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Wednesday Writes… paper wedding inspiration this week

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Claire

Artcadia wedding invitation letterpress with bird

I’ve writ­ten a list of the best 20 vin­tage wed­ding invi­ta­tions on the web — per­fect for inspi­ra­tion and ideas for your wed­ding sta­tionery  Read more…

  • Cake signs — is this a sta­tionery step too far? Or just an extra excuse for pretty sig­nage at your wed­ding? Lucky Orchid blog has some ideas for wed­ding cake signs
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Wednesday Writes — it’s paperytastic!

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Claire

Part two of the new weekly* fea­ture every Wednes­day on the Eng­lish Wed­ding Blog: Wednes­day Writes.  Read more…

This week on Wednes­day Writes:

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Wedding Magazine Advertising — when you know it won’t work

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Claire

A quick post sim­ply to share my smile with you this morning.

I just had a call from a local free Wed­ding Mag­a­zine. The girl who called sounded a lit­tle bored, but read her script nicely, explained that the mag­a­zine was look­ing for peo­ple who do wed­ding sta­tionery to adver­tise in the mag­a­zine and they’d “come to me first”… hee, really?

I explained that I don’t do wed­ding sta­tionery, I only pro­vide a cal­lig­ra­phy ser­vice.

Cue a lit­tle pause and more inter­est from the tele­sales girl: “Ooh, is that where you do the danc­ing, like the first dance and stuff?”  Read more…

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More English vintage loveliness

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Claire

Our last Eng­lish vin­tage wed­ding inspired post of the week is just to share a few wed­ding sup­pli­ers with you. These are all UK based, crafty com­pa­nies with a great cre­ative philosophy.

I’m a huge sup­porter of small busi­nesses in the UK, and work­ing in the wed­ding indus­try gives me a great insight into the amaz­ing net­work of small craft busi­nesses that work together to cre­ate beau­ti­ful wed­ding cel­e­bra­tions. Avoid the big stores, show some love for these unique and ded­i­cated wed­ding sup­pli­ers if you can!

Vin­tage wed­ding recep­tion stationery

wedding guest book and favour

…and All Things Nice are based in Hornsea, East York­shire  Read more…

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Wedding ideas with roses

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Claire

Katie used roses to really good effect at her High­clifffe Cas­tle wed­ding. Her bou­quet was of golden yel­low roses, in a gor­geous clus­ter with lit­tle golden glit­ter but­ter­flies adding extra sparkle. The wed­ding cake was dec­o­rated with yel­low sug­arpaste roses.

roses and wedding favour yellow rose wedding cake

Inspired by Katie’s wed­ding (with pho­tog­ra­phy by TP Pho­tog­ra­phy), here are some more rose ideas for Eng­lish weddings.

Rose wed­ding invi­ta­tions from Invite In The Post in Cheltenham

Rose printed wedding invitations

Four of the many colour­ways avail­able on this styl­ish rose wed­ding invite  Read more…

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English-Wedding.com

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Claire

Hi!

English-wedding.com is being cre­ated to inspire you to plan the per­fect wedding.

I’m Claire, from Wedding-Calligrapher.com and I have been imag­in­ing English-wedding.com for months in the back of my mind. At last my ideas are on paper, and today the new blog / web­site is here!

In the weeks to come you’ll see pic­tures of Eng­lish wed­dings, venues, dec­o­ra­tions, fea­tures, themes… watch this space. It’s going to be wonderful.

Claire x

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