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TNWC Real Brides: introducing Myfanwy and Tom’s creative vintage wedding

Charlie

Another week and another two TNWC Real Brides to introduce to you. If you missed last week’s features, do check out the details on Emma and Chris’ outdoor festival wedding and Nik and Chris’ relaxed coastal farm wedding – they sound fab!

Today I my next TNWC Real Bride to introduce you to, her name is Myfanwy and she’s marrying her Mr-to-be Tom in North Wales, not to far from their cafe and shop Pethau Melys. So over to Myfanwy to tell you all about how she met Tom and what they are planning for their wedding…

Myfanwy + Tom: 5th October 2013, North Wales

This is us…Tom and Myfanwy, we met in 2008.

I’d just finished uni in Liverpool and had moved home to North Wales to decide what to do next. I had two choices, to start my own business right at the beginning of a recession or move to London to work for a big fashion house.

Charlie

TNWC Real Brides: introducing Nik and Chris’ relaxed coastal farm wedding

Charlie

If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that this week I am introducing you to the first of my TNWC Real Brides who’ll be blogging their weddings here. On Tuesday we welcomed the first bride-to-be, Emma, who is getting married in Cornwall with a outdoors festival vibe – if you missed reading about her wedding plans check out her first blog post here.

Today I have my second lovely bride-to-be who is going to introduce herself and some of her wedding plans. This lovely lady is Nik who writes her own blog Little House in Town and who was our competition winner last year for the cut flower arranging course. I got to meet Nik on that course and have become good friends with her, so I was delighted to learn that she got engaged over Christmas!

Over to Nik to tell you more about her wedding day plans…

Nik + Chris: 11th July 2013, Wales

When Charlie announced she was looking for ‘real brides’ to feature on TNWC, my stomach knotted with jealousy. You see, I’ve been a big follower of TNWC for years, soaking up all the incredible rustic and eco-friendly inspiration and storing it deep in the recesses of my mind in preparation for my ‘big day’. There was one flaw in my planning – I wasn’t engaged. And if you’re not engaged, you can’t blog about your wedding planning, no matter how much of it you’ve done mentally.

So, when Chris pulled out a beautiful Rust engagement ring as we strolled along my favourite Pembrokeshire beach on Christmas day, my elation was for more reasons than one. I could apply to be a TNWC bride! Woohoo!

Charlie

TNWC Real Brides: introducing Emma and Chris’ outdoor festival wedding

Charlie

Today is a very exciting day – I get to introduce you to a fantastic new feature to my blog called TNWC Real Brides. It has been so long since my own wedding that I decided I needed some new brides-to-be to share their wedding details, so before Christmas I invited applications.

Starting today, I have the first of my TNWC Real Brides who are going to be sharing their wedding planning experiences here on my blog – I am so thrilled to be opening up the blog to brides-to-be and I can’t wait to follow their wedding journeys with you.

I’m also super excited because for each couple I have had a fab illustrated picture of them created by my sister Izzy Burton – these illustrations of each couple will be used at the top of each real brides blog post so hopefully you’ll get to know them all by these cute images!

Our first TNWC Real Bride that you get to meet is Emma – I’ll hand you over to her so she can tell you all about her and her fiancée and the wedding they are planning…

Emma + Chris: 13th July 2013, Cornwall

Hello, I’m Emma (currently aged 29 and ¾) and I am going to be marrying the best Chris ever (also on the brink of ‘thirtydom’) on the 13th July 2013. Thirteen is my lucky number. We are planning an eco-friendly, DIY, windswept and romantic wedding at Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Porthtowan, Cornwall.

Chris and I met nearly 5 years ago through mutual friends on many occasions, most of which involved beer and back garden barbecues. Over time I had developed a bit of an embarrassing crush on him and therefore avoided talking to him for around six months, as whenever I got near him I would blush profusely. He happened to be just as shy and it took us well over five ‘dates’ before I made the move with a now or never awkward kiss. The kissing got a little less awkward after that first one.

Chris proposed on New Year’s Day, at the top of a snowy mountain in Bulgaria. He had chosen the most beautiful emerald and diamond ring, I couldn’t stop giggling and slightly hyperventilating as he knelt in the snow with clear blues skies all around us. It was massively unexpected as Chris is THE worst at keeping a secret – and he had been planning it for three months!

Charlie

Becoming ‘A Natural Wedding Bride’ – come and join me to share your wedding plans on the blog with all my other brides

Charlie

Please note as of February 2013 I have closed applications for this feature. However, if you are planning a wedding for 2014 and are interested in being a guest bride blogger later in the year, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at charlie@thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk.

I thought it was about time I opened up these pages to someone else’s wedding plans, a bride-to-be who’s creating a handmade wedding that fits with my ethos of natural, eco-friendly, seasonal, vintage and homemade.

I get so many emails from creative couples who are crafting wonderful sounding wedding days that I’d like you all to have a voice here too, and to inspire others who are just starting out on this mad wedding journey.

I don’t have a specific number of contributors that I’m looking for, it seemed a bit daft to request a certain number when it’s the first time I’ve tried it, I would just like to open up the invitation for you to get in contact if you’re interested and keen.

Charlie

Find out what’s going on at the Eco Wedding Fair in Bristol today and a sneak peek at what I’m popping in the goody bags

Charlie

If you’re reading this on Saturday 3rd November 2012 then I am busying myself on my stall at the Eco Wedding Fair in Bristol. I’ve been pretty excited about this day, not only because I love getting out and about in the world of weddings, but because this is the first ‘eco’ or ‘green’ wedding fair in quite a few years.

Just some of the post that’s been arriving from TNWC businesses…

I’m really hopeful that I’ll get to meet a couple of TNWC readers (so if you’re going please do come and say hi) and some new brides-to-be who haven’t yet been to the website. With regards to what my stall looks like, as I write this I’m still not sure! I’m pretty certain that other wedding fair exhibitors have planned theirs out weeks in advance…me on the other hand, well, my stall is currently a jumble of of ideas in my head and a car that looks like I’m going to a carboot sale not a wedding fair.

Charlie

Come and join the conversation – come find The Natural Wedding Company online

Charlie

One of the best things about running The Natural Wedding Company is getting to meet and chat to other likeminded people, especially brides-to-be, and when I say ‘meet and chat’ I mean both online and in person. I really love when I get an email asking me for help or advice from a wedding planning couple, or when I hear from you via Twitter or Facebook, so I thought I’d take a moment to share all the places you can find me online.

If you use any of these social media networks I’d be delighted if you’d come find me and say hello, I’d also love to stay in touch with how you’re wedding plans are coming along, and even after your ‘big day’. So here’s where you can come join me and other likeminded brides-to-be…

Charlie

Learning the art of flower farming – a guest post from our competition winner on the Catkin cut flower workshop

Charlie

Last week I set off at a very early hour for the Lincolnshire countryside to a place called Doddington Hall where I would spend the day with a group of likeminded ladies learning about cut flowers from Rachel of Catkin Flowers. On the way I picked up the lovely Dasha Caffrey, wedding photographer and one of the lovely businesses you can find on The Natural Wedding Company directory, who took all these stunning photos.

If you are a regular reader of the blog, you might remember that I ran a competition to win a place on this cut flower workshop, and I was thrilled to be joined by the lovely Nik who won the competition and writes a blog called Little House In Town.

Charlie

Our wedding is going to be featured in Country Living magazine next month!

Charlie

The thing about blogs is you can share all kinds of news in real time, whenever you life. This news, however, has been under wraps for the past 9 months, and Mr Rigg and I haven’t been able to share it with anyone until today. One month from today, our wedding is going to be featured in the July 2012 issue of Country Living magazine!

I’m not even sure where to begin in telling you how excited I am about the whole thing – where do I begin?! I have been an avid Country Living reader since we bought our own house and I always enjoy the beautiful ideas and inspiration that they share, as well as the pieces on small rural businesses. To think that our wedding will now be part of that tradition is so amazing!

Charlie

In support of seasonal British wedding flowers – my feature for Unique Bride Magazine

Charlie

I love seasonal, British flowers. I want to take my love for seasonal, British grown flowers and share it with you all. This week sees the launch of a fabulous new wedding magazine called Unique Bride Magazine (if you haven’t already seen me shouting about it on Facebook and Twitter). I was lucky enough to be invited to write an article for the launch issue and my copy arrived in today’s post.

I chose for my article to reflect my love of seasonal, British grown wedding flowers and to showcase to brides-to-be the beautiful options that are out there if you look just a little further afield. Rather than rambling on about why I love seasonal, British flowers I’ll let you read my article and be inspired (Issue 1 of Unique Bride Magazine goes on sale in WHSmith from tomorrow 26th April) by some of what the seasons have to offer.

Charlie

Get more inspiration and ideas for a natural wedding from my Pinterest boards

Charlie

I’m on Pinterest

Some of you might already know that I have joined Pinterest, but I thought if you didn’t know you might want to come over and have a look at my boards. There’s lots of the beautiful inspiration you can find on the blog, but also more that isn’t featured on the blog. If you are on Pinterest then do come and follow me and I’d love to see some of your wedding inspiration and the lovely things you’ve found. Follow The Natural Wedding Company on Pinterest.

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