When on our photo shoot last week hair & makeup stylist Isabel While created rocking braid hairstyles for the both of us. Jess had a simple plait incorporated into her messy up-do and I had slightly more complicated waterfall braids. I love braids they can instantly make you look all boho chic and although we aren’t ones for following…
Photo by Anna K Photography Good afternoon beautiful and happy Monday! Welcome to the first of one of our new features on Bespoke Bride! 4 times a month we’re going to be handing over the microphone (so to speak) to some of our very dearest and wisest friends in the biz ! These guys really…
Planning entertainment for your wedding guests can sometimes be a little tricky. It can often be difficult to think of something that guests of all ages and all interests will have fun with and enjoy. There is no doubt you want your guests to have a rocking time at your wedding so what do you…
If you’re new to Bespoke Bride then welcome to our monthly ‘Supplier Love’ feature! This blog post is all about our wonderful sponsors!! We would love for you to get to know the people and beautifully creative businesses in our sidebar a little better, so please, let us introduce you… Meet Dale Weeks Photography About…
Unique, original, beautiful are just some of the words I would use to describe the beautiful headpieces we are going to be sharing with you today. I love the thought of only wearing one of a kind items made especially for me, from heirlooms passed down from special family members or even from bits and…
I am pretty excited to share this months Supplier Love Feature with you guys! Its hard to believe that another year is almost over but in order to celebrate we asked our suppliers to take a look back at their year and tell us all about their successes of 2013. I always find this really…
If you’ve been a reader of Bespoke Bride for a while then you’ll know that Craig Dearsley is one of our absolute favourite photographers in the world! Why you ask? Is it because of his charismatic beard? Or the fact he has one of the coolest (and cutest!) families in the world? Well sure, that…
Ok I admit it, I often find myself gazing at pictures of our wonderful real brides and wondering what I would wear on my wedding day, how I would wear my hair and makeup and most of all how I would accessorize it. Sad I know, but have a wedding blog for crying out loud…
Want to meet an awesome photographer who not only captures the emotion of your day but also creates some fantastic artistic pieces while she’s at it? Of course you do! So let me introduce you…Welcome to Sarah Wayte photography. Sarah is the sort of lady who loves to get to know you over coffee and…
My oh my! What a week we’ve had! We’ve been busy visiting old friends, attending awesome events, creating our first ever YouTube video, planning our 2 year old birthday party and to top it all off we were listed as one of Channel 4’s top 10 wedding blogs!! Yep…That’s what I said, Channel 4! How…
From skincare to haircare, makeup to nails – every aspect of your beauty regime is important when it comes to your wedding day, and as it’s your left hand’s time to shine, attracting its fair share of attention on the day, it’s important to get your nails ready to complement that shiny new wedding ring! So…
We’re so excited to tell you all that we’re the official bloggers for this year’s Designer Vintage Bridal Show!! We attended the show last year and were completely blown away by how fabulous it was! We met some seriously AMAZING vendors, got to design our own cakes and watched numerous catwalk shows that took us…
Photography Credits: MATT SOMERVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY Both myself and Jess are huge fans of the sneak peek, it has to be said, whenever we do a shoot we can’t resist posting a little teaser. When it comes to posting previews, like ourselves many people will do it without a second thought. It got me thinking are…
It is with great pleasure that I introduce you today to one of our lucky competition winners. Kirsty and Luke won the chance to have their wedding photographed for free by the absolutely fabulous Craig Dearsley. If you are a regular reader of Bespoke Bride you will know that we are huge fans of Craig’s…
Is it me or are there a lot of amazing engagement shoots going on right now? This week our engagement shoot has been sent by Dale weeks. He is one pretty dang awesome photographer, his style is quite soft and dreamy yet with a fun and cool edge! Here is what he had to say…
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the most beautiful engagement shoot I have ever seen. The lighting, the character, the couple…I mean seriously, it’s STUNNING. I randomly stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago and emailed Carly Bish (the talented photographer!) straight away for the shots! She was kind enough to send…
Having fun with your photography at your wedding should certainly be one of the highlights of your day. It is so easy to be sucked into sticking to the mundane posed shots but very often people feel like they are having to perform more of a chore and it all starts to feel very uncomfortable.…
I am not going to lie this morning has been a struggle as I am just a little hungover. Yesterday myself and Mr T were invited to celebrate the wedding of two of his oldest friends and what a great day it was. I wish I had filmed the speeches because they were honestly some…