The Best Wedding Blogs — Latest Catchup

We’re hav­ing a birth­day… so for­give me for not actu­ally being here right now as you read the blog! I’m either bak­ing myself a Hun­gry Cater­pil­lar birth­day cake, skip­ping along the beach singing happy birth­day to myself or pour­ing cham­pagne on my coco pops right now (depend­ing on the weather). Any­way, I thought I’d take the oppor­tu­nity to share some of the best wed­ding blogs I’ve been read­ing over the last few weeks with you. Ready? Enjoy! Oh, and happy birth­day every­one! Claire xxx

Photo credit Rebecca Douglas

Real wed­dings — the best real wed­ding blogs

• A celebrity wed­ding from the US with some fab cal­lig­ra­phy details I love!
• I hope you’ll love Leanne and Matt’s sea­side wed­ding blog as much as I do
• More stun­ning cal­lig­ra­phy from Rachel and Ashkahn’s amaz­ing wed­ding blog
• Naughty boys in kilts any­one? I found out recently my mom is quite fond of kilts hehe!
• Fab­u­lous pho­tog­ra­phy and some incred­i­ble details from this Cov­er­wood Farm wed­ding blog
• This win­ter tipi wed­ding is amazing
• Mag­i­cal snowy wed­ding from Nun­smere Hall
• This pic­ture from Jenny and William’s wed­ding day will cap­ture your heart — Jenny’s 8 year old sister’s expres­sion says it all. (I did Jenny’s wed­ding cal­lig­ra­phy and she’s the loveli­est per­son!) See more wed­ding images from the day here: Jenny & William’s wed­ding blog
• Lemons and limes for a wed­ding theme? It really works!
• Def­i­n­i­tion of the word ‘albu­ma­sou­rus’ — and a mov­ing series of wed­ding images
• A beau­ti­ful wed­ding from Combe House in Devon
• Some mag­i­cal moments from Heidi and Mike’s Orchardleigh House wed­ding blog

Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy credit Aaron Collett

Think cre­ative

• Wed­ding inspi­ra­tion shoot with vin­tage details and a pink Vespa? Yes please!
• Vin­tage lux­ury flo­ral invi­ta­tions — this is the color spring should be! Deli­cious
• 20 ways to trans­form your wed­ding recep­tion space — some good ideas here
• Did I men­tion it was my birth­day? Rain­bow cake recipe! (I’d love one but hon­estly I wouldn’t dare even try! hehe)
• Spring wed­ding styling ideas from my lovely friend Nathan (also includes links to “more gen­eral spring­y­ness”, which is nice!)
• 5 bou­tique wed­ding venues you might not even have come across in your search!

Advice and opinion

• 10 wed­ding blun­ders to avoid — usu­ally I dis­agree loudly with this type of wed­ding blog arti­cle, but this one has my vote. There’s one heeyuge blun­der they’ve missed — but I’ll share that one with you at a later date. The ones they’ve included are all pretty valid and also eas­ily done. Rec­om­mended reading!
• When I’m Sixty Four — a won­der­ful lit­tle read about what mat­ters. Includes the phrase ‘super­flu­ous frip­peries’ which I’ll be steal­ing at some point in the future.
• You are beau­ti­ful.
• Amaz­ing wed­ding plan­ning tips from the top wed­ding bloggers
• The per­fect wed­ding day comes in all shapes and sizes

Wed­ding busi­ness news for suppliers

It’s been a while since I’ve fea­tured any wed­ding sup­plier advice, but hav­ing binned an old web­site this week I’m now going to share a few favorite advice posts here more reg­u­larly. (I’ve had a request!)

• Wed­ding SEO in 2013
• Reflect on 2012 to cre­ate an awe­some 2013
• What makes a great photographer?
• Global wed­ding mar­ket sur­vey results 2012