Win VIP Tickets to the National Wedding Show

It's treat time for readers of Before the Big Day! The lovely people over at the National Wedding Show have given your favourite wedding blogger two pairs of tickets to give away for the London and Birmingham National Wedding Shows. All you need to do is leave a comment below, or send me one via Twitter {tag it @beforethebigday} and I'll enter you into the competition. Make sure you leave your email address and say whether you want tickets to London or Birmingham or either. The London show runs from 30th Sept - 2nd Oct, and the Birmingham one is 7th-9th October. I've got a pair of VIP tickets for each {normally £35 each}, and a pair of normal tickets for each. VIP tickets get you a free glass of bubbly, access to the VIP lounge and a good bag packed full of treats. Wedding fairs are a great way to bond with your mum or bridesmaids, so be sure to take them along for a day of fab wedding inspiration. I'll draw the winner on Monday 26th September.

{Product Credits} Dresses by Sassi Holford via Ellie Sanderson

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Cheerful DIY Wedding Stationery Stamps

Send your greetings to your guests via these fun DIY wedding stationery stamps. Just choose an ink that matches your wedding colour palette, and get stamping! They'd be a great addition to the backs of your wedding invitation envelopes, or to decorate your wedding stationery and thank you letters. You could even use them as a motif on your wedding favours. Give the personalised name stamps to your bridesmaids as thank you presents. Handmade by Eat Pray Create {winner of the best company name ever!}.

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Real Golden Beachside Wedding: Molly & Amber

As I'm sunning myself by the pool on our second honeymoon {it rained in the first} in Greece, I thought it only fair that I featured a beautiful sun-drenched wedding to cheer you up in the September rain. I'm loving the incredible laid-back, rustic chic style of this wedding. Brides Molly and Amber chose a lovely muted palette for the wedding colour theme, and I'm loving their complimentary dresses. Don't you just love beach weddings? Stunning pictures published with thanks to Our Labour of Love.

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Introducing Mahlatini Luxury Safari Holidays & Honeymoons

What type of honeymoon are you dreaming about? Believe me, you'll want to go somewhere super special, with a good dose of relaxation at the beginning. We actually delayed our honeymoon till today {yippee, leaving on a jet plane!}, but I actually wish we'd honeymooned straight away. You need a treat, otherwise you can feel a bit flat after your wedding day ends. There's tonnes of holiday companies offering honymoons of every hue, but one of my favourites is Mahlatini. They're specialists in luxury African travel, and every one of their honeymoons look incredible. From Botswana to Zambia and plenty of countries from the middle of the alphabet {including the Maldives and Mauritius}, they'll recommend the very best hotels and lodges, in the very best locations. They're honeymoon specialists, and even offer a HoneyMoney service, where your guests can contribute to your honeymoon instead of buying you presents. What will you choose? Safari or resort, or both? Take a look at their dream-inducing website here Mahlatini.

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Three Ways to Decorate Your Wedding Cheaply

Wedding decorations can really blow your budget, particularly if you're decorating an empty space. Make an impact with these three cheap and cheerful wedding decorations. I've always been a huge fan of DIY pom poms, but if you're not a DIY-bride, then you can pick up these fantastic lacy rosettes, pinwheels and poms via Paper Polaroid. My favs are the rosettes!

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Our Wedlock Wedding Tradition

My favourite moment of our wedding actually happened the next day. We stole away near the end of our evening drinks, and locked a padlock onto a metal arch in the garden, that was covered with jasmine. There's a Chinese or Russian wedding tradition that suggests that if a couple attach a lock to a gate and throw away the key, then they'll be together forever. We decided to make this tradition our own, but I decided to keep the key safe and sound in my jewellery box. One day we'll go back, and check that it's still there!

{Photo Credits} 1. Before the Big Day, 2. & 3. Jemma Harding Photography, Dress: Temperley London

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Glittery Wedding Earrings with a Laugh

At first sight, these are the chandelier earrings you've been looking for to add a glitter of glamour to your wedding day. And then you realise that not only will they look fabulous hanging from your lobes {love that word}, but they'll also make everyone laugh. A must-buy for your wedding day from Crumpet Clothing.

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Friday Feeling Wedding Blog Web Links

Autumn is well and truly here, and it's blown any hopes of an Indian summer right out of the window. Instead, I'm embracing everything that's wonderful about the changing seasons, from cosy cashmere socks to conker collecting. Meanwhile all my favourite wedding photographers finally have time to send me their gorgeous real weddings from this summer, so expect a lovely glut of wedding inspiration on the blog over the next few weeks. It's also Wedding Fair season, so make sure you don't miss a single one by clicking on the link. I'll be preparing myself for the wedding fair marathon with my new brogues {sensible flat shoes} and plenty of sugar {mainly Haribo, I'm addicted}. In the meantime, enjoy these truly inspiring wedding web blog links....

♥ {Picture Credit} Autumn wedding pictured by Karen Wise Photography

♥ Loving the use of Scrabble letters in this gorgeous wedding from US wedding blog Green Wedding Shoes

♥ 75 ways to make your wedding unique

♥ Loving a groom in braces for a beach wedding

♥ Great wedding budget checklist

♥ More braces and a fantastic picnic-themed wedding

♥ Unusual, gorgeous wedding rings

♥ An autumn wedding you WILL adore!

♥ My Pinterest DIY wedding projects

♥ Incredible London wedding with tonnes of pom poms!

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