A sophisticated Wirral wedding — sea, sand and style

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Claire

chester wedding blog photographer (17)Today’s wed­ding blog is a deli­cious mix of con­trast­ing images: the typ­i­cal Eng­lish sea­side, the beau­ti­ful bride and her time­less glam­our; the sand and dunes set against cloudy skies, the del­i­cate pur­ple but­ter­fly wed­ding theme. Becky and Guy make a great look­ing cou­ple, and their wed­ding has every­thing: ele­gance, style, indi­vid­u­al­ity and character.

chester wedding blog photographer (19)The wed­ding was sub­mit­ted by Vick­er­staff Pho­tog­ra­phy — Chester wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers and my newest friends and blog spon­sors. Becky has shared details of her wed­ding day so I will leave you to admire the images and enjoy the story of Becky and Guy’s sea­side wed­ding.  Read more…

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A very quick Wedding Planning or Work

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Claire

What hap­pened to the rest of this week? I don’t imag­ine I’m the only wed­ding sup­plier who could use two more days before the week­end… so today I’m pho­tograph­ing, pack­ing and post­ing a nice lit­tle hand­ful of cal­lig­ra­phy orders for my cus­tomers. (It’s a long process: they all need gift-wrapping, rib­bons, and a hand­writ­ten address label :)

Nonethe­less, there’s still time for a lit­tle wed­ding plan­ning break, I think!

French vintage wedding blog

French vin­tage wed­ding on Before the Big Day blog. Photo credit: http://wscottchesterblog.com  Read more…

Real wed­ding blogs

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Wedding season is here!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Claire

Hello again! Is it just me or is it start­ing to feel as though summer’s just around the cor­ner? We all know what that means… lots of lovely wed­dings! I was up at dawn (one of my cats decided it was time to play) and opened the back door to a clear, silent, fresh morn­ing. It’s nearly May already, can you believe — and it’s always sunny in May. I know this because May is my birth­day month. There’s usu­ally a mini heat­wave too. I can’t wait!  Read more…

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New on English Wedding — hen and stag weekend ideas

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Claire

Morn­ing lovely peo­ple! Now, has any­one been eagle-eyed enough to spot the new fea­ture in the menu bar up at the top there? I added a new page to Eng­lish Wed­ding blog at the week­end — ideas for hen and stag week­ends.

The pre-wedding adven­ture which, in our par­ents’ days, was one ale too many in the local pub / a bot­tle of wine with the girls at home, has turned into an extrav­a­ganza.  Read more…

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Reportage wedding photography with Phil Drinkwater

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Claire

Reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy is a style I love. For those of you who’d like a def­i­n­i­tion, reportage is the art of telling a story through pho­tog­ra­phy: see­ing a wed­ding as a day which unfolds through people’s inter­ac­tions (smiles, tears, con­tem­pla­tion) rather than a col­lec­tion of details in sequence.

That’s my def­i­n­i­tion, and my under­stand­ing. The experts explain it bet­ter: read what is reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy? by my friend and blog adver­tiser Phil Drinkwa­ter. Phil spe­cialises in reportage and has launched his new web­site to show­case this side of his wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness.  Read more…

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A musical English wedding at Buxted Park

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Claire

Buxted Park wedding (26)Matthew and Alyson’s wed­ding is ele­gance itself: with a musi­cal flavour lend­ing per­son­al­ity to the day and beauty and sim­plic­ity styling their cel­e­bra­tions. Alyson’s wed­ding dress by Suzanne Neville has a dreamy nos­tal­gia and the 1940s style of her dress and head­dress influ­enced the theme of today’s wed­ding blog.

The wed­ding colours are purest whites; the wed­ding venue is divine; the weather for this Novem­ber wed­ding day was bright, and crisp — the per­fect day for a wedding.

Pho­tog­ra­phy is by Sus­sex wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Sara Reeve, and Alyson has writ­ten the loveli­est wed­ding report to share with us all today. Enjoy!  Read more…

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How Grooms Can Look Gorgeous in Wedding Photos

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Claire

Some of the guest blog post ideas I’m sent for Eng­lish Wed­ding are fab­u­lous. This is one. Hon­estly writ­ten, funny and charm­ing — and full of gen­uine advice for grooms. We’ve heard a lot about look­ing good in wed­ding pho­tos from var­i­ous blogs recently, but never a real focus on the groom. And I like to think I know what men need: prac­ti­cal advice, use­ful ideas and humour. The other thing men need is Tamara Kuzmin­ski — a full of great advice. She’s the author of today’s guest blog post — so wel­come, Tamara, and thank you!  Read more…

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Wedding planning or work? Take five…

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Claire

After­noon! I’m still run­ning to my bank hol­i­day clock, so Fri­day came as a bit of a sur­prise this week — but I’ve still got a lovely list of wed­ding plan­ning links to share with you, stored up from my favourite wed­ding blog posts of the last week or two. Hope you enjoy these as much as I did!

Edinburgh wedding photography by Lillian and Leonard

Edin­burgh wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy by Lil­lian and Leonard  Read more…

Real wed­dings and engage­ment shoots

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Warnings: Royal Mail and your wedding

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Claire

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Hello! For starters: I’m only cring­ing a lit­tle bit at the title. OK, so it’s not a dire warn­ing about the Royal Mail. Your wed­ding won’t be flash­mobbed by angry post­men; even postal strikes aren’t going to have that much impact on your day. So let’s not panic — this is a sen­si­ble blog post with wed­ding advice for cou­ples and sup­pli­ers alike: a few things that can go wrong when you’re rely­ing on our won­der­ful postal ser­vice, and how to make them go right instead. (PS do you like my pink stamps? I love Pho­to­shop! Queen, take note!)  Read more…

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Competition winner! Wedding Cupcakes book

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Claire

A quickie wed­ding blog post for this after­noon, as I sit hud­dled in my cardie, fin­gers chillin’ and wait­ing for sun­shine! I’ve picked my win­ner for the Wed­ding Cup­cakes book this morn­ing — bet­ter late than never… Faye is the lucky win­ner of my com­pe­ti­tion and her book will be sent in the post very soon.

wedding cupcakes book review

Con­grat­u­la­tions Faye!

If you missed my wed­ding cup­cakes book review, you really should read it. I’m a nat­ural baker* as well as being rea­son­able about writ­ing my lit­tle wed­ding blog.

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