Bright Wedding Flowers Inspiration

Flowers are the one thing that completely blew our French wedding budget. We spent a thousand pounds - three times more than I originally planned. But it was worth it - they looked amazing - thanks to our fantastic florist Stephan {in Puyricard}, and creative wedding planner, Kerry Bracken. We discovered there's a lovely tradition in France of giving flowers to the bride and groom at a wedding, and it's one that exists in India as well. If you're looking to send a wedding bouquet, Aryan Florist have a fantastic selection, with everything from roses to orchids. If I had my time again, I'd pick bright freesias and camellias. What flowers are you considering for your wedding?

{Photo Credits} Freesias by Pinecone Camp, Table Display by Rebecca Wood Photography via Style Me Pretty

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Real Glamorous Seaside Wedding: Jennafer & Brandon

How about a bit of gorgeous sea-side glamour to keep you ticking over this fine Thursday? This exquisite wedding from the USA will seriously rock your wedding world. Stunning bride, Jenna, chose orchids as her wedding theme, and carried it through the decor, cake design and  paper goods. Even Jenna's gown, a gorgeous Monique Lhuillier, was detailed with floral embellishments along with her Siman Tu bracelet. Now that's dedication to a theme! Personally my favourite details are the sea-side setting, the huge lanterns and the dramatic twiggy table displays. How about you? Huge thanks to Kristin Spencer for her beautiful pictures.

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Amazing DIY Wedding Ideas via Pinterest

Wedding DIY is the best way to personalise your big day, and it's one of the aspects of my wedding planning that I enjoyed the most. I'm definitely not creative, but I'm very good at following tutorials, so if you're similarly challenged in the crafting arena, don't be put off! The DIY tutorials make everything easy, and you won't need many tools. In fact, the only thing I've bought so far is tonnes of tissue paper, some florist wire, some rubber stamps and a few hole punches. All easily and cheaply available on eBay. To find out my latest and most favourite wedding DIY projects, check out my board on Pinterest.

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Introducing The Last Detail Wedding Accessories

Keep your wedding details picture-perfect thanks to The Last Detail. They've got all the wedding favours and party decorations you could want, in tonnes of colours and and styles, that are bound to fit with your wedding theme. They've just added a new range of wedding guest books, something I thoroughly recommend. We encouraged our guests to take polaroid pictures of themselves, and stick them in our wedding guest book with a message. They got every more hilarious as the wedding night progressed, and people got more drunk on champagne!

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Real Shabby-Chic English Marquee Wedding: Eleanor & Peter

There are huge levels of excitement here at Before the Big Day, because this is a humdinger of a wedding, and it's fresh from fabulous UK wedding photographer Lisa Devlin. There are so many gorgeous details in this lovely summer wedding, and they're all pictured perfectly by the lovely Lisa. Eleanor and Peter celebrated their gorgeous big day at Firle Place in Sussex.  I'm loving their handmade signs, yellow lanterns and rustic Kraft wedding stationery. Throw in some seriously chic bridesmaid gowns and wildflower-style bouquets, and I'm seriously smitten. Isn't Eleanor the prettiest bride? I love her simple strapless dress and full-length veil. Yum!

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Cute Feather Bridal Mini Veil

Did you know that bridegroom's traditionally give their brides pearls on their big day? Well just in case your groom doesn't get the memo, add them to your wedding day accessories yourself, with this gorgeous feather mini-veil. Made to order in LA by Tessa Kim, it's created from coque feathers, vintage scalloped lace, Russian veiling and the all-important string pearls. Loving it!

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Romantic Laser-Cut Wedding Bunting

If you're a regular reader of Before the Big Day, you might have noticed my obsession with wedding bunting! That's why I'm loving this new range from bespoke wedding stationer, Hummingbird Cards. The pennants are laser cut from textured white card, and come in packs of six, with 2m of ivory organza ribbon to hang them. Definitely a step up from your average white bunting!

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