Loves!

This is just a page of stuff I love. It may ram­ble, for which I apol­o­gise. While I’m research­ing Eng­lish wed­dings I keep find­ing details, images and acces­sories that make me swoon. They’ll go here!

Claire x

Black and white wed­ding inspiration

Photo cred­its:

Calla lily but­ton­holes from Aisle Be Yours Wed­ding Ser­vices, based in Bris­tol and run by the lovely Sher­rie Hicks. The white rose and crys­tal bou­quet is also from Aisle Be Yours. Sher­rie makes beau­ti­ful silk wed­ding flower arrange­ments and ships through­out the UK.

The wed­ding guest book is from Olivier Laudus. Orig­i­nally a sup­plier of wed­ding ring cush­ions, the Olivier Laudus shop now stocks a fan­tas­tic range of wed­ding albums and guest books as well as bridal jew­ellery and acces­sories. Fur­ther down in this selec­tion, the bridal tiara is also from Olivier Laudus.

The black and white square wed­ding cup­cake stack is from Espe­cially Deli­cious. Based in Lon­don, Espe­cially Deli­cious design and make fab­u­lous wed­ding cakes with organic and fair trade ingredients.

The three lit­tle round mono­chrome wed­ding cup­cakes are from La Crème Cup­cake. They deliver through­out Sus­sex and pro­vide wed­ding cup­cakes on tiers as an alter­na­tive to a tra­di­tional cake, as well as wed­ding favour cup­cakes, indi­vid­u­ally boxed.

The white frilled rose bou­quet is from The Blos­som Tree, a fab­u­lous wed­ding florist based in Derby. I love the deep greens in the bou­quet, which would work beau­ti­fully with a black and white wed­ding theme. The Blos­som Tree also designed the flower arrange­ment shown in the last of my ‘loves’, above. The colours are won­der­ful, with the foliage mak­ing a really strik­ing display.

The feather flower hair­piece in white is from Etsy. I love Etsy for unusual wed­ding acces­sories, and also for bridal party gifts and inspiration.

Momen­tal Designs make beau­ti­ful wed­ding invi­ta­tions and although they’re a US com­pany, they will ship to Eng­land. Led by designer Kristy Rice, Momen­tal Designs have a won­der­ful range of artis­tic and colour­ful wed­ding invi­ta­tions for you to choose from. Fol­low their blog for lat­est updates.

The tiered black and white wed­ding cake is by Zoe Clark. Zoe’s web­site is amaz­ing — please check her out. Best of all, Zoe Clark cakes ship from Lon­don across the UK — so I highly rec­om­mend one!

Finally the tiered white wed­ding cake is from Tea Party Cakes. Estab­lished by the lovely Edith in 2008, Tea Party Cakes is based in Lon­don and pro­vides a bespoke ser­vice for your wed­ding cake or cup­cakes. Every cake is made with lov­ing care and atten­tion. Please visit Tea Party Cakes on Face­book if you’d like to find out more.

Pink wed­ding inspiration

Photo cred­its:

The ele­gant can­dle hold­ers are from Bon­nefete Hire, bird­cages and selec­tion of exquis­ite vin­tage crock­ery are avail­able to hire from the fab­u­lous My Vin­tage Party (and you have to check out their vin­tage car­a­van for hire.. oth­er­wise known as Lola!) The pink place set­ting is from Con­fetti, the pink rose wed­ding cakes are by amaz­ing cake designer Zoe Clark.

I love Joo­jooland from etsy for the lovely lit­tle char­ac­ter cake top­pers. Vanilla Bak­ery can make you the beau­ti­ful pink swirly cup­cakes and but­ter­fly cookie favour, and last but not least by any means, the wed­ding sta­tionery is from Momen­tal Designs. I love all of these fab­u­lously cre­ative peo­ple and want to marry them.

Pur­ple wed­ding inspiration

Photo cred­its:

Gor­geous laser cut wed­ding sta­tionery in pur­ples, black and white (love the foil print mono­gram) and ivory from www.Chartula.co.uk.
Head­bands from www.RoystandAran.com. Cal­lig­ra­phy invi­ta­tions from the amaz­ing www.urbis-scriptores.co.uk.

I’ve always loved The Whole Caboodle’s wed­ding sta­tionery range so I’ve included one of their lovely scroll invi­ta­tions, and some table names with a pretty, nar­row rib­bon. Aisle Be Yours have one of the biggest wed­ding flower inspi­ra­tion gal­leries I’ve seen from an Eng­lish wed­ding sup­plier — the lilac bou­quet comes from them. And a lit­tle item I’ve seen again and again in the wed­ding press is the favour box from Lovely Favours — I think it’s gorgeous.

Red wed­ding inspiration

The wed­ding invi­ta­tion close up I chose first here is by Ivy Ellen. The scroll invi­ta­tion is ‘Megan’ by Carol Miller Designs. Paper flow­ers for table dec­o­ra­tions are a long time favourite of mine and come from paper­platy­pus on Etsy. I adore the black and red ‘Sil­hou­ette’ guest books from the fab­u­lous Wed­ding Paraphernalia.

The wed­ding album is from Aspinal of Lon­don (in my day job as a cal­lig­ra­pher I’ve writ­ten in one of these… if I’d known it cost £200+ I would have been more ner­vous about that!). The gor­geous table plan is by Julie Boyd at Carol Miller Designs. I love the lus­cious silk flo­ral fas­ci­na­tor (which can also be worn as a cor­sage) from Hap­i­tat on Etsy. The tulip wed­ding invite is from a col­lec­tion at Lovely Favours, as is the ‘Frozen For­est’ invi­ta­tion. Also the vin­tage style brooch is sold as part of a wed­ding sta­tionery range from Lovely Favours.