Category Archives: classic weddings

A real wedding from Monkey Island

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Claire

wedding photography by Louise Bjorling (17)
Tucked away in a lus­cious land­scape, acces­si­ble only by boat or foot­bridge and on its own pri­vate island on the River Thames, Mon­key Island is pretty unique as far as Eng­lish wed­ding venues go.

It’s a secluded hide­away, ele­gant and (I love this:) ances­tral home to monks rather than mon­keys — Mon­key Island was the per­fect back­drop for Max and Marina’s wed­ding day.

We begin the day in the bridal suite with Marina get­ting ready for the cer­e­mony — it’s a lovely out­door wed­ding with pea­cocks roam­ing around the grounds! and the day unfolds with so many glo­ri­ous moments between the bride, groom and their wed­ding guests.  Read more…

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Debbie and Matthew’s surprise Buckinghamshire wedding

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Claire

Wedding by Natasha Thompson Photography (29)
A long awaited pro­posal and a secret, inti­mate wed­ding are hid­ing in my lit­tle box of tricks for you today my lovely read­ers. Deb­bie and Matthew, and their lit­tle boy Noah, cel­e­brated their sur­prise wed­ding in superb style — although they tell me the decor was “a bit of a mis-match”!

Their wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Natasha Thomp­son sub­mit­ted this wed­ding for the blog many weeks ago, and Matthew and Deb­bie (I think mainly Matthew) sent their wed­ding report back to me this week, along with the sweet­est note: “Sorry this has taken so long, we have just had a baby!” So first of all let me say a huge Con­grat­u­la­tions to you both, and I’ll hand over to you and to Natasha with her beau­ti­ful pho­tographs of your inti­mate wed­ding.  Read more…

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A musical English wedding at Buxted Park

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Claire

Buxted Park wedding (26)Matthew and Alyson’s wed­ding is ele­gance itself: with a musi­cal flavour lend­ing per­son­al­ity to the day and beauty and sim­plic­ity styling their cel­e­bra­tions. Alyson’s wed­ding dress by Suzanne Neville has a dreamy nos­tal­gia and the 1940s style of her dress and head­dress influ­enced the theme of today’s wed­ding blog.

The wed­ding colours are purest whites; the wed­ding venue is divine; the weather for this Novem­ber wed­ding day was bright, and crisp — the per­fect day for a wedding.

Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Sus­sex wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Sara Reeve, and Alyson has writ­ten the loveli­est wed­ding report to share with us all today. Enjoy!  Read more…

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Yes, I’ll Marry You, My Dear… Kingscote Barn wedding

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Claire

UK wedding blog photo (30)I hope you’re wrapped up all snug­gly and warm this morn­ing — not only is it freez­ing out­side, I also have a Jan­u­ary wed­ding to share with you today. Joanna and Angus got mar­ried at Kingscote Barn in Glouces­ter­shire at the begin­ning of the year; a day full of romance, shared glances and ele­gant, indi­vid­ual style. Joanna’s wed­ding dress and jacket are gor­geous; Angus looks the part in top hat and tails. I adore the brides­maids’ capes (want one!) — as soon as they caught my eye, I wanted this par­tic­u­larly won­der­ful wed­ding to show you on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog.  Read more…

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An island wedding in Yorkshire

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Claire

Wedding photo by Nicky Chadwick (1)Helen and Rich chose a venue with a dif­fer­ence for their York­shire wed­ding: the Water­ton Park Hotel sits on its own island within a nature reserve, near Wake­field. Helen’s Ian Stu­art wed­ding dress is fab­u­lous — she found it in a local bridal store for half price — and looks a dream in softly sparkling gold with French lace and pearls…

This wed­ding was sent in by Nicky Chad­wick Pho­tog­ra­phy. Nicky’s a friend of Eng­lish Wed­ding blog, a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor on my face­book page and a lovely lady whose com­ments always make me smile. Helen was kind enough to write a great wed­ding report — she’d worked hard to make their wed­ding day very per­sonal, mak­ing her own bou­quet and hav­ing it pre­served as a very spe­cial mem­ory of the wed­ding.  Read more…

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I don’t think either of us could stop smiling all day!

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Claire

photo credit McAvoy Photography (1)The title of this blog post sums up Anna and Mike’s wed­ding day in Man­ches­ter last sum­mer: their smiles as they walk along the canal path are burst­ing full of hap­pi­ness — and I love Anna’s words in her wed­ding report: “In every photo I am smil­ing – I don’t think either of us could stop!”.

I always love a bride who wears her glasses with pride too, and I think Anna looks amaz­ing. There’s every­thing here: a won­der­ful story, some fab­u­lous ideas and details, and of course the lovely pho­tos by Manchester’s McAvoy Pho­tog­ra­phy.

Enjoy!
photo credit McAvoy Photography (2)  Read more…

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Try not to break your foot 6 weeks before your wedding

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Claire

so says today’s gor­geous bride on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. Fiona had her cast taken off just a few days before the big day — but it didn’t spoil a won­der­ful wed­ding day as she mar­ried the (also gor­geous!) Toby in London.

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So it was bye, bye Jimmy Choos and hello adorable bal­let pumps for this bride! Fiona’s wed­ding report tells a won­der­ful story — there are cer­tainly tears but the wed­ding ends in tri­umph and cel­e­bra­tion… in a Covent Gar­den night­club!  Read more…

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We won our wedding — but not all went to plan

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Claire

The very beau­ti­ful Vicky and Matt won their wed­ding day at a York­shire wed­ding fair. They hadn’t planned to get mar­ried so quickly, but couldn’t turn down such an amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity and changed all their plans to bring the wed­ding for­ward to Novem­ber 2011.

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Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Richard Wynn-Davies got in touch to tell me their story. He explained, “the organ­is­ers [of a regional UK wed­ding show] pro­moted a com­pe­ti­tion dubbed “The Royal Wed­ding” where they asked for wed­ding sup­pli­ers from each main cat­e­gory to pro­vide their ser­vices to one cou­ple for free in return for tons of great PR. We decided to put our­selves for­ward as the pho­tog­ra­phers. The win­ners were Vicky & Matt, an adorable cou­ple.  Read more…

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A wedding, a carnival and a cast of thousands! part one

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Claire

wedding photo by CG Weddings Chester (28)Angela and Adam chose the busiest day in Chester’s cal­en­dar for their wed­ding — but it’s a day they’ll never for­get, giant papier-mache peo­ple and all!

The Chester Grosvenor pulled out all the stops to make sure the bride and groom, their horse and car­riage and the open-top bus could nav­i­gate the (oth­er­wise closed!) roads to the hotel amidst the car­ni­val crowds — and it makes for a spec­tac­u­lar wed­ding blog post — or two!…

I’ll share this in two parts — with words by Angela and pho­tos by Chester wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers CG Wed­dings. Enjoy!  Read more…

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A glamorous wedding in Hampshire

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Claire

Temple Gregory real wedding in Hampshire (30)
This morn­ing my lit­tle typ­ing fin­gers have been sat qui­etly — I was stuck! Where to start with this gor­geous Hamp­shire wed­ding day… the breath­tak­ing wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy by Elton Mogg (stair­case… flow­ers…) or beau­ti­ful bride Hay­ley (swirling around in her dress with all the brides­maids — magic!) — the ele­gance of the wed­ding venue (River­vale Barn) or maybe the wed­ding dress itself (a won­der­fully girly, swishy beau­ti­ful Sassi Hol­ford gown).

Temple Gregory real wedding in Hampshire (40)Beckie Gre­gory — the lovely lady behind Tem­ple Gre­gory wed­ding plan­ners in Lon­don and Hamp­shire — showed me some of the pho­tos from Hay­ley and David’s wed­ding late last year — and I loved them. This is like supreme glam­our in wed­dings: the most exquis­ite, lux­u­ri­ous, beau­ti­ful every­thing you can see on a wed­ding blog.  Read more…

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