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A real wedding from Monkey Island

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Tucked away in a lus­cious land­scape, acces­si­ble only by boat or foot­bridge and on its own pri­vate island on the River Thames, Mon­key Island is pretty unique as far as Eng­lish wed­ding venues go.

It’s a secluded hide­away, ele­gant and (I love this:) ances­tral home to monks rather than mon­keys — Mon­key Island was the per­fect back­drop for Max and Marina’s wed­ding day.

We begin the day in the bridal suite with Marina get­ting ready for the cer­e­mony — it’s a lovely out­door wed­ding with pea­cocks roam­ing around the grounds! and the day unfolds with so many glo­ri­ous moments between the bride, groom and their wed­ding guests.

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Old, new, borrowed and blue for Claire and Richard’s wedding

Wedding blog Mallory Court (39)When she told me about her wed­ding day Claire men­tioned how she’d always looked for­ward to the tra­di­tion of some­thing old, some­thing new, some­thing bor­rowed and some­thing blue — so I chose the title for this wed­ding blog post too. Claire and Richard were mar­ried at Mal­lory Court in August. There are some really spe­cial lit­tle touches in Claire’s wed­ding report: I love how she kept the dress a shared secret with just her mum, for exam­ple — and what a gor­geous dress.

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We won our wedding — but not all went to plan

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.

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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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