Category Archives: Decoration

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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The Future of Vintage: Get the Look!

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Claire

So you’ve seen The Future of Vin­tage, and it’s bright! Like it? Then here’s the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog’s guide to get­ting the look! All images are by the won­der­ful Jonny Draper.

Get the Look: bright new Future of Vintage (1)

The Future of Vin­tage: Dec­o­rate a neu­tral venue like Styal Lodge­with pretty, bright colours

Dec­o­rate your wed­ding venue in brights, but keep sight of the pret­ti­ness of vin­tage: use paper lanterns in a few bright shades, and add splashes of colour with chair cover sashes and table dec­o­ra­tions. Fairy lights always look fab­u­lous (espe­cially as day turns into evening).  Read more…

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A few sneak peaks..

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Sally

I’ve been a busy bee this week so unfor­tu­nately this isn’t a long blog post.. Just a few tan­ta­lis­ing tid­bits to keep you going until I get more organ­ised!  Read more…

Posted in Decoration, inspiration, misc, Monday Makerie, Star Bride Sally, Star Brides, Stationery accessories, Table plan | 4 Comments

Sneak preview — The Future of Vintage

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Claire
The Future of Vintage weddings Styal Lodge Charlotte Balbier

The Future of Vin­tage: photo credit Jonny Draper

Vin­tage wed­dings… pas­tels and lace, details and del­i­cates, chintzy and chic. As much as we love the vin­tage wed­ding theme, we can’t help look­ing to the future and see­ing what will come out of the vin­tage wed­ding trend.

Tomor­row on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog — at mid­day exactly! — we bring you an exclu­sive bridal shoot from Styal Lodge. With bridal designer Char­lotte Bal­bier, The White Closet bridal bou­tique and pho­tog­ra­pher Jonny Draper — and many more — this is an unmiss­able wed­ding pho­to­shoot for vintage-loving brides and grooms.  Read more…

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Retro milk bottles, too many vases and creepy clay mementoes

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Sally

I’d been keep­ing a secret from my husband-to-be.. It’s not ter­ri­ble but it’s become a lit­tle out of hand. I think I’ve become a lit­tle over exu­ber­ant (pos­si­bly har­bour­ing a slight addic­tion) to buy­ing vases. I’ve been envis­ag­ing this sort of look for the recep­tion tables:

Cour­tesy of Rock­n­Roll­Bride  Read more…

Posted in Decoration, Flowers, inspiration, Real UK weddings, Star Bride Sally, Star Brides, wedding budget | 9 Comments

The Monday Makerie

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Claire

I’m split­ting today’s Mon­day Mak­erie into two parts. Find gor­geous things hand­made for you, from Etsy and fur­ther afield. And for those of you feel­ing crafty out there, I’ve also listed my favourite things from the web this week where you can get your fin­gers gluey and cover your­self in paper and paint and glit­ter and such­like. Go play!

Hand­made wed­ding inspiration

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Keep Calm and Drink Tea

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Sally

David and I have always enjoyed about 5 cups of tea a day (give or take depend­ing on what kid of day it is!), and have my own nice lit­tle col­lec­tion of vin­tage tea cups and pots, so when I heard there was a real tea­house open­ing in Mid­dles­brough I was one of the first ones through the door! I knew Carli, who owns and runs The Olde Young Tea­house, as she is David’s friend’s girl­friend, and we found our­selves vis­it­ing her shop to try as many of her dif­fer­ent teas as possible.

Carli’s Tea­house  Read more…

Posted in Cakes, Decoration, DIY weddings, english weddings, Real UK weddings, Real weddings, Star Bride Sally, summer weddings, vintage weddings, wedding catering, wedding suppliers | 3 Comments

Monday Makerie: easy moroccan inspired lanterns and more…

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Claire

This week’s Mon­day Mak­erie is ded­i­cated to I Am Stag­gered. Hello fellas!

This week I want to share ideas for all of you cre­atively minded brides– and grooms-to-be. Whether you want to make your own wed­ding crafty bits or buy hand­made treats for your wed­ding, you’ll find some­thing to inspire you here!

Table dec­o­ra­tions, wed­ding favours, or just some­thing to make on a dull Mon­day: Moroc­can inspired mini lanterns from Design Sponge

Aren’t they gor­geous? There’s a full how-to blog post over at Design Sponge, and they’re easy to make from sauce or jam jars — it’s just glass paint on the inside and gold paint on the out­side (the stuff you get in a lit­tle tube that’s quite chunky).  Read more…

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Dried hydrangea and getting experimental!

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Sally

This is just a short post because of an acci­den­tal dis­cov­ery! I’ve been in the back gar­den spray paint­ing the inside of jars with a cream paint to cre­ate a ‘milky’ effect (when they’re done there’ll be a post on this!), and for no real rea­son decided to be exper­i­men­tal, and sprayed the hydrangea plant next to me, which had dried out and started shed­ding its whole, ball-like flower heads.  Read more…

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Let Them Eat Cake

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Sally

One thing David and I just hadn’t con­sid­ered was a wed­ding cake, nei­ther of us were too both­ered, the cake shops around us seemed to charge too much for too lit­tle, and we thought we’d rather spend a few hun­dred pounds on extra bot­tles of wine or ask­ing the band to play a while longer!  Read more…

Posted in Cakes, Decoration, DIY weddings, Real weddings, Star Bride Sally, vintage weddings, wedding budget, wedding catering | 6 Comments