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The Mother of all Weddings at Wilderness Festival

March 22, 2022 | Celebration, Covid Wedding, Festival-style wedding, Love, Marriage, Party

The Mother of all Weddings was held at Wilderness festival last summer. It was a very special gathering and today we have an interview with organiser Stephanie Pollard from Sunday Assembly. Q. Can you tell us about Sunday Assembly? A. Sunday Assembly is a global network of secular communities that celebrate life following the motto “Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More”. There’s a basic format to our assemblies, which includes meaningful themes, sing-alongs to pop and rock tunes (we put the lyrics up on a screen like karaoke), a main speaker giving a TED-style talk, poetry, and members of the…

What is it really like to work with a wedding Celebrant?

February 24, 2022 | Expert Advice, Guest Post, Love, Wedding Celebrant, Wedding Ceremony

If you’ve never planned a wedding before the ceremony element might be a little daunting. Where do you even start? What do celebrants actually do? Well today we’re lucky enough to have a guest post from Aggie the Celebrant to talk us through her process. Over to Aggie!.. Using a celebrant has been touted as being a big new trend for weddings – you get a super personal, fun, relaxed, ceremony done by someone who’s truly invested in your wedding. However, it’s still relatively new to a lot of people so I’m going to take you through the process of…

Dolly Alderton Talks Weddings in Sunday Times Style

May 6, 2021 | Love, Marriage, Party, Wedding

I always get the Sunday Times and it usually takes me the whole week to work my way through the supplements. A couple of weeks ago they featured I Do! The Cool Bride Guide in The Sunday Times style. I really enjoyed Dolly Alderton‘s piece and wanted to share some snippets with you because her writing is just so evocative… and I think we all need to be transported back to BC weddings, even if only in a literary sense for now. Nothing represents the freedom of life before Covid more than a wedding: train journeys, tightly packed churches, hundreds…

Love in Lockdown – 10 Ideas for Valentine’s Day

January 28, 2021 | Love

Maybe your wedding’s been postponed due to Covid? Or maybe you’re anxiously waiting to see what will happen for your date this year?.. Or maybe you’re not even getting married! Heck, maybe you’re single and would just like to treat yourself or a friend. I’ve compiled a list of lockdown Valentine’s offerings I’ve come across from independent suppliers (mainly in the south but some deliver nationwide). We all deserve to spoil ourselves at the moment don’t we? I know I’ll be treating myself (self love man!) and I might treat my five-year-old Valentine too… The Curated Kitchen, Surrey. Valentine’s graze…

Supplier Spotlight – Family Tree Ceremonies

August 6, 2020 | Hampshire Wedding, Love, Marriage, Wedding Celebrant, Wedding Ceremony

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Southampton-based celebrant Diane Bell. We met at Salt Cafe in front of The Boat Shed for a cuppa and a chit chat… and we covered a lot of ground! I loved finding out about Diane’s life and the recent path that led her to become a celebrant. In a former life Diane lived on the Isle of Wight and worked for the prison service. On returning to the mainland she worked in student well-being at Southampton University. It stuck me that Diane’s career has seen her working in very people-focused roles, and…

Marriage, weddings, love, hugs, French kisses and closeness…

June 2, 2020 | Back Garden Wedding, Destination wedding, DIY, French Wedding, Laid Back Wedding, Love, Marriage, Outdoor wedding, real wedding, Relaxed Wedding

The Coronavirus pandemic has left the wedding industry hanging in the air. When can we have weddings again? Is 2020 a complete write off? Can we have a small wedding? Will next year be ‘back to normal’? Will we still have to social distance? How will that work in practice? This got me thinking back to last August when my best friend got married in France. How lucky they were it was last year not this year, how much ‘closeness’ there is at weddings, how much we took for granted. Flying High I wrote my ‘best woman’ speech on the…

Back Garden Wedding – Nicki and Joel

March 24, 2020 | Back Garden Wedding, Bridal Inspiration, Celebration, DIY, DIY Tips, Hampshire Wedding, Love, Marriage, Outdoor wedding, Party, Quirky Wedding Photography, real wedding, Relaxed Wedding, Unique Ideas, Wedding Photography

Recently, Hampshire-based wedding photographer Jason Williams provided a guest blog post for us. His Top Five Wedding Venues in Hampshire. His curve ball suggestion was ‘your own back garden’. “Let’s be real” says Jason, “weddings cost an awful lot, so it’s a great way to save serious moolah”. Jason is booked for three back garden weddings this year and these photos of Nicki and Joel’s back garden wedding last summer demonstrate what you cam acheive. Over to bride, Nicki… Q. What was the theme/style for your big day? A. A ‘summer garden party’. After the ceremony, we held our reception…

Lisa Pascoe – On Love

October 21, 2019 | Bride-to-be, Hampshire Wedding, Love, Marriage, real wedding

Lisa Pascoe is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner with over five years’ experience, and is the host of Bravehearts Rising, a podcast for deep feelers, dreamers and empaths. As Lisa prepares to marry Bekky (very soon!) we asked her to contribute a piece on LOVE. Over to Lisa… While I loved the Little Mermaid as a child, I never grew up wanting the fairy tale romance. I didn’t dream of a big wedding and never wanted to be rescued. What I did crave, however, was marriage, Marks and Spencers and a mortgage. It sounds funny now but as an only…

Q&A with Celebrant Rachael Thompson

September 23, 2019 | Love, Marriage, Wedding Celebrant, Wedding Ceremony

Being a wedding celebrant is such a personal, emotional job. Today we hear how self confessed ‘life lover’ Rachael Thompson got into the professional, and how she loves to spend her days when she’s not working… Q. How did you become a wedding celebrant? A. When my father died 10 years ago I found myself organising the funeral and we had a celebrant to officiate. I found the whole process cathartic and comforting. It was during the ceremony itself when I had my light bulb moment and realised this was something I could do. At the time I had been…

Sophie & Nick’s Midsummer Feastival

August 27, 2019 | Creative Styling, Love, Marquee wedding, Marriage, News, Outdoor wedding, real wedding, Sussex Wedding

What a beauty we have for you today! Sophie and Nick perfectly mixed rustic farm vibes with lavish, indulgent treats for their guests. Over to the happy couple to tell you more… Q. What was the theme/style for your big day? A. When it came to the style of our wedding, we were led first of all by the date. As it was the day after the longest day, we envisaged a midsummer vibe; festival, feasting, singing and dancing. The idea then developed to include meadow flowers, prairie ribbons, floral patterns and celestial touches. Sophie grew up on a farm,…

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