Thursday 30 August 2012

How To Make a Wedding Flower Crown

One wedding trend that looks set to run and run is the boho look. With Kate Moss setting the tone with her festival themed wedding, and teepee weddings huge for summer 2012, I'm betting 2013 will be the year of the boho bride. For a fun and easy way to create the boho look, dress your bridesmaids in flower crowns. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, these versatile accessories can look as glamorous, or as country-chic as you like. An added plus is their super easy to DIY - partly thanks to this brilliant tutorial by Brittany Watson Jepsen via Etsy Weddings. Brittany is easily one of my favourite DIY bloggers - she lives in Denmark, and writes a fabulous blog called The House That Lars Built, with tonnes of DIY wedding ideas and inspiration.



{Photo Credit} Photography by Brittany Watson Jepsen and Amanda Thomsen.

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Tuesday 28 August 2012

Custom Wedding Favour Bags

Whatever you choose for your wedding favours, I'd be tempted to house them in these cute little muslin bags. Discovered on one of my many wonders around the wedding web world, they're made by the lovely ladies over at The Wedding Chicks, and they come in a dozen pretty designs. Personalise them with your wedding date and your names, and fill them with sweets, a handmade biscuits, or little keepsakes. You could even stuff them with lavender to make DIY scented bags. The numbered bag would make the perfect Save the Date, or send it as an extra detail with your wedding stationery. If you're not keen on the designs - you could always buy your own via Etsy, and personalise with a stamp.



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Monday 27 August 2012

Real Colourful Vineyard Wedding: Blake & Ashley

Bold bright colours are much harder to style, but create such memorable weddings, that if you've got the guts then you should go for it. Californian couple Blake and Ashley picked fuschia pink and lemon yellow for their colour scheme, and in the hot bright west-coast light, it all came together beautifully. Their vineyard venue was naturally gorgeous, so they kept their florals to a minimum, with bundles of tulips and a scattering of petals up the aisle. Table displays were cleverly filled with sliced oranges, a fantastic idea to steal for your own big day. I'm also loving how the place markers were wedged into a corks, and the tables named after grapes, all great ways to continue the vineyard theme. Don't miss Ashley's amazing pink shoes - she even spelt out 'I Do' in blue sequins on the soles, as a super-cool 'something blue'. Stunning photos, as ever, from the mega-talented Sarah Yates Photography.


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Friday 24 August 2012

Real Vintage Seaside & Sweetie Wedding: Kate & Iain - Part 2

Any bride planning to hire a 'blank canvas venue' will find huge inspiration from Katie and Iain's clever vintage theming of their local Town Hall in Part 2 of these gorgeous wedding. With the help of their florist, Foxtail Liley, they created a pastel and seaside wedding wonderland, with hundreds of pretty flower displays, pastel bunting, swathes of wavy fabric, a vintage suitcase for guests' messages and pretty birdcage details. With subtle seashells on the chandeliers, and vintage seaside postcards, Katie and Iain reflected their seaside location without going overboard and spending a fortune. Thrifty DIY ideas to steal include the vintage sweetie favour bar, the gorgeous Waitrose wedding cake and asking your florist to help set up, saving the cost of a full wedding planner. Big love to Laura Babb for sending over this fabulous wedding, don't miss Part 1 here.



Our photographer was Laura Babb. We found her after we had a difference of opinion with our previous photographer over our engagement shoot - which we just weren’t happy with. Laura was recommended by a friend and we knew as soon as we saw her work that she fitted our style – soft, quirky, fine art photography - exactly what we wanted.






Our wedding theme was 1950s Vintage Seaside with pastel colours.


My Uncle is a trustee of the newly refurbished hall so it was an obvious choice – it is also a five minute walk from the church! The hall needed a lot of work to make it look 'wedding' so we hired local Southwold florist Foxtail Lily and discussed a Vintage Seaside theme. 


After many meetings we came to the eventual vision – soft blues and ice cream colours, bunting, a vintage suitcase and lots of beautiful floral displays.





Our DIY projects included the vintage suitcase for guests' cards, which I created using ribbon and vintage postcards. We also designed the sweetie favour bar. Everything was set up by our florists, Foxtail Liley.



For our wedding favours, we had a pick-your-own sweetie bar, with old-style vintage sweets, bought by my husband’s parents from their local Olde Watermill shop in Lancashire. We bought glass apothocary jars online.


Our wedding cake was bought from Waitrose. We loved the vintage look and cream colour and thought it fitted the theme perfectly. We had layers of fruit and Victoria sponge. It was lovely.





My advice for future brides, is that in an ideal world hire a wedding planner! Other than that, try to relax – your big day will happen and it will be wonderful, so try not to get bogged down chasing suppliers. It all comes together in the end. Also – keep lots of lists!


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Real Vintage Seaside & Sweetie Wedding: Kate & Iain

With my summer holiday due to start in the next 12 hours, my mind is on the beach, so what better big day to show you than this gorgeous seaside wedding. Fab couple Katie and Iain celebrated their big day in Southwold, with the fabulous Laura Babb from Babb Photo on hand to picture every glorious wedding detail. With dozens of beautiful pictures, I've split the wedding in two, starting with the stunning church ceremony and portrait pictures, and moving on to the reception in Part 2. Katie and Iain rocked some serious wedding style, with Katie in a feminine 1950's-style princess wedding gown from Chanticleer Brides, and Iain in a morning suit, complete with extravagant buttonhole and vintage pocket watch. I loving Katie's elegant cathedral length wedding veil and tiara, and her bridesmaids look fab in Autograph dresses, which you'd never know where high-street. Huge kudos for the vintage car, I've no idea what type it is, but I love how it fits in with their colour scheme! Big love to Laura Babb for sending over this fabulous wedding, don't miss Part 2, coming soon!


We got married in Southwold in Suffolk on 7 July 2012, at St Edmund's Church and hosted our wedding reception at the Millenium Hall – the town hall.


My wedding dress was made by Chanticleer Brides and I bought it from Marianne Jessica in Bromley. I loved the Chanticleer dresses, so when I heard the designer was doing a day at my local shop I was very excited. I knew my dress was 'me' as soon as I tried it on. 





My dress had a 1950s style but was very princess-like and made me feel like a proper bride. I loved the high waist and tulle skirt as well as the pearl buttons. It was perfect. My shoes were from Office - £25 in the sale!



My husband hired his grey Morning Suit from Moss Bros. His brogue-style shoes were from Jones the Bootmaker and his gold pocket watch was a wedding gift from his parents.



Our wedding florist was Foxtail Liley in Southwold. We wanted colours that would reflect our theme so put our trust in Mischa at Foxtail Liley to match them to that. My only specification was that we wanted white roses, and Mischa added splashes of colour with blooms of her choice.






We met through a friend in a flat share in London. We became friends and it grew from there! We got engaged after watching The Graduate. Some may think this isn’t a romantic film but we would disagree.



My bridemaids’ dresses were bought from the Autograph collection at Marks & Spencer. The bridesmaids also wore flowers in their hair, which were handmade with real flowers by our fabulous florist, Foxtail Liley. I gave each of my bridesmaids a pearl bracelet from Lime Blue, as a present on the day of the wedding



Our photographer was Laura Babb. We found her after we had a difference of opinion with our previous photographer over our engagement shoot - which we just weren’t happy with. Laura was recommended by a friend and we knew as soon as we saw her work that she fitted our style – soft, quirky, fine art photography - exactly what we wanted.



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