Saturday 24 December 2011

DIY Christmas Wedding Favours

Edible wedding favours are always popular, and these gorgeous gingerbread men are the best addition to a winter wedding. Get your girlfriends baking, and encourage them to use their imagination in the decorating. Just imagine a gingerbread man bride and groom! These would also make a fantastic extra Christmas present - DIY your own with this recipe from The Primrose Bakery Book via Daily Candy.


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Friday 23 December 2011

Winter Wedding Place Markers Inpsiration

These may well be the most adorable winter wedding place markers I've ever seen. I've long been a huge fan of the humble pom pom as the best DIY wedding project ever. Meanwhile pine cones are SO in this season, and they'd work perfectly for a countryside wedding, even in the summer. Plus, with the festive season well and truly started, they'd made a great craft project for Christmas Day as well. If you're not up to the DIY, or you've got 200 to make and not enough time, then head over the Potter and Butler to snap these up.



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Thursday 22 December 2011

Channel 4 Beauty Best Wedding Blogs ♥ Before the Big Day!

Woohoo! Christmas has come early for Before the Big Day! Channel 4 Beauty have chosen us as one of their Best Wedding Blogs - and I'm thrilled. It's been a fantastic year here for Before the Big Day - not least because it's the year we actually got married! My love for weddings it still strong - I can't wait for another year of wedding inspiration to start.


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Wednesday 21 December 2011

Perfect Wedding Stationery & Paper Blogs

My secret treat is stationery. I spend a lot of time dreaming about the perfect invitation, and with my own wedding on the way next May, I'm struggling to pick a designer. There's too much talent out there, and with blogs like Oh So Beautiful Paper and Paper Crave, it's easy to OD on creativity. Here are a couple of the graphic designers who are floating my boat this week, one from the US, and another all the way from Australia!


{Product Credits} - Just Another Day and Follow Studio

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Friday 16 December 2011

Real Yellow-Themed Autumn Wedding: Ashley & Jeff

Aaaah, yellow! The colour of the sunshine - something we're not getting a great deal of on these grey November days. I hope these pics of Ashley and Jeff's big day cheer you up out of the gloom - they certainly did the job for me earlier on today. My favourite ideas to steal? Ashley's fab flat shoes (sensible but oh-so-stylish), their cute tie-the-knot invitations and the vintage typewriter they used for messages on the day.  Huge thanks to the team at Simply Bloom for their gorgeous pictures.


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Thursday 15 December 2011

Hey DJ - How to Choose Your Wedding Music

Wedding dancing. It's a whole genre of its own. But how can you guarantee your guests will fill the dance floor all night? Why not ask them for their favourite tracks? Leave these fab, free, print-your-own cards on the tables through dinner, and encourage your guests to fill them in during dinner. They'll make for a fantastic conversation starter, and you can ask one of the ushers to pick them up ahead of the cake-cutting. Huge thanks to the team at brilliant blog The Wedding Chicks for this inspirational idea. Click here for the template.


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Wednesday 14 December 2011

Real Red Balloon Vintage Wedding: Jennie & Brian

I am absolutely crazy about this wedding! Jennie and Brian picked a paint-strip palette for their big day and used it to fabulous effect, with Jennie even asking her girlfriends to dress in coordinating hues of pink and red. Add in the heart fans and 'Sex in the City' style balloons, plus those gorgeous satin shoes, and you've got a marriage made in heaven. Extra brownie points for the vintage decoration-details and Newlywed's Game. Massive thanks to Our Labour of Love for their fantastic photographs.


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Tuesday 13 December 2011

Destination Wedding Stationery

It's December, it's cold and it's wet and it's dark by 4pm, and in my book, that makes it time to start picking out your destination wedding stationery! Even if you're not getting married abroad, these invites are bound to raise the glummest of moods, and with the added benefit of supporting small, creative businesses, what's not to like?

{Product Credit} Stationery above designed by Beyond Design


{Product Credit} Stationery above designed by Inky Livie

{Product Credit} Stationery above designed by (clockwise from left) Sunshine & Ravioli, The Stylish Scribe and Rubber Ducky Designs

{Product Credit} Stationery above designed by The Paper Peony

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