Little Miss Wedding

Jane Taylor is a London based milliner – a creator of bridal hats, fascinators and antique adornments. Her pieces are regularly featured in the top bridal magazines and you can see why.

The vintage style headpieces are embellished with feathers, lace, gems, veiling and vintage bits and bobs. I love this picture from the December issue of Cosmo Bride which shows the model wearing one of Jane’s art deco vintage-style headpieces. The Ian Stuart dress is pretty amazing too.

If you want to steal the show then this beautiful feather hairpiece will do exactly that. I remember trying to find something like this for my wedding, but just didn’t know where to start looking. I would love to see this on an actual bride but as its from the summer 2010 bridal collection we’ll just have to wait a while. Its called the Ivory Feather Flower – so delicate and beautiful but still a real statement piece.

This vintage hair accessory from the new bridal collection is equally gorgeous – much more laidback and simple than some of her designs, but perfect for a bride that is going for a natural hair style look.

I could go on and on posting more and more photos of her work but I can’t really choose between them (and its getting late) – I suggest that you check out her site for photos of more of her designs and to read a bit more about Jane Taylor Millinery. I’m looking forward to featuring some real life brides wearing some of Jane’s designs this summer – I think she is going to have a busy few months ahead.

‘All That Jazz’ is not only the name of the wedding dress I wore at my wedding (by Alan Hannah), but also the name of this gorgeous new collection of 20’s dresses from Lindsay Fleming Couture. I’ve previously featured some of their wedding dresses on LMW in the post 1920’s inspired wedding shoot – but now I’ve got even bigger, better pics for you to drool… over so enjoy….. and read on for all details on how you can see Linsday Fleming Couture in London.

Shot by award winning photographers, Archibald Photography, these dresses look utterly fantabulous! I LOVE this one – infact, correct me if I am wrong but, Mark, from Archibald Photography won an award for this photo recently.

… and for those of you worried about having to traipse all the way up to Scotland to try on your dream dress – the good news is that they are coming to London soon (info below)

Great hair and make up for this shoot too. All the head pieces have been created by Baba C. Make up is by Ainsley M and hair by Volume Hair.

This 1920’s wedding shoot took place in House for an Art Lover in Glasgow, Scotland.

Now for the all important bit about how you can meet with the award-winning bridal designers in London

“Lindsay Fleming Couture have decided this year to make it even easier for brides to have a face to face consultation with a designer and to see first hand the dresses, quality of fabric and workmanship. They have arranged the first in a serious of visits to Central London where private consultations and fittings can be offered to clients without travel to Scotland. Their first visit will be on 26th, 27th and 28th March 2010 with further visits planned every eight weeks. The venue for these consultations will be ‘Dolphin House’, Chichester Street, London, SW1V 3LX and appointments can be arranged by contacting Lindsay Fleming on 01864 502522 or by email bridal@lindsayfleming.com . In addition to their 20s inspired collection ‘All That Jazz’, they will also be
displaying their celtic and medieval inspired gowns; the ‘Celtic Spirit Collection’.”

Thanks Donna (from Archibald Photography) for sharing these fantastic pictures with LMW.

.. – 100 Fun, unusual, quirky and different ideas for table names at your wedding. Well nearly 100! I asked myself the question: Do many couples go with table numbers these days? I think not – it seems that couples are picking creative and fun names for their wedding tables – something personal, meaningful to them or that fits in with their wedding theme.

At our wedding we had ’special’ places – the roads we grew up on, our parents house, the flat that we first shared. the places that we had been on holiday etc. At the time I remember thinking how original, but having done a bit more research I realise that many other couples have the same idea as us! So, I thought I’d collate a list of 100 wedding table names to give you some inspiration.. please help me out here and add any suggestions (leave a comment and let me know what you had or are planning to have at your wedding!)

100 Wedding Table Name Suggestions well nearly – this post is a work in progress!
Beers of the World
Champagne brands
Whiskies
Wines from the Beaujolais region (with top table Saint Amour -love -and kids table Beaujolais nouveau)
Cocktails

Types of Curry
Different types of chocolate (Belgian, Dark, Swiss)
Retro Sweets (with jars on the table)
Restaurants

Halls of Residence at Uni (where couple met)
Lochs
Islands
Racecourses
Rivers (for shooting, fishing, hunting type)
Beaches
Flower names (Roses, Iris and Tulips)

Famous mathematicians and famous scientists – that is what our guest blogger Helen Carter had at hers (I think she was a mathematician or scientist in her former life)
Famous couples
Economic terms (the couple were both economists!!)

Areas of Brighton
Australian States (where bride and groom were going on honeymoon)
Places in New York
Cities
Ibiza Clubs
Road names of all the houses that they had lived in together
Places of interest, towns etc in country/ place where we got engaged
Local Towns
Italian Cities
Street names
Underground stations
Mountain names from Ski resort (in Canada and Scotland)
Skiing resort theme (Verbier) – ski runs, restaurants etc
Every hotel they have stayed in! (thanks to @planetflowers for this one – that was one of their clients)

Cartoon Characters
Soap Operas
Carry on Films
Favourite Film Titles
Dr Who Theme (The Tardis, Rose etc)
Superheroes (comic fans @samuraijen had this one)
Movie Names – guest had a line from movie next to their name and had to work it out! fun I like that one (thanks to @archibaldphotog for that one!)

Things that they had argued about (washing up)
Love in 13 different languages
Clues (for a game later)
Secrets (Mr and Mrs)
Individual words from the first dance .. so people can guess what its going to be (I love that one what a cool idea!)
Eras of the couple growing up (baby, toddler, teenager etc) with photos at each stage.
Significant years (years they met, they got engaged, birthdays etc – thanks to @planetflowers another recommendation)

Arsenal legends (typically that came from a groom!)
Rugby positions (hooker, scrum half etc)
Football teams
Golfer’s surnames – thanks to @unicorngirl for that one – her best friend had that at her wedding!
Butterflies
Birds
Fish
Big Cats – @EspDelCakes suggested that one – apparently her hubbie to be wants to be a lion!

Classic Cars
Colours of the rainbow
Stamps
Great paintings
Poems
Photo themes (taken by groom) e.g Beachhuts, Woodlands. And then everyone name places on that table would be beachhuts….similarly woodlands.
Musical instruments
Favourite songs/ music
Cure Songs – that was given to me by @prettywildwed – making stationery for a couple that have chosen that.
Concerts that they have been to (with tickets making the table names – I like that one- thanks to @archibaldphotog)

Carols
12 Days of Christmas

Luxury Fashion brands

I love the vintage, Cath Kidston style of this table plan – so pretty. The fab photos in this post were taken by husband and wife duo, Jay and Christina from Elemental Weddings – they’re award winning photographers based in Scotland. Have featured lots of their work on LMW – check out the real life wedding forJude and Matt if you want to see more of their work and keep checking back here and on their site to keep up with their work.