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A Guide to Your Wedding Speech Running Order
In our blog, Five alternatives to Champagne for the wedding toasts, we had a rummage through the off-licence shelves to bring you some alternatives to Champagne for making a toast along with the wedding speech.
The logical next step then is to have a look at the correct running order of the wedding speeches themselves.
Something Old and Something New
All the occasions we celebrate are riven with traditions. Easter has the eggs and the bunny, Christmas has Father Christmas/ Santa Claus – and more besides - depending on the nation. And, of course, every family puts their own spin on these regular calendar markers. And weddings are no exception.
5 Fab Benefits of Weekday Weddings
It’s been the tradition for as far back as anyone knows, for weddings to take place on a Saturday. And there are historical reasons for that. This article from The Atlantic, on the topic of weekday weddings, quotes a rather interesting observation from Vicki Howard, a history lecturer at the University of Essex and author of Brides, Inc, about the wedding industry.
A Multicultural Wedding Inspiration
A multicultural wedding inspiration with influences from Jamaican and Indian cultures.
This styled shoot fuses elements from both countries using the national symbols from both countries. The Hummingbird and the Lotus.
The Advantage of Charger Plates – When and How to Use Them
“What is a charger plate?” That’s a good question. And, unless you're in the wedding or events world, or do a lot of entertaining, it's possible you'll have no idea what they are.
Planning a 15-Person Wedding
Planning a 15-Person Wedding
We have shifting sands beneath our feet and no mistake. It feels as if there are changes to wedding guidelines every week thanks to Covid - and all guaranteed to affect your plans. At the time of writing you’re allowed 15 guests at your wedding.
An Intimate Minimony Wedding
On August 22 2020, it happened at last. My best friend Allen and his lovely partner Rakhee finally got married in an intimate minimony wedding.
I'm Julian and I was Allen's best man. And here I'm sharing my experience of a coronavirus wedding.
The wedding day was a long time coming. Allen and Rakhee had scheduled their nuptials for April. They'd been many months of planning, right down to the smallest detail.
An Intimate Italian Wedding Day
Covid-19 might well have surpassed the British weather as our number one topic of conversation. For sure we’ve written about Covid’s effect on wedding planning on this blog several times now. So in this blog we tell you about an intimate Italian wedding day – albeit with a little twist. That twist being that this wedding happened well before Coronavirus came and changed everything.
The Sequel Wedding: What It Is and How To Do It
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to exercise us all – in and out of the wedding industry. We’ve already tackled aspects of the situation a couple of times on our blog in our article about changing wedding plans and a feature about creating a Covid-friendly intimate wedding set-up. But the buzzword now, to work around the restrictions we have, is the sequel wedding. So, in this post we’ll have a look at the sequel wedding – what it is and how to do it.