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Renewal, fresh beginnings and the start of new life – it’s a great time to get spliced. Song birds are the essence of spring, dawn-chorusing and nest-building – they’re the perfect detail for your start-of-year wedding.Photo credit: Style...

We love the idea of living flowers and greenery at a wedding. Pots of herbs as table markers; glossy ivy tumbling down the walls; tubs of blooms set all about. And after the big day is over, these plants aren’t destined for the dustbin – some can...

A real human heart with its arteries and valves (bleeeeugh!) doesn’t look a whole lot like the pretty heart symbol, but there is a basic shape similarity. Some rather rude people suggest the heart evokes a lady’s naked behind – we’re not sure...

It's that time of the year when hearts can be seen everywhere. But where does our long-standing love affair with the ubiquitous heart-shaped symbol come from? Everyone recognises it. Victorians decorated it with lace and roses on their sentimental Valentine’s...

I’ve always loved paper lanterns – they’re so sweet, fragile and ethereal. When designing our Night Lights invitations I was imagining a beautiful outdoors summer wedding with paper lanterns lit at dusk as the stars start to come out. We think...

The sense of smell has to be the most undervalued of the senses, and yet smell carries such power and evocation. The smell of baking muffins can take you right back to your childhood; cheap perfume to your early teenage years! Smells can be nasty, of...

We love slate! Moody textured grey, with hints of purple like a thundery sky – very dramatic, very chic. Natural and elemental.You can buy different sizes of slate tiles reasonably cheaply from builder’s merchants. They're like blackboards, but better....

Confetti cones are the usual packaging, but at my wedding I had a problem with them tipping over in the basket they were presented in. It was fine while they were all tucked in, but when the first few were pulled out, the rest fell over. I ended up plugging...

The joyful tradition of throwing rice or grain at a newly married couple to bring good luck and a fertile union goes back to ancient Rome, so who are we to break with it? Although we do draw the line at the old Irish custom of lobbing pots and pans after...

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So you're tempted to order fifty exquisite tea-light holders to make your reception sparkle like a fairy palace. But what do you do with them afterwards? Why not give your bridesmaids a present of two halves - something before the ceremony, and then a...