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Find your perfect spring or summer wedding invitation

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Claire

wedding invitation ideas for summerOn Fri­day I asked wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers from all over the UK to share their best bright and sum­mery invites with Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. A cold and frosty day turned into a lit­tle ray of sun­shine for me as lots of tal­ented design­ers joined in to show­case wed­ding invi­ta­tions with a cheer­ful spring and sum­mer feel to them.

A new fea­ture on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog

This will become a reg­u­lar fea­ture because it gives you lovely read­ers out there a chance to see lots of new and excit­ing designs and ideas, all in one place.  Read more…

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Wedding inspiration board — winter berries

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Claire

Yes­ter­day I shared a ‘berry’ lovely win­ter wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot by Han­nah from Life­line Pho­tog­ra­phy. Today’s post is a quickie — some­thing to cut out and keep!

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Wed­ding inspi­ra­tion: win­ter berries with images by Life­line Photography

I made a wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board for you with Hannah’s lovely images and all the lit­tle acces­sories and dec­o­ra­tions from the day. So if you’re look­ing to make lots of things for your wed­ding, and you’ve got a lit­tle red rid­ing hood cos­tume knock­ing around that you don’t really need… this is per­fect for you!  Read more…

 With help from some won­der­ful wed­ding suppliers

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Wedding inspiration blog — winter berries

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Claire

winter wedding blog by Lifeline Photography (18)I’ve been wait­ing so long for a cold snap. I pic­tured myself blog­ging all wrapped up and toasty, with glis­ten­ing ici­cles out­side and this win­ter berries wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot on my screen, next to a mug of steam­ing hot chocolate…

Well there’s no snow out­side (yet). I give up!!! But it’s chilly. It’s been frosty… and the sparkles on the pave­ment in the morn­ing say it’s time to blog this lovely wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot!  Read more…

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Pretty in Pink! Wedding inspiration board

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Claire

Some clas­sic pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion from Suzy and Bruno’s Hen­grave Hall wedding…

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Pretty in Pink wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board. All pho­tos by Chris Han­ley Photography

Wed­ding inspi­ra­tion — Pretty in Pink

Choose a focus for your wed­ding dec­o­ra­tions — don’t spend a for­tune on every detail, but choose some­thing fab­u­lous that will be a real talk­ing point: in Suzy and Bruno’s case, the table cen­tre­pieces are stat­uesque and colour­ful with roses, feath­ers and foliage perched on glass pillars.

Keep your details ele­gant and sim­ple: a wed­ding table plan focus­ing on word art is a great idea. Suzy and Bruno chose sim­ple pink flow­ers for the four edges of their plan and an ornate black frame which I love.  Read more…

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Autumn, the wedding industry and Narnia

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Claire

Do you love or hate autumn? When there’s a crisp chill in the air, you wake up in dark­ness at 7am, the heat­ing goes on and win­ter wool­lies come out — do you hide or rush out to play in the rusty leaves?

I had the idea of a new wed­ding blog post with my friend and Tiararama designer Suzanne Laugh­lin: to shout out and share the things we love about autumn. Because at the end of the wed­ding sea­son the wed­ding indus­try doesn’t sleep: instead, we get inspired. The smell of autumn on the air, the hazy sun­shine and being all toasty inside… it kicks off that cre­ative buzz. I wanted to share some of that with you!  Read more…

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Jerk and Jam – A vintage English country wedding with a Caribbean twist

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Claire

real wedding blog Parley Manor by Dwiko Arie (1)

A wed­ding blogger’s dream… the per­fect fairy­tale wed­ding jam packed full of details and DIY, a bride who has had the most amaz­ing time cre­at­ing the per­fect day. A glam­orous cou­ple, a lov­ing fam­ily and a story which is guar­an­teed to make you cry.

real wedding blog Parley Manor by Dwiko Arie (3)

Espe­cially in the light of the blog post on Hind­sight Bride last week, I’m already enjoy­ing shar­ing this per­fect fairy­tale wed­ding with you. There are tons of details. There is every­thing you could see in the very best wed­ding mag­a­zine. Because every­one is dif­fer­ent, and for Sally and Gareth this meant a very per­sonal wed­ding with bells, whis­tles and a cherry on top. With pho­tos by Dwiko Arie, this really is a dream wed­ding day.  Read more…

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Countryside wedding inspiration board

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Claire

Did you see Tanya and Andy’s coun­try­side wed­ding on the blog this week? I loved it so much I’ve turned the blog fea­ture into a three-day event! We’ve heard about camp­ing in the coun­try­side before the wed­ding day, about tam­bourines in church and the band play­ing around the camp­fire, about games and cakes and laven­der and campervans…

countryside wedding inspiration board - reportage wedding photographer Mark Carey…well, I had to make you an inspi­ra­tion board from some of the wed­ding pho­tographs — all of the lovely images above are by reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Carey. The details and ideas to take away for your own wed­ding are:  Read more…

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A beautiful real wedding at Brick House Farm

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Claire

Wedding blog from Kent by reportage wedding photographer Mark Carey (32)

Today’s wed­ding blog is for all you brides and grooms plan­ning a relaxed, infor­mal and fun day: a wed­ding with­out stuffy rules, con­straints and con­ven­tions. Tanya and Andy had a fab­u­lous cre­ative wed­ding at Brick House Farm in Kent, and reportage wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Carey was first to tell me about their day.

Wedding blog from Kent by reportage wedding photographer Mark Carey (31)

I instantly loved the few images he shared with me. I knew I had to email Tanya right away and she was kind enough to share her amaz­ing wed­ding story for the blog. It’s a won­der­ful tale — here is a bride with imag­i­na­tion and a won­der­ful con­fi­dence to cre­ate a really per­sonal wed­ding day.  Read more…

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How to find creative inspiration

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Claire

I blogged a very cre­ative pho­to­shoot ear­lier in the week — a lit­tle adven­ture I loved being a part of! It wasn’t a bridal shoot, in fact it was like noth­ing I’ve ever blogged before. But the process of doing some­thing dif­fer­ent was just brilliant.

But why would I post some­thing so bizarre on a wed­ding blog? (I hear you ask!)

I think we’re all here look­ing for inspi­ra­tion in one way or another. Brides, grooms, wed­ding busi­nesses — cre­ativ­ity is impor­tant. Find­ing some­thing new shouldn’t always be about the lat­est tiara design. Some­times it’s about tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from some­thing unex­pected. That was the mes­sage I wanted to share.  Read more…

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A little blog lovin’ for you!

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Claire

I’m out play­ing in the woods today — on a top secret blog mis­sion, liv­ing a fairy­tale, and (if the last three days are any­thing to go by) with ‘teddy bears’ pic­nic’ going around and around in my brain.

Although the secret pho­to­shoot I’m going to see and later share with you is def­i­nitely NOT about teddy bears! It’s alto­gether more excit­ing, more gor­geous, more inspir­ing and I expect a lit­tle darker than a teddy bears’ pic­nic could ever be.

Love My Dress blog Audrey Hepburn wedding ideas shoot

found on Love My Dress blog — Audrey Hep­burn wed­ding shoot by Tiffany Irv­ing  Read more…

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