Before the Big Day Wedding Trends of 2013 - Winter Weddings

Traditionally the great British summer was the wedding season. But if you talk to wedding photographers, planners and florists, you'll find a growing trend for couples to celebrate their big day in the winter. Pluses include cheaper venues, chic decor options {Christmas trees & ever-greenery}, and guaranteed bad weather. Warm the cockles of your wedding guests with hot chocolate, mulled wine and a shot of sloe gin, and serve them a tasty roast at your wedding reception. Wedding favours could include marshmallows or chestnuts for roasting on an open fire, and tartan blankets for chilly knees. Bride-wise, why not add a muff to your wedding outfit, and wrap up warm in a cosy white fur shrug. For more winter wedding inspiration, check out my fabulous winter wedding inspiration Pinterest board!

{Photo Credit} Jennifer Eileen - more on Ruffled Blog

{Photo Credits} 1. Ryan Ray - more on Style Me Pretty, 2. More on Martha Stewart Weddings

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Before the Big Day Wedding Trends of 2013 - Origami

The first of the HUGE trends for 2013 is wedding origami. It's DIY, cheap and cheerful, and completely personalised, making it the perfect recession-beating wedding detail. And it's easy! With the help of YouTube videos and cheap squares of origami paper, I managed to create a very cute origami heart and origami duck yesterday. Check out my pictures on Pinterest. I'd recommend adding origami details to your wedding invitations and wedding favours, and you could even create an origami swan backdrop for your wedding vows. Plus, did you know that in Japan, a thousand paper cranes are traditionally given as a wedding gift by the father of the bride, to wish the happy couple a thousand years of happiness and prosperity? So romantic! Here are just a few wedding origami ideas - for tonnes more take a look at my Pinterest board.

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Before the Big Day Wedding Trends of 2013

Now that we're nicely settled into January, and our thoughts are firmly turned towards the year ahead, I thought it the perfect moment to start my new Wedding Trends of 2013 series of posts. No one needs their wedding to be fashionable, but it's fun to surprise your guests with the latest wedding trends, and hopefully make your big day bash stand out from the crowd that little bit more! With all the latest trends in wedding stationery, wedding flowers, wedding dresses, wedding favours and wedding cakes, you'll want to check back to Before the Big Day every day. Stand by for some serious wedding inspiration....and keep yourself going by checking out my Pinterest boards. {Picture of me, standing by.....}

{Photo Credit} Caught the Light

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Real Sunshine Summer Wedding: Erin & Steve

Plenty of gorgeous wedding details for brides to snaffle from this stunning summer wedding. Erin and Steve picked yellow for their theme colour for their garden wedding, and the weather obliged, as the sun shone all day long. I'm super-excited to see freesias in Erin's bouquet - with their sweet scent and many-hued blooms, I'm guessing they're going to be the go-to flower for 2013. Other wedding ideas to copy are the handmade cider glasses, replicated in graphic form for their order of service. Also loving Erin's use of rafia as a recurring design detail - simple, cheap and totally brilliant for a garden wedding. Huge thanks to the team at Our Labour of Love for these gorgeous pictures!

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Real Tower of London Wedding: Vix & Rory - Reception Details

It's time to take a look a the fantastic reception details from this gorgeous London wedding. Vix and Rory chose The Dickens Inn on St Katherine's Dock for their wedding reception, and decorated it beautifully with traditional British bunting, pretty woven-willow hearts, and floral displays of sweet-smelling stocks teamed with baby's breath. They spoilt their wedding guests with not one but two, tiered wedding cakes - one elegant white and one made of cheese! I love the apple place markers, and the little fancy-dress favours, cheap and cheerful, they're the best ice-breaker, and make for hilarious photographs. Stunning pictures published with thanks to Erika from PhotoMadly and second shooter Dade Freeman from Krysalis Photography - great London Bridge portrait pictures.

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Real Tower of London Wedding: Vix & Rory

Every now and then I feature a wedding where I really wish I'd been a guest, and Vix and Rory's looks like a riot! They celebrated their big day in London, with a lovely church ceremony, followed by their wedding reception at The Dickens Inn on St Katherine's Dock. I've fallen for Vix's elegant wedding style, her beautiful strapless gown, fur cape, cathedral length veil, and vintage lace fan. Bridesmaid bouquets were made up of white peonies and baby's breath, and I love the flower girls' cute baby's breath flower crown. Don't miss Part 2 of this wedding tomorrow, when I'll feature all the fabulous wedding details. Huge thanks to Erika from PhotoMadly and second shooter Dade Freeman, for their gorgeous pictures - I particularly love the portrait shots taken against the London skyline!

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Real Desert Wedding: Julie & Patrick

Yum yum yum! This is a mega-wedding for you, fresh from the desert! As a UK wedding blogger, I love looking at weddings from far across the pond. While we have to worry about rain and wind on our wedding days, US brides are often preoccupied with whether it's going to be too hot. Julia and Patrick hosted their wedding in Joshua Tree at the Sacred Sands Bed and Breakfast, in a stunning desert landscape. Many of the designs and wedding theme were created by the couple, with tonnes of wedding ideas to steal. There were also many eco friendly aspects to their wedding – all the succulents on the tables and even the succulent bouquets were re-plantable, all the food was organic vegetarian cuisine from the couple’s own favorite recipes, and even the Sacred Sands is an environmentally-friendly building (built using straw bale walls as insulation). As wedding favors, everyone received a poster with the couple’s wedding logo and theme from Clone Press {love it!}, and Julie’s gorgeous dress was by Jim Hjelm. The reception was held outside under a canopy of stars, and they had bunt cakes and biscottis for dessert. All in all, a perfect evening! Huge thanks to Stephanie and Isaac at Stephanie Williams Photography for their gorgeous pictures, and description of this fab wedding.

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