Cookie Favours!!

Visit www.biscuiteers.com to see their amazing range of cookies that can be used as favours, gifts or even sent in the post to say thank you after the event. Prices range from £8.00 + p&p for an individual cookies to about £38.00 + p&p for a lovely big box of them. I think they look amazing and will be ordering soon to try them for taste and will report back!

Spring wedding ideas

Here are my top ideas on how to theme and decorate your spring 2008 wedding;

1) Colour – Think fresh and new and you think of bright green and refreshing yellow. Daffodil yellow is uplifting and easy to find at this time of year and green should be lush like freshly grown grass (Not freshly mown grass – that’s my summer ideas!) Try mixing the two colours, not just in bouquets but also with your table wear too. Green table linen with yellow napkins would create a splash of colour. Speciality Linen has some great examples. Compliment with white chairs, each with a daffodil secured to the back with silk ribbon.

2) Favours – Think new and grow your own! Buy daffodil bulbs and wrap in pretty organza, tie with a ribbon and attach a tag with your guests name on. Packets of seeds should be sown around now, so provide your guests with a packet of lovely coloured blooms-to-be and place in mini terracotta pots decorated with ribbon. You could even pain their names on the side of these to double as place settings too!

3) Entertainment – make your friends and family laugh by providing them with the equipment to hold a welly throwing competition! How about remembering the good old days and hiring a maypole for them to dance around (maybe not a good idea in the evening once people have sunk a few champagnes!) or ask a local Morris dancing group to come and put on a show?

4) Colour again – Tulips!! GORGEOUS flowers (can you tell they are my favourite?) and they come in so many amazing colours, they are perfect to bunch together and put in something a simple as a tin can with patterned paper or cloth glued around it and placing in forgotten areas like bathrooms (for the ladies!) bar areas and welcome halls. Cheap, but incredibly cheerful.

5) Cake – Yum! Look at this one – Masie Fantasie. Its even named after the season and after working with May in the past, it will taste incredible too.

6) Stationery – Lollipop Designs. This Company has an amazing design range, which features ranges called Daisy, Anna and Lola. All three would be perfect for a springtime wedding and funky and modern with it.

7) Table Centre – I love my wicker and as it comes in all shapes and sizes, consider using them as a table centre and filling with springtime blooms. Wicker baskets would look very country and large wicker ‘pots’ would be perfect outside the doors of your venue to welcome your guests in.

Sweet themed wedding favour

How about some glass sweets to scatter across your table or give to your guests as favours? These gorgeous hand made glass sweets are made by a fabulous artist called Sarah Banfield (sarah_e_banfield@hotmail.com) and the colour of the box wrapper/text etc and tissue paper inside, can be changed to suit your colour theme. You can even have both of your names printed on the front of the box with a note of thanks to your guests. Not avaliable anywhere else in the UK and a new product for 2008 - order now to be the first bride to have these at your wedding day!

Wedding coordinator job in the UK

Well, here is your chance! I am recruiting for a freelance wedding coordinator to work alongside me at All Things Bride and Beautiful Wedding Planning Ltd - Below is the brief job decsription. Do you think you fit the bill? Visit our website to find out more and apply.

Wedding Co-ordinators (PTWP/07)

We are seeking individuals to join our award winning wedding planning team on a freelance basis. You must have exceptional customer service and organisation skills. We take wedding planning booking on various days of the week and in various UK locations, for this reason you will need to be flexible in your availability and mobility. We offer full training and the chance to work under along side one of the industries most respected wedding planners and for one of the industries most ambitious companies.

Couture Cakes

In black and white icing, or white with dark chocolate, designs become nipped and tucked, neat and flawless. Couture cakes are all the rage according to The Sunday Times ‘style’ magazine and where better to find one than at www.lvcc.co.uk . Mich Turner, the owner of ‘The Little Venice Cake Company’ has been producing stunning cakes for bride and grooms and has written beautiful books on the subject, so you can be sure she will be able to design and create a cake perfect for you and your nuptials. This photo makes me want to reach in and indulge!