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Romantic Wedding Theme

Wedding Favours, Decorations & Goodies – Velvet Wedding

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Velvet Wedding sells a fab selection of wedding favours, decorations and goodies online. They’ve got something for every wedding, whether you are going for a romantic, vintage, country theme. I could spend hours looking through their site… have a look at some of the suggestions that they sent me.
Romantic Wedding Theme
* Its all about the LOVE – the feminine romantic theme. Think roses, butterflies, hearts and more hearts, fairy lights and birdcages.
Heart bunting £12, Wooden ‘ Love’ Heart Garland £5.50, Faux pink hydrangea, £6, Glass cake donme on stand £38, Metal Heart decoration £3.50, Dotty Wooden Hearts £1.50 each, Heart tealight holder on stand £9.75, French glass bonbon jars £3.50 each.

Monochrome Theme for Wedding
* Monochrome Theme – minimalist, sophisticated and chic – for a silver, white or black wedding. Ideal look for a black tie evening reception.
Black Love Birds Cake Stand £16.50, Silver Amazon Butterfly £1.50, White Wooden Letters £6 each, Ornate Metal Heart Daisy Decoration £3.75, Ivory Trellis Heart decoration £4.95, LOVE Wooden Blocks £19.50, Double Sided Wedding Arrow Sign £5, Mirrored Place Card Holder £2.50.

Velvet Wedding have got so many wonderful products on their site, that whatever look you want to create at your wedding I am sure you’ll find some inspiration (royal britannia bunting, bird cages, stationery, wedding lanterns, cake stands etc). Their website is really well done – it is easy to find what you are looking for and has clear photos and descriptions of all products, visit online at Velvet Wedding. Oh and if you live near Brighton then its definitely worth popping in to one of their two shabby chic lifestyle stores, where they stock everything from wedding favours to furniture and clothes.

I asked Velvet Wedding what was popular with their brides and for any themes that they saw becoming popular….
“The Vintage wedding theme has always been popular for us with our Hanging Heart Tealight Holders and Wicker Hearts being the best sellers for a shabby chic reception. Couples are definitely becoming more creative in their approach to venue décor, we’ve noticed an increased interest in Union Jack and Colourful Ethnic wedding requests from our local demographic”

Do you know of a good place to buy favours and decorations? Do you like these ideas from Velvet Wedding? and what look are you going to create on your wedding day?

Wednesday wedding blog love

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Vintage Caravan Interior via Myvintageparty

Vintage Caravan Interior via Myvintageparty

Here is my weekly wedding blog round up. What I have enjoyed reading this week – take a peek, leave me comments and your thoughts or just point me in the direction of any good ones I am missing please!

This week I am starting with Myvintageparty blog which funnily enough is a blog for all things vintage old and lovely. Myvintageparty hires out vintage china and crockery for special events and weddings and the more recent addition to the company is the fabulous vintage caravan (which I just love). Hire it for a vintage hen party or for afternoon tea and cakes on your wedding day (it looks like you can sleep in it too so there is little need to elope off to a hotel for your first night of married bliss!). What a great, fun and slightly novel idea – there is lots of other good chat, vintage tips, photos and inspiration on her blog.

For my photography choice it has to be Elemental Weddings and Portraits blog This couple are photographers based up in Scotland and their blog is full of pics of all the weddings that they have been shooting. There is clearly a LOT of wind up there in Scotland but they still manage to get pics of the bride and groom looking calm and relaxed – no wonder they are shortlisted for VOWS Awards 2009 (awards for the Scottish Wedding Industry). Check out their blog for recent pics from some lovely Scottish weddings and get voting for them for these Awards.

I got sent this blog by the bride herself Mithi, check out her wedding blog posts at Planetmithi blog – her wedding might be over now but looks like it was a whole load of fun. And more importantly for us it has masses of good ideas and tips (to steal) such as using old milk bottles for table numbers, really cool DIY table decorations, flower arrangements and hand designed name places.

Table numbers for Wedding - via Planet Mithi

Table numbers for Wedding - via Planet Mithi

If you’re looking for a few green tips I like her idea of a great way to recycle the flowers – she gave cellophane flower bags filled with flowers from the table arrangements to people as leaving presents. Wow I would have loved to have been at her wedding all very creative (which I suppose you would expect from someone that is an illustrator). Her blog is well worth a good read and a haven of inspiration for anyone getting married or involved in wedding planning.

Tabletop and decorations - via Planet Mithi

Tabletop and decorations - via Planet Mithi

And last but by no means least – it is the blog of wedding planner Zoe Lingard. Her style and inspiration boards are beautiful and her blog is a good source of inspiration and tips for couples getting married – like for example the brilliant post that she has just written on wedding favours. Before meeting a wedding planner, or considering taking one on its well worth a look at their blog as it is an insight into their sense of style, what they like and how they work.

I am meant to recommend 5 but I have already written a long post and these 4 are so good that they make up for me missing out one!

Wedding ideas from recent weddings…

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Real Life Weddings - thats me!

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 – all the flowers were grown by the brides’ grandma, we all made meringues for pudding, friends DJ’d and we were entertained with clowns, aerial performers and fireworks all hosted in proper circus big top. It was just fantastic. There were so many lovely touches at both I am jut dying to get my hands on the photos so that I can show them on here. And that is not all there are many more to come.

 

If you are planning a wedding soon, or know someone who just got married and the wedding was a little bit different, there were some lovely touches and the they pulled it off as stylish affair please do let me know as I’d love to cover it on this site and I know the readers love them (as its the most popular section).

Laura’s Real life wedding – vintage theme

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This vintage inspired wedding in Worcestershire was sent to me by the bride Laura and I just love all her little personal touches – the Cath Kidston table plan, the homemade favours (mini pots of jam for the men and lavender bags for the ladies), and the wonderful table decorations, the name places, bird cage and the vintage crockery with homemade cupcakes (made by the guests).

Everyone loves having a good old nose at other people’s wedding shots for inspiration and I love these photos taken by wedding photographer, Richard Barley, of Laura’s special day.

Laura who runs a vintage crockery hire company in Northamptonshire loves anything vintage – rumour has it she is just finishing decorating her very own vintage style caravan, Lola, which will be available to hire for celebrations, tea parties and hens. I suppose its no suprise then that Laura (her family and friends) managed to pull off such a lovely themed wedding.

I love this photo of Laura, dressed in a Maggie Sottero dress, and Stuart on the kissing bench outside their wedding venue. Wishing them both the happiness of marriages and thanking Laura for sharing her DIY tips and inspiration.

“The best bits from my day was walking down the aisle and saying my vows to Stuart. Also seeing the fabulous cupcakes our guests put so much effort into and lastly, performing our ‘dance’ at the end of the night (we put together arrange of different songs and made up a dance routine which was hilarious!)” 
 

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I would love to hear from any brides that have had, or are planning a vintage inspired wedding. Have you done most of the planning and finishing touches yourself? Click here to look at other real life weddings that we have covered like Gems and Ali’s Yorkshire wedding which was just gorgeous, or leave a comment and let me know what you think….