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Mini interview — Helen Carter

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Claire

I’ve taken far too long to get this lat­est mini inter­view on the blog — but I think it’s worth the wait!

Helen Carter London wedding planner website

Helen Carter is a wed­ding plan­ner based in Lon­don, and I dis­cov­ered her when I stum­bled across her web­site a few months back. I’ve fol­lowed her on Twit­ter ever since, and she’s a lovely lady with an amaz­ing and inter­est­ing job… so I hope you enjoy her mini interview.

Bride and groom Helen Carter weddings

What inspires you?

I like the sim­ple things in life and I take a lot of inspi­ra­tion from my fam­ily. They’ve always sup­ported me in what­ever I’ve wanted to do, and I cer­tainly wouldn’t be where I am today with­out my hus­band in par­tic­u­lar.  Read more…

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Mini interview — People by Ryan

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Claire

Wed­dings­ByRyan has been on my radar for months now, and as a reg­u­lar admirer of pho­tog­ra­pher Jonathan Ryan’s blog I was really happy when he vol­un­teered for an Eng­lish Wed­ding mini-interview! His answers are very enter­tain­ing… enjoy.

A beautiful bride photographed by Jonathan Ryan

A beau­ti­ful bride pho­tographed by Jonathan Ryan www.peoplebyryan.com

What inspires you?

Light, action, colour, drama.

I spend more time flick­ing through fash­ion mag­a­zines than look­ing at other wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers’ work. I also get inspi­ra­tion from films, TV, art.  Read more…

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Mini interview – Prettywild

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Claire

Pret­ty­Wild have relaunched their wed­ding sta­tionery web­site this week and I had a lit­tle peek yes­ter­day and instantly fell in love with the place! Not only that, there’s a brand new blog — Pret­ty­Ga­lore — which promises of lots of excit­ing things to come! I got in touch with designer Suzanne Osborne for a mini inter­view. I love her answers…

wedding invitation  Read more…

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The Bear Grylls of wedding photography!

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Claire

Your enter­tain­ment for the after­noon… Nick Grove is an award win­ning wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher based in Cam­bridgeshire, and here’s his mini inter­view. It’s a good one!

What inspires you?

Every time I hear of a bride burst­ing to tears after receiv­ing their wed­ding pho­tos or the dis­ap­point­ment in the voice of a bride’s mother. It shouldn’t be allowed. It makes my blood pres­sure rise when I see pho­tog­ra­phers tout­ing them­selves as pro­fes­sion­als when it’s just some­thing they do at the week­end. The term pro­fes­sional is very loosely applied in this indus­try. I’d like to edu­cate cou­ples more about the pit­falls.  Read more…

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Show and tell – Boho weddings

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Claire

I’ve made good friends with a few wed­ding busi­nesses only recently on Twit­ter. Kelly Hood, wed­ding plan­ner at Boho Wed­dings and Events, is a won­der­ful lady and — as those of you who fol­low me on Twit­ter will prob­a­bly know — has me con­stantly in admi­ra­tion of her energy and enthu­si­asm for wed­ding plan­ning. She’s a real expert when it comes to wed­ding sup­pli­ers in and around Sheffield and York­shire, and absolutely devoted to her wed­ding plan­ning work.

So when Kelly emailed me for a chat, I pounced and asked for a mini-interview. And here it is!  Read more…

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Inside the mind of a wedding photographer

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Claire

bride and groom night time

The best wed­ding sup­plier inter­view — Chris Han­ley. I emailed Chris with a few ques­tions and the answers are almost poetic. In sum­mary, inside the mind of an expert wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher is a bright, sparkly and cre­ative place!

Show and Tell — Chris Hanley

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Chris is one of the UK’s very top wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers and has fea­tured on Eng­lish Wed­ding a num­ber of times with real wed­dings from Thorn­ton Manor, Shot­tle Hall, Hamp­ton Manor and more.

Crewe Hall photographer  Read more…

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Show and tell – wedding calligraphy

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Claire

So, about those wed­ding sup­pli­ers I’m here to show­case — I’m still fig­ur­ing out the best way to do it. It’s about find­ing a bal­ance: I’m not inter­ested in adver­tis­ing blurb, I want to know about the peo­ple behind the busi­nesses, and I want to read inter­est­ing blog posts. So hope­fully my new ‘show and tell’ mini-interview fea­ture will become a reg­u­lar thing.

I hope this doesn’t come across as all ‘me, me, me!’ but I thought I should go first. It wouldn’t be fair of me to ask other sup­pli­ers to do my lit­tle inter­views if I wasn’t pre­pared to put any effort into this myself. And since I’m on a bit of a quest to find my blog­ging per­son­al­ity, I thought it’d be fun to have a go.  Read more…

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