Category Archives: summer weddings

A destination wedding treat! Bring me sunshine…

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Eng­land in May… where is our sun­shine?!! But fear not my hearties because I can show you pic­tures of some instead! Whether you’re now scowl­ing or sport­ing a wry smile I can guar­an­tee this beau­ti­ful wed­ding blog will take your mind off the rain and wind for a minute or five (if you click through to see more!)

Lize and Adriaan’s gor­geous South African wedding

You thought I’d say this wed­ding would make you feel warm inside, didn’t you?! Well it might… have a peek at Lize and Adriaan’s gor­geous wed­ding in South Africa, with pho­tos by Anneli Mari­novich. This wed­ding first fea­tured on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Show­case and I’ve been sav­ing it up for a rainy day to share with you here!

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An island wedding in Yorkshire

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.

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

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

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!

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Here comes the sun! An English country garden wedding

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.

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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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