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Announcing the winner of The Paper Florist competition to win a beautiful origami lily and rose bouquet

Charlie

This afternoon we get to congratulate another comeptition winner and to thank another of the wonderful businesses found on The Natural Wedding Company directory who put on these competition for our readers. The Paper Florist ran a competition for one lucky reader to win a beautiful origiami lily and rose bridal bouquet.

Congratulations to Rosie who will be the lucky recipient of one of these beautiful and unusual bouquets from The Paper Florist. Rosie – I’ll be in touch by email to link you up with The Paper Florist to get your bouquet sent out to you.

Charlie

Win a free eco-friendly handcrafted wedding album worth £750 when you book Lisa Dawn Photography

Charlie

So this is it – this is the last of the birthday month celebration competitions, and what a lovely note to end on. The lovely Lisa Dawn Photography is offering one lucky reader the chance to win an eco-friendly, handcrafted wedding album worth £750!

I am so delighted to share this exclusive prize with you all, as I have been familiar with Lisa Dawn Photography’s work for a number of years now and I love the contemporary and creative style they bring to their wedding photography. Run by husband and wife team Lisa and Scott, you’ll get two photographers on your big day to capture all those lovely moments.

Charlie

Gorgeous Green Wedding Fair on Saturday 14th April 2012 at the Clow Beck Eco Centre

Charlie

The lovely Emily from Clervaux Weddings has been in touch to tell me about the Gorgeous Green Wedding Fair they are organising next Saturday 14th April 2012. The fair is being held at the Clow Beck Eco Centre, an organic, biodynamic farm in Croft on Tees near Darlington and will showcase a range of local and green wedding suppliers as well as allowing you to view their eco wedding venue.

Emily told me, “We’ll be showing people around our 100% eco venue and if they are lucky they may see some of our new born spring lambs! We have selection of local and green wedding suppliers from pre-loved dresses to crafty alternative hen dos, local photographers and florists promoting English grown seasonal flowers.”

Charlie

Announcing the winner of the Choco Mallow Coco wedding cake competition

Charlie

I do so love being able to announce competition winners! This afternoon I get to share with you the winner of the Choco Mallow Coco wedding cake competition, which involve creating a moodboard for your dream wedding cake. The winner has the chance to pick from either £100 off their dream wedding cake made by Choco Mallow Coco, or they can choose to go on one of their fab cake courses.

So, without further ado…

Chloe from Choco Mallow Coco loved Lydia’s ideas for her dream wedding cake, and I must say I do rather love the woodsy, twinkling feel.

Charlie

Win a homegrown seasonal and organic bridal bouquet and buttonholes from Green & Gorgeous

Charlie

Green & Gorgeous are running a competition for one lucky bride to win her bridal bouquet and buttonholes when you book their ‘buckets and bouquets’ service. The ‘buckets and bouquet’ service enables you to have all the fun of arranging your wedding flowers with family and friends, whilst still having gorgeous, seasonal blooms to work with. I did exactly this for my own wedding, so the chance to win your bridal bouquet and buttonholes on top of this is fabulous!

Charlie

Announcing the winner of the A Alicia Handmade competition to win a £25 gift voucher for wedding accessories

Charlie

This afternoon I have the pleasure of announcing another lucky winner, this time from the A Alicia Handmade competition. To enter, Anna of A Alicia Handmade wanted to know which was your favourite item from her wedding collection – there were lots of lovely entries for this competition, but there can only be one winner.

A huge congratulations to Holly – I’ll be in touch with details of your gift voucher and maybe you might share with us what you decide to buy? How you will ever choose from all those beautiful items I don’t know!

Charlie

Join Hooe’s Yurts for an open day tea party on Saturday 7th April 2012 in Devon

Charlie

Hooe’s Yurts is one of the latest additions to The Natural Wedding Company directory, so I was delighted to find out that they are holding a tea party open day next weekend to showcase their beautiful yurts to potential clients. In particular, they will be showcasing their newest addition – a stunning 44ft cathedral size yurt seating up to 120 people!

Now, I have been in a yurt that could seat up to 80 people and that was pretty impressive, so one for 120 must be incredible. What is so wonderful about yurts, even at this size, is that they are incredibly intimate and magical – I haven’t experienced many things so lovely as the meal I had in the 80 person yurt, it even inspired our wedding.

Charlie

Sabina Motasem Bride is offering our readers an exclusive 20% off any wedding dress from their main collection

Charlie

Bet you thought that my lovely birthday celebrations were over, but they’re not! I had such a wonderful response from the businesses listed on the directory, that I have a few final offers and competitions to share this week – so keep your eyes peeled.

The lovely Sabina from Sabina Motasem Bride would like to offer our readers an exclusive 20% off any wedding dress bought from their main collection before the end of April.

Sabina Motasem Bride is a beautiful collection of understated and elegant wedding dresses, each dress inspired by past eras with a modern twist and ethically made in the UK.

Charlie

Win a place on our exclusive cut flower growing and arranging workshop with Catkin Flowers – it’s going to be lovely!

Charlie

I am so excited to be sharing this competition today – I’ve been working with the lovely Rachel from Catkin Flowers to put together a bespoke cut flower growing and arranging workshop just for my readers. Whether you’re getting married, recently married or just would love to spend a day learning how to start your own cutting garden and putting together your own arrangements (that you get to take home!) then maybe you’d like to join us.

This fabulous workshop is exclusively for The Natural Wedding Company readers, you’ll learn how to create a hand-tied bouquet and buttonholes, as well as getting some top tips on growing cut flowers. In a couple of weeks I’m going to have 8 tickets for sale at a special price, but today I have 1 place to be won! I can’t wait, because I get to go too, so I really hope that I’ll see you there.

The workshop is taking place on Wednesday 4th July from 10am – 4pm at Cakin’s HQ at Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire. It’s about 7 miles from Lincoln Station, so perfect if you’re travelling by train – I can probably pick some people up as I’ll be driving.

Charlie

New Wives Club #4: how to make your own vintage teacup bird feeders

Charlie

Wow, this feels very strange – a return to ‘normal’ blogging after an incredible month of offers and competitions (lots are still running so do take a look!). And what better way to return, than with a lovely New Wives Club post and a guest post from the lovely Sharon from For The Love Of Vintage.

Sharon came up with this fantastic idea to give a new lease of life for chipped vintage teacups – turning them into rather lovely bird feeders! In her business, hiring out vintage crockery for weddings, the china understandably takes some wear and tear. So Sharon came up with this idea for reusing some of the pretty teacups that are too good to throw away.

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