First impressions count
According to the infamous shampoo advert, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Whilst you have been living and breathing all things to do with your wedding, the first time your guests have any idea about your big day is when your wedding...
To absent friends
Your wedding day is one of the happiest days of your life. When you look around the room you'll see all the people that you love, however you may also notice all the people that are missing from the celebrations too. Not to put a dampener on proceedings but inevitably...
New beginnings
We are nearly a week in to this brand new year already and I'm sad to be taking the Christmas decorations down with the arrival of Twelfth Night. I used to really enjoy Epiphany celebrations when I lived in France - eating the delicious galette des rois and finding...
Our top 5 most popular blog posts overall in 2015
1. Pantone® announce colour report for Fall 2015 2. Trend predictions for children party themes in 2015 3. How we organised our Alice in Wonderland tea party 4. How we went somewhere over the rainbow with our Wizard of Oz party 5. Celebrating milestone occasions in...
Celebrating milestone occasions in 2016
We hope you've had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas. At this between and betwixt time, we take the time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the brand new year ahead. It's a popular time to book holidays, make...
Trend predictions for weddings in 2016
Weddings are a wonderful celebration of love and marriage. They can blend together families, traditions, cultures, creativity and lots of personal touches. Whether a religious, civil or humanist ceremony, a traditional or themed reception, these special days are about...
Pantone® announce the Color of the Year 2016
The Pantone® Color of the Year 2016 is Rose Quartz AND Serenity. Yes, we get two colours for the price of one next year. It's the first time Pantone® have ever announced two colours and a long time since a pastel colour has hit the top spot. They are a nice calm...
1910s wedding versus 2010s wedding
Imagine planning your wedding without the internet, without your smart phone, or without Pinterest! Goodness, imagine if you didn’t even have a ball point pen to quickly jot down ideas in a notebook! Rewind a hundred years and you'd be planning a wedding without...
To love and to cherish
We don't have a television at the moment. After some building work before the summer we moved it and have never reinstated it. We haven't missed it at all and what it has meant is that we only watch something that we really want to watch now (rather than flicking...
With pretty (brides)maids all in a row…
There was a time when I thought I'd always be the bridesmaid and never the bride. I thought the film 27 Dresses was written about me! But despite being a bridesmaid more than three times, I've luckily now been a bride too. Before being married, I was a flower girl as...
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