So you went down on one knee and popped the question. Not only did she say yes, but she’s now having the time of her life showing off the engagement ring that cost you three months salary, looking at venues, choosing flowers and oohing and aahing over dresses. But chances are your enthusiasm for making [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wedding’
How to get your woman on YOUR wedding wavelength
Posted in wedding, wedding stationery, wedding suppliers, tagged groom, iamstaggered, invites, rushton hall, staggered, wedding on February 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Happy New Year
Posted in wedding stationery, tagged invitations, martha stewart weddings, turquoise wedding invites, wedding, wedding invitations, wedding invites, wedding paraphernalia on January 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Once again it’s a new year, but this time we have a new decade to look forward too. The noughties are now over and what do we have now; the teenies? And do you say two thousand and ten or twentyten? Bring back the eighties I say! Enough about my musings and back to the [...]
Aisle Be Yours Wedding Services
Posted in wedding, wedding suppliers, tagged aisle be yours, artificial flowers, wedding, wedding flowers, wedding paraphernalia on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aisle Be Yours Wedding Services is a venue decorating company based in Bristol. They offer full or partial venue decoration; from laying up the tables and setting up your cake, through to chair covers and floral displays for your centrepieces. One of their most popular services is the design of silk wedding flowers. Gone are [...]
Magnolia the Florist
Posted in wedding, wedding suppliers, tagged dusky pink roses, hydrangeas, magnolia the florist, rothwell florist, vintage bridal bouquet, wedding, wedding paraphernalia, weding flowers on December 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, we are going to share some photos from Magnolia the Florist, based in Rothwell, High Street; just opposite the Wedding Paraphernalia shop. We know Dean won’t mind us showing these photos that he took in October as he prepared a vintage wedding at Rushton Hall. Dean is a fantastic florist, he just loves it [...]
Hockleys, the cakemakers
Posted in wedding, wedding suppliers, tagged hockleys, wedding, wedding cake, wedding cake flowers, wedding paraphernalia. black & white wedding cake on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael and Graham are twin brothers and set up Hockleys Cakes in 1986. They are based at their beautiful studio/kitchen in Brixworth, Northamptonshire and their cakes are to die for. They are the most professional cakemakers that we have ever come across and when the brides come into the shop and ask for recommendations, they [...]
Favourite Websites
Posted in wedding, tagged facebook, twitter, wedding, wedding paraphernalia. martha stewart, wedding planners on December 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today, we’re going to list some of our favourite websites that we like to look at for inspiration and some of our favourite people that we follow. We have to start with the American sites because people in the States really know how to put on a wedding. Our favourites would be Style me Pretty [...]
Christmas is coming…
Posted in wedding, wedding accessories, wedding stationery, tagged wedding, wedding guestbook, wedding invites, wedding paraphernalia, wedding signature frame, wedding stationery on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
and our schedule is nearly full and brides are still saying they want to work with us in 2010 for their wedding invitations and wedding stationery. This is excellent for us in theory but terrible for cashflow at the moment because nobody wants to part with their money just before Christmas. This is also playing [...]
“Budget” Weddings
Posted in wedding, tagged budget, wedding, wedding stationery on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s been a lot of talk recently about “budget” weddings; forums, blogs, magazines, TV etc. But the word budget has suddenly become a word meaning cut backs, make your own, inferior quality. The word budget on wikipedia is described as: Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a [...]
RSVP – please…
Posted in wedding, tagged wedding on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst lurking on a wedding forum recently, we read a thread about how few guests had responded, including the parents of the groom. We often get brides in the shop complaining about this too. We have several minor “issues” with this: 1. Surely our parents have brought us up better than not to reply to [...]
Blogging
Posted in wedding, tagged blog, blogging, twitter, wedding, wedding photographer on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve never really got the hang of blogging. However, we have had the whole world of blogging opened up to us by twitter. We are now reading stuff that we would never have looked for, let alone found. Our favourite blogs at the moment are: http://blog.sarahvivienne.co.uk/ – biased here because Sarah is a fab local [...]
