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WHEN INSPIRATION STRIKES….

This week Victoria Nicholls of West Cornwall Flowers in St Just sent us a couple of pictures. The first one was lovely, so unpretentious, so natural, yet so perfectly balanced: The second picture blew us away. This innovative florist had created a wedding dress made of hydrangeas – and not bought or flown-in hydrangeas, but her very own home-grown flowers. We were so intrigued, we asked her to tell us all about it, and here's what she wrote (complete with…
Julia Snow
July 25, 2023
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A DREAM COMES TRUE FOR LACEY LOU

Louise Lacey can't remember a time when she didn't want to have her own bridal company. When she was 15 she took textiles as a GCSE and spent most of her evenings designing and sketching the wedding dresses she aimed to make one day. When she took time off from planning her future in the bridal industry, Louise's preference was always a James Bond film. So when she took her first steps into the bridal market just a few months…
Julia Snow
July 11, 2023
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To have and to hold… but maybe not quite yet?

You've been planning your wedding, looking forward to your special day for months, if not years. You have the venue, you have the dress, you've had your hair and make-up trial. You've chosen the food, the flowers, the cake. You've booked the photographer, the band, the disco. The wedding rings are burning a hole in your dressing table, your wedding transport is all polished and shiny - and your Mum even has a knock-'em-dead outfit to sashay down the aisle…
Julia Snow
March 20, 2020
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CORONAVIRUS AND YOUR WEDDING

CORONAVIRUS AND YOUR 2020 WEDDING As if the run-up to your wedding wasn't stressful enough, now you have Coronavirus  sticking its ugly, infectious head into the mix. It's worrying enough if you're getting married in the UK, but if you've planned a wedding abroad, your stress levels are probably off the scale. So what should you do – cancel, postpone or cross your fingers and hope for the best? The fact of the matter is that the number of cases…
Julia Snow
March 12, 2020
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UNIQUE HEN & STAG DO IDEAS

Call us old-fashioned (and not many people do), but we're delighted with the growing trend for hen and stag parties to stay closer to home, rather than flying off to foreign shores. There's less of that exhausting travelling and you're being conscious of your carbon footprint – not to mention getting more (excuse the expression) bang for your buck now the pound is plummeting against the euro. And staying at home – or nearby – doesn't mean being dull. If…
Julia Snow
August 8, 2019