I’ve had a busy week this week, kicking off with the Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza in Birmingham on Sunday. Now I’m not one of those blgogers who looooves wedding fairs, but I have to say this was – by far – the best one I’ve ever been to. The exhibitors were fabulous (you can see photos of some of my fave things on my instagram - hello! Back to the Future wedding cake!) and the brides & grooms-to-be that were wondering round were all so cool I could have died. It was so awesome to meet so many readers and fans in such a short space of time. I was humbled by all your kind words and your hugs. Thank you, thank you.

Then on Tuesday I headed to The Dorchester in London to speak at the Niemierko Academy for wedding planners. I spoke all about blogging, social media and why my readers are the best. I was in one of the fanciest hotels in London, talking to quite a high brow group of professionals and I rock up and say “yeah my favourite weddings are the ones where the couple make everything themselves and spend as little money as possible” HAHA – cue surprised gasps all round!

Then yesterday I was back in London shooting with Cosmopolitan Magazine… NO BIGGIE. They’re running a feature on me and my glamorous life (ha!) in their February issue (which is in shops in January) and I’m thrilled! The girls were lovely and I had the best time being made to feel all celebrity-esque. I can’t wait to see the results!

So yeah, busy week… PHEW. So what have you been up to?

Weddings & Weddingy Things…

♥ Sweden Apple Orchard Wedding
♥ Beautiful Woodland Wedding & Engagement
♥ Warehouse Bridal Shower
♥ DIY Autumn Floral Arrangements
♥ A Geometric Rainbow Wedding

Photography Credit:  Happy Confetti Photography

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Cutest little bat-cat ever. Fact!

You haven’t been able to move online without bumping into some Halloween inspiration this week which is fine and dandy by me. Skulls! Costumes! Vampires! Zombies! What have been your favourite Halloween finds?

And in other news…

Weddings & Weddingy Things

♥ Bohemian Nouveau Wedding - love the autumnal colours!
♥ Backyard Circus Wedding
♥ Vintage Hollywood Inspiration
♥ A Spooky Hallowedding
♥ Vampire Wedding on Halloween!!

Photography Credit: Twin Lens Life

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Photography Credit: Ben Vogel

Gee wizzola what a fortnight! My jet-lagged brain is currently struggling to catch up with life let alone put any kind of semblance of sense into writing some blog posts, so I apologise in advance if this post is a little…chaotic.

But in between the uphill slog that is replying to over 1000 emails (!!), flying 3500 miles, starting the prep for the next Blogcademy (watch this space!) and attempting to get up to date with my blog posts and magazine commitments… low and behold I’ve still managed to squeeze in some link searching time. Don’t even ask me why time of night I finalised this post!

I promise to be more functional and coherent once the jet-lag has subsided…maybe.

Weddings & Weddingy Things…

♥ Portland DIY Wedding
♥ Traveling Musician Wedding Shoot
♥ Crafty California wedding
♥ Southwestern meets Art Deco Americana wedding inspiration

Photography Credit: Jose Villa

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Photography Credit: Favim
I’m looking forward to seeing New York look this pretty

Happy October one and all! I have to say I’m quite the October fan. The weather is mild but not freezing and there’s lots of skull stuff around for me to buy! Last year I fell so in love with these glitter skulls from Target but alas I couldn’t find anything similar here in the UK (sad face) But this year I’m going to be in New York (eek!) so watch out New York party stores, I’m coming for ya (apologies in advance to my skull-hating husband).

Oh yes this time next week I’ll be 35,000 feet in the air, taking myself to the big apple for The Blogcademy…OH MY GAWD I can’t believe how quickly it’s all come around! So unfortunately this will be the last Thursday Treats for a few weeks… well on this site anyway – why don’t you compile your own, send me the links & I’ll share your own versions when I return?!

I know, I know, don’t be sad… but, come on, if I spent my time in NYC sat on my laptop searching the interwebz for links to share that would be a little depressing – there’s too much to see and do! BUT fret not, there will be blog posts going up every day while I’m away AND I promise to check in regularly to share what I’ve been up to. You can also follow me on Twitter & Instagram… mkay?

OH! And if you’re in New York yourself, I’m going to be at this event on Tuesday 16th, where by BFF Lisa Devlin is doing a talk – ‘Finding your Niche as a Wedding Photographer‘. It’s free to attend and she’s crapping it a little bit… so if you do come, maybe make a banner or two? We’d love to see you there!

Phew OK busy busy… but I guess you’re now after other stuff to pour over then…? Pass the tea and biscuits would ya?

Weddings & Weddingy Things…

♥ Amazing colourful Seattle wedding
♥ Vintage British Carnival Wedding
♥ Quirky rustic wedding (love the bulldog! should you have pets at weddings? I say yes!)
♥ Jeff Newson blows my mind…
♥ Utterly in love with Matt & Nathan’s engagement shoot & I can’t wait to see their wedding

Photography Credit: Claudia Rose Carter Photography

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Photography Credit: Devlin Photos

Hey there! Have you forgiven me for the lack of Thursday Treats last week? … Oh you forgot all about it already? Good good! But just in case, whatdayafink of that photo up there? Yep, that’s what I was doing while I was away… helping to style that baby up. Beautiful huh? More of this will be hitting the bloggidy soon!

Today I’m off to The Big Smoke to be interviewed on camera (eeek) and to meet the amazing Nanette Lepore at her Notting Hill store. I’m equally nervous and excited about both events, and I have a funny feeling I may be heading home with a rather light wallet and some rather heavy shopping bags (sorry Gareth).

In other news… OMFG I can’t believe it’s just two weeks until I fly to New York for The Blogcademy. Where on earth has the time gone?!? Holy moly I better dash, I’ve still got my presentations to plan!

Weddings & Weddingy Things…

♥ Glorious Indian wedding
♥ Wedding photographer Jonas Peterson got married. And it was epic.
♥ Bohemian summer inspiration
♥ Cinco de Mayo wedding
♥ This glam garden party wedding is my fave wedding-one-another-blog in a long time! (+ part 2) Isn’t Emily the coolest bride!?

Photography Credit: Lara Hotz

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Photography Credit: Devlin Photos

Oh yes, that’s me… in a rainbow. Isn’t that Lisa Devlin so ridiculously clever?!

So this week was a fun one! On Monday Gareth & I were invited to attend a cupcake decorating class hosted by Restoration Cake. It was seriously awesome, not least of all because it was a tattoo themed class! Gareth put the whole class to shame with his amazing skillz (no joke!) I’m gonna share some more about this over the weekend so pop back on Sunday if you have a penchant for fondant!

Tuesday saw Lisa & me hotfooting it to London for the launch of Kirsty Mitchell‘s Wonderland exhibiton. We’ve both been serious superfans of this lady and her incredible imagery for so long that we were literally giddy with excitement to have been invited. Seeing Kirsty’s amazing work in real life was just magical. I even saw things in each shot that I hadn’t noticed before and I’ve swooned over them online for years! Some of the handmade costumes were also on display – it was so ace to see every little detail that Kirsty and her small team had painstakingly put together to create each iconic scene. Inspiration overload! You can check out my faves on my instagram & a short video of the event (blink and you’ll miss me…) via vimeo.

Kirsty was also, like, ridiculously lovely and sweet. I was sooo uncool about meeting her and I totally babbled my way through our conversation. I also might have held on with our hug for just a few. seconds. too. long. (oops)

If you want to go and see the exhibition yourself it’s at SW1 Gallery near Victoria. You”ll have to be super quick though as it’s only there until Saturday! After that the show moves to a few other locations.

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