Another beautiful wedding.. normally we focus on weddings and brides based in the UK and look to show UK wedding ideas, but saying that there are so many great tips and wedding ideas to be had from celebrations abroad that I had to include this one (and I adore the pics). Just because these shots might be from sunny California it doesn’t mean that you can’t create the same atmosphere and feeling in Cornwall or Devon! I had six weeks to plan my wedding. My British fiancé was in London while I, an American, was doing 60-hour work weeks in…
Continue reading Real life wedding abroad… relaxed Californian beach wedding5 wedding tips for couples on a budget
If you read my previous post on my home-grown romantic country wedding then I hope that you enjoyed it – here are some top tips to recreate some of those little touches from my special day and more importantly to do it on a budget. Beg, steal borrow! There’s something about weddings that makes people –even strangers to the bride and groom – extraordinarily open minded and giving. Max out on this generosity while it lasts! We had planted masses of sweet peas for our wedding which– devastatingly, after months of love and care, had withered by the big day.…
Continue reading 5 wedding tips for couples on a budgetNed and Winks ‘home-grown’ country wedding
A natural country wedding in Oxfordshire – a ‘romantic home-grown wedding’ were the words of the bride herself. Wink, is a stylish girl who writes for numerous interiors and decor magazines in the UK so its no surprise that she managed to pull off such a beautiful, stylish wedding and more importantly to do it on a budget. I suppose that is the exact point of this site – to give people unique wedding ideas, advice and tips to have the wedding that they want to have without it needing to cost the earth. It can cost the earth if…
Continue reading Ned and Winks ‘home-grown’ country weddingA very successful bridal party with Morgan Davies Bridal
The lucky winner of the free competition to win an Alan Hannah Dress It was great to hear from the ladies at Morgan Davies Bridal boutique that last night’s bridal party in London was such a success. Sarah Lakin, the lucky winner of the free competition to win an Alan Hannah wedding dress also happened to be at the party so it was celebrations all round. It was a fantastic competition that I covered here on the site a couple of weeks ago and what a great prize – I wore an Alan Hannah ‘All that Jazz’ dress to my…
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Weddings are meant to be fun, stress free and relaxed , but often I have seen brides get upset, anxious and not really enjoying the run up to the wedding and all the planning. Its all meant to be about you as a couple and what makes you both happy -take time out to be together and remember what is really important about getting married. Lovely Elisa had only 6 weeks to plan her wedding, but did a fab job of it. Reading her real life wedding stories (which are going to be up on the site shortly) made…
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Real Life Weddings – thats me! I have been to some fabulous weddings recently and just can’t wait to cover them in the real life weddings section. One down in Devon which was beach themed – an old rowing boat fill to the brim with ice, champers and other alcoholic drinks, chocolate sea shells on the tables, hand made devon fudge (made by the bride and groom!) given out as favours, beach named tables and lots of other lovely touches. Then the circus themed family and friends affair just this last weekend, which saw us head down to Cornwall…
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