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Colourful seasonal flowers for a bohemian wedding

Following on from the recent post on creating your own floral headband – aren’t these ones stunning!  The flowers at this laid-back wedding in Somerset are so fun and colourful, and what’s best is that they were grown and arranged by Charlie (of The Real Cut Flower Garden) who did our wedding flowers, and is also one of the lovely businesses listed on the directory. I love the flower wreath around the cake, what a lovely and simple way to make your wedding cake look utterly gorgeous.  Charlie’s stunning heart shaped flower garland makes a beautiful focal point for anyone planning an outdoor wedding ceremony. …

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31
Jul
2011

Sneak peek of the new wedding stationery designs from Emily&Jo

Emily&Jo design beautiful wedding stationery combining stunning patterns and classic typography.  They are about to launch their new website and have been kind enough to share with me and you some of their gorgeous new designs. They are keen to keep their business green and use FSC accredited or recycled papers for all their stationery and employ no bleaching, all things that are better for the environment and as they tell me “make trees smile.”  Make sure you head over to their website in mid August to check out all the new loveliness www.emilyandjo.co.uk.

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30
Jul
2011

Be inspired and make your own wildflower headband

I adore this blog - the photography, countryside and inspirational ideas are just so beautiful, and I’m particularly intrigued as it’s from a lady based in Lithuania.  It’s so nice to find inspiration from outside the traditional blog wedding worlds of America, the UK and Australia. There was something about this gorgeous selection of flower studded headbands that I thought was not only stunning (and worth sharing), but that they could inspire others to have a go at making their own – whether it be to wear as a bride or for bridesmaids or flower girls. If I was going to have …

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28
Jul
2011

Plantable seeded paper for eco-friendly wedding stationery

I can remember the first time I came across flower seeded paper, it was way back when I was first starting out with The Natural Wedding Company.  It only ever seemed to be available in America, and even now it never seems to appear that often in the UK, so it is truly lovely to see these fab products from one of our businesses, Favour Haven. The idea that you can create something beautiful from the paper and then plant it and have pretty flowers grow from it, is in my opinion, wonderful.  Favour Haven sells these lovely favour tags, …

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27
Jul
2011

Polka dot pinny for the bride who served dinner to her guests

Now here’s something Nick and I had planned to do at our wedding – serve our guests their dinner.  This was something I felt was really important, food is such a passion in our lives, so what could be lovelier than bringing out the food to our family and friends at our wedding. When I say serve them, we’d only planned to take out the big vintage platters with the porchetta – the main event of dinner.  In the end, we were both so giddy and a bit tired by that point that we just wanted to sit down and eat. …

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26
Jul
2011

“English Romance” cupcake decorating class inspired by vintage jewellery

Posh & Swanky Cupcakes is one of the new businesses to be listed on The Natural Wedding Company directory, running couture cupcake classes in Leeds.  Andrea, the talent behind Posh & Swanky Cupcakes contacted me to tell me all about her latest cupcake class called ‘English Romance’. Andrea told me that this class is inspired by “dreamy old England, afternoon tea, and shabby chic” and at the end of this class your cakes will deserve to be saved on your best vintage china.  In this class you’ll make moist green tea cupcakes (which sound incredible!) that are then covered in fluffy …

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24
Jul
2011

The prettiest lace backed wedding dress with dainty straps and a bow

I think this is possibly one of the most pretty back’s to a wedding dress I’ve ever seen – what do you think?  I love the gorgeous lace, but what really does it for me is the combination of the lace with those pretty straps that go all the way down and finish in a bow.  So, so beautiful! Image: Matt Brown Photography

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22
Jul
2011