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A magical woodland wedding venue in the Cornish countryside

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It’s hard to know where to begin telling you about our visit to Cornish Tipi Weddings because you really have to visit to get a feel for what this place is really like.  You need to go and soak it up, all the beautiful photographs will only go so far in showing you what a special place it is.

I’ve supplemented my own photos with those from Cornish Tipi Weddings and Green Photographic as I think that seeing weddings happening on site gives you the best feel for what it would be like, short of visiting yourself.

Following our directions to Cornish Tipi Weddings (also Cornish Tipi Holidays) we pulled off the lane and headed down a bumpy track.  We were greeted by Oggy, the warm and welcoming warden who takes care of the site, before following him down into the woodland towards our tipi.  All the paths were just like this…


Green Photographic

The site is set amongst 16 acres of secret woodland, each tipi nestled amongst its own woodland glade – ours was high up above the lake and aptly named ‘Overlake’.  Cornish Tipi Holidays is just like camping, but you don’t have to take a tent or cooking equipment, these are all provided.  This was our tipi…

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Get natural glowing skin for your wedding

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There can’t be many girls out there who don’t want to look and feel utterly beautiful and healthy on their wedding day.  After all those hours we spend at the laptop searching for wedding inspiration and the nights hand making all the pretty details, it’s not soon before we can start to look like an extra for the Twilight films.

I have fair skin, but I still want to have a healthy glow, especially when summer seems to only last for one month in April these days.  So this fab sounding natural product – Skin Glow Body Cream – from award winning Evolve is right up my street.  Available and on sale from The Natural Works Company it contains a tan boosting sugar extract to give you a natural hint of colour.

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Cool and quirky buttonholes made from felt

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I recently came across a fabulous Etsy seller called Fairyfolk, which inspired me to showcase a few unusual but frankly cool felt buttonholes.  Now I’m the first to admit I’m a complete sucker for fresh, seasonal flowers, but these are enough to persuade me otherwise…

Woodland Boutonniere

These fun and elegant woodland inspired buttonholes are handmade by Etsy seller Fairyfolk.  I love how simple this idea is, but how stunning the result is – just three different coloured tiny ‘wool blooms’ and a pretty earthy brown ribbon.

Kite Buttonholes


Image: Ben Blood

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Sustainable wedding florists Bella & Fifi expand into Devon

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I’ve received exciting news for anyone planning a Devon wedding – one of the lovely businesses from the directory, Bella & Fifi, are expanding their home-grown, sustainable wedding flowers south into Devon.

Bella & Fifi style UK-grown, seasonal flowers into beautiful wedding flowers for their brides-to-be, even growing flowers to order if you wish.  With artistic backgrounds and self-taught floristry skills, Bella & Fifi create original bouquets, buttonholes and arrangements.

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50% discount on all natural mineral makeup from Purity Cosmetics

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One of the new businesses to join the directory, Purity Cosmetics, is offering a fantastic 50% discount on all natural mineral foundation.  Having used mineral makeup for my wedding day I can wholeheartedly say how much I love this stuff.

These mineral foundations are designed to blend with your skin tone and come in a range of 9 shades.  There are also some great tips on the website on how to apply mineral foundation – essential if it’s your first time using it.

So if you’d like to get an incredible 50% off then head over to the website www.puritycosmetics.co.uk and stock up on some beautiful mineral foundation.  While you’re at it you should also have a look at their range of mineral eyeshadows, blushers and bronzers.  Girlie heaven!

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Plant a tree to remember your wedding day with the new Tree Campaign from World Inspired Tents

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This summer World Inspired Tents, one of the wonderful businesses listed on the directory, launched their Tree Campaign.  It’s a simple idea – everyone who books their tents received a tree sapling.

So once the excitement of your wedding day is over and you’ve enjoyed a wonderful evening beneath the romantic tipi canvases, you can get home and plant your tiny tree and have a lasting reminder of your happy day.  Each tree sapling comes wrapped in hessian, tied with string and with a personalised card (recycled, of course).

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

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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.”

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Plantable seeded paper for eco-friendly wedding stationery

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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, which come in four designs, are available in different colours and can be personalised for your wedding with your names and date.

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“English Romance” cupcake decorating class inspired by vintage jewellery

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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 buttercream, fondant, and are then piped using Royal Icing.  Andrea says that the colours for this collection are “pale, sophisticated and romantic” and that the cupcakes are “sumptuously adorned with fondant and sugar paste jewels, roses and pearls.”

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