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A round-up of the exclusive offers and competitions to celebrate our birthday month so far

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I’ve been thinking this blog post was needed for about a few days now, so I’m finally getting around to it.

Below you’ll find details and links to all of the exclusive offers and competitions currently running on the blog to celebrate our 5th birthday. Hopefully this will help you find the ones that appeal to you and make sure you haven’t missed any out.

Competitions

* Win a £25 gift voucher to spend on exquisite handmade wedding accessories from A Alicia Handmade

* Win a beautiful string of silk bunting made from vintage sarees from Ganesha

* Win a seasonal bridal bouquet or a hen party where the bride goes free from The Real Cut Flower Garden

* Win a gift voucher to spend towards a Chocolate Couture ethical wedding or engagement ring

* Win 50% off your dream outdoor wedding ceremony from Three Spirals

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Free box of chocolate with every order from Natural Design’s beautiful collection of handmade wedding favours and decorations

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If you’ve been eyeing up the beautiful handmade favours and decorations from Natural Design why not order them before the 30th April 2012 and get a free gift box filled with chocolate hearts. A delicious treat to enjoy whilst you toil away creating your wedding invitations or trying to work out your seating plan.

Natural Design have a unique range of favours, decorations, gifts and stationery that is all hand-crafted with care, and that are eco-friendly and ethically produced. Throughout lots of the products you will see these gorgeous handmade paper petals and flowers, including stunning paper anemones and cherry blossom branches – perfect for a spring wedding.

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Free buttonholes from Cornish florist The Blue Carrot – naturally grown seasonal wedding flowers

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The lovely Susanne who runs The Blue Carrot in Cornwall is offering one lucky person four free buttonholes when they book her to do your wedding flowers. All Susanne’s flowers are naturally grown, most of which she grows herself – she has a particularly beautiful style of arranging and uses unusual combinations to create natural and wild looking wedding flowers.

The Blue Carrot is a small cut flower garden on the Roseland peninsula in Cornwall, where Susanne specialises in growing unique, unusual and old-fashioned varieties of flowers and foliage. Susanne says “all of my flowers are grown with the utmost care and love and I believe this approach gives my flowers a distinct difference: deeper more vibrant colour, lasting beauty and the long forgotten fragrance of real flowers.”

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Win a £25 gift voucher to spend on exquisite handmade wedding accessories from A Alicia Handmade

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*This competition is now closed*

What a lovely competition I have for you today! The winner of today’s competition will win a £25 gift voucher to spend on beautiful wedding accessories from A Alicia Handmade. You might have heard me talk about Anna from A Alicia Handmade before, she not only made my garter but she’s coming up to Cheshire to do a workshop at The Natural Wedding Company’s birthday party in April.

There are all kinds of pretty and unique wedding accessories to choose from, including delicate ring pillows, a lovely range of garters made from vintage ribbons and lace, fabric flower garlands, clutch bags and fascinators. Everything is made by hand and using a variety of vintage and ethical fabrics.

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Wedding Yurts have a new Cotwold wedding venue and are offering a 10% discount and a crate of champagne

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The lovely Lizzie at Wedding Yurts has recently launched a fantastic new wedding venue and package at the idyllic Old Farmhouse in the Cotwolds. To celebrate their launch and our 5th birthday, Lizzie is offering one lucky couple a 10% discount on their booking and a crate of champagne!

Wedding Yurts now have three of their beautiful yurts nestled under a large weeping ash tree at this lovely wedding venue in the Cotwolds, with views over the fields towards the Malvern Hills. On a clear summer’s day you can even see the Welsh Mountains.

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Discount on eco-friendly printing from A Local Printer – ideal for wedding stationery and ‘save the date’ postcards

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A Local Printer are the UK’s leading eco-friendly printers, and for a limited time only are offering readers of The Natural Wedding Company 5% off all products on their website. There are all different kinds of printing options, from postcards to posters (a great alternative for a ‘save the date’!).

They use recycled paper, FSC Certified paper, and organic vegetable oil based ink for all their printing – a sure way to bring an eco-chic touch to your wedding and without all the hassle of printing at home.

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10% off pretty lingerie from ethical fashion brand SLC-SLC

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SLC-SLC is a British made eco-friendly fashion label that use traditional screen-printing, dying techniques and digitally printed patterns. To celebrate The Natural Wedding Company’s 5th birthday, they are giving our readers 10% off their beautiful collection of silk and bamboo knickers and cami tops.

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Decorate your wedding with lace-edged and vintage fabric bunting with this fantastic discount from Devon Vintage China

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Devon Vintage China has a beautiful range of bunting – some made from vintage fabrics, others incorporating vintage doilies and some that are lined in English made cotton lace. To celebrate our 5th birthday, they are offering our readers an exclusive 10% discount on all bunting hire, which can be sent anywhere in the UK – a wonderful way to decorate your wedding venue.

They have two types of bunting – a colourful and patterned range made from a mixture of vintage and new fabrics, and a white/ivory range made from vintage cotton fabrics, some with vintage doily inserts and edged with English made cotton lace. Bunting is a wonderful way to bring cheer to your wedding venue and really ties everything together.

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Get 10% off organic fine wines and bubbly for your natural wedding from Nothing But The Grape

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We have a super exciting exclusive offer for our readers today – a 10% discount on all orders of wine and Prosecco from Nothing But The Grape, who specialise in organic fine wines. No wedding is complete without some bubbly to celebrate with, so why celebrate with wine produced on vineyards that respect and nurture their soil, vines and grapes.

Nothing But The Grape are a small independent wine importer, who believe “that all good wine comes from good grapes and we believe that organic methods of farming can produce the ripest and healthiest grapes, which in turn can produce wines of the highest quality.” They care so much about their wines and where they come from, that there’s a whole section on their website where you can find out about the producers.

If like me, you don’t really know too much about which wine goes with what type of food, you can take your wedding menu and look at Nothing But The Grape’s food pairing suggestions on their website to match the perfect tipple to your meal.

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Giveaway on wildflower seeded paper favour boxes from Favour Haven

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Favour Haven has two sets of these sweet seeded paper favour boxes to giveaway to two lucky readers who purchase 12 of more sheets of their cream seeded paper. Both the favour boxes and paper are embedded with wildflower seeds and made from recycled paper that can be planted to produce a beautiful display of flowers.

The seeded paper is ideal for handmade wedding invitations or ‘save the dates’, that once your guests have read they can plant in their garden – a truly eco-friendly to create your wedding stationery.

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