Sunday 5 August 2012

Real Beautiful Barn Wedding Video: Samantha & Jamie

Vintage barn weddings are by far the favourite venues for British brides. With so many stunning historic rustic buildings across the UK, there's bound to be one in your area, and they provide a brilliant blank canvas for your wedding ideas. Samantha and Jamie created a stunning elegant pink and cream themed day for their wedding at Blake Hall in Essex. This fantastic White Dress Films wedding video trailer highlights all the best wedding details from their big day. I love the vintage bus, the Space Hoppers {near the end} and the decorations of white bunting, fluffy tissue pompoms, and rose pomanders. Samantha looks beautiful in her elegant Charlotte Balbier wedding gown and crystal studded veil, and I love her huge peony and rose bouquet - a flower trend I predicted would be huge for 2012 weddings back in August 2011.



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Saturday 4 August 2012

Coming Soon....An Amazing Greedy Book Competition Worth £750

Drum roll please! On Monday we'll be launching an incredible exclusive wedding competition with a prize worth over £750!! Before the Big Day is teaming up with The Greedy Book - a fabulous free website where you can make and share gift lists {Greedy Books} of any items you desire, from any online store. With The Greedy Book you don't have to restrict yourself to any one retailer for your wedding list; instead create a truly original and quirky wedding greedy book that reflects your unique style as a couple. Get a head start in the competition by signing up to The Greedy Book, and check out their Facebook page, and we'll have more details on this incredible wedding competition on Monday.


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How To Say Thank You For Your Wedding

In all the madness of all your frantic wedding preparations, it's hard to think of the days afterwards, when you'll be relaxing on your honeymoon. But the one thing you can be sure of, is that there'll be tonnes of people you'll want to thank. Your suppliers, your parents and all your friends and family who gave you wedding presents. A great way to truly personalise your wedding thank you cards, is to ask your wedding photographer to take a picture of you on your wedding day with a Thank You Banner. Try these pretties from Etsy Wedding on for size...my favourite is the burlap bunting, how about you?


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Friday 3 August 2012

Real Seersucker & Pink Themed Wedding: Amber & Teddy

Start with ruffles, add a flurry of pink florals, a vintage broach and a bevvy of beautiful bridesmaids, and you've got a wedding made in heaven. Pink was the colour palette at Amber and Teddy's big day, and it made for a gorgeous feminine day, with plenty of stealworthy ideas. Top of the pops has to be Teddy's super-cool seersucker striped suit, teamed with a very dapper white shirt and tie combo. But he couldn't out do Amber, who looked gorgeous in her full-skirted gown and ruffled heels, which she swapped for flip-flops later in the night. Sensible girl! Loving their garden themed wedding stationery and illustrated fan programmes, plus the cute cake topper and bow cupcakes, and of course, my fav end to a wedding, the giant sparkler send-off. Gorgeous photographs, as ever, from the massively talented team at Simply Bloom Photography.


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Thursday 2 August 2012

Introducing Beautiful Custom Muujee Wedding Albums

It's now been over a year since our wedding day and I still haven't created a wedding album of my favourite pictures. It's my biggest regret post-wedding, because it means we haven't got a solid reminder of our big day. As I was looking for possible album options, I stumbled upon these beautiful, hardback, Muujee wedding albums. They look fantastic, and they provide professional quality wedding albums which are perfect for brides and grooms who didn't choose an album in their wedding photography package - like us! It's a super-easy process - instead of having to design the wedding album and the position of the photographs {exhausting}, all you do is submit your images, and their graphic designers take care of the rest. They even provide color correction and retouching services {I'll be 20% more tanned then please!}. Muujee are even offering 15% off their 'Modern' and 'Magazine' album lines with the code 15OFF-BIGDAY {insert on the order form, expires August 31, 2012}. So if you've already had your engagement photographs taken, why not try out their albums? Test the service first by submitting a handful of your images, and they'll design some sample layouts based on their images. Right, I'm off to pick my favourite wedding shots!







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What Will Be Your Wedding Mood?

So I'm not really that big on beauty products. I tend to stick to my Clarins and add a splash of Jo Malone occasionally, but my make-up bag's been the same for ten years {...unhygynic I know....}. But then I discovered In The Mood polish. It's nail varnish that changes colour according to your mood!!! I don't think I've been this excited since my husband found me a vintage hyper-colour T-shirt in American Apparel. Check out their website here, buy all the colours, and make them rich - they deserve a reward for such a fabulous idea. P.S. For more fabulous beauty ideas, don't miss the posts by our Wedding Blog Beauty Expert, Julia Bowden.


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Wednesday 1 August 2012

Celebrity English Wedding: Jacquetta Wheeler & James Allsopp

Celebrity weddings are always a fabulous source of wedding inspiration, and none more than Jacquetta Wheeler's stunning wedding to James Allsopp. Just take a look at her incredible bespoke Alice Temperley wedding gown, the grandeur of the historic Chilham Castle wedding venue, and the beautiful flowers by Vic Brotherson of Scarlet & Violet. Every detail is picture perfect, and captured exquisitely by photographer-to-the-stars Robert Fairer. For more details and more wedding pictures, don't miss the Vogue article.









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Real Gold Luxe Barn Wedding: Casey & Paul - Part 2

Barn weddings will never be the same again! Just take a look at the incredible luxe wedding details at Casey and Paul's wonderful wedding reception. With Amy Osaba on side as event designer and florist, it was always going to be amazing, but it's the DIY-able details you're going to love. Take a look at the contrast between the wooden beams and tables, and the fabric chandeliers and tassel banners. I'm loving the table runners hand-sewn with gold numbers, the burlap tablecloths and the vintage mismatched vases. Guests picked a gold bauble to find out their table number, and rustic logs added height to the floral displays. Every detail beautifully captured by the fabulous Simply Bloom Photography.
















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