Beautiful Wedding Marquee Inspiration

Marquees are fantastic for hosting truly personalised weddings. As long as you've got enough space, you can pick and pitch in any location, from a field to your parent's garden. And then the fun starts! You can decorate the inside any which way you like - carpet colour, drapings, lighting, tablecloths, chair-style, flowers - it's all up for grabs. I've recently fallen for these arty drapings by Crescent Moon - loving the butterflies and feathers - which one would you choose?

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Wearing A Veil On Your Wedding Day

Wedding veils can be a difficult beasts. After all, it's the one accessory you only really wear once, so it's not like you get a great deal of practice on what style suits you best. My bridesmaids had terrible trouble fitting my incredible Delphine Manivet veil at my wedding, so I'd definitely recommend getting your hairdresser to do it for you. Or at least do some serious practice ahead of your wedding day. I'm particularly loving the wedding veil style in this picture below, discovered on fab blog Cup of Jo, by Amy Carroll. For other styles, do click here.

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Real Shabby-Chic Barndance Wedding: Jamie & Bryan

The sheer abundance of copyable details from Jamie & Bryan's big day, have got me in a tizz. How can I put in words the sheer wonderfulness of it all? What should I mention first? Luckily the team from Our Labour of Love have gushed on my behalf, pointing out the barn-dance invitations, the oodles of bouquets and birds nests, the flea market antique plates, the symmetry of the parasols and the personalised jam-pots. PLUS my biggest love, and something that should be in everyone's list of wedding-wants, the Kick Off Your Heels flip-flop favours. Such a fantastic idea to keep your girls on the dance-floor.

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Winners! Luxury Wedding Show London

Congratulations to the winners of the competition to win tickets to The Luxury Wedding Show London. Liz, Mari, Jenny, Paul & Grace and Kushla, you are all lucky winners of a pair of tickets worth £100! The Luxury Wedding Show London covers every aspect of planning your big day, from designer gowns and accessories through to top venues, honeymoon destinations, florists and photographers. The show is this weekend {22nd-23rd October} at the Saatchi Gallery, click here for a special offer of 2 tickets for the price of one {saving you £50}.

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Vintage Wedding Ice-Cream Van

From pink campervans to blue ice-cream vans called Betty - I've got an obsession with unusual wedding catering this month! This baby-blue van is owned by the lovely Hayley, who loves kitsch and great ice cream, and combined her two passions to create Vintage Scoops. As well as locally sourced ice cream, Betty also comes supplied with a range of vintage ice lollies and traditional soft drinks. All served from a 50's style van festooned with bunting, by Hayley in her best floral frock. It's a great way to keep your guests sweet at your wedding.

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Real Cupcake & Seaside Wedding: Emily & Neil

Vibrant turqoise is such a stuning choice for a real wedding, but it takes a brave bridesmaid to carry it off. Luckily, Emily's bridesmaids look fabulous in their gorgeous gowns, and I'm loving their cute fingerless gloves, corsages and bold nail varnish. There's a real fabulous forties feel to their wedding style. I'm also loving the love-birds cake, the laser-cut cupcake cases and the Alice in Wonderland 'Eat Me' labels. Plenty of wedding inspiration of a bride planning a shabby chic wedding. Gorgeous pictures published with thanks to Angharad from Gwenter Photography - loving the wild beach shots.

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That Friday Feeling Wedding Web Links ♥19

Talk about incredible weather! I can only imagine the smiles on the faces of the brides and grooms who've been getting married this weekend. It's autumnal bliss with a twist of summer sunshine. I've spent this week out in the countryside, and it's made me much more aware of the seasons changing. You can get tonnes of wedding inspiration from the season you choose for your big day. Spring, summer, autumn, winter - why not use one as the basis of your wedding theme? If that's got you thinking, wait for these fabulous wedding blog web links. They'll have your brain fizzing with wedding ideas.

Photo Credit - Heidi Ryder {many thanks to Jonathan from Bean Photo for his help using Tin Eye}

♥ Incredible packaging ideas you could use on your wedding favours, or just for Christmas presents!

♥  My new super-cute Facebook page, complete with clever landing page to welcome you. Please Like Me!

♥ The best selection of bridesmaid dresses ever seen at a Real Wedding.

♥ One for DIY brides - how to make your own paper-flower pomander.

♥ 50 wedding websites you can't live without {via Brides magazine}

♥ Wedding planner to the stars, Mandy Weiss, has a fabulous wedding blog.

♥ 10 ways to do Something Blue. This is how I did it.

♥ Confused about choosing a colour palette for your wedding day? There's a wedding blog for that.

♥ Puzzling over your wedding ceremony readings? Click and puzzle no more....

♥ Gingham, spots AND pompoms. I love this bride's style.

Plus my favourite features from Before the Big Day this week
♥ A gorgeous Alice in Wonderland themed wedding
♥ Scottish wedding inspiration
♥ Worried it might rain at your wedding. Here's why you don't need to worry.

And don't forget, you can still WIN tickets to the Luxury Wedding Fair London. Click here.

Hope you're having a great weekend xx

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Winner! Butler-Madden Weddings Engagement Shoot

After many hours of deliberation, we can officially announce the WINNER of the incredible Butler-Madden Weddings Engagement Shoot. Congratulations Josie! Patrick Butler-Madden will get in touch with you soon to make arrangements. Josie suggested an urban engagement shoot to contrast with her rural wedding, which will be on a little island off the coast of Ireland. So she'll be booking Patrick to join her and her fiancé around east London, taking in Columbia Road Flower Market for blooms and bacon rolls, Brick Lane, Regents Canal and Broadway Market. Doesn't that sound gorgeous?

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