Real Nautical Stripes Themed Wedding: Irma & Willem - Part 2

If you're dreaming of your summer holiday, you're going to love Part 2 of this blissful beachside wedding. With wedding details galore, many of them DIY, you're going to want to add every one to your Pinterest page. I'm loving Irma's wedding style - her stunning romantic dress, her casual side ponytail and her glamorous red lipstick. Add in the fabulous vintage campervan, the striped wedding reception details, and the adorable rustic placemarkers with airplane badge favours, and I'm a happy wedding blogger! Don't miss the DIY'd jamjar lights, and the polaroid guest book - fab ideas to copy for your own wedding. Gorgeous pictures published with thanks to the talented team at welovepictures.

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Real Nautical Stripes Themed Wedding: Irma & Willem

Beach-loving brides are going to fall for this intimate seaside wedding, fresh from South African photographers welovepictures. Lucky couple, Willem and Irma, celebrated their big day on a beautiful stretch of unspoilt beach, surrounded by fresh air, a few happy sea gulls and their closest family and friends. They chose an unfussy nautical theme, with blues, stripes and beautiful clouds of baby's breath flowers, and let the landscape speak for itself. That isn't to say there aren't tonnes of wedding details to copy - there are loads! I love the mismatched bunting, the jam-jar vases tied with striped ribbon, the cute mojitos labels, the fan wedding favours and beach blankets. Irma's wedding dress is exquisite - the lace and detailing are reminiscent of Claire Pettibone wedding dresses. More beautiful details of the wedding service coming soon, including the best sparkler send-off ever!

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Introducing....The Greedy Book Wedding Festival & A Huge Competition

The wait is finally over, it's time for the best wedding competition of the year! The Greedy Book has got together with Before the Big Day, and a range of wonderful partners, to bring you a truly sensational prize worth over £750! The idea behind The Greedy Book is you don't have to restrict yourself to any one retailer for your wedding list; instead you can have a truly original and quirky 'wedding greedy book' that reflects your unique style as a couple.

Their first online Greedy Wedding Festival starts today! It's a week long celebration of all things beautiful and bridal. Whatever your involvement in the big day – bride, groom, bridesmaid, guest – there’ll be something wonderful for you. Expect to see enormous amounts of inspiration, piles of wise words from those in the know and oodles of special offers, topped off with a simply sensational competition with an exclusive prize worth over £750!

The official home of this greedy wedding extravaganza is The Greedy Book Facebook page. With new and exciting content posted there every day make sure you keep checking back so you don’t miss out! Alternatively you could always sign up to their blog and get their emails straight to your inbox.

Now onto the prizes! The Greedy Book have got together with all their partners to offer something really special. The lucky winner will receive…

- £50 to spend on anything you desire from your Greedy Book.
- A brilliantly quirky 'Mrs' necklace from I Feel Crafty.
- A nights free accommodation including dinner and breakfast at any Handpicked Hotel.
- £50 to spend in Reiss.
- A striking gold bracelet with red heart detail from Maids to Measure.
- A beautiful bridal stationery pack from Brown Paper Designs.
- An after care service for your wedding dress at Total Wardrobe Care, including specialist dry cleaning, repairs and perfect packing.
- A pair of Kalita Bespoke Silk Knickers that can be embroidered on the back with the wording of your choice from Austique.
- A stunning statement necklace from the lovely Sophie Mitchell, Stella and Dot stylist extraordinaire.
- A lovely Rob Ryan for Two Birds Bridesmaids hankie, perfect for your something blue.

To be in with a chance of winning this incredible prize, just become a member of The Greedy Book. It’s super quick, easy and free, just click here to join. If you’re already a member {well done!} then all you need to do is create a new greedy book. Either way you’ll be automatically entered. The competition closes at midnight on 12th August 2012. Good luck! Terms and Conditions apply.

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Custom Vintage Wedding Postage Stamp

Brides looking to personalise literally every details of their wedding day, will love these bespoke wedding stamps. Follow Studio {possibly my favourite wedding stationer in the world} have created these gorgeous stamps, inspired by vintage postal marks. Each one includes your name, the date of your wedding and the location. They're the perfect addition to your wedding invitation envelope, or you could even use them to add a DIY touch to a simple white wedding invite or Save the Date.

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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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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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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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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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