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Winter Jewels – December Wedding Inspiration Board

As Christmas is nearly upon us and most of the country is knee-deep in snow (!), I felt that December’s design board should have a cheery festive feel. Now whilst red is one of the most popular colours for winter weddings, many brides want to break from tradition and are looking for something a little more unusual. One of my personal favourites for an alternative Christmas colour schemes is the delicious combination of deep purple and emerald green – rich, warm and definitely in keeping with the festive season.

I imagine this wedding to take place in a beautiful stately home, with roaring open fires keeping everyone snug and scented candles providing delicate fragrances of cinnamon, spiced apple and mulled wine. The decor is a key component of this design, so I would use huge Christmas trees as focal pieces in hallways, and swathes of pine garlanding to decorate staircases and mantelpieces.
It’s important to keep guests warm at this time of year, so rather than the traditional champagne and canapés I’d serve warm mulled wine and mini mince pies for the post-ceremony reception, whilst carol singers entertain guests with favourite Christmas tunes. I love the idea of writing guests’ names onto baubles and hanging them on the Christmas tree in place of a table plan, and leaving brightly wrapped presents underneath in place of favours.
For the wedding breakfast I’d serve a traditional Christmas dinner, complete with individual flaming plum puddings, and after guests have danced the night away to a swing band would round the day off with a spectacular firework display and a mug of warm hot chocolate.
Merry Christmas everyone – see you in the New Year!

Photo Credits:
Bride and groom: Lisa Devlin via Love My Dress
Pine decoration, Christmas tree and log fire: Flickr here, here and here
Shoes: The Knot
Candles: Lakeland
Wedding gown: Pronovias
Purple bow: Spirit of Christmas Fair
Bouquet: Brides
Cupcakes: Martha Stewart
Bridesmaid dress: Dessy

Thanks to Helen Carter, for this wonderful December Wedding Inspiration Board – be sure to check out the other wedding inspiration boards that Helen has done for LMW in the past and let us know your thoughts on the choice of colours…..

Summer Wedding bouquets and arrangements

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Thanks to Britt and Liz from Flourish & Green for sending me these photos from a recent wedding – The bride is actually a friend of mine’s sister and I recommended Britt, seeing as she did a fab job at my own wedding a couple of years ago. She uses local and seasonal flowers and foliage – the arrangements below look so crisp and fresh!What a wonderful mix of fresh, seasonal flowers for this summer wedding at Pembridge Lodge, in Richmond Park – Hydrangeas, Delphiniums, Stocks, garden roses call Walzertrum, Peonies, Oreganum, Flowering Mint, Alchemilla, Lisianthus, Beech foliage for the big pedestals and Ivy for the other foliage. Love Peonies… so wanted them at my own wedding but got the seasons a bit confused as they are definitely not the flower of choice in the winter. Still I was very happy with my roses and berries!* What did you really love about doing this wedding?
We loved taking the bride and her mother for a market visit and although her dream was to have sweet peas, they were just going over, which we stressed to her and in the end we had to use mostly peonies and roses – she welled up with delight when she saw it – just a lovely moment to remember. Another lovely bit was seeing them after the wedding when although trying to hide away looking very grubby and tired we got huge hugs and kisses from Dawn (mother of the bride) who couldn’t have been lovelier!The Mother of the bride sent a glowing testimonial and here are just a few of her words…
The Church flowers and arrangements at Pembroke Lodge were absolutely perfect. You understood exactly the look that Kate wanted and got it completely right. All those words breath taking, stunning, magnificient seem too predictable so really I’m at a loss as to how to express our appreciation. We loved everything.
Wow well clearly only a good word to say about Britt and Liz from Flourish & Green and I have to say that I had the same experience with them at my wedding. I’ve featured their work on LMW before, summer wedding flowers from a wedding at High Road House in Chiswick, do have a little look at the post – flowers in the little jam jar vases make cute table arrangements.

Real Life Wedding * Gaynor and Graham (part 2)

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Did you read part 1 of Gaynor & Graham’s wedding last week? Well as promised here is the second part. (For those of you that may not know Gaynor guest blogged on LMW in the run up to her wedding so its really lovely to see the final photos) Over to you Gaynor….We did the group shot first so that everyone could then get back inside to enjoy the drinks & canapés; I think only a couple of people were missing, all Grahams family so thankfully they are in other pictures.My gorgeous nephew Enzo gave me a horseshoe, one of 4 good luck charms we received.Our full bridal party; another of the shots I have framed!I love these photos of me and GrahamOf course being a Scottish wedding; Graham wanted to get some shots of all the guests in kilts; there was a lot!I wanted to get some of me and all of my friends; we did get some serious ones but I love this one!During my dads speech; he presented me with a tea cosy knitted by mum in our wedding colours. It came from my old profile picture on my blog which was me as a baby wearing a tea cosy on my head!Then it was time to cut our fabulous cake with the Lego bride & groom; we kept the top tier!This is my favourite photo of the first dance; no idea what we are laughing at though!The photographers at the wedding were Craig & Eva Sanders, who were recently featured on the gorgeous US wedding blog, Style Me Pretty – well done guys and thanks for sharing these fantastic photos from Gaynor and Graham’s wedding with us.
You can also find Gaynor on her blog OurDayByDesign) If you loved this wedding then check out some of the other real life weddings on LMW and don’t forget to leave us some comment love!

Special Wedding Touches with Tino & Pip

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I got send a whole load of gorgeous photos from Tino & Pip, who are one of my favourite UK wedding photographers. There were so many lovely piccies that I thought I would display them all – an inspiration overload because everyone loves looking at the details.

* The Vintage set for those of you going for a vintage feel

* I love all the reds in this collage – we had 3 red double decker buses at our wedding and the guests all said that was one of their favourite bits. It was so much fun drinking champagne, catching up with friends and not needing to worry about getting to the venue!

* The Purples – I recently featured a wedding where the colour theme was purple – so pretty and the bridesmaids (and flowers) were beautiful. I think purple goes really well with all the cream and white at a wedding.

* And last of all the butterflies – who doesn’t love Butterflies? This is such a lovely touch for a summer wedding.

Thanks to Tino & Pip for sharing these gorgeous pics with us all on LMW. I hope to feature lots more of their photography, both on here and Little Miss Baby (they do baby and children portraits too). Do make sure that you check out their website, TinoandPip for more beautiful photography.
Have you got a particular theme for your wedding? Which of these collages do you really love? Its great to hear your feedback.

Deep Purple Wedding – Browns Photography

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Isn’t this a lovely wedding – I really like the colour scheme which is a little bit different from the pastel colours we are used to seeing. The deep purple really compliments her white dress and those tulips look so fresh.
The flowers were by Stem in Southwater near Horsham and the dress was from White Mischief in Henfield. These gorgeous photos were taken by Joanna Brown of Browns Photography
I always like to ask the photographers about the wedding (because I am nosey!) – mainly what they liked about photographing the day and any special touches.
“I particularly loved photographing the bride and groom they were totally relaxed and beaming all day and very comfortable in front of the camera. Special touches were personal things like the mother in law made the cake, their neighbour got out their classic car and drove her to the church… it seemed like everybody contributed something special”.
Don’t you just love it when all the friends and family get involved in making it a special day for the couple? That was one of the best things about my wedding, everyone pulling together to make it an amazing day that we will remember forever.

What do you think about having a purple colour theme? Don’t you think that the bride and bridesmaids look gorgeous together? I am going to be a bridesmaid in May and I need to go bridesmaid dress shopping soon – just not sure where to start (any good ideas send them my way!)

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Winter Jewels – December Wedding Inspiration Board

Summer Wedding bouquets and arrangements

Real Life Wedding * Gaynor and Graham (part 2)

Special Wedding Touches with Tino & Pip

Deep Purple Wedding – Browns Photography