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The Alternative Wedding Fair – St. Ives Corn Exchange, 23rd October 2011

Kat

October 3, 2011

If you're anything like me you'll be a little bit bored of the usual crop of wedding fairs. I'll be honest, I do go to a lot of them as part of my job but it is very rare that I really love love love what I see. It takes a lot to impress me I tells you. I am a self-confessed wedding snob I'm afraid! However because of this, I am genuinely really really excited to be backing a small number of wedding fairs that I do believe offer you something different.
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Taxidermy, Skulls, Vintage Furs & THE Most Awesome Apartment Ever = The Feather Love London Workshop

Kat

September 28, 2011

Oh my...where do I even begin? I feel so terribly ineloquent as it comes to writing the experience of the Feather Love London Workshop. Like the words don't know how to clump themselves together in my mind to make coherent sentences...So you know what, I've decided not to go through the teeny details of the day. Instead I plan to inwardly digest everything I soaked up from Noa & guest speaker Emma Case that day and (probably) come back to you later with a grand old revelation. If not, I know you're going to just die over the styled shoot we put together as part of the workshop. Bet you haven't seen a wedding like this before!
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Visit The Magpie’s Nest – An Exclusive Rock n Roll Bride Reader’s Event: Magpie Vintage Studio Open Day

Kat

September 26, 2011

On Saturday 15th October, Tania & Lisa, the lovely ladies behind vintage jewellery company Magpie Vintage will be flinging open their brand new studio doors (dubbed 'The Magpie's Nest' don't you just love that!) and inviting you for an exclusive appointment to see their newest collections. I'll also be there all day long so if you fancy checking out some vintage bling as well as having a girly wedding gossip with yours truly, this is an event not to be missed!
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Thursday Treats – 22nd September 2011 + Partying with Choccywoccydoodah on Brighton Pier + Please Vote for me to Win A Cosmopolitan Blog Award!

Kat

September 22, 2011

It's been a busy few weeks in Rock n Roll Bride Land. This week I attended the Perfect Wedding Awards and today I'm at the 30 year celebration of Sassi Holford party. Last week I was invited to party on the pier with Choccywoccydoodah. Oh it's such a hard life being surrounded by such fabulous yumminess... (honestly, I'm knackered...it's a good knackered though!)
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Feather Love Photography Workshops in London & Belgium (with Special Guests Emma Case & Me!)

Kat

August 13, 2011

Look who's being a workshop whore this year? Yep that's me! So Jasmine Star, Lisa Devlin and now (OMG) Feather Love Photography have all enlisted the help of yours truly to be involved in their UK photography workshops in recent months. Again, I'm honoured beyond belief and so excited to be involved in fun and enriching projects like this. I literally can't wait to get stuck into more.
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Unique & Alternative Bridesmaid Fashion Ideas – in Association with The NOT Wedding

Kat

August 9, 2011

Are you loving the mismatched bridesmaid trend but are a little unsure about how to pull it off with your own girls? Avoid them looking uncoordinated or simply like the rest of your guests with a few of my simple tips on how to tie them together in easy and subtle ways. With effortless attentions to detail your bridesmaids really will look as faaaabulous as the girls pictured here. I promise! This article is illustrated with images of the 'bridesmaids' at Atlanta's NOT Wedding which took place in July.
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The Jasmine Star London Workshop – A Review

Kat

July 26, 2011

A few months ago I approached wedding photographer Jasmine Star to ask if she'd be at all interested in coming to London to teach a workshop for photographers and if so could I help her to organise it. My motives were entirely selfish. She has inspired me and the way I run my business ever since I was first introduced to her by a friend... and I wanted to meet her! At the beginning of the year I set myself three goals. One of them was to meet Jasmine Star. I've learnt that nothing ever falls in your lap, and with her being based in Orange County and me (just outside of) London, it was unlikely I was ever just going to 'bump into her.' So I decided that if I wanted it to happen I better bloomin' well try and do something about it. Jasmine and I have spoken over email a few times in the past, but to try to persuade her to fly half way across the world to a country she's never been to...was I thinking too big?
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Attention UK Wedding Photographers – Jasmine Star is Coming!

Kat

April 26, 2011

As anyone that follows me on twitter or facebook will know, I am a big Jasmine Star fan...huge in fact. I love this woman. I find her incredibly inspirational and I just adore her. Adoration in like a girl-crush/I want us to be best friends and plait each others hair kinda way... So... why am I writing this today? Well, again if you follow me on my various social media platforms, you will also know that I've been banging on about how excited I am about making some 'big announcement' for the last week or so. Well I hope you'll forgive my diversion this morning because I really do have some ridiculously exciting news. In fact 'ridiculous' isn't a strong enough word for just how exciting this news is... stupendous, incredible, mind-blowing, life-changing...now maybe we're on the right track. Jasmine Star is coming to the UK to do her first ever photography workshop in London...oh and I'm helping her organise it.
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Rock n Roll Bride Party Report – Photo Booth Carnage

Kat

April 18, 2011

Deciding to have a photo booth at the Rock n Roll Bride Party was probably the most genius thing ever. I asked everyone to bring a prop and people really did go all out! From a customised uke to an inflatable pink wig... from gold hot pants to a laser cut 'It's my party and I'll Rock n Roll if I want to'... from a blow up pink flamingo to a parrot (!) I was so excited that people made such an effort. Lisa of Lisa Jane Photography was in charge of the booth-action, and I'm pretty sure she didn't stop taking photos all night! So without further ado, check out the hilarity that was the Rock n Roll Bride photo booth.
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Rock n Roll Bride Party Report – 14th April 2011, London

Kat

April 18, 2011

So now I've got a party report to write...Wow. Erm wow. Where do I begin with this baby huh?! SO much happened...and it's going to be hard to sum it all up in a few paragraphs but here goes... Last Thursday I hosted a party and invited anyone who reads this blog to come along. Over 500 of you applied for tickets and 200 lucky brides & grooms-to-be and wedding industry professionals were asked to come along. The idea being that everybody I know works so hard, whether that be with their businesses or planning their weddings, so I wanted to give everyone an excuse to take a night off, dress up, eat cupcakes and sweeties, drink cocktails and generally get a little bit silly. And we did. Oh we did. The day started with Gareth & I hopping on the train to London to meet the awesome Elbie Van Eeden (she got married in March - you saw her fabulous wedding on my blog right?) who did our hair and my make up. When we arrived, Elbie said she'd been up all night thinking of ideas for my tresses and did I was the rainbow back? Erm yes pleeease! This time she did a kind of 'dipped' effect, where she just added the extra colours to the bottom half of sections of my hair. We kept the styling relatively simple with a few curls to really show off the colours. I adore it.
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