Category Archives: Decoration

Sweet as candy wedding inspiration board

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Claire

Get your pink-sunglasses out, quick! Because we’re still in the land of marsh­mal­lowy, fluffy, girly, princessy won­der­ful pink. Today’s wed­ding blog is an inspi­ra­tion board — I saved some of my favourite bits from yesterday’s pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot for you and made a wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board for all the girly girls out there. And just for today, I’m one of ‘em. Join me?

Sweet candy pink wedding inspiration board

Sweet as Candy — pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board. Photo credit: Cristina Rossi

Click on the image to see it a lit­tle big­ger and read all the sup­plier details with­out squint­ing!  Read more…

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With love from Scotland… inspiration board

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Claire

Scot­tish flavour and flair for you today ladies and gents with the final part of Andy and Bec’s wed­ding fea­ture on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. We’ve had the mar­riage, the tears, the pop­pies, the speeches and the best men’s bums (in part two of the wed­ding blog). Now I’ll show you all those gor­geous details to inspire your own wed­ding day.

All of the pho­tographs are taken by my lovely friend and Eng­lish Wed­ding blog spon­sor ARJ Pho­tog­ra­phy.

Scot­tish wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board

Scottish wedding blog inspiration board by ARJ Photography

Scot­tish wed­ding blog inspi­ra­tion board by ARJ Photography

Andy and Bec’s wed­ding theme mixes soft pas­tel pinks and pur­ples with a real flavour of Scot­land.  Read more…

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Get the look! Wedding inspiration

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Claire

Hands up who loves Parma Vio­lets?! I do. And I do even more now I’ve seen Jayne and Phil’s parma vio­let inspired wed­ding recep­tion at the Lowry, Man­ches­ter. With all pho­tos by Chris Han­ley Pho­tog­ra­phy, take a peek at this fab wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board — it’s purple-tastic.

Parma violet wedding inspiration board in purple

Parma Vio­let pur­ple wed­ding inspi­ra­tion. Pho­tos: Chris Han­ley Photography

Jayne and Phil’s wed­ding was at The Lowry in Man­ches­ter, a mod­ern the­atre with cre­ative inte­ri­ors in every colour you can imag­ine. The wed­ding recep­tion room how­ever is a blank can­vas, so Jayne and Phil chose shades of pur­ple to make it look amaz­ing for their wed­ding day.  Read more…

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Wednesday Writes — it’s full of papery goodness

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Claire

Damn it! Blog­gers have rules: every Mon­day you do this, every Wednes­day you do that… and the good blog­gers play by the rules and get a buzz going every week. Guess who’s a bad wed­ding blog­ger? Haha.

So, after a break of — um — a cou­ple of weeks? I bring you another fab­u­lously papery let­tery blog post with wed­ding sta­tionery, cal­lig­ra­phy, graphic design and type. I hope it inspires you — I hope you enjoy today’s papery goodness.

Suitcase for wedding cards - Our Labor of Love via Style Me Pretty blog

Photo credit: Our Labor of Love Source: Style Me Pretty  Read more…

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Wedding Vases pt 2

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Sally

Just a short post and yet again it’s on the sub­ject of vases! I bought a pack of 12 vases which you can buy from Ikea, eBay, Wilkin­sons etc, you’ll recog­nise the shape no doubt, and I mainly bought them for back up in case we needed a few extra for the wed­ding (lit­tle did I know I’d end up with as many as I did!) I refound them a week or so ago, and felt it a waste not to use them, and had been to a hab­er­dash­ery shop that day buy­ing a ton of lace in cream, cof­fee, pink and blue.  Read more…

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Get the look! Vibrant wedding detail ideas

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Claire

If you were here yes­ter­day you’ll remem­ber Ruth and Dan’s wed­ding day in the school­house at Small­wood Manor — and you may also remem­ber I hinted at the glo­ri­ously colour­ful details and then didn’t show you any.

Ah… meanie! But here they are. Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Katy Lunsford sent me so many beau­ti­ful pho­tos I had to write two blog posts for Ruth and Dan’s wed­ding — so you get a whole ded­i­cated ‘get the look’ fea­ture today, all inspired by (and with pho­tos from) Ruth and Dan’s day.
vibrant wedding flowers and details (11)If you love colour and vibrant wed­ding pho­tos, if you have a cre­ative side and want some ideas for a bright and excit­ing wed­ding theme, then you’re going to adore this fea­ture!  Read more…

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Blackboard Signs

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Sally

Just a short post about some­thing I for­got to blog about ear­lier: my black­board signs. These are so easy and cheap to make, but are such a nice touch and keep­sake, or even to give away as a thank-you gift after the day.

Black­board paint­ing! (Prob­a­bly not the best idea on the din­ing room table..)

The idea orig­i­nated from my Dad (who owns a print­ing busi­ness), when he said “Oh I’ll do a sign for the bot­tom of the drive to show guests where the house is” as, basi­cally, we live in the mid­dle of nowhere. I thought it would be a nice touch to have a big gilt framed black­board say­ing some­thing along the lines of “Dav & Sal’s Wed­ding” or “Wed­ding This Way!”, and hand­ily I had a spare gilt mir­ror lying around the house since we moved.  Read more…

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Ethical, chic and unique wedding accessories

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Claire

Hello lovely read­ers, and wel­come to what promises to be a really good day on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. Why? Because first I’m intro­duc­ing you to some beau­ti­fully crafted wed­ding acces­sories from designer maker A Ali­cia — my all-time favourite things, hand­crafted, high qual­ity, eco-chic wed­ding accessories.

And then later — you get to WIN some­thing from the col­lec­tion. Before I tell you about the com­pe­ti­tion let me show you why I’m so com­pletely in love with A Ali­cia and all the gor­geous hand­made wed­ding acces­sories which designer Anna makes and sells to dis­cern­ing eco-chic UK brides.  Read more…

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A Monday Makerie

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Claire

I’ve seen so many bits of pretty wed­ding craft online this week I have to write a Mon­day Mak­erie for you to enjoy.

The Mon­day Mak­erie is all about mak­ing things for your wed­ding — I share my best finds from the inter­net of things you can make for your wed­ding, or things other peo­ple have made that you can buy!

Cardstock flower tutorial by Christie Bryant

Card­stock flower tuto­r­ial by Christie Bryant

Pretty paper flow­ers tuto­r­ial — cute, curvy and eas­ier than you’d think! From Pretty Paper Book

Colourful books from Made With Love stationery blog

Colour­ful books from Made With Love sta­tionery blog  Read more…

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Seven great tips for decorating wedding tables

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Claire

Mak­ing your wed­ding tables look spe­cial is easy when you know how! Here are seven top tips from one of the experts.

Ann-Marie from Nat­ural Design has writ­ten this guest post to show you how to dec­o­rate wed­ding tables with a flair to impress your guests!

paper-rose-wedding-table-decoration-Natural Design  Read more…

  1. Decide on a theme – this could be a colour, a flower, a sea­son or a style such as vin­tage. Dif­fer­ent colours look good for dif­fer­ent sea­sons – for win­ter wed­dings gold, sil­ver and deep reds work well and for sum­mer bright and pas­tel colours.
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