Category Archives: Stationery accessories

No. 13: Finishing Touches and Coming Up!

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Claire

Days to go: 39

It’s get­ting close! And I’m still bored of waiting!

Last night Richard and I got down to some seri­ous busi­ness with sort­ing out some of the fin­ish­ing touches for the wed­ding day.

There he is!

I knew there was a rea­son why I always keep boxes that I get things deliv­ered in. A decent sized All Saints box was given the vin­tage music treat­ment and is now our wed­ding card box for the day!

We’ve almost fin­ished the table plan — I just need to find some dark red rib­bon to stick around the edges to really make it look spe­cial.  Read more…

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Wednesday Writes — it’s paperytastic!

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Claire

Part two of the new weekly* fea­ture every Wednes­day on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog: Wednes­day Writes.  Read more…

This week on Wednes­day Writes:

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Wednesday writes… weekly wedding paper treats

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Claire
Bella Figura pink letterpress stationery theme

Bella Figura pink let­ter­press sta­tionery theme

There are lots of words that start with W. It took a while to come up with the right name for this weekly fea­ture — but I think Wednes­day Writes cov­ers it nicely.

Wednes­day Writes on Eng­lish Wedding

Every Wednes­day I will be indulging my love of papery things and shar­ing my favourite new invi­ta­tions, paper acces­sories, cal­lig­ra­phy and more with you. I know I’m not the only one here with a pas­sion for paper and let­ters — so I hope you enjoy Wednes­day Writes from today.

So to kick off…  Read more…

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Hello new feature: the Monday Makerie! (wedding diy)

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Claire

Happy Mon­day every­one! Hope­fully you’ve got a lit­tle spring sun­shine where you are, but if not per­haps I can add a lit­tle cheer to your day. It’s time for some­thing a lit­tle new and dif­fer­ent (for me!), and in tune with what the focus of the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog, this is all about cre­ativ­ity and gor­geous weddings.

rose garland from not on the high street

Intro­duc­ing the Mon­day Mak­erie on Eng­lish Wedding

The Mon­day Mak­erie is all about mak­ing things. It’s for brides and grooms who want to have fun and per­haps save a lit­tle money too — but it’s more about fun than finances. The Mon­day Mak­erie is a new weekly fea­ture on wed­ding crafts and ideas, where I’ll show you my favourite things from around the web each week — all to inspire your wed­ding diy projects.  Read more…

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Homemade Invitations and RSVPs

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Sally

I wanted to per­son­ally hand-make as many details as pos­si­ble for the wed­ding, I’ve always been quite crafty and enjoy any­thing hands-on, and what bet­ter way to make your wed­ding day as per­sonal as possible?

The first thing to cre­ate was obvi­ously the invi­ta­tions and RSVP cards; I looked at a lot of pro­fes­sion­als’ work, craft web­sites, how-to’s and DIY ideas for inspi­ra­tion (the Martha Stew­art Wed­dings web­site is amaz­ing and pro­vides free print-outs for tonnes of designs), but wanted to keep it quite sim­ple… and also would have up to 100 of some pieces to make!  Read more…

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No. 4: Table Plan Board Stage 1

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Claire

Days to go: 70

A quickie today (as I’m still feel­ing pretty dire and can’t see prop­erly out of my left eye!) — yes­ter­day Richard and I bus­ied our­selves with the first stage of build­ing our table plan board!

A while ago I found some real vin­tage music on eBay — on the theme of love! — for around £2 per song, which we cut up and glued to an A1 mount board (found in Ryman sta­tion­ers for £7.99).

Et voila!

Table plan boardTable plan board

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No. 3: The Theme-ish and My Messed Up Face

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Claire

Days to go: 73

I was plan­ning on rav­ing how excited I am about my engage­ment shoot this Fri­day — but I’ve had to can­cel it, as last week I came down with shin­gles (com­pletely ran­dom and meant for peo­ple over 60) and my whole face is a com­plete mess. I have a swollen eye, swollen left side of my face, boils, sores, a con­stant split­ting headache — and every time I stand up I almost fall over.

This is not good. And there are like, two months to go.  Read more…

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The Wedding Show stars: Inspired by Lisa

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Claire

Wed­ding sta­tionery for spring­time — these designs are fun and colour­ful, bright and happy, from Inspired by Lisa.

Cabaret wedding invitation Inspired by Lisa

Cabaret wed­ding invi­ta­tion Inspired by Lisa

Butterfly wedding invitation Inspired by Lisa

But­ter­fly wed­ding invi­ta­tion Inspired by Lisa

Butterfly pocketfold invitation Inspired by Lisa

But­ter­fly pock­et­fold invi­ta­tion Inspired by Lisa

Lisa’s stand was a busy one at The Wed­ding Show on Sat­ur­day, and we barely had time to say hello and admire one of her beau­ti­ful table plans. What did strike me imme­di­ately was the qual­ity of her wed­ding sta­tionery. Invi­ta­tions were beau­ti­fully made, table plans flaw­less, and there was an air of ele­gance and sophis­ti­ca­tion about the exhi­bi­tion stand.  Read more…

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The Wedding Show stars: Kate Lewis

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Claire

Cute, quirky, pretty, indi­vid­ual… any of these on your wed­ding sta­tionery wish list?

If they are, then you should con­sider Kate Lewis Design for your wed­ding invi­ta­tions and sta­tionery. I met Kate at The Wed­ding Show last week­end and she was every bit as lovely as her wed­ding invi­ta­tion designs imply!

kate lewis design -- sketched range

kate lewis design — sketched range

Kate Lewis’s back­ground is in fash­ion design. She told me she’s always sur­prised — and pleased — when brides fall in love with her sketched wed­ding invi­ta­tion designs. I loved the fairy sketches and the bride and groom invi­ta­tions on Kate’s stand, but there was so much more to see as well — if you’re look­ing for pretty wed­ding invi­ta­tions it’s def­i­nitely worth look­ing at Kate Lewis Design online.  Read more…

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Vintage Wedding Treats

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Claire


Vintage music sheets wedding confetti conesMy plan today was to write a lit­tle post about wed­ding acces­sories from Vin­tage Twee. Owned by the loveli­est lady in all of wed­ding­land, as inspir­ing and gor­geous as it gets, I was excited to hear last week about some new wed­ding favours and acces­sories Joanne had just designed.

That was the plan.

Vintage music sheet paper rose table decorationsQual­ity hand­crafted vin­tage wed­ding decorations

Joanne had also men­tioned a new web­site for Vin­tage Twee was on the way. Lovely, I thought. And as I sat down to write — I’ll just have a quick look, open up the web­site and have all the details to hand of these new rose con­fetti cones and vin­tage music sheet cones.  Read more…

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