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A wedding, a carnival and a cast of thousands! part two

wedding blog photo credit CG Weddings (11)In part two of Adam and Angela’s Chester wed­ding blog we meet the car­ni­val crowds — and stars of the day! — as our brave bride and groom tra­verse the ancient city streets in their horse-drawn carriage.

wedding blog photo credit CG Weddings (10)As if that weren’t enough adven­ture for one wed­ding day, the cou­ple also arranged for a tour bus to take them through Chester with their wed­ding guests to enjoy the parades!

Enjoy the rest of Angela’s wed­ding report along with images by Cheshire’s CG Wed­dings!

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A beautiful wedding at The Bodkin

Bristol wedding blog photo (25)I’m watch­ing the rugby with Gareth as I type, so I can’t say Bod­kin out loud. But I want to: what a won­der­fully English-sounding name for a wed­ding venue! “Bod­kin”. It’s from Mid­dle Eng­lish and means dag­ger, accord­ing to Wik­tionary! Not enough? Jane Austen once stayed at this Bris­tol inn, accord­ing to the wed­ding venue web­site. She scrawled her name on the win­dow with a dia­mond ring — “fash­ion­ably”, so I understand!

Laura and Nathan’s glo­ri­ous wed­ding lives up to the qual­ity and ele­gance you’d expect, not just from The Bod­kin wed­ding venue (oh I love it!) but also from Mar­tin Pem­ber­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy. I’m delighted to fea­ture such a beau­ti­fully pho­tographed wed­ding on my blog for you today.

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Is that Cinderella? A Northbrook Park wedding

wedding photo by Marshal Gray (37)Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mar­shal Gray is a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher too cool for school, with a won­der­fully artis­tic approach and a fan­tas­tic blog. Real name Gary Mar­shal, I’m sure I’ve called him Mar­shal more than once since we first chat­ted online a year or so ago. He’s a lovely guy, and the per­fect choice for Louisa and Andrew.

This won­der­ful cou­ple were mar­ried at Surrey’s North­brook Park last sum­mer. The sun shone, the day went swing­ingly and there are some beau­ti­ful images of the bride and groom here for you to enjoy. My favourites are the look they exchange, hold­ing hands when they’ve put the wed­ding rings on — and the bit where Louisa gets to try on lots of shoes… Cin­derella style! I’ll leave you to see that one for your­self!

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A Derbyshire wedding — part two

wedding photo by Kirsten Mavric (33)Yes­ter­day I was delighted to share Nicola and Bertie’s beau­ti­ful Der­byshire wed­ding blog with you — with the most gor­geous pho­tos from Kirsten Mavric.

Nicola was a truly beau­ti­ful bride in an exquis­ite lace wed­ding dress by Sassi Hol­ford, mar­ry­ing Bertie in a Der­byshire vil­lage church with an old Eng­lish feel to the day. I loved their focus on fam­ily and friends, and hear­ing about Nicola’s jew­ellery — all fam­ily heir­looms — was a real treat.

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Today it’s time for the wed­ding recep­tion, and I’ll leave you with part two of Nicola’s wed­ding story to enjoy!

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In the end, it did actually blow off.” Veil adventures!

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Ask­ing brides and grooms to share their own wed­ding sto­ries is the best thing, ever!

Nicola’s story of her wed­ding to Bertie, from July last year, is one of my favourites. And the beau­ti­ful images of this tra­di­tional Eng­lish wed­ding with a vin­tage flavour are just wonderful.

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Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Kirsten Mavric sub­mit­ted the wed­ding for the blog. She sent me so many gor­geous pics I’m going to drag this one out… and trust me, you’ll adore me for it. ;-)

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Oodles of colour, and beauty, and bliss…

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Oh, to be a henna artist. Work­ing on Indian wed­dings would be a dream come true for me. Those fas­ci­nat­ing, intri­cate swirls and squig­gles of henna on a bride’s hands always make me shiver in delight. It’s my dream job.

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My other dream job is to be a pho­tog­ra­pher at an Indian wed­ding. And yet hap­pily I can live through my blog and enjoy all that fab­u­lous colour, sparkle and excite­ment through the eyes and lens of the lovely Katy Lunsford. Isn’t life brilliant?!

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An English rose and a Ukrainian sunflower

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This real wed­ding is bright, excit­ing and full of colour: from the vin­tage fire engine, Jezebel, to the strik­ing sunflowers-which-are-better-than-sunflowers… it’s a stunner.

Man­ches­ter based Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy sub­mit­ted the wed­ding for our lovely lit­tle blog, and I was delighted to see a glo­ri­ous day unfold through one fab­u­lous image after another. There are some amaz­ing shots here which I know you’ll love to bits. I do — these guys are really special.

When Ivanka sent me her wed­ding report explain­ing all the Ukrain­ian wed­ding tra­di­tions included in her day — well it was more than the icing on the cake. This is a very spe­cial wed­ding and I’m sure you’ll love it — and learn some­thing too*

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A Jewish wedding and a cruise down the Thames

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Reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Carey has shared some lovely wed­dings with us recently, and Becky and Joel’s day is one of his best: the atmos­phere of this wed­ding really comes across in the pic­tures. From the excited chaos of the bridal prepa­ra­tions to the solem­nity and grace of the ortho­dox Jew­ish cer­e­mony and then onto the boat trip down the Thames… it’s a really mem­o­rable, indi­vid­ual and fun way to cel­e­brate a marriage.

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Jerk and Jam – A vintage English country wedding with a Caribbean twist

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A wed­ding blogger’s dream… the per­fect fairy­tale wed­ding jam packed full of details and DIY, a bride who has had the most amaz­ing time cre­at­ing the per­fect day. A glam­orous cou­ple, a lov­ing fam­ily and a story which is guar­an­teed to make you cry.

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Espe­cially in the light of the blog post on Hind­sight Bride last week, I’m already enjoy­ing shar­ing this per­fect fairy­tale wed­ding with you. There are tons of details. There is every­thing you could see in the very best wed­ding mag­a­zine. Because every­one is dif­fer­ent, and for Sally and Gareth this meant a very per­sonal wed­ding with bells, whis­tles and a cherry on top. With pho­tos by Dwiko Arie, this really is a dream wed­ding day.

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A rainbow wedding at Celtic Manor House Hotel

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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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