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A free vintage photobooth from Green Photographic with all wedding photography bookings

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The lovely Sarah from Green Photographic is offering couples a free vintage photobooth worth £100 with all wedding photography bookings made before the end of March 2012. The photobooth is lots of fun and great for the early evening, giving you and your guests a chance to all get fun and original studio portraits.

Green Photographic are documentary and reportage style photographers, with a relaxed and creative approach. Sarah and her assistants pride themselves on being unobtrusive photographers – allowing your wedding day to run just the way you want without the photographers stealing the show.

Green Photographic is also committed to the environment, printing all stationery on 100% recycled paper using eco inks and sourcing albums from within the UK. Their disc only packages mean you can print as many or as little pictures as you like and all fuel used in conjunction with photographic commissions is off-set with an annual donation to Carbon Footprint.

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Win a fabulous ‘tea for two’ mini hamper of vintage crockery from For The Love Of Vintage

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*This competition is now closed*

I was lucky enough to meet Sharon from For The Love Of Vintage for drinks recently and she’s utterly fab, running her business hiring out vintage crockery for weddings. So how would you like to win this lovely ‘tea for two’ mini hamper full of vintage crockery? It includes two Royal Stafford cup and saucers, a Royal Albert sugar bowl, a Heathcote milk jug, a Grindley teapot (2-3 cups) and comes beautifully presented in a wicker tray.

If you live in the Manchester/Cheshire area and are looking to hire vintage crockery for you upcoming wedding, do get in touch with Sharon as she has a beautiful collection and is incredibly friendly and helpful.

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Complimentary canapes when you book Love a Locavore to cater for your hen or stag do

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Love a Locavore specialises in seasonal, locally sourced catering for weddings and hen and stag do dinner parties. To celebrate our 5th birthday, Alice is offering complimentary canapes when you book a hen or stag do lunch or dinner party.

For the past two and a half years, Alice has been running a pop-up restaurant from her beautiful entertaining space and garden in Fulham, London. She cooks up delicious meals for an alternative and incredibly special hen or stag do, and can seat up to 20 of your friends.

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Get a 15% discount on ethical and eco-friendly wedding gifts from Diva-Stores

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To celebrate our 5th birthday party, ethical superstore Diva-Stores is offering our readers an exclusive 15% off all their products. They have a wide range of eco-friendly and ethical gifts, as well as providing a bespoke wedding gift list service.

There is gorgeous organic bed linens, fairtrade kilim rugs, bridal lingerie, and even organic Rocket Gardens from Cornwall. Don’t miss this limited time offer to get some lovely eco-friendly products for your home.

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Get wed on a Wendesday at Welsh Green Weddings and get a 10% discount for small intimate weddings

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Welsh Green Weddings are helping us celebrate our 5th birthday by offering you a fantastic 10% ‘Get wed on a Wednesday’ discount for small, intimate weddings for up to 50 people. If you are dreaming of a rustic wedding on an organic farm set amongst gorgeous Welsh countryside, then Welsh Green Weddings could be the perfect setting for you.

Get married in The Old Dairy before enjoying a lovely evening party in the farmyard beneath a beautiful canvas awning. For Simone, who runs Welsh Green Weddings, “There’s a magical feeling to this part of West Wales. We fell in love with it seven years ago. If you’re looking for an imaginative country setting for your marriage or civil partnership celebrations, somewhere out of the way without being remote, somewhere relaxed, friendly, unstuffy but romantic – come to talk to us!”

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Exclusive discount on crafty hen party workshops from the lovely A Alicia Accessories

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Anna of A Alicia Hen Party Workshops runs unique and fun hen party workshops where to can make decorations, favours, necklaces or fascinators using eco-ethical materials and vintage elements. For a limited-time only, she is offering our readers an exclusive discount of £5 off per ‘hen’ on her hen party workshops.

Anna is a designer and maker of beautifully crafted eco-ethical textile jewellery and wedding ranges, making her the perfect teacher to help you create your own, handmade pieces that you can take home and treasure – and perhaps even incorporate into your wedding day.

The workshops last about 2 hours and Anna can come along to any London location, be it your front room, or a cosy pub, or she can book or suggest venues for your hen party.

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

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*This competition is now closed*

I’m so jealous I can’t enter this competition today – one lucky reader is going to win this beautiful string of silk bunting made from vintage sarees. This is just one of many lovely products that you can find at Ganesha, an online shop full of handmade accessories and gifts, including vintage and upcycled, all fairly produced from Indian, Bangladesh and beyond!

Each string of bunting is 5 metres long and has about 16 flags that are 23 x 21cm. Each one is unique and a riot of stunning colours, perfect for decorating your wedding venue or tent with in true vintage eco-chic style! The picture above only shows part of one string, and I think they are a beautiful alternative to the traditional floral bunting if you are after something a bit different.

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Wildflower Favours is offering a 10% discount on all their products including seed packet favours and plantable papers

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Wildflower Favours create a wide range of eco-friendly wildflower seed packet favours and plantable seeded paper favours and invites, as well as stocking lots of handmade and recycled paper, favour boxes and other favour supplies perfect for a natural wedding. Until the 31st March 2012 they are offering our readers 10% off all their products.

Teresa from Wildflower Favours explains why wildflowers are so important, “British native wildflowers are in decline and this has a knock-on effect on our natives bees, butterflies and moths who rely on the wildflowers for their survival. By incorporating wildflowers into your wedding invites, favours etc you are helping to preserve our native wildflower and wildlife, and also encouraging your guests to garden in a more biodiversity-friendly way”

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Fairtrade wedding and engagement rings with 10% off from Foundation Jewellery

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Foundation Jewellery are licensed makers of fairtrade gold wedding and engagement rings, with full traceable diamonds and recycled gold and platinum available as well. To celebrate our birthday, they are offering readers 10% off their collections for a limited time period.

They stock a range of high quality and classic wedding and engagement ring designs, all bearing the Foundation Jewellery hummingbird mark. As one of the first jewellers in the world to be registered to craft using fairtrade and fairmined gold you can be sure that you are not only investing in a beautiful piece to celebrate your love, but also an ethical one.

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A pretty white lace flower holder perfect for DIY wedding flowers or displaying cut flowers at home

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I spotted this on Etsy and thought it was not only very pretty but very useful, both if you’re planning a wedding and if you love cut flowers at home. Made by a non-profit organisation in Vancouver, Canada, this pretty ceramic disc sits atop your vase and holds your flowers in place by sliding them through the holes.

I think it looks like a large button, and would not only be great for arranging a few pretty blooms for your wedding reception tables, but would be an item you used loads afterwards. They are on my wish list. You can buy them from their Etsy shop Just Work, it doesn’t detail postage to the UK but I’m hopeful if you enquired they’d be able to post them (they also make a beautiful range of other pottery items).

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