Category Archives: colourful weddings

Doing sunflowers with style: Mitton Hall wedding

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Claire

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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.

McAvoy Photography wedding blog (28)  Read more…

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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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Get the look! Wedding inspiration

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Claire

Hands up who loves Parma Violets?! I do. And I do even more now I've seen Jayne and Phil's parma violet inspired wedding recep­tion at the Lowry, Man­ches­ter. With all pho­tos by Chris Han­ley Pho­tog­ra­phy, take a peek at this fab wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board — it’s purple-tastic.

Parma violet wedding inspiration board in purple

Parma Vio­let pur­ple wed­ding inspi­ra­tion. Pho­tos: Chris Han­ley Photography

Jayne and Phil’s wed­ding was at The Lowry in Man­ches­ter, a mod­ern the­atre with cre­ative inte­ri­ors in every colour you can imag­ine. The wed­ding recep­tion room how­ever is a blank can­vas, so Jayne and Phil chose shades of pur­ple to make it look amaz­ing for their wed­ding day.  Read more…

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A rainbow of colours, an artist’s palette: Lowry wedding

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Claire

The Lowry, Man­ches­ter. This is a wed­ding venue and the­atre (not usu­ally in that order) in the heart of the newly devel­oped Sal­ford Quays dis­trict, close by Media City and a haven for cre­ative types. The Lowry is named after Manchester’s famous artist L S Lowry, he of the match­stick men: stick fig­ures hud­dled against the rain in greys and browns and gritty land­scapes.  Read more…

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Get the look! Vibrant wedding detail ideas

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Claire

If you were here yes­ter­day you’ll remem­ber Ruth and Dan’s wed­ding day in the school­house at Small­wood Manor — and you may also remem­ber I hinted at the glo­ri­ously colour­ful details and then didn’t show you any.

Ah… meanie! But here they are. Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Katy Lunsford sent me so many beau­ti­ful pho­tos I had to write two blog posts for Ruth and Dan’s wed­ding — so you get a whole ded­i­cated ‘get the look’ fea­ture today, all inspired by (and with pho­tos from) Ruth and Dan’s day.
vibrant wedding flowers and details (11)If you love colour and vibrant wed­ding pho­tos, if you have a cre­ative side and want some ideas for a bright and excit­ing wed­ding theme, then you’re going to adore this fea­ture!  Read more…

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