Category Archives: colourful weddings

Here comes the sun! Part 2 of Olivia and Matt’s country garden wedding

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Claire

wedding photography Pippa Mackenzie (1)More sun­shine for you… with love from Olivia and Matt. Yes­ter­day I fea­tured their beau­ti­ful church wed­ding and we left them step­ping out of the church hand in hand… today it’s time for the recep­tion and it’s just so per­fect… lush flow­ers and a sunny and happy day for you to enjoy.

Pho­tos are by Pippa Macken­zie and words from Olivia. Watch out for a won­der­fully eclec­tic cup­cake tower — look­ing fab­u­lous! — and some impres­sive shapes ‘thrown’ on the dance­floor… and why not lis­ten to the wed­ding band while you look at the blog post? I’m enjoy­ing their music as I type!  Read more…

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Here comes the sun! An English country garden wedding

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Claire

Morn­ing every­one! I hope some of you are enjoy­ing a ray or two through your win­dows this morn­ing… I always remem­ber my teach­ers say­ing March “came in like a lion, out like a lamb” — so maybe it’ll be brighter in a week or two. But if you haven’t got sun­shine out­side this morn­ing, scroll down: the lovely Olivia and Matt are shar­ing theirs!

Words are writ­ten by Olivia (as won­der­ful a word­smith as she was a beau­ti­ful bride!) and the wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy is by Pippa Macken­zie.  Read more…

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An art deco wedding with Pimms and ice cream

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Claire

Three big ticks of approval: art deco? very lovely indeed. Pimms? Yes please! (it’s been a long day already… hee!) ice cream? Go on then, mine’s a vanilla with two flakes (see above). Seri­ously though — this wed­ding ticks all the boxes for a lovely cou­ple, gor­geous details, unique and pho­to­genic venue… and some fan­tas­tic spe­cial touches.

Sarah and Rich got mar­ried at The Mid­land Hotel in More­cambe back in July. The lovely pics are cour­tesy of wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Emma Bills­bor­ough — who will always, always be “Elmo­Bilbo” in my head, thanks to twit­ter. (Some han­dles just stick!)  Read more…

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Doing sunflowers with style: Mitton Hall wedding

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Claire

wedding photo by Jonny Draper (28)

This cute hand-drawn card for “Miss Payne and Adam” got me first. Then I fell in love with the sense of cama­raderie at Alexis and Adam’s Mit­ton Hall wed­ding. The icing on the cake was — well, the gor­geous lit­tle cake sculp­tures which are lit­tle adven­tures of quirk­i­ness all to themselves.

wedding photo by Jonny Draper (30)

I feel as though I’ve fol­lowed Alexis’s wed­ding plan­ning jour­ney a lit­tle, and I was excited to see her wed­ding day — I’d heard all about the lovely lady from my friend and wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Jonny Draper months and months ago when we first met.  Read more…

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Louise and Will’s Manchester wedding (Showcase)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Claire

Morn­ing every­one, I hope you’ve had a lovely week. As things are still a lit­tle at sixes and sev­ens here in Eng­lish Wed­ding Tow­ers* I’m shar­ing another treat from the Eng­lish Wed­ding Show­case blog with you today. This is Louise and Will’s wed­ding — or a part of it.

My fab­u­lous friends and spon­sors McAvoy Wed­ding Pho­tog­ra­phy have been writ­ing up their real wed­dings as lit­tle mini-series over the last few weeks, which I love! It means the Eng­lish Wed­ding Show­case is a thriv­ing and busy blog full of real wed­dings. This is part four (count ‘em!) of Louise and Will’s wed­ding enti­tled “In The City” — with my favourite pic­tures from their day.  Read more…

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Countryside wedding inspiration board

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Claire

Did you see Tanya and Andy’s coun­try­side wed­ding on the blog this week? I loved it so much I’ve turned the blog fea­ture into a three-day event! We’ve heard about camp­ing in the coun­try­side before the wed­ding day, about tam­bourines in church and the band play­ing around the camp­fire, about games and cakes and laven­der and campervans…

countryside wedding inspiration board - reportage wedding photographer Mark Carey…well, I had to make you an inspi­ra­tion board from some of the wed­ding pho­tographs — all of the lovely images above are by reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Carey. The details and ideas to take away for your own wed­ding are:  Read more…

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A rainbow wedding at Celtic Manor House Hotel

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Claire

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Kate and Steve’s wed­ding is a beau­ti­ful splash of colour: if wed­dings were flow­ers, this would be a bird of par­adise — if wed­dings were but­ter­flies, Kate and Steve’s day would be a pea­cock. If wed­dings were birds… oh, damn.

If wed­dings were rainbows…

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My friend and spon­sor Jenny from McAvoy Pho­tog­ra­phy got in touch to share this beau­ti­ful wed­ding with you on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog. It’s per­fect: inspir­ing, beau­ti­ful and I love it for being an acces­si­ble wed­ding with gor­geous char­ac­ter through the colours and feel­ings the pho­tos will show you.

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The best day of your lives… part two

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Claire

Today on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog we’ve got:

  • ice cream and dancing
  • but­tons everywhere!
  • graf­fiti and sunshine
  • a camper­van, lots of love and kisses
  • the best, most cre­ative, fun wed­ding — part two

Cour­tesy of the fab­u­lous Lucy West Images and with help again from Rachel and David — the most excit­ing bride and groom you’ll see and fall in love with (these two are stars, they really are!) here’s part two of what I can only describe as the best day of their lives.  Read more…

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The best day of your lives… part one

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Claire

Who remem­bers blink­ing in amaze­ment and squeal­ing in delight at the cou­ple whose mad, excit­ing and painty engage­ment shoot I fea­tured a lit­tle while ago? The one where they got cov­ered in it, wrote LOVE on the wall and had to go home painted pink, yel­low and blue from head to toe?

It was bril­liant. I loved it. You loved it… with all your blog com­ments it went down a treat. And then David and Rachel got mar­ried. And the wed­ding day is EVEN BETTER! (of course it is… but as cre­ative and inspir­ing and fun goes, it’s just incred­i­ble).  Read more…

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Bouncing and rolling down a hill (wedding blog!)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Claire

Under­stand­ably, this wed­ding day had me intrigued from the moment I first heard about it! Bouncy cas­tles, inflat­a­bles and a gor­geous vil­lage hall? Yes please! Louisa and Dan were mar­ried in Lan­cashire on the 4th of June and chose Neil Red­fern as their wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher. Louisa is orig­i­nally from New Zealand, although now lives with Dan in Cum­bria (spooky coin­ci­dence: my Gareth is half kiwi, and I’m from Cum­bria! How could I not fea­ture this wed­ding?!)  Read more…

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