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Sarah’s Thoughts – Finding “The One”
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
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A Bride's Perspective
You know how it happens in fairy tales. The aspiring princess enters a beautiful room where candles flicker and reflect in multiple mirrors. She is momentarily taken aback by the beauty in the room, but as her eyes grow accustomed to the magnificence of her surroundings, she sees “The One” from the other side of the room. Her heart skips a beat and there begins a relationship the likes of which she has dreamed of since childhood. Never once does her gaze wander off to lesser contenders, there is one true destination for her heart and the bond is immediate and emotional.
Well, that’s how it’s meant to happen isn’t it? Finding “The One” – the confection of taffeta, lace (or whatever is your thing) that you’ve dreamed of since childhood? It’s not just the dress which you have dreamed about, but also the champagne-softened experience of shopping for the ultimate dress with your closest friend or mother. My experience, however, was somewhat different and I have to say that I learned quickly as I progressed from shop to shop.
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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Spotlight On...
Last week
we introduced you to Chanelle of
Segerius Bruce Photography
, who was the photographer responsible for the fabulous images of our vintage peach shoot that was featured in both
You & Your Wedding
magazine and on
Rock My Wedding
.
Today I’m delighted to welcome to the blog the hair and make-up artist from the shoot,
Gemma Sutton
. Gemma is a super-talented lady who regularly works on fashion and editorial features, as well as transforming brides for their big day – I really do wish she could work her magic on me every morning!
Tell us about you and your company
I have been working as an internationally acclaimed makeup and hair stylist for the past 10 years. My work has enabled me to travel the world and work with a number of well established photographers, models and celebrities. Some previous clients include Vogue, TM Lewin, BBC Holby City, ITV3 Drama “Bodies”, OK Magazine, Louise Redknapp and Edward De Souza.
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
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Photography
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Spotlight On...
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve shown some of the photos from our
vintage peach shoot
, and today I’d like to introduce the lady behind the lens and the person responsible for such wonderful images, Chanelle from
Segerius Bruce Photography
.
I’ve known Chanelle for a couple of years now, but it’s only over the last 6 months that we’ve had the opportunity to work together more closely. She did an amazing job on our shoot, so I asked her to stop by the blog and answer a few questions…over to you Chanelle!
Tell us about you and your company
I am Chanelle, part of husband & wife team – Segerius Bruce Photography. We shoot weddings around the UK and have also had the pleasure of being flown abroad for weddings in countries including Bali, Prague, Cyprus, Mauritius and South Africa.
My background is in Graphic Design and High End Retouching for famous fashion photographer, Mario Testino. I have been running Segerius Bruce Photography for three years now and love it!
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A Night of Swing at the IndigO2
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
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Spotlight On...
It’s not been that long since
Helen Carter Weddings
had only one member of staff, so last week saw the momentous occasion of the company’s first “works outing” to the intimate
IndigO2
venue within the O2 complex. Donning our glad rags, we met up to sway along with a very varied audience to the crooning melodies of Frank, Dean and Sammy (Sinatra, Martin and Davis Jr) recreated by the very talented performers from
Easy Theatres
who recreated the glamorous world of Las Vegas’ Sands Theater on the banks of the slightly less glitzy Thames.
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Guest Blog Post – Help With Your Wedding Planning
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Posted in
HCW News
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Planning Advice
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Uncategorized
,
Wedding Press
We were delighted to be invited by Nikki of Knots and Kisses to write a
blog post
for her new look website. In the post we provided brides (and grooms) -to-be with some basic wedding planning tips to help them conquer the months of planning ahead of them. By kicking off their planning process by allocating a realistic budget for each area of the celebrations and by setting easily achievable targets we show how
planning your wedding
can be an enjoyable experience rather than a nightmare.
Thanks again to Nikki for giving us the opportunity to share her new site, and we look forward to catching up with the other guest blogs she has lined up for future weeks.
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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Photo Shoots & Events
Yesterday I shared some
behind the scenes photos
from our vintage peach photo shoot, and today I’m delighted to show you the video from the day, filmed by
Iota Media
. Put your feet up with a cuppa for a few minutes and see what we got up to!
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Posted in
Photo Shoots & Events
Today I’d like to share with you some of the photos from behind the scenes of our
vintage peach photo shoot
that took place earlier this year at the
George in Rye Hotel
in Sussex.
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Sarah’s Thoughts – Sweetie Buffet
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Posted in
A Bride's Perspective
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Wedding Styling
With sixty under-twelves invited to our Summer Fete wedding reception, we didn’t need further excuses to plan a sweetie buffet as part of our celebrations. The idea of an old fashioned pick and mix stall also fitted in well with our theme, and so I set about planning the spread. I had browsed the internet for inspiration and found that sweetie tables fell into two distinct camps – the sophisticated, colour themed and very ordered display or the retro, “sweets of our youth” type.
With the aforesaid number of children any elegant display wasn’t going to look that way for long, and also our green, white and red colour scheme didn’t tend to lend itself to limiting the colours of sweets chosen, so I decided that a more eclectic mix of treats was the order of the day.
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Styling Work: Bridal Boutique Launch Party
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
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Photo Shoots & Events
,
Wedding Styling
Back in July I received a message on
from the lovely Rebecca at
Chez Bec
– did I want to help style and organise the September launch party for her new wedding dress boutique,
Isabella Grace
? Erm, let me just think about that for all of 2 seconds…YES!
Rebecca kindly loaned some of her beautiful jewellery and head pieces for my
vintage peach photo shoot
earlier in the year, and I knew she was working on something special from her tweets and sneak peek photos on Twitter. Plus having chatted with her on the phone about her vision for her boutique I knew this was something I definitely wanted to be a part of!
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Recent Wedding Press
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
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Wedding Press
As well as having been involved in some fantastic weddings this summer, we’ve also had some lovely press features in recent weeks. You may have seen our peach photo shoot featured in
You & Your Wedding
magazine and on
Rock My Wedding
, but we’ve also contributed our top wedding planning tips to Brides Etc magazine (read the article
here
), and at the end of August I made my radio debut on BBC Essex talking about weddings in the county. You can listen to the interview
here
.
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
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Photo Shoots & Events
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Wedding Press
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Wedding Styling
I was absolutely over the moon to have recently had my vintage peach photo shoot featured on
Rock My Wedding
. Some of you may recall that this shoot was also published in the September/October issue of
You & Your Wedding magazine
, but Charlotte has now shown even more images from this amazing experience, including two previously unseen looks created with our second model Megan.
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Sarah’s Thoughts – Hang Out The Bunting
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Posted in
A Bride's Perspective
,
Blog
I had my first grown up sewing machine for Christmas when I was five years old and was the only girl in my school who did A level needlework (or Textiles, Fashion and Dress to give it its proper title), so when our summer fete reception called for bunting (and you can’t have a summer fete without it, can you?), I knew this was going to be DIY project well within my comfort zone. Other factors also meant that hiring it wasn’t really feasible: the fact that I was quite specific on the colours (green, white and red bunting wasn’t readily available to hire), and the sheer amount of it I needed which would have cost an arm and a leg!
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