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A Guide to Buying Wedding Rings

A Guide to Buying Wedding Rings

Your big day is booked, you have found your dream dress, chosen the perfect venue, and it feels like your guest list has been written and rewritten at least twenty times! It is now time to start thinking about your wedding rings, and with so much choice out there you...
Weddings on a Budget

Weddings on a Budget

According to wedding insurance comparison firm compareweddinginsurance.org.uk, the average cost of a wedding in 2011 was £12,541. Although this is a drop from the heady heights of 2008 when average costs including the honeymoon escalated to £20,273, it’s still an awful lot to find for your big day. So what’s...
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Suited and Booted

Suited and Booted

One of Northern England’s premium designer lifestyle stores, Psyche has won multiple awards for their retailing and has evolved over thirty years into an iconic destination for men, women and children to indulge in accessible designer fashion. Established in 1982, their tailoring department has undergone a recent renovation and is now one of the largest...

Wed and Breakfast

The Holiday Inn Colchester hotel has launched a ‘wed & breakfast’ package that includes a complete wedding and free honeymoon anywhere in the world for only £2,499*. Now I get sent a random variety of offers, some for products that I can’t even imagine when that would be useful… But this offer struck me as...

Choosing Your Bridal Jewellery

Your wedding day has to be the most special day in your life. Every bride wants to look her best on her wedding. It takes months of preparations to get a bride ready for D day. Wedding preparations include shopping for clothes, shoes and accessories. Jewellery is vital for any bride and choosing the right...
Can I have a wedding blessing after my civil ceremony?

Can I have a wedding blessing after my civil ceremony?

Dear Resident Reverend, My fiance and I live in Bristol and are planning to get married this summer at a venue licensed for civil ceremonies in Cheltenham. I had hoped that we would be able to have a wedding blessing or ‘service of prayer and dedication’ immediately after the civil ceremony (at the same venue),...
Wedding Invitations – Planning Your Design

Wedding Invitations – Planning Your Design

So he has finally proposed!  You have done some searching around and found a suitable venue for the ceremony and reception. The date is set and it is time to make a start of that list of jobs that need to be taken care of before the big day arrives. Top of that list is...

Wedding fashion for 2012

One of the downsides of weddings is that there are certain sartorial rules you’ll need to follow: never wear white, keep your hemline at a reasonable length and avoid revealing fabric, among others. But there’s no reason why you can’t give a nod to the latest fashions without breaching the laws of wedding etiquette. Here’s...

How to shop for your wedding outfit

For most of us, weddings present one of life’s most challenging sartorial problems. Not only is there the question of the dress code (How formal is ‘formal’? Does casual mean jeans and trainers or simply higher heels and shorter skirts?), there are also the hours spent trawling the shops in the attempt to find the...
Two dress or not two dress?

Two dress or not two dress?

The format of a wedding is one which is pretty standard. It usually involves two lovers, one dress, a ceremony and then some form of a reception. However, with times changing there is a new trend emerging… the second wedding dress! Imagine the following scenario; the bride is wearing a traditional ivory strapless floor length...
Choose the Right Wines for Your Wedding

Choose the Right Wines for Your Wedding

The big day requires all of the finest and most beautiful finishing touches, including place settings, flowers, candles and of course – the right wines! This is going to ensure that the meals whet the appetite of guests and that there is plenty of cheer all around. So today I thought we’d take a closer...

5 tips to plan your present list

Did you know 80%* of couples live together before they get married, this explains why a traditional Wedding List is not quite as relevant in today’s world.  If like many couples the two of you already have everything you need for your home perhaps you would consider asking guests to contribute to a bigger or...

Your spring/summer evening wedding look

Daytime weddings usually mean long, floaty dresses, pastel-coloured sunhats and kitten heels – but what should you wear if you’ve been asked to attend the evening event only? Many of the other guests won’t have had a chance to change, so unless the invitation specifically states white tie, black tie or formal then it’s best...

Can a Retired Vicar carry out our ceremony?

Dear Resident Reverend, My partner and I are getting married in the church where I grew up and where my parents still live today. I have only met the current vicar once as I moved away 10 years ago. For this reason I would love to have the vicar that I knew 20 years ago...