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Floating Wedding Cake Stand

One way to make a big impression on your wedding guests is to have a stand-out, showstopper of a dessert or wedding cake table. There are of course many ways to achieve that depending on your budget, your tastes and your décor theme if you have one.
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A Travel Themed Venue Decor

There’s lots of ways to theme a wedding: colour, era, hobby to name but three. In this blog we show you how to create a travel theme in your wedding or party venue. This is a fun theme to create if you’re a globe-trotting loving couple. What's more, it’s one that can be done equally well if you’re on a budget or if you’ve got cash to splash.
Helping guests with hearing loss to enjoy your celebrations.

Planning for Guests with Hearing Loss

There’s a lot of things to think about when you’re planning a wedding. Should you have guests with hearing loss, then planning for them is a priority. You want them to feel included in your celebrations. Your planning will take in the obvious elements – rings, venue, dress, flowers, music and more. Then there’s the stuff specific to your guests: particular dietary requirements and physical accessibility needs. But you might not have considered that the latter of those extends beyond ramps, handrails, lifts and toilets.
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Wedding Traditions Around the World

In this blog we take a whirl wind look at wedding traditions around the world.  Everyone in Britain knows the Old English rhyme about something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. It serves to instruct brides on the good luck charms she should incorporate into her bridal attire. Kate Middleton was lucky enough to borrow a tiara, I had a necklace, my best friend had a garter from her mother in law.
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Women’s Rights in Marriage

In a recent blog, Changing Times in the Wedding World, we examined some areas of the matrimonial landscape – where changes are happening now or they’re predicted to happen. For instance many brides, recognising what an outmoded bastion of sexism and misogyny the practice of tossing the bouquet is, are opting to do it a different way.
Guest Seating Plan Tips

6 Guest Seating Plan Tips

Guest Seating Plan Tips - Pitfalls and solutions In the best of circumstances, sorting out your seating plan is a logistical nightmare. In some instances, the Dunkirk evacuation of WWII might well have been easier to organise. Your wedding day should be the best day of your life – and not one beset by trouble and strife. But if your background is less than straightforward than that could be what’s in store. But never fear - Fabulous Functions UK is here with a look at some common planning pitfalls and possible solutions.
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Changing Times in the Wedding World

At the time of writing, marriage certificate documentation records only the names and occupations of the fathers of the newly-wed pair. Like they did it all on their own? Quite the opposite is true as we all know. As this 2018 article from Good Housekeeping points out, this out-dated protocol is a hangover from times past that viewed women’s occupations as non-existent or of no consequence. There has though been campaigning in Parliament to change this lamentable situation. About time too we say. This is the 21st century after all!