Wednesday 17 April 2013

Luxury Pretty-in-Pink Pastel Wedding Cakes

Looking back on my wedding blog posts for Before the Big Day, I realised I'm not featuring enough wedding cakes! They're a key part of any wedding day, and I'm always dazzled by the talent of the UK's expert cake makers. They're sugary artists! Naomi founded her home-baking company, The Vanilla Parlour in Surrey, a few years ago, and she's already at the top of her game. Just take a look at these pastel beauties - the flowers are exquisite. Choose your flavour and your filling, or create a completely original design.....personally I'm in love with the pastel blue wedding cake below.





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Sunday 14 April 2013

A Most Curious Wedding Fair

Brides living near London and Norwich are in luck! A Most Curious Wedding Fair is on their doorstep. Now on their sixth fair, A Most Curious has taken a solemn vow to bring brides and grooms the very latest fashions, with the foresight to be changeable, en vogue and never tired or standing still. If it’s beautiful, fresh, fun and cool {or just about to be cool}, you can find it at A Most Curious Wedding Fair. Brides looking for innovative and quirky ideas should note the 20th-21st April in their diary and prepare for a trip to super-cool East London {where I live!}. Tickets are £4 on the door in London.





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Friday 12 April 2013

How Will You Wear Your Wedding Veil?

Will you be wearing a wedding veil? And will you walk down the aisle with it covering your face? There's something deliciously romantic about the moment when a groom moves the veil away from his bride's face, although fewer brides choose the traditional option nowadays. Long, cathedral-length veils like the Delphine Manivet veil I chose for my wedding day, are also falling out of fashion, with birdcage veils, and mini fascinator-style veils gaining in popularity. I'm particularly keen on the whimsical range offered by online boutique, Twigs & Honey. They're designed to be fastened quite far forward in your hair, and then folded back as you greet your future husband. So maybe the old-school tradition will pose a come-back. What do you think - forwards, or backwards?



{Product Credits} All wedding veils from Twigs & Honey by Myra Kim

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The Zoe Lem Vintage Wedding Fair - This Weekend!

It's looking like a sunny weekend in London, so why not celebrate the start of spring with a good dose of wedding inspiration care of the Zoe Lem's Vintage Wedding Fair this Sunday, 14th April. Taking place at The Bloomsbury Ballroom, Zoe and her team are bringing together a glamorous collection of fabulous vendors. With workshops to help you realise your vintage wedding dreams, advice on body shape, deportment, posing for photographers, dancing 1940s-style and lots more, it sounds like a fabulous day out with your bridesmaids. Buy your tickets - starting at £10, they're £25 for a VIP pass, for a private cabaret and fashion show.



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Thursday 11 April 2013

Real Vintage Country Garden Wedding: Emma & Tony - Reception Details

It's time for the gorgeous reception details from this lovely country-garden themed wedding. Elegant bride, Emma styled all her wedding details herself combining shabby chic with touches of the exotic, to reflect her husband Tony's Indian heritage. Stealworthy wedding ideas include her wedding bouquet wrapped in burlap, lavender boxes outside the church, mismatched vintage jam-jars and jugs on the reception tables, and the occasional Indian-style lantern. I love how Emma divided up their wedding marquee into three separate areas - the lounging section looks amazing, and the children's play area is such a good idea, if you're going to invite little ones to your big day. Also the pretty country-garden style florals by Passion for Flowers. Enjoy the gorgeous wedding pictures by B72 Imaging  and don't miss the shots of the wedding cake buffet - it's one of the best I've ever seen!













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Real Vintage Country Garden Wedding: Emma & Tony

Any wedding that combines burlap, lace and lavender detailing is always going to rate highly in my love-list. If you throw in a purple colour palette, and stunning vintage-style silk wedding dress, then I'm well on the way to wedding bliss! Fab couple, Emma and Tony chose historic Wroxall Abbey for their second wedding day - their first was a Sikh wedding to reflect Tony's Indian heritage. Emma planned all of the wedding in a country garden style with an elegant twist. I love her drop-waist wedding gown, and her elegant flapper-style lace head-dress. With flower-girls in white, maids of honour in purple and page boys in cute shorts and waistcoats, the entire wedding party looked fabulous! Spot the stunning flowers by Passion for Flowers. Enjoy the gorgeous wedding pictures by B72 Imaging, and don't miss the shots of the wedding reception, coming later today - it's packed with stealworthy wedding ideas.














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Wednesday 10 April 2013

Pretty Wedding Favour Packaging

When it comes to wedding favours I'm a complete sucker for truly pretty packaging. It almost doesn't matter what's inside the little parcel {although food is always a good thing!}, I can get truly over-excited about the wrapping. So when Pink Lemons got in touch with their latest range of vintage pastel prettiness, I couldn't resist featuring their range right away! Jo and Mai started Pink Lemons after they struggled to find shabby chic pieces for their own weddings. My favourite product is the retro milk cartons - they come with painted mini-pegs, so you can choose the colour that best fits your wedding theme.

** UPDATE: Pink Lemons have kindly offered the 10% off for the first 30 buyers who quote the Promotion Code B4THEBIGDAY - woohoo! **

{Product Credit} Hexagon Flower Favour Boxes, 5 for £6.95 | Retro Paper Straws, 25 for £3.95


{Product Credit} Pretty Chinese Takeaway Boxes, 8 for £11.95 | 2. Rustic Box with Postcard, 10 for £14.95

{Product Credit} Ribbon Print Cookie Bags, 15 for £6.95 | Retro Paper Straws, 25 for £3.95

{Product Credit} Retro Milk Carton Favour Boxes, 8 for £9.95 | 2. Hexagon Flower Favour Boxes, 5 for £6.95

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Introducing The Scented Candle Shop For Weddings

Out of all the weddings I've attended, there's one that really stands out in my mind. It was pretty spectacular, with stunning flowers, the best desert table I've ever seen, and a series of 'reveals', including one late in the evening, when a curtain dropped to reveal another marquee set up as a nightclub. But the element that really stands out is the smell of the wedding! Each 'room' was subtly perfumed with scented candles, and I can't tell you how much it added to the atmosphere and feeling of luxury. If you're looking to create the same effect, I hugely recommend the Scented Candle Shop. They have a huge range of candles - from scented, to organic, soy and vintage-style beeswax. Choose from natural scents, such as fig tree, lavender, rosemary, and citronella for a garden reception. If you're looking to create a colour splash on each table, you can choose your candles and holders by colour. The Scented Candle Shop also has a special wedding range, with a great selection of simple taper and pillar candles, plus great wedding favour options - take a look at these cute cottage style candles!

{Product Credit} Cottage shabby-chic style St Eval Candles, £14.49 from Scented Candle Shop


{Product Credit} Elegant Canova Kew Tin Candles, £9.49 from Scented Candle Shop


{Product Credit} St Eval Tin Candles, £8.89 from Scented Candle Shop


{Product Credit} Vintage-style Prices Candles, approx £10 from Scented Candle Shop

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Tuesday 9 April 2013

Real Alice in Wonderland Themed Wedding: Cheryl & Jack

Weddings with a fabulous theme make me happy! And there's nothing I like more than an Alice in Wonderland tea-party - there's just so many fabulous details to choose from. Lewis Carroll was a genius! So when Louise and Sam from Pavone Photography got in touch with Cheryl and Jack's amazing monochrome Alice in Wonderland themed wedding, I jumped at the chance to feature it on Before the Big Day. Many months later, and here, finally, it is! Don't miss all the DIY wedding details - Cheryl and Jack came up with everything, including their brilliant themed portrait pictures, complete with Alice in Wonderland props. It's such a clever idea to come up with a few props for your portrait pictures, particularly if you're slightly nervous in front of the camera. Other wedding details to steal include Cheryl's gorgeous second-hand wedding gown {which she personalised herself}, the flower girl's alternative bouquet {a clock!}, and the hilarious fancy dress kit for classic guest entertainment. Huge thanks to Pavone Photography for their stunning shots!


We got married on 2nd July at Little Hallingbury Mill in Essex, surrounded by our family and close friends. Our theme was vintage Alice in Wonderland with a black and white stripped twist.


The venue was a quirky old mill surrounded by fields and just seemed to scream 'Tea-Party'!


I bought my wedding dress second-hand, and customised it by adding as much black as possible. My shoes were an old pair from my wardrobe which again I customised in black.


My dress was so beautiful {and totally over the top}, that I didn't want to distract too much attention from it. So I didn't wear a veil and chose understated accessories, which were of course, black and white.




My husband’s outfit was a plain black suit, with an all-important waistcoat. He wore my great-grandfather’s pocket watch to add a hint of ‘Mad Hatterness’ to the day.




My bouquet was a single large black rose head which matched the black roses in my hair and on my shoes. 



Apart from this, we didn’t have anything other flowers as instead chose to decorate the venue with playing cards, spoons, teapots, teacups, clocks, books, white rabbits and any other Alice in Wonderland item you can conjure up!


My flower girl was mostly in white, but instead of carrying flowers she held a black old-fashioned alarm clock, set to the time we got married.


We tied black and white stripped ribbon to it in keeping with the theme. It added a fantastic element of ‘Don't be late, don't be late for an important date!’






Jack and I me on a night bus in 2007! Jack was my knight in shining armour, as he made sure I got home safely. We got engaged on Christmas Day in 2010 in front of our twinkling Christmas Tree.


We chose Pavone Photography {Louise and Sam} as our wedding photographers. We felt they were the only people who had the talent to do our unique wedding day justice, and we were so right!


Our entire wedding was a DIY project – nothing was pre bought, and we put all the ideas together ourselves. I really enjoyed planning every part. My advice to other brides would be, leave yourself plenty of time. Make as much as you can to give you a truly original wedding. Go wild – you will only do it once! Enjoy every last second.
 


We made our own wedding invitations. They were made to look like 4 large playing cards held together by black and white ribbon, and a small silver key. All the phrases on the invitation, directions and RSVP were taken from the original Alice in Wonderland Film - e.g. ‘Help us Paint the Roses Red’.


For our wedding favours, we bought miniature 2cm high glass bottles with a cork cap, filled with red wine, and labelled with a 'Drink me' tag.


We slotted a playing card into the corks of each of the bottle favours, and they doubled up as place markers too.


My sister-in-law handmade our wedding cake! It was three layers, and covered in black and white Alice in Wonderland decorations, like clocks, teaspoons, books, teapots and teacups. It was amazing!


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