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Anna & Steph

Looking for cool & colourful wedding inspo? Planning your own barn ceremony or festival style wedding? Anna & Steph’s summer W-day features a colour-popping scheme, bongos, a Trinidadian

Music: Live Party Band, lawn games, ballet dancer
Style: festival, lakeside marquee and barn, relaxed, summer

Festival, Pride, Barn

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Robyn & Ryan

How does a florist dress her own wedding day? See the surprise bouquet that makes our florist bride get emotional. Want to know how to capture that cool modern vintage vibe for your big day? Think Cad

Music: Live Piano, Jazz Band, Wedding DJ, Photo Booth
Style: modern vintage

Vintage, Barn, Church

Stephanie & Shaun

Want to know how to blend a love of festivals and football with a touch of the Orient and a darn good party? Let your hair down with this classically fun country house wedding, inspired by indie music

Music: Live Party Band
Style: classic, award-winning country house hotel, relaxed, summer

Elegant, Luxury Hotel, Classic

Kerrie & Matt

Kerrie & Matt’s winter wonderland wedding has it all – fresh snowfall, warming acoustic guitar, Christmas trees, carve-your-own roast dinner, twinkling light up letters, bespoke dancing shoes and a DJ

Music: Acoustic Singer-Guitarist, Caricaturist, Light Up Letters, Party DJ
Style: Snowy, rustic, barn

Christmas, Rustic, Barn

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Jess & Greg

Craving a bit of boho wedding inspo? This awesome dapper and bohemian blog is the antidote. Think lace, macramé, tattoos, gin, sunshine, colourful smoke grenades, acoustic vibes & a pumping party DJ.

Music: acoustic duo, Live Wedding DJ
Style: boho, manor house, relaxed, oudoors, summer

Boho, Relaxed, Outdoors

Scarlett & Adam

Want a wedding that’s informal, vintage & celebrates your mutual love of… zombies? Scarlett & Adam’s big day did just that, with an Evil Dead-style cake and some kickass cake toppers. All under the wa

Music: Wedding DJ
Style: retro, boho, rock‘n’roll, coastal Tudor castle

Vintage, Boho, Castle

Sarah & Matt

Planning a formal VIP affair and want to inject character? Take inspiration from Sarah and Matt’s mansion wedding. Theirs is an elegant collision of formal and fun, where indie-rock, ceremonial toastm

Music: Harp, Live Wedding Band
Style: classic, country house, spring

Country House, Classic, Modern

Matt & Suzanne

Planning a wedding that the Great British weather can’t spoil? Matt and Suzanne’s February barn wedding is relaxed, rustic, and filled with love and good vibes, and little heart-felt touch

Music: Acoustic band, Live Wedding Band
Style: Informal, rustic, barn

Relaxed, Rustic, Barn

Sarah & Stephen

Worried your wedding will lack character? Sarah and Stephen show how they injected p-p-personality into their luxury spa wedding, with lots of penguin-inspired touches and memory-making entertainment.

Music: String Trio, Live Wedding Band, Plus a Mystical Mind Reader
Style: Relaxed, classic, intimate

Church, Classic, Fun

Gemma & Paul

Want a chilled wedding? Gemma and Paul show you how with their rural retreat wedding. Featuring romantic countryside, custom Converse and a serious commitment to the dancefloor.

Music: Classical Guitarist, Live Wedding Band
Style: Relaxed, classic, intimate

Relaxed, Classic, Rural

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