I’ve cre­ated a vin­tage mil­i­tary wed­ding Pin­ter­est board with more ideas to share with you — so if you’re plan­ning a sim­i­lar style for your day, do have a look!

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Sara and Dave, and my huge thanks to Jamie from Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy for shar­ing the wed­ding pho­tos on Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog for us all to enjoy this morning.

Have a lovely day every­one! Claire xxx
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We met at primary school… a Welsh wedding

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Claire Gould

wedding blog photo (35) There’s noth­ing like a real love story to brighten up a cold morn­ing… and Alice and Jamie’s story is a lovely one. Both liv­ing in Lon­don now, they went back to their child­hood home of Wales to get mar­ried last year. Alice has writ­ten her own story of the wed­ding day which is as enchant­ing as the images of the wed­ding. And she looks so incred­i­bly beau­ti­ful in lace and pearls…

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All the pho­tographs are by Cam­bridge wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Jean-Luc Benazet. I have some­thing very spe­cial to tell you about Jean-Luc at the end of this wed­ding blog, but for now I’ll leave you to read Alice and Jamie’s wed­ding story.

Enjoy!  Read more…

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An English rose and a Ukrainian sunflower

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Claire Gould

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This real wed­ding is bright, excit­ing and full of colour: from the vin­tage fire engine, Jezebel, to the strik­ing sunflowers-which-are-better-than-sunflowers… it’s a stunner.

Man­ches­ter based Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy sub­mit­ted the wed­ding for our lovely lit­tle blog, and I was delighted to see a glo­ri­ous day unfold through one fab­u­lous image after another. There are some amaz­ing shots here which I know you’ll love to bits. I do — these guys are really special.

When Ivanka sent me her wed­ding report explain­ing all the Ukrain­ian wed­ding tra­di­tions included in her day — well it was more than the icing on the cake. This is a very spe­cial wed­ding and I’m sure you’ll love it — and learn some­thing too*  Read more…

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Romance, tears, kilts and sunsets

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Claire Gould

Neil Wed­ding Video– Heaton House Farm Cheshire from silk wed­ding videos on Vimeo.

This gor­geous wed­ding film by Silk Wed­ding Videos needs very lit­tle intro­duc­tion. A beau­ti­ful bride in a ruf­fled wed­ding dress; her gor­geous (and tear­ful) groom in kilt and sporren; an idyl­lic Cheshire loca­tion and about as loved up as a wed­ding video can be.

Wed­ding video highlights:

  • the adorable brides­maid watch­ing prepa­ra­tions in the morning
  • tears from the groom and his heart­warm­ing vows
  • a lovely Scot­tish accent and bag­pipers to go with it!
  • dogs in col­lars made of roses. Eat your heart out Tamara!

Enjoy x

Thanks to Tom Har­ring­ton of Silk Wed­ding Videos for shar­ing. Here’s the link to his offi­cial web­site at www.silkweddingvideos.co.uk and to the Silk Wed­ding Videos chan­nel on Vimeo — http://vimeo.com/silkweddingvideo — you’ll love it.

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English Wedding best of 2010: real wedding

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Claire Gould

Another favourite wed­ding fea­tured this year was from March — in this case it’s the wed­ding dress I absolutely adore: the vibrant red is out of this world. Bride Gemma is stun­ning and wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Amy Wass is one very tal­ented lady. Enjoy!

red maggie sottero wedding dress

One of my favourite Amy Wass wed­ding photographs

Rhinefield House

Rhine­field House is a lux­ury wed­ding venue with bags of character

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The wed­ding cer­e­mony — the opu­lent set­ting makes it really special

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The wed­ding speeches embar­rass Gemma, just a bit!

To see the full post just click Stun­ning Red Wed­ding.

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Malmesbury Abbey wedding

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Claire Gould

Time for some­thing a lit­tle bit awe inspir­ing, I think! How about a beau­ti­ful wed­ding in a 12th cen­tury Eng­lish abbey?

Malmes­bury Abbey is a uniquely impres­sive church, and Mark and Laura were lucky enough to be mar­ried there in the late sum­mer. Only parts of the abbey are still stand­ing, as it dates back from the 1100s — but restora­tion work means the church can still serve as a parish church for daily ser­vices and wed­ding ceremonies.

Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Magic Pho­tog­ra­phy’s Alli­son Dench, a Berkshire-based wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher who I love for her abil­ity to cap­ture all the most roman­tic moments of a wed­ding day.

Laura getting ready

Bridal prepa­ra­tions — I love the two per­spec­tives on this image with Laura’s reflec­tion (and isn’t she beau­ti­ful)  Read more…

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English autumn wedding

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Claire Gould
A favourite photograph of Liz and Jon, so much in love.

A favourite pho­to­graph of Liz and Jon, so much in love.

The first engage­ment shoot I ever fea­tured on Eng­lish Wed­ding was of Liz and Jon — a Cheshire bride– and groom-to-be whose lovely pho­tos had me com­pletely hooked.

Two months have absolutely flown by, and I can now very hap­pily blog Liz and Jon’s wed­ding day for you. This cou­ple wear their hearts on their sleeves — so the pho­tos might just bring a tear to your eye. They did for me!

Their pho­tog­ra­pher was Adam from ARJ Pho­tog­ra­phy in Man­ches­ter. There is def­i­nitely some­thing spe­cial about Man­ches­ter wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers and Adam is no excep­tion: a cre­atively cheeky ele­ment always comes shin­ing through — in Liz and Jon’s case, it’s bath­tubs!  Read more…

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