Heart Wedding Lanterns

These stunning nightlights would add a magical soft glow to your wedding reception. Pretty by day and night, the hand pierced domes are moulded in off-white porcelain by Wendy Jung in Hastings. Inspired by sea forms, they're available plain pierced or with an indented heart, and both are gorgeous!

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Spell it out

If you're thinking vintage, and you want to add a personal quality to your wedding, use these gorgeous monogrammed wood-and-metal pedestals from Anthropologie. They're reduced to less than half price (£12), and they're available in A-Z online. I'll be buying G xx N. What would you spell out?

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Good Will Bunting

Wedding decorations can quickly add up, particularly if you've got a penchant for cut flowers. But how's this for a brilliant idea? Bunting is cheap and cheerful, and adds a gorgeous vintage element to your wedding. Plus it comes in every colour, so it's bound to fit in with your theme. My favourite supplier is Heidi Adnum, but you can make your own with this tutorial from Knit, Sew & Grow, or rent extra large penants from Big Beautiful Bunting.

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Grace & Tailor

Struggling with the styling of your wedding? {I feel your pain!} Have you considered calling in the experts? Look no further than Grace & Tailor. Lovely ladies Lucy and Louisa will harness their visionary talent to design your perfect big day, and add the perfect props to finish it off. Just check out the inspirational vintage wedding they created, and don't miss the French-themed pics at the end. I'm loving the old-fashioned lampshades and cute crystal centre-pieces, plus the faded Union Jack canvas pictures. They'd make the perfect momento to hang on your walls after your big day.

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Paper Gardener

Bright, cheerful and uniquely playful, these pretty paper flowers would be a fantastic addition to your big day. Add them to cup-cakes, canapés or cocktails to make your guests smile. I'm imagining them as place-markers, stuck in tiny terracotta pots. Their London creator and 'gardener' is Milla Love. Don't miss her cool banners and party decorations.

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What Did You Say?

Signs are this summer's super trend in the world of weddings. You heard it hear first! They're cropping up in every big day, and brides and grooms are getting ever more creative about what they want to say to their guests. No longer is it enough to simply direct friends and family to the Wedding, the Reception, or the Loos - now they're encouraging visitors to Celebrate, Smile, Eat, Drink and Be Married. I'm particularly loving the little boy with his Yay! flag, and I'm wondering what else you'd add to your big day? I like the idea of adding a 'Love is Sweet' sign to our Desert Table, and one saying 'Kick off Your Heels' next to the dancefloor, but do you have any other ideas?

Product Credits - {from top left} 1. Family Attic, 2. True Connection, 3. Family Attic, 4. Joyful Joyful {from middle top left} 1. Our Hobby to Your Home, 2. The Back Porch Shoppe {from middle bottom left} 1. Craft Mart Texas, 2. Sweetie Pie Suite {from bottom left} 1. Family Attic, 2. Palomas Nest, 3. Craft Mart Texas, 4. Joyful Joyful

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Silver Spoon

Vintage and romantic, this gorgeous silver-plated cutlery will make that first mouthful of wedding cake taste all the sweeter. Hand-engraved by a beach-living Etsy crafter, these mismatched pieces are given a new lease of life as charming future heirlooms. Team them with hammered spoon table signs or cake toppers, and start your married life as eco-friendly upcyclers. Buy them from the Beach House Living boutique and surprise your fiancé as you sit down to your first meal as husband and wife.

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Love-Light

A little bit kitch, a little bit cutesy, but a lot cool, I love these lamps! Unearthed by uber-cool style-boutique Caravan in Shoreditch, and available online, they're the latest in lighting. Decorate your rural themed wedding with a couple, and add a smidgen of forest fantasy. Alternatively, put them on your wedding list, and welcome them as low-maintenance pets into your home. Not just for Christmas, but for weddings too!

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DIY Pom Love

Pompoms. I'm obsessed. They're something about their frothy loveliness and their vulnerable tissue petals that makes me want to hug them. Of course I can't, because that would crush them, but that just adds to their hugability. It's the same feeling I get when I see kittens, or pugs, or babies' fat legs. {Ahem, moving swiftly on...} Anyway, I'm seriously thinking of decorating my own wedding with hundreds of them, so I started to look into how easy they are to DIY. The good news is that they're incredibly simple. The bad news for my girlfriends, is that my hen party is now going to be a pom-pom making party. If you don't want to spend the next few months up to your elbows in tissue paper, you can buy them from Pom Love, but if you want a DIY tutorial...check this out! P.S. You can make confetti out of the leftover bits of tissue paper, if you buy a paper stamp from here.

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Cup of Love

Save your pennies by using these super-cool paper cups instead of renting glasses! They wouldn't work for champagne, but you could definitely use them for short cocktails or soft drinks. They'd be a great addition to your table decor, imagine the bright colours adding zing, instead of boring water glasses. ABC cups come in 14 variations, including the alphabet from A to Z, and for under £10 you get 30. What words would you spell out? Pick them up here from the fabulous Papermash.

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