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‘Something beautiful is on the horizon’: coming up next week an exciting announcement on the blog

Charlie

I have an exciting announcement to make on the blog next week. Can’t tell you any more yet…but do stay tuned here on the blog, on my Facebook page and on Twitter!

In the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy catching up on recent blog posts including the latest from our TNWC Real Brides, an alternative wedding cake made from doughnut holes, a cute version of the ‘tying the knot’ save the date inspired by my own wedding stationery, and these sweet animal ears silhouette place cards.

Plus tomorrow I have another New Wives Club post to share with you, a lovely crafty idea for masking tape that I think is pretty nifty.

Charlie

My autumnal styled stall at the Eco Wedding Fair with seasonal flowers and ideas for wedding table centrepieces

Charlie

On Saturday I shared Jennie Hill’s lovely photos from the Eco Wedding Fair (you can see it all here), and today I’ve got my pictures of my stall and a few more details about how I decorated it. Perhaps you’ll find some inspiration for your wedding or just an autumn or winter celebration you might be planning.

We arrived at Riverstation in Bristol at about 9am and first we had to: unpack a number of boxes of what at first glance probably looked like a pile of junk, carry two heavy buckets of sand up a flight of stairs, and manoeuvre a bundle of 7ft long bamboo canes. I was so pleased that the other exhibitors had equally quirky bootfuls for their stalls!

My mom and I had two hours to set up before visitors started arriving, so here’s what I did with the mottley collection of items. I used a pair of curtains to cover my table – they are a rather fun botanical print style curtain with what looks like horse chestnut leaves on them, and they ended up working in perfectly with that autumn feel I was going for.

The two metal buckets of sand went either side of the table and they held some of my bamboo canes – apologies this is the best picture I have which shows the bamboo canes and bunting…

Charlie

Quality time: a little update on where I’ve been

Charlie

I don’t often add too many personal posts on here, but I wanted to share a quick update on what I’ve been up to over the past 10 days. Mr Rigg and I have been away on the most lovely holiday to a part of Greece called the Peloponnese, it’s been blissfully warm (about 25°C most days) and we’ve been spoilt with excellent food.

Most of all we’ve had a chance to unwind from our respective jobs and spend some quality time together – don’t you find yourself realising on holiday how much you’ve not had that time together? Not really at any rate, you might eat dinner together every night, cuddle up on the sofa, even chatter in bed with each other. But more than ever this holiday I’ve realised those times aren’t quite the same as having 10 days completely to yourselves.

Charlie

Behind-the-scenes photos and film from our ‘on the farm’ bridal shoot

Charlie

So you’ve seen all the gorgeous bridal looks from our Heaton House Farm photoshoot – and if you haven’t you can catch up on my introduction, part one and part two. Today I wanted to share some of the behind-the-scenes pictures that Jonny Draper captured, because I thought you might like to see what goes into putting together a photoshoot.

When it’s a cold blustery day in April and you’re doing a shoot on a working farm it’s not all glamour. There is one brave model in a wedding dress to keep warm and smiling (mind you, our model Lizzie was incredible and cheerful throughout), there are cows and calves to manoeuvre into shot (thanks to Sarah Heath!), and somehow to get a girl in a big white dress onto a horse. It is all great fun.

Here’s the fab video of the day from Rebecca Reville Videography:

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Loving the leggings and socks to keep warm…

Charlie

“A homegrown celebration” – our wedding in Country Living magazine

Charlie

The phone calls and texts started coming in this morning – friends and family were starting to receive their Country Living magazine and we had been spotted! Our post has just arrived and there is our wedding, in print, those gorgeous photos, some full sized (eek!) in a real issue of Country Living.

I still can’t quite believe it and yet I have a copy in my hands. If you are a subscriber to the magazine you’ll be arriving it any time now, if not it’s on sale around the 10th/11th June if you fancy a read.

Charlie

Sneak peek of our ‘on the farm’ photoshoot at Heaton House Farm

Charlie

Yesterday I got to spend the day with a lovely group of wedding suppliers at a great wedding venue in Cheshire called Heaton House Farm. I was invited to be part of the photoshoot by photographer Jonny Draper and I was delighted to go along, get involved and see how a photoshoot works.

I will be featuring the photoshoot with Jonny’s fantastic photos in the coming weeks, but for now I thought you might all like to see a behind-the-scenes look at what we got up to. All these pictures are taken by me on my phone, so nothing fancy, but hopefully you’ll get a glimpse and what’s to come.

Our lovely model Lizzie on Tootsie the horse wearing beautiful red and gold Indian decoration…

Charlie

Last minute preparations for The Natural Wedding Company’s birthday party tomorrow

Charlie

I know it’s rather late to be posting, but I just wanted to share a few words and pictures on this very exciting night. Tomorrow is my 5th birthday party – no, not myself, but for The Natural Wedding Company. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that during March we celebrated 5 years since the website launched with loads of wonderful offers and competitions, if this is your first visit then welcome!

Tomorrow I have 11 lovely guests – all readers of The Natural Wedding Company blog and girls who have used the directory to help plan their wedding. Some of them are brides-to-be in the midst of planning their weddings, others like myself are recently married – one only just got married yesterday!

Charlie

You’re invited to The Natural Wedding Company’s 5th Birthday Party!

Charlie

I am a bit nervous about sharing this news in case you don’t share my excitement – I really hope you do, so fingers-crossed. As you might know by now, I am celebrating 5 years of The Natural Wedding Company this March 2012 – there will be loads of offers and competitions everyday during March so make sure you keep checking back.

When thinking about how I would love to celebrate 5 years, I couldn’t think of a lovelier way to celebrate than with a small party with some of my readers, eating cake and doing something crafty. So…

I would like to invite you to The Natural Wedding Company’s 5th Birthday Party!

Now, there have been all kinds of glamorous parties and events in the wedding industry world, I was even lucky enough to go to the Love My Dress Summer Soiree last year. My party isn’t going to be anywhere near the scale of these other events, my party is going to be a small party – there are just 10 places available – and you won’t need to dress up in swanky frocks, although party dresses are welcome!

Charlie

When imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery

Charlie

This might possibly be one of the hardest blog posts I’ve had to write. I’ve spent the past 24 hours going over how to write without just screaming and shouting. Those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook might recall a bit of a meltdown on Tuesday evening – so without waffling around too much, I discovered that another business had taken original designs I’d hand-drawn for our wedding stationery and was selling them as their own ‘unique’ designs.

I unwittingly clicked on a Twitter link and came across this businesses website – as I began to look around at the different designs they were selling I got this sick feeling in my stomach. Not only did one particularly wedding stationery design look unbelievably similar to what I’d designed and made for our wedding, but I began to realise that some details they were using were actually my hand-drawn images (below).

Designs by The Natural Wedding Company

I was absolutely devastated to think that someone would do that, and have the balls to claim that their work was ‘unique’. And pretty pissed off. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming these are outstanding pieces of artwork, but they are mine, drawn by me, for something quite personal – my own wedding.

Charlie

Holidaying in Devon

Charlie

I must start by apologising for the lack of blog posts these past two days – I am currently in Devon with my family (parents, aunts, uncles, cousins) to celebrate my granny’s 80th birthday. The last two days have been pretty full on and along with working hard on the new website (coming soon!) I’ve not had time to post anything here.

We are staying at Burnville Farm, near to Brentor where this gorgeous wedding (above) I recently featured took place, and the farm on which my granny grew up in as a child. It would also be a wonderful place for a UK honeymoon, as the bedrooms are sumptuous, the breakfast divine (I’ve ordered homemade pancakes with syrup tomorrow) and full of local Devon produce, and the views out onto the moors incredible.

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