You mean the world to me… Harlaxton Manor wedding part two

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Claire

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (30)
I love maps. I love pho­tos that stop me in my tracks a bit. I love see­ing some­thing just a tad dif­fer­ent. I love Alex and James’s wed­ding at Har­lax­ton Manor, with its tow­ers and tur­rets and old Eng­lish charm. I just love blog­ging wed­dings!

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (26)I shared part one of this beau­ti­ful Har­lax­ton Manor wed­ding yes­ter­day. I have loads more to share today (best bits till last, an’ all that). More of Alex’s beau­ti­ful lace wed­ding dress, some jaw-dropping pics of Har­lax­ton Manor (it’s a whop­per), cro­quet, maps (did I men­tion the maps?), huge smiles, romance and laugh­ter.  Read more…

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You mean the world to me… Harlaxton Manor wedding part one

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Claire

wedding photo by Beautiful Life Photography (21)When some­thing new drops into my lap like this, it makes my world a more excit­ing place. Today’s wed­ding is one which has me (vir­tu­ally) gaz­ing sky­ward, admir­ing the gor­geous Eng­lish church in glo­ri­ous detail, and smil­ing very, very hap­pily in the direc­tion of Alex and James.

This is a two-parter: today I’m shar­ing the pre-wedding pho­tographs (spot the cat-mat and admire those fab­u­lous stained-glass win­dows!). Tomor­row we’ll head to Har­lax­ton Manor for a game of cro­quet with the bride and groom, shall we? Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Beau­ti­ful Life Pho­tog­ra­phy (click for the offi­cial web­site).  Read more…

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What’s wrong with the wedding industry — and how YOU can fix it

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Claire

This is what Eng­lish Wed­ding blog is all about. As well as lots of lovely real wed­dings, the blog was born because of my deep-rooted annoy­ance at our lit­tle indus­try. Brides, grooms: wel­come to our twisted and some­times beau­ti­ful lit­tle world. Wed­ding sup­pli­ers: you’ve heard bits of this before — but never quite so pub­licly. Aware­ness of the issues in the wed­ding indus­try is the first step towards change, and we need to start look­ing at and fix­ing prob­lems before the finan­cial and emo­tional pres­sures get too much.  Read more…

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Beauty and class: Dartmouth House wedding

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Claire

wedding blog by Brett Symes (25)Anthea and Nimish had a per­fectly ele­gant, won­der­fully styl­ish wed­ding at Dart­mouth House in Lon­don. An exclu­sive wed­ding venue for a cou­ple whose calm, sophis­ti­cated per­son­al­i­ties fit beau­ti­fully with the lux­u­ri­ous surroundings.

I will always believe that wed­dings should be ‘you’ in that they are a cel­e­bra­tion of your own style and per­son­al­ity — and whether your wedding’s held in a tipi or a man­sion, you should feel at home. Anthea and Nimish fit this venue like a glove. The wed­ding pho­tographs by Brett Symes Pho­tog­ra­phy exude the same ele­gance and style.  Read more…

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Days to Go: 75

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Frances

We have done the seat­ing plan! I feel as if it’s the biggest achieve­ment of the wed­ding! No one tells you how dif­fi­cult it is to do a table plan!

The top table was easy because we’d spent a lit­tle while decid­ing who was going to join us on the top table. We decided on our par­ents so that our best man and brides­maids could sit with our friends and socialise.  Read more…

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A shameless plug…

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Claire

“Hmmm”, said Claire one Jan­u­ary morn­ing as she bat­tled with her stu­pid tax return.

Photo credit: Jean-Luc Benazet

“Hmmm, I won­der if I can get away with blog­ging about my very own Eng­lish Wed­ding face­book page today.”

Over in the cor­ner, the tax­man nod­ded sagely, look­ing at his watch.

Thought Claire, “Well, I have just uploaded a batch of rather spe­cial wed­ding pho­tos from a few of the real wed­dings I’m about to blog.” and then, look­ing vaguely guilty, “and it did take a whole  five min­utes to do that.”

Photo credit: Mar­tin Pem­ber­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy  Read more…

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Wedding planning workshop

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Claire

Plan­ning a wed­ding — it must be one of the hard­est projects in a girl’s life! Sec­ond to A-Levels, wed­ding plan­ning must take so much time and effort — I hon­estly don’t know how you all do it. For some of you, wed­ding plan­ners will be the answer. But did you know there’s a very afford­able way to get a wed­ding planner’s knowl­edge in your own head? Over to Julie Daw­son aka The Wed­ding Genie to tell you more…  Read more…

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New blogger bride on the blogging block!

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Pamela

Hello fel­low B2B!  Delighted to make your acquain­tance, espe­cially via Claire’s great site which I love perus­ing as I plan for my own wed­ding. I’m really thrilled to join Fran, Ang­harad and Loula­belle as a guest blog­ger bride and hope you’ll enjoy my posts here on english-wedding.com and maybe even have a peek at my own site: www.awarwickshirewedding.com.  Read more…

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Find yourself a winning wedding supplier!

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Claire
2012 wedding industry awards venue

The best wed­ding sup­pli­ers were announced at the Cafe de Paris in London

The 2012 Wed­ding Indus­try Awards Event was held last night, with win­ners in the national cat­e­gories announced. Con­grat­u­la­tions to all the win­ning wed­ding sup­pli­ers — well deserved in every category.

In the spirit of the fab­u­lous organ­i­sa­tion of this event, the national results are already on the offi­cial web­site (some­body must be updat­ing the site with a sore head this morn­ing!) for the world to see.  Read more…

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Is that Cinderella? A Northbrook Park wedding

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Claire

wedding photo by Marshal Gray (37)Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mar­shal Gray is a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher too cool for school, with a won­der­fully artis­tic approach and a fan­tas­tic blog. Real name Gary Mar­shal, I’m sure I’ve called him Mar­shal more than once since we first chat­ted online a year or so ago. He’s a lovely guy, and the per­fect choice for Louisa and Andrew.

This won­der­ful cou­ple were mar­ried at Surrey’s North­brook Park last sum­mer. The sun shone, the day went swing­ingly and there are some beau­ti­ful images of the bride and groom here for you to enjoy. My favourites are the look they exchange, hold­ing hands when they’ve put the wed­ding rings on — and the bit where Louisa gets to try on lots of shoes… Cin­derella style! I’ll leave you to see that one for your­self!  Read more…

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