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Get the look! Country garden wedding inspiration board

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Claire

Please do indulge my wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board phase… I absolutely love doing these right now! Per­haps it’s because I’m being sent so many bril­liant pho­tos at the moment. Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers are such a gen­er­ous and cre­ative bunch of peo­ple :)

So — this is part 3 of Clau­dia and John’s wed­ding in Devon, on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. They com­bined their Aus­tralian her­itage with a vin­tage inspired, Eng­lish coun­try gar­den theme and cre­ated some­thing really spe­cial. Here’s how you can recre­ate that look for your own wed­ding day!

vintage countryside english wedding inspiration board

Vin­tage coun­try­side eng­lish wed­ding inspi­ra­tion board  Read more…

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Last week next week… wedding blog best bits!

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Claire

This will be a quick blog post as I’ve left my weekly update until.… argh it’s 11:41 on Sun­day morn­ing (I like to be organ­ised but it’s just too sunshiney!)

Here we go for weekly read­ers — the week that’s just flown by:

  • Wed­ding Ideas mag­a­zine review
  • My high­light of the week: Salma’s wed­ding video which made me cry twice! and highly rec­om­mended for view­ing with a cup of tea, kit-kat and tis­sue! There’s also beau­ti­ful footage of Peck­for­ton Castle
  • Per­fect Wed­ding mag­a­zine review
  • Wed­ding mag­a­zine review

  • Hampton Court Palace Wedding blog photography Pippa McKenzie

    Hamp­ton Court Palace Wed­ding blogged with pho­tog­ra­phy by Pippa McKenzie

    •  Read more…

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A bumper ideas week on English Wedding!

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Claire

Hey every­one and happy Sun­day evening… hope you’re hav­ing a lovely laid-back day and those of you who can be with your dads I hope you’ve all had a nice time together. My dad’s all the way up in the Lake Dis­trict so we had a chat this morn­ing, but I wish I could have made the trip up there instead… if you’re near to your dad you’re so lucky.

Any­way… time for me to stop waf­fling and recap the week we’ve had on the Eng­lish Wed­ding blog.  Read more…

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Can you be a creative bride outside of London?

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Claire

I’ve heard there was a big wed­ding show in That Lon­don this week­end. Sounds bril­liant — the Designer Wed­ding Show. Ah… I wish I could have been there with all the coolest wed­ding sup­pli­ers and UK wed­ding blog­gers out in force!

The Designer Wedding Show

Instead, while every­one was doing the DWS this week­end I was at home in sunny Man­ches­ter (yes! sunny!) doing some Pon­der­ing. Specif­i­cally about cre­ative wed­dings, the influ­ences in the wed­ding indus­try and pres­sures on brides to have cer­tain things on their wed­ding days.  Read more…

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Tatton Wedding Show — in pictures

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Claire

Red Flo­ral Archi­tec­ture was a real star of the show for me — with incred­i­ble flower designs in the entrance as well as on their stand. More to come later in the week!

by RSVP Now — beau­ti­ful pink and gold table dress­ing with cal­lig­ra­phy by the very tal­ented Juliet

The ice sculp­tures were impres­sive! I loved the wed­ding table plan (lam­i­nated and then… glazed?) encased in ice and the way it flows around the edges. Beau­ti­ful! This was by Glacial Art — award win­ning, inter­na­tion­ally renowned mas­ter crafts­men.  Read more…

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Alternative royal wedding accessories

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Claire

royal wedding place cards from Vintage TweeIt’s been a lit­tle while since we heard from alter­na­tive royal bride Cat Mud­dle­ton, but I really think things are hot­ting up on the wed­ding plan­ning front for Eng­lish Wedding’s very own princess bride — with just three months until her wed­ding day.

Royal wedding favour box by Vintage TweeThe wed­ding venue is agreed, guests are hav­ing out­fits designed and hats made, top UK chefs are hav­ing a tele­vised com­pe­ti­tion to cre­ate an excit­ing menu for the wed­ding break­fast* and top secret wed­ding dress­mak­ers have been squir­reled away to a top secret work­shop full of silk­worms, dia­monds and elves.

royal wedding lottery ticket holders from Vintage Twee*prob­a­bly  Read more…

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Who’s talking about The Wedding Show at Tatton?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Claire

I’m super-organised. Always have been — thanks Dad! If I catch a train I’m there 15 min­utes before­hand in case there’s a queue for tick­ets. If I’ve got an appoint­ment I get every­thing ready the night before.… and the week before a wed­ding show, I’m googling con­stantly to see who’s exhibit­ing, who’s vis­it­ing, who’s excited about it all.

I thought: why not share? Pop every­one who’s talk­ing about The Wed­ding Show this week on this page so you can see who I’m look­ing for­ward to meet­ing and who is busy prepar­ing for Tat­ton Park this week­end.  Read more…

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Unique and inspiring real wedding

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Claire
A passionate kiss and a fantastic image with vintage processing

A pas­sion­ate kiss and a fan­tas­tic image with vin­tage processing

How to describe this wed­ding in a short title… yikes: couldn’t do it! Nicky and Mar­tyn will be famil­iar to many of you from the Eng­lish Wed­ding e-shoot week we did in Jan­u­ary. Lit­tle did I know when I fea­tured one of wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher Mark Tier­ney’s favourite engage­ment shoots that the cou­ple were already mar­ried and that their wed­ding pho­tographs would blow me away.  Read more…

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Alex The Mind Reader

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Claire

The UK wedding supplier mapIt’s been a while since I men­tioned the wed­ding sup­plier map. If you’re still look­ing for any wed­ding sup­pli­ers, par­tic­u­larly in your area, then I really rec­om­mend you give the map a whirl — it’s a great way of find­ing local busi­nesses and espe­cially the more sur­pris­ing ones.

I was just explor­ing the ship­ping lanes on the wed­ding sup­plier map. Yep, there are wed­ding busi­nesses work­ing the ship­ping lanes between Wales, Ire­land and Corn­wall (actu­ally that’s a lie — all the national wed­ding busi­nesses on the map are in one place, hav­ing a lit­tle swim: so you know they sup­ply the whole of the UK).  Read more…

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Vintage Wedding Treats

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Claire


Vintage music sheets wedding confetti conesMy plan today was to write a lit­tle post about wed­ding acces­sories from Vin­tage Twee. Owned by the loveli­est lady in all of wed­ding­land, as inspir­ing and gor­geous as it gets, I was excited to hear last week about some new wed­ding favours and acces­sories Joanne had just designed.

That was the plan.

Vintage music sheet paper rose table decorationsQual­ity hand­crafted vin­tage wed­ding decorations

Joanne had also men­tioned a new web­site for Vin­tage Twee was on the way. Lovely, I thought. And as I sat down to write — I’ll just have a quick look, open up the web­site and have all the details to hand of these new rose con­fetti cones and vin­tage music sheet cones.  Read more…

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