Category Archives: Decoration

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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Wedding book review and competition: One of a Kind Handmade Weddings

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Claire

Update 16th May: com­ments are now closed and I’ll announce the win­ner later today!

Seri­ous nego­ti­at­ing goes on behind the scenes of the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog, you know — and all so I can find treats and beau­ti­ful things for you gor­geous brides and grooms out there. Today’s Mon­day Mak­erie is a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent! You could win…

Handmade weddings book review on English Wedding blog (2)

Win a FREE copy of “One-of-a-Kind Hand­made Weddings”

How? The clue’s in the review. Read it, then answer the ques­tion in the com­ments box at the end :) A win­ner will be picked at ran­dom from all cor­rect entries.  Read more…

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