Introducing Froufrou Bridal Boutique

In my search for my wedding gown, I never actually found the perfect wedding dress shop. You know - the type of boutique which stocks all your favourite wedding designers, plus the wedding accessories to match. Well if only I'd discovered Froufrou Bridal Boutique before my big day. It's a divine wedding treasure trove in Tunbridge Wells, and it's stocked to the brim with all my favourite wedding designers. From Belle & Bunty to Lusan Mandongus, Caroline Castigliano, Stewart Parvin, Sanyukta Shrestha and Tatyana Merenyuk, Froufrou Bridal Boutique are also the only UK wedding shop to stock Ivy & Aster {one of my favourite designers ever!}. Add in wedding shoes by Rachel Simpson Shoes, all-inclusive alteration costs, wedding jewellery by Alex Monroe, honeymoon lingerie by Ell & Cee, and stunning collection of accessories from Twigs & Honey coming soon, and you can see why I'm so excited! Visit as soon as you can, because they've got a huge sale on at the moment, with massive discounts on wedding dresses by Matthew Williamson, Lyn Ashworth and David Fielden - wow!

{Picture Credit} Froufrou Bridal Boutique. Picture by David Burke Photography

{Picture Credit} Froufrou Bridal Boutique. Picture by David Burke Photography

{Picture Credit} Wedding shoes by Rachel Simpson Shoes

{Picture Credit} Twigs & Honey Wedding Accessories. Picture by Elizabeth Messina

{Picture Credit} Ivy & Aster wedding gowns. Picture by Elizabeth Messina



{Picture Credit} Ivy & Aster wedding gowns. Picture by Elizabeth Messina

{Picture Credit} Honeymoon lingerie by Ell & Cee

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Your Perfect {Subtle} Something Blue

It's amazing how out of all the wedding traditions, the 'something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue', has survived into the 21st century. Even the most untraditional of brides tend to sneak something from each category into their wedding outfit. If you're still looking for ideas for your Something Blue, I completely adore the simplicity and charm of this embroidered wedding dress label by Etsy seller Sunshine and Vodka. It comes fastened to a hand-stamped wedding card, so would work perfectly as a wedding day present for a bride {future bridesmaids take note!} or groom {sew it into his jacket or onto his tie as a surprise}. Each one is completely unique and made to order, and DIY-designer Paulette can add initials or a special blessing on request. For more ideas for your Something Blue, don't miss my Pinterest board!

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Real Pastel Vineyard Wedding: Ronnie & Richard

Any bride planning a pastel-pink themed wedding, with shabby-chic wedding details is going to fall head-over-heels in love with this gorgeous vineyard wedding. Ronnie and Richard paid exquisite attention to every wedding element - right down to the bridesmaids' fabulous spotted finger-nails - love! Ronnie looks beautifully elegant with her quirky blossomed birdcage veil, her traditional pearl necklace, and gorgeous flowing wedding gown. After the wedding ceremony Ronnie swapped her veil, for a stunning 1920's-style peony headband - two wedding looks for the price of one! Other wedding details to steal for your own big day include bubbles instead of confetti, the cute muslin favour bags {buy similar from Etsy}, the pastel macaron favours and the gorgeous bicycle and balloon table stationery. With a vineyard venue, and the amazing Our Labour of Love taking the wedding pictures, this is close to wedding perfection!

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Heart Handmade UK Peaches & Cream DIY Wedding Inspiration

{Posting by Claire Donovan, Before the Big Day's DIY Wedding Expert} Well this post is a little mash up of loveliness! Peaches, cream and hessian {burlap} is the theme and this is my DIY wedding reception table look. The DIY idea here is for adding calligraphy onto paper doilies and using clear plates, because it is very cute. ^_^ All of these photos are a peek into my mood board notebook as I knew I was creating this project in collaboration with Before the Big Day Blog. The recipe for the peach cheesecake is from Moje Wypieki and big thank you to my friend Marta and her culinary skills.

The blackboard peg tutorial is very very simple and will be shared with you soon as I try out a few different variations. This is just a peek into my ideas notebook where I store snippets of lace, fabrics, tapes and inspiring images.

Ive been slightly obsessed with the peaches and cream colour scheme for quite some time now and Im always inspired by Leslie of A Creative Mint and her beautiful colourful 'Color Me Pretty' column through Decor8 Blog, so when Georgia from Before the Big Day Blog contacted me about a collaboration I jumped at the chance to work on DIY projects, as I love the creative mood board and planning process!

I had so much fun collecting and raiding through my supplies to work on what I would be creating and how I would style the table. I was bursting to use the peach sequins and ecru hand crochet doily ^_^

My collection of loveliness. I've left all the ribbons on the key because they look so pretty! It's the key for the cupboard that hides our electricity fuse thing {I'm so good with technical terms!}

The peaches and cream crepe paper was just the perfect set of colours and the thing that set me off completely with this colour scheme is my lovely vase of flowers there from Bloom UK.

I Also fell in love with these peach stripy straws from Pipii. The calligraphy names written on a doily idea was originally seen on Martha Stewart {where else?!}

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Introducing Heart Handmade UK's DIY Blog Posts

Exciting news! As part of the Before the Big Day expansion, I'm delighted to welcome the huge talent that is Claire Donovan from Heart Handmade UK. Now if you haven't discovered Claire's fabulous blog yet, you must check it out right now! It's full to the brim of amazing shabby-chic DIY ideas, which are bound to inspire you to new wedding DIY heights. As a DIY bride myself, I understand how important it is for you to make your wedding original to you, and the best way to achieve that {while saving a few pennies}, is to DIY as much as you possibly can. So that's why I'm thrilled to welcome Claire as a regular Before the Big Day blogger. She'll be getting you up to speed on the best way to DIY your wedding, with posts on how to use mood-boards and scrapbooks for wedding inspiration, how to create your own calligraphy and tonnes of DIY decoration ideas. Click back tomorrow for her first DIY Wedding Blog Post, and make sure to follow Heart Handmade UK on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Possibly The Best Wedding Stationery Ever

My husband says that he can tell when I've found something I'm really excited about featuring on the blog. Apparently I hum happily and work at super-speed until I've written it up, and I do a happy drum of my fingers on the table. {Weird!}. He's not here as a write this, but I reckon I might be humming as a type, because I've just discovered an AMAZING wedding stationery company. Amelia Lane Paper is a London-based studio, run by Chanel. They specialise in gorgeous wedding invitations with quirky calligraphy, and clever destination designs, and every one is a winner! I just wish I'd discovered them in time for my own wedding. Take a look the fabulous pictures below, I'm loving the cute little hearts, the bright stamps and the watercolour effect on the Union Jack invitations. Don't miss the Amelia Lane Paper Etsy shop.

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Creative Hen Party & Bridal Shower Ideas

Who's planning your hen night or hen weekend? With two of my greatest friends getting married in the next year, the pressure is on to come up with something original. Whether it's hen weekends in Marbella, or Brighton, or just a night in London, the best way to make your hen night memorable is to give it a theme! Think about the bride's favourite hobby, or her best book, or favourite holiday destination. Or surprise her with a random theme like this 'Milk Maids' farm themed bridal shower from Ruffled wedding blog. With ice-cream, flavoured milk, delicious cheeses, vintage props, hay-bales and a rural location {find yours via Redseven}, it's a cheap and easy theme to put together. Why not organise a cooking class as an activity? You could send out personalised aprons as invitations, and prepare all your own food for a cream tea! Gorgeous pictures by Stephanie Rose Photography - for more credits scroll on down, and for more Hen Night or Bridal Shower ideas, check out my Pinterest board.

Wedding Shoot Vendors & Credits: Shoot Location: Dallas, TX / Event Stylist: Couture Events by Lottie / Wedding Photographer: Stephanie Rose Photography / Wedding Flowers: The Wooly Thistle / Wedding Stationery: Southern Fried Paper / Hair and Makeup: Queen of Crowns / Cookies: Cupcake Fabulous / Vintage Rentals: Rent My Dust / Rental Styling: Jen Rios Design

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Wonderful Wedding Blog Links

It's been waaaaay too long since I've last posted my favourite Wonderful Wedding Blog Links. The truth is I haven't had time to do my usual lurk around the wedding blogs. Things have just been too busy over here at the Before the Big Day studio. We've upped our game to at least two blog posts a day, we have a new style of writing up the Bride's Questionnaire {do you like it?}, and we've piled on another 50,000 unique readers a month. So if you're one of those new wedding blog-lovers - welcome! There's lots of exciting wedding blog fabulousness coming up in Before the Big Day's future, so stay tuned over the next few weeks.....

♥ Fun pictures from my balloon publicity shoot with Chloé from Caught the Light

♥ Vintage carnival wedding - always a brilliant theme

♥ This wedding event literally blew my mind with its fabulousness {via wedding blog Grey Likes Weddings}

♥ What's your signature wedding cocktail? Fun ideas!

♥ Clever DIY Save the Date

♥ You've gotta love ice-cream at a wedding {via wedding blog Ruffled}

♥ Dreamy Italian destination wedding - one for the fantasy files!

♥ Vintage keys, crochet & perfect stationery - love this wedding

♥ Feathers are HUGE this season - but a pillow fight at a wedding?

♥ Amazing free DIY printables for your wedding favours.

♥ An exceptionally cool wedding

♥ Topshop's bridal range - would you wear one?

♥ The new nail trend is for caviar nail polish and it looks better than it sounds!

♥ Have you found me on Instagram & Pinterest yet?

♥ Ethereal wedding dresses

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