Real Botanical Themed Wedding: Josi & Jamess Part 2

Botanical-themed wedding Part 2. Such was the fabulousness of this gorgeous South African wedding by We Love Pictures, I had to split it into two! So if you missed the first part, click here. This is truly one of my favourite weddings of all time. Gorgeous Josi and Jamess celebrated their big day in some serious style, and there's tonnes of wedding details you're going to want to steal. Let's start with the bridesmaids' Grecian pink dresses in ombre shades, the flower girls in white with floral crowns and the handsome ushers in marching blue suits with pink ties. Then there's the gorgeous wild wedding flowers, both in the bouquets and tied to the chairs along the aisle. I'm also obsessed with Josi's beautiful half-up, half-down wedding hair-style and her feathery dress, teamed with a cathedral veil. The venue is incredible, the pictures are beautiful, everything is perfect *sigh*!

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Real Botanical Themed Wedding: Josi & Jamess

I've seen a lot of pretty weddings but this one has taken the biscuit! It's another one of those fabulous big days that have so many incredible details, I had to split it in two. So in a bit of a switcheroo, here are the wedding reception details first! Wedding themes can become slightly formulaic, so I'm thrilled to introduce a completely new wedding idea - the botanical themed wedding. Styled by the insanely talented Heike from Fleur Le Cordeur, just take a look at the incredible vegetable and flower displays at Josi and Jamess' wedding. I'm loving the vegetables displayed under bell-jars, the red onions spilling out of vases, mini-lettuce sin sweet glass-jars and leggy leek flowers. Only flowers that bloom on vegetable plants, fruit trees and herbs were used - wow! I'm also loving the soft striped table cloths, the pure white of the marquee and the twisted branch chandeliers. If you're wondering about the beautiful botanical-style table numbers and table plan, they're by The Secret Diary who have tonnes of incredible wedding stationery ideas on their website. Huge thanks to the massively talented team at We Love Pictures. Their photographs are always blow-your-mind beautiful. With suppliers like the crew at this wedding, who wouldn't want to get married in South Africa?!

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Before the Big Day Shoot with Caught the Light

Continuing the balloon theme for today, the moment has finally arrived for me to show off the pictures from the fun shoot I had with Caught the Light a few weeks ago. I needed some fun publicity shots to encourage more media types to use me as a wedding expert, and the lovely Chloé from Caught the Light took our wedding photographs, so it made sense for me to call her again! We had the most fabulous time running around Notting Hill Gate, dodging rain showers, standing on roundabouts, eating Hummingbird Bakery cupcakes, and trying to avoid a very keen amateur photographer. It was SUCH fun, and as you can see from the pics, a very large bunch of balloons played quite a large part! Here are just a few of the fabulous pictures Chloé took, more coming soon on my Facebook page. P.S. Wouldn't the balloons make the best photo-prop for an engagement shoot?

Vendor Credits
Photographer: Caught the Light
Stylist: Me! {Georgia from Before the Big Day}
Balloons: One Stop Party Shop
Hair: One Drayson Mews in Kensington {Tel: 020 7376 2418}
Eyelashes: Lash Lab
Sequin shrug: Jenny Packham
Boots: Russell & Bromley
T-Shirt: Topshop
Earrings: Anthroplogie

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When Wedding Balloons Get Special

If you follow me on Facebook, you might have spotted my slight, okay extreme obsession with balloons at weddings. I've even created an entire Pinterest board to their fabulousness. So you can only imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon these incredible balloons by Bonbon Balloons who are based in North London. Talk about taking the idea of a balloon and running with it! Most of all I'm loving the balloon ribbons or decorative strings - I reckon you could take some pretty bog-standard wedding helium balloons and make them special without too much DIY effort. Or you could just buy them from Bonbon and send them as gifts, or as the ultimate wedding invitations!

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Real Vintage Autumn Wedding: Kyle & Jonny Part 2

Autumn wedding fabulousness Part 2. There was too much gorgeousness in Kyle and Jonny's beautiful wedding, I've had to split it into two! Here are all the pretty ceremony and reception wedding details. I'm loving the outdoor ceremony setting by the sea, and cute gazebo alter area and its extravagant floral arch. Other stealworthy wedding details include the warm chocolate-brown bridesmaids' dresses and table cloths {who says they have to be white!}, plus the super-cool recycled, vintage bottle candles from Glassed Over. More fabulous wedding details as you scroll through the pictures. Huge thanks to the lovely Casey from Figlewicz Photography for these beautiful photographs.

Stunning copper roses, birch twigs and zinnias make up the striking floral arch.

Completely in love with the ushers in traditional Scottish dress, complete with sporrans!

Love this picture! Always make time for a group shot if you can. One way is to do a first-look shoot ahead of walking down the aisle, although most British brides prefer to save that moment to the ceremony.

Loving the warm autumn colour palette. The woody elements play on Kyle and Jonny's married surname.

Stunning table flowers by Rolling Hills Flower Mart. There's a real mix of exotic and classic flowers here, plus berries and autumn leaves.

If you look closely, there's even a cute little wood block in the centre to give height to the centre candle.

Loving the wrap of the family tartan around the bottles in the pictures below. It's the same as on the ushers' kilts!

Such a beautiful wedding cake. Have you spotted how the florist has used autumn fruits as embellishments? A seriously easy and effective DIY wedding idea!

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Real Vintage Autumn Wedding: Kyle & Jonny

Autumn brides listen up! You're going to love the wedding inspiration you'll get from this gorgeous seaside wedding. Fabulous couple, Kyle and Jonny celebrated their big day at Erhart’s By The Sea in Fort MacArthur in Calig. I'm loving all their wedding details from the autumnal colour palette, Kyle's beautiful strapless La Soie wedding gown, her cute lacy garter {definitely a US tradition we should export to the UK}, and most of all Jonny's kilt!! Huge kudos to Kyle and Jonny for putting their bridesmaids and ushers in coordinated outfits - we do like a well-turned out wedding party and it makes for the best pictures! More wedding details in Part 2, published this lunchtime. Huge thanks to the talented Figlewicz Photography for these beautiful pictures.

Love the colours in this bouquet. Berries are always a beautiful addition to autumn wedding bouquets.

The kilt and sporran! Always a great idea to reflect your heritage on your wedding day.

This is Jonny's dad's Classic Woody!

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