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I’ve Found Your Wedding DJ…

May 22, 2013 in Sponsored Post | Written by Kat

For most Rock n Roll brides, finding the perfect entertainment for their wedding is top of the list of importance. Being a die hard music lover, but still wanting to keep the all your guests happy is no mean feat which I why I was thrilled to meet Paddy of Disco Wed when I was at the Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza in March. He’s not only genuinely one of the nicest people I’ve met in this industry (and he’s just as obsessed with his cat and I am with mine!) I think I might have actually just uncovered the answer to all your musical prayers.

Disco Wed started life as Disco Shed… and yes, I do mean a DJ in an actual shed. Built in his back garden, late one night Paddy and some friends joked that his new shed would make the perfect DJ booth. “Well that’s actually a brilliant idea!” they concluded, “lets do it!” And so the Disco Shed was born. “We stuck the decks in the shed and got completely smashed in there all night”, he laughed. “Apparently at some point I suggested we should take it on the road. The first I knew of it we’d been booked for two festivals and had to make it happen!”

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So he plonked his shed on the back of a truck and took it around the country, playing at as many festivals as he could get invited too. Bestival, Latitude, Shambala, the Big Chill, Reading, Thames Festival, and many more have all played host to the Disco Shed and he’s now even running successful spin-off club nights at various venues around the UK.

Wherever the shed landed music lovers flocked, and so it was only a matter of time until someone asked if he could play at their wedding. Again this was a resounding success with the referrals coming in faster than Paddy could spin those decks. He brought on a bunch of his DJ mates (all with credible music backgrounds – none of this cheesy wedding DJ crap) to help him out but by the end of 2010, he was getting so busy with wedding gigs that he decided to quit his day job all together and Disco Wed was born!

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Inspired by Grecian Goddesses: Win a £200 Shopping Spree with Zalando

May 14, 2013 in Competitions, Sponsored Post | Written by Kat

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Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion and shoe retailer, is branching out and they’ve come over all glamorous and Grecian! They already stock over 1,500 luxury and high street brands from all over the world, but now they’re collaborating with über-trendy Berlin based designers, Kaviar Gauche, and launching a stunning and exclusive 20 piece collection of designer wedding and occasion wear… without the designer price tag.

Inspired by Aphrodite, the most glamorous of Greek goddesses, this is a collection that is not only totally wearable, but purse-pinchingly affordable. Price start from just £85 with their most expensive items, the wedding dresses, costing between £165 and £590. That’s pretty darn incredible.

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The designs are also totally perfect for Rock n Roll brides. The collection features achingly cool dresses, fashion-forward tailored trousers, floaty skirts and accessories which are all adorned leather and chain embellishments - this sure is glamorous Grecian with a Rock n Roll edge!

Zalando offer free worldwide delivery and returns, although why you’d want to send back any of these babies back is beyond me.

Win a £200 spending spree!

OK so I’ve convinced you that you need to check this collection out now, right? Well let me incentivise you even further with today’s awesome competition. Those generous Zalando babes would like to offer one Rock n Roll Bride reader a whopping £200 spending spree! You can splash out on something from this gorgeous new range, or go wild and nab yourself anything else that takes your fancy from their extensive website.

Win Your Wedding Photography with Rutko Photographers

May 7, 2013 in Competitions, Sponsored Post | Written by Kat

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It is my life mission to save couples from terrible wedding photography. But picking the right wedding photographer is a big decision and I know one that a lot of my readers struggle with. For some of you especially, this is even more stressful as it’s compounded with worries about the cost of it all. While I’m a firm believer that you should allocate a sizeable chunk of your wedding budget into the images that you’ll keep forever, I’m not totally blind to the fact that for some of you, any investment at all just isn’t possible.

Which is why I’m always thrilled to be able to share the work of photographers who also want to give away their services to one lucky couple. It’s even more exciting to me when their images are as utterly flippin’ breathtaking as Ania & Michal of Rutko Photographers.

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Based in Europe, they split their time between living in the UK and Poland but willing to travel worldwide for a damn good wedding. Ania explains, “Over the past few years we shot many classic, glamorous, chic, posh and fancy weddings. As much as we loved our couples and every wedding that we shoot, our hearts still belong to more alternative style. We like quirky ideas and couples who think outside the box. Handmade, unique and DIY details make us very happy as do intimate ceremonies and people that love a mix of old and new. We adore all the offbeat projects and kick-ass weddings that are featured on Rock n Roll Bride. These are simply the ones that we would love to shoot the most.”

The prize

And so to do so, this generous couple would like to offer one completely free wedding package to one very lucky Rock n Roll Bride reader! This is a price package worth £1600 and includes unlimited coverage of your wedding day by two professional wedding photographers and a disc of 450+ high res (print quality) fully edited images, as well as low res versions for sharing online. The contest is open to all readers of Rock n Roll Bride but travel and accommodation must be covered if the wedding is taking place outside of the UK.

To enter

Entry couldn’t be simpler. Email Ania & Michal on hello@rutkophotographers.com and let them know:

♥ Your names
♥ Your wedding date
♥ Your wedding location & venue
♥ Include a recent photograph of the two of you
♥ Tell them a little about your wedding (protip: go all out to impress!) Let them know all about your little details and quirks, and what it is that’s going to make your wedding totally unique and awesome! Feel free to include photos or an inspiration board to help to illustrate your ideas too.

Destination Wedding Planning Help with Weddings Abroad Experts

April 16, 2013 in Sponsored Post | Written by Kat Photos by Shell de Mar Photography

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Considering a destination wedding in Europe? Well my lovelies have I got a treat in store for you today. How would you like access to a service that will help you find your destination wedding suppliers, answer all your wedding planning queries & concerns and basically take the stress out of planning a destination wedding completely?

Launched by French wedding planner Claire Jollain with over eight years experience in the industry, Weddings Abroad Experts are – er – experts in all things destination wedding. With planners based in France, Italy, the Mediterranean Islands, Morocco, Croatia and Spain, they can help you out wherever your dream European escape might be. With most of her clients booking her from abroad (predominately the UK, USA & Australia) Claire saw a gap in the market for a concise, easy-to-use and non-intimidating way to connect these couples with destination wedding planners who can answer their queries and generally help them navigate planning their wedding from hundreds (or even thousands!) of miles away.

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Bespoke Illustrated Wedding Stationery from Story House

April 9, 2013 in Sponsored Post | Written by Kat

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I loved art at school, and while it was clear from an early age that I had very little obvious talent myself, the appreciation for it – in whatever medium – certainly didn’t pass me by. In fact I used to lie on my bed as a lovestruck teenager, desperately attempting to create sketches and renderings of my celebrity crushes (don’t ask) and hanging them on my bedroom wall with such pride, despite their lack of accuracy. I experimented with drawing, painting, charcoals, cross stitch (again, don’t ask!) and finally photography. As I said, I was never really very good at any of them, but the desire to tell stories in my own haphazard way was something that I always felt I needed to do. Thank God I discovered writing later in life or I might still be plaguing the world with my terrible sketches of Christian Slater and Ronan Keating…

But what, pray tell, is the point of yet another one of my embarrassing admissions today?

Recently I was sent these latest designs by Lucy McDonald, an illustrator from the UK, who uses her talent to create one of a kind and bespoke wedding stationery. Through her company, The Story House, she aims to tell her clients’ love stories though her art. And I love them.

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IF Ladies Wedding Shoe Design Contest: Favourites & Winner!

March 14, 2013 in Competitions, Sponsored Post | Written by Kat

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Well you guys are a creative lot aren’t you? Over the past month I’ve been literally inundated with amazing entries for the design your own wedding shoe contest that I ran in association with IF Ladies.

In fact so difficult was it to pick just one final winner that I asked the IF Ladies very nicely if I could pick a top ten and award some runners up prizes too… and luckily they said yes! Each of the lovely ladies below will be emailed a secret promo code for an extra discount on an order of any size through the IF Ladies website (pro tip: check out the S/S 13 tank tops – love love love!) How killer is that?!

But first and foremost our ultimate winner, who will have her design made into actual real life foot candy for her to rock on her wedding day (seriously, can’t wait to see how these turn out) is:

Sabine’s broken mirror & unicorn creation!

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I fell head over heels (see what I did there) for Sabine’s amazing shoe design. I mean what’s not to love when you’re presented with broken mirrors and unicorns!?! In fact I’d really love a pair of these myself please.

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