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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and a wedding at Eshott Hall

real wedding blog at Eshott Hall (26)Ele­gance and glam­our with a retro twist never looked so good… today I’m shar­ing Becky and Ben’s gor­geous wed­ding day from Eshott Hall in Northum­ber­land. Ben is a very cool and dash­ing groom; I adore Becky’s glam­orous style, her hair and make up and the charm and class of the entire wed­ding day.

real wedding blog at Eshott Hall (24)The set­ting is cap­tured just as beau­ti­fully by wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Ali­son Groves (who I was lucky enough to meet just a few weeks ago: she’s a lovely lady as you’ll see from Becky and Ben’s own tes­ti­mo­nial at the end of this wed­ding blog).

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Doing sunflowers with style: Mitton Hall wedding

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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.

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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.

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The runaway veil and the wedding photographer

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At a real wed­ding, scary things can hap­pen. Pic­ture the scene: hav­ing your pic­ture taken out­doors, a gust of wind and… off flies your veil. Over a barbed wire fence, or so I’ve heard. Who’d have expected intre­pid York­shire wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Pete Barnes to fol­low, risk­ing life, limb and trouser-safety in a dar­ing dash to the rescue.

Our knight in shin­ing armour sub­mit­ted Anna and Fraser’s beau­ti­ful wed­ding to my blog. I don’t think he men­tioned his lit­tle adven­ture in his emails! Won­der­ful what a bit of wedding-blogger-research turns up. Also of note are Anna’s adorable flower gar­land — I want one — her stun­ning smile and the romance that fiz­zles between the happy cou­ple.

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Emma and Hieu’s English Country Garden Wedding

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Emma and Hieu were mar­ried in the “Pal­la­dian Man­sion House” of Combe Bank School in Kent. How excit­ing does that sound, for starters? Emma chose a pur­ple theme for the wed­ding day, and her atten­tion to detail with all the decor on the day is so impres­sive I’m call­ing this wed­ding fea­ture ‘Per­fect in Purples’!

With lovely images from Eliza Claire Pho­tog­ra­phy, and Emma’s own report of the wed­ding day, I’ll leave this fea­ture to Emma and Eliza to share with you. You’ll love it!

Per­fect in Purples

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Countryside wedding inspiration board

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:

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Brick House Farm creative wedding reception

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So today I have a treat for you — part two of Tanya and Andy’s lovely relaxed, fam­ily ori­en­tated wed­ding. There’s some­thing so spe­cial about doing things your own way: from the wed­ding cer­e­mony where all the chil­dren had tam­bourines, to Tanya’s beau­ti­ful and uncon­ven­tional wed­ding dress.

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I would shout from the rooftops about mak­ing your wed­ding per­sonal to you, about side­step­ping tra­di­tion and mak­ing a wed­ding a cel­e­bra­tion of who you really are. Today, I don’t need to: Tanya and Andy are show­ing us exactly what that means and how spe­cial and per­fect it can be.

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A beautiful real wedding at Brick House Farm

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Today’s wed­ding blog is for all you brides and grooms plan­ning a relaxed, infor­mal and fun day: a wed­ding with­out stuffy rules, con­straints and con­ven­tions. Tanya and Andy had a fab­u­lous cre­ative wed­ding at Brick House Farm in Kent, and reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Carey was first to tell me about their day.

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I instantly loved the few images he shared with me. I knew I had to email Tanya right away and she was kind enough to share her amaz­ing wed­ding story for the blog. It’s a won­der­ful tale — here is a bride with imag­i­na­tion and a won­der­ful con­fi­dence to cre­ate a really per­sonal wed­ding day.

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A beautiful, classy Cheshire wedding — blog two

Yes­ter­day I shared Andrea and Richard’s classy wed­ding in Cheshire. They were mar­ried in July and despite the rain it was a beau­ti­ful cel­e­bra­tion: not least for Andrea’s stun­ning hal­ter­neck wed­ding dress and the inclu­sion of their adorable lit­tle son and the cutest EVER brides­maid and flower girl.

wedding blog by cg weddings photography UK (1)I saved lots and lots of gor­geous images of the wed­ding recep­tion for you. A deli­ciously sophis­ti­cated gar­den wed­ding recep­tion, this blog post is full of ideas for styling your day — as well as the usual col­lec­tion of beau­ti­ful wed­ding pho­tos to make you smile and dream of your own wed­ding day!

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A classic English wedding day

The scene for today’s wed­ding blog post is The Manor By The Lake. The tone of the day is beau­ti­ful, cheeky and fun. The bride and groom are Dawn and Gavin, very much in love and all smiles from begin­ning to end.

real wedding by McAvoy Photography (1)The wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers are Jenny and Keith McAvoy, aka McAvoy Pho­tog­ra­phy. They’re the per­fect team to shoot this wed­ding day — fun lov­ing and relaxed, with an eye for the quirky, con­tem­po­rary pho­tog­ra­phy that’s just right for Dawn and Gavin’s wed­ding day.

I shan’t waf­fle: I’ll leave you to read and enjoy.

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Cricket with oranges and lemons — wedding!

I haven’t quite lost the plot… I’ve been inspired by a cre­ative wed­ding day with a super Eng­lish theme: cricket! Heidi and Kato were mar­ried at Buxted Park Hotel in the sum­mer, their theme was oranges and lemons and the groom’s cricket team made an appear­ance to give some of the most mem­o­rable wed­ding pho­tos I’ve seen!

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Once more, this is all about cre­ativ­ity on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. The team pho­tos with the gor­geous bride tak­ing cen­tre stage (“at the fore?” or is that golf?!…) are just bril­liant.

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