Category Archives: winter weddings

Debbie and Matthew’s surprise Buckinghamshire wedding

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Claire

Wedding by Natasha Thompson Photography (29)
A long awaited pro­posal and a secret, inti­mate wed­ding are hid­ing in my lit­tle box of tricks for you today my lovely read­ers. Deb­bie and Matthew, and their lit­tle boy Noah, cel­e­brated their sur­prise wed­ding in superb style — although they tell me the decor was “a bit of a mis-match”!

Their wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Natasha Thomp­son sub­mit­ted this wed­ding for the blog many weeks ago, and Matthew and Deb­bie (I think mainly Matthew) sent their wed­ding report back to me this week, along with the sweet­est note: “Sorry this has taken so long, we have just had a baby!” So first of all let me say a huge Con­grat­u­la­tions to you both, and I’ll hand over to you and to Natasha with her beau­ti­ful pho­tographs of your inti­mate wed­ding.  Read more…

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A musical English wedding at Buxted Park

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Claire

Buxted Park wedding (26)Matthew and Alyson’s wed­ding is ele­gance itself: with a musi­cal flavour lend­ing per­son­al­ity to the day and beauty and sim­plic­ity styling their cel­e­bra­tions. Alyson’s wed­ding dress by Suzanne Neville has a dreamy nos­tal­gia and the 1940s style of her dress and head­dress influ­enced the theme of today’s wed­ding blog.

The wed­ding colours are purest whites; the wed­ding venue is divine; the weather for this Novem­ber wed­ding day was bright, and crisp — the per­fect day for a wedding.

Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Sus­sex wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Sara Reeve, and Alyson has writ­ten the loveli­est wed­ding report to share with us all today. Enjoy!  Read more…

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Yes, I’ll Marry You, My Dear… Kingscote Barn wedding

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Claire

UK wedding blog photo (30)I hope you’re wrapped up all snug­gly and warm this morn­ing — not only is it freez­ing out­side, I also have a Jan­u­ary wed­ding to share with you today. Joanna and Angus got mar­ried at Kingscote Barn in Glouces­ter­shire at the begin­ning of the year; a day full of romance, shared glances and ele­gant, indi­vid­ual style. Joanna’s wed­ding dress and jacket are gor­geous; Angus looks the part in top hat and tails. I adore the brides­maids’ capes (want one!) — as soon as they caught my eye, I wanted this par­tic­u­larly won­der­ful wed­ding to show you on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog.  Read more…

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A warming winter wedding at The Ashes

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Claire

It’s a bit spooky: the sec­ond wed­ding in as many weeks I’ve seen from The Ashes — a wed­ding venue I hadn’t heard of before. But it’s gor­geous: as we sink into autumn this wed­ding has all the loveli­est, rich­est autumn colours and tones — like a vir­tual hot toddy in the world of wed­ding blogs.

Wedding blog photography from The Ashes Vickerstaff Photography (1)

The wed­ding day begins with this beau­ti­fully cold coun­try­side scene — this is The Ashes wed­ding venue in the heart of Stafford­shire, a grade two listed fam­ily home with con­verted barns pro­vid­ing the per­fect secluded set­ting for a pri­vate wed­ding recep­tion.  Read more…

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Happy together — a real winter wedding

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Claire
Steaming mugs of tea for the bride and groom

Steam­ing mugs of tea for the bride and groom

I love this wed­ding from pho­tog­ra­pher Sam Clay­ton and I’m delighted to be shar­ing these pho­tographs of Sarah and John-Paul’s wed­ding day with you.

A biker bride and groom?

A biker bride and groom?

The motor­bikes caught my eye first of all, and then the wed­ding details stole my heart — I love the warmth that flows through the day, from the rich oranges in Sarah’s bou­quet to the steam­ing tea cups (so chunky! A refresh­ing change from vin­tage dainty ones!) at the road­side caff.  Read more…

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Daily wedding discoveries — best of the web

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Billy Idol

Wed­ding spe­cial­ist Billy Idol’s been at it again and found this gor­geous wed­ding blogged over at Craig Williams Pho­tog­ra­phy. I love this image most of all… there’s some­thing very Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood about it — the whole wed­ding shoot is fab, do check it out.

Snowy winter wedding from Craig Williams Photographywww.williamsphotographyblog.com/layer-marney-wedding

Is this really Billy Idol? Why? (clue: no)

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Wind and rain for a winter wedding gets the biggest smiles I’ve seen!

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Claire
This photo makes me smile every time - Jane's expression is a classic

This photo makes me smile every time — Jane’s expres­sion is a classic

Posed wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy can be stun­ning — but today this nat­ural pic­ture of Jane’s bril­liant smile from under a sea of umbrel­las with rain pour­ing down is so won­der­ful, I love it!

There’s so much to this Bee­ston Manor wed­ding I didn’t know what to call the blog post. I could have started with the lovely pur­ple theme and details: the quirky bou­quet made of satin roses, but­tons and beads, inter­wo­ven with fam­ily heir­looms is gorgeous.

The bridal bouquet made of ribbon roses, buttons, jewels and beads

The bridal bou­quet made of rib­bon roses, but­tons, jew­els and beads  Read more…

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A winter wedding to warm your cockles and make you cry!

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Claire
Beautiful bride and groom photograph

Beau­ti­ful bride and groom pho­to­graph by Anneli Marinovich

Don’t worry — you will be shed­ding happy tears as you read Jemma’s story about her win­ter wed­ding day. This is one of the loveli­est things I’ve ever read and I was smil­ing and cry­ing all the way!

Jemma did a write up for their friends and fam­ily who couldn’t be there on the day, which is such a lovely thing to do — and will make an enchant­ing keep­sake for future gen­er­a­tions! The text below is a col­lec­tion of extracts from Jemma’s write up, just selected parts to accom­pany the beau­ti­ful pic­tures. Jemma’s an incred­i­ble writer and as this is her wed­ding I won’t inter­fere by adding my own com­ments — these are all Jemma’s words.  Read more…

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Cave Castle Hotel wedding

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Claire
Laughing bride and groom

Laugh­ing bride and groom

This week is going to be all about smiles and hap­pi­ness and wed­ding ideas. What bet­ter way to start than with a wed­ding, hey? So … your intre­pid wed­ding blog­ger Claire runs off, checks files for smi­li­est bride and groom and… Oh yes. This is Per­fect with a cap­i­tal P! Nicola and Stew­art at Cave Cas­tle Hotel in East Yorkshire.

Nicola and Stewart’s wed­ding was just before Christ­mas at a venue I’ve not seen before (but instantly loved!) and their pho­tos are beau­ti­ful and inspir­ing — their wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher is Pete Barnes who’s based in Wake­field.  Read more…

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Wedding digest: Andrew and Claire

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Claire

I can’t resist a snowy wed­ding scene, and Claire’s pur­ple dress is a gor­geously cre­ative touch — so here’s a very quick blog post to show you the lat­est from Cum­bria wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Chris Freer’s own blog.

Claire and Andrew's winter weddingI love the blan­ket of snow and the open land­scape with the moun­tains behind — and Claire’s pur­ple dress is fan­tas­tic for a win­ter wed­ding with a white back­drop! Doesn’t she look incredible.

Claire and Andrew's winter weddingFrom time to time I’ll be post­ing just a cou­ple of pic­tures of a wed­ding day with cre­ative touches I love — in this case, Claire’s dress and the snowy scenes. These posts will be filed under a new cat­e­gory: Wed­ding digest.  Read more…

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