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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!
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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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Made for each other: Sarah and Matt’s Dorset wedding

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Claire

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I saw the pic­tures of Matt and Sarah’s wed­ding day and fell in love. There’s some­thing about this cou­ple which sings… they’re per­fect together. And (while I’m a girl who’s usu­ally more into kit­tens!), there are the loveli­est pho­tos of Sarah with her lit­tle baby girl which are so touch­ing… I know you’ll love them: they brought a tear to my eye!

These are roman­tic wed­ding pho­tographs with a com­pelling atmos­phere to them. They are quiet, and joy­ful, and heart­warm­ing — thanks to wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Ben Pipe.  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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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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A surprise 40th birthday wedding!

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Claire

Where on earth do I start with this wed­ding? I love it. I love every­thing about it: the sur­prise, the style, the laid-back bride and groom and their fam­ily.…
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…the delight — and shock! — on guests’ faces; the hand­made and gor­geously swooshy wed­ding dress. Trudie says she was voted “the scruffi­est girl in school” and wanted to carry on the tra­di­tion… but she, and her dress, look amazing.

I want this wed­ding to be mine!  Read more…

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as if we were in a love scene from a movie — chic winter wedding

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Claire

wedding photography by Chris Hanley (13)Katie’s wed­ding report cap­tures the romance of her wed­ding to Chris in Decem­ber. She told me about being whisked off with her new hus­band for some spe­cial wed­ding pho­tos: “It felt so roman­tic — as if we were in a love scene from a movie”!

I just can’t decide if the movie I’m see­ing in these beau­ti­ful wed­ding pho­tos is James Bond, Nar­nia or a vin­tage Hol­ly­wood trea­sure… per­haps a mag­i­cal bal­ance of all three. Regard­less: the screen­play is mag­nif­i­cent, the stars are every director’s dream — and the story a time­less romance to play on your heart­strings.wedding photography by Chris Hanley (1)The very beau­ti­ful Katie and Chris were mar­ried at Margam Park Orangery — a wed­ding venue with a rich his­tory and one of the most pres­ti­gious in Wales. The archi­tec­ture is a deli­ciously extrav­a­gant back­drop for out­stand­ing wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy — a back­drop Katie and Chris look born to enjoy.  Read more…

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