British High St giant Next have partnered with yours truly to launch their ‘wedding stylist’ competition. If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a fashion stylist, well now’s your opportunity… with your chance to win £500 of Next vouchers in the process!
To enter, simply create a post on your own blog (yep, you need to have your own to enter this particular contest) putting together some key looks using items on the Next website using a budget of £500 and link to the items you use within your post. They could be bridesmaid outfits, bridal looks, groom’s attire, kids outfits or ideas for guests. You could even do a set to suit a specific wedding theme or a complete mish-mash of styles. The choice is 100% yours! When your post is live, simply link to it in a comment below this article.
You know me, I want to see something unique and different so let your imagination run wild! You could create moodboards or style sheets, put outfits together using pictures, share links or use your social platforms to make your blog post as creative and original as possible. To get you started, I decided to put together some bridesmaid looks for a sparkly 1920s inspired flapper wedding…
Blush Sequin Dress, £50
Pewter Snake Effect Trim Peep Toe Court Shoes, £36
Pewter Sequin Corner Frame Clutch Bag, £22
Two Tone Short Necklace, £10
Print Cowl Back Sequin Dress, £42
Glitter Peep Toe Court Shoes, £32
Black And Bronze Glitter Belts Two Pack, £8
Pink Statement Ring, £7.50
Lipsy Allover Beaded Shift Dress, £65
Silver Embellished Sandals, £68
Ivory Metallic Brocade Box Clutch Bag, £24
Sequin Waterfall Cover-Up, £45
You have until Midday on Friday 31st August to publish your article and post it here. After that date, I’ll choose my favourite and the lovely guys at Next will be in contact with the winner via email by 6th September.
This contest is now closed
This competition is only open to readers within the UK.
Good luck and happy styling!
Ts & Cs
♥ Closing date for entries is midday (BST) 31/08/12. Winner will be selected by Kat Williams and notified via email on 06/09/12.
♥ Only 1 entry per blog URL.
♥ Contest is open to residents of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man who are aged 18 or over only.
♥ The winners name and County will be available from 06/09/12 by sending an email to nextcompetition@next.co.uk.
♥ Winners must be willing to be featured on rocknrollbride.com and Next’s website. Winners may be required to become involved in future publicity. We reserve the right to feature photographs and screenshots of the winning blog, as well as the name and county of the prize winner in future publications, publicity or for promotional purposes.
♥ Next reserves the right to apply the value of the prize to any outstanding account(s) of Next Group Companies.
♥ If for any reason the advertised prize is unavailable, Next reserves the right at its absolute discretion to substitute a similar prize of equivalent or greater value. None of the prizes may be exchanged or transferred and no cash alternative will be offered.
♥ The prize is a £500 Next gift card to spend as the winner chooses online or in Next stores. Please note you do not win the products selected for your blog post as Next cannot guarantee that the items will be in stock or in your requested size or colour.
♥ Any delivery charges or additional charges over £500 must be paid for by the winner.
♥ By entering the draw, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete.
♥ The winners will be contacted via their email address within a week of the the competition draw date. Rock n Roll Bride/Next will not amend contact information provided.
♥ The competition winner must claim their prize within 7 days of being notified and Next reserves the right to ask Kat Williams to select an alternative winner should the £500 gift card not be claimed.
♥ Liability cannot be accepted for entries which are lost in transit or not received by Next due to technical difficulties.
♥ Kat Williams’ decision and any decision taken by the promoter is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
♥ This promotion is not open to employees of Next, their families, associated agents, or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
♥ No purchase necessary.
♥ Next reserves the right to exclude from the competition any entry that does not meet criteria set out in these Terms and Conditions.
Can’t wait to get to my laptop and start my £500 shopping spree!!
Here’s mine Kat, hope you like it! http://littlepurplestocking.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/rock-n-roll-runaway-bride/
Inspired by a Rock n Roll Bride. xx
Here is my entry. Hope you have fun reading. I had a great time pretend shopping.
http://suziephonic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/if-music-be-food-of-love-next-vouchers.html
Hi Kat
Please see my entry below for the Wedding stylist competition inspired by your rocking self
xx Stacey
http://tinyurl.com/cfcb5oq
oh fabulous stacey! i love the groom’s outfit!
Thanks Kat I think I might get my husband to wear the outfit!
xx stacey
do it!
Hi Kat,
Please see my entry, hope you like it, I enjoyed putting it together!
http://contrarietyrose.co.uk/2012/08/21/wedding-stylist-competition-rock-n-roll-bride-with-next/
Thanks,
Louise 🙂
Hi Kat, here’s mine – hope you like it!
http://choufleurfemme.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/wedding-stylist-comp-next-rrb/
Here’s my entry… a Wizard of Oz wedding. 🙂
http://littlelovenotes.co.uk/a-wizard-of-oz-wedding-next-stylist-competition/
Hi Kat!
What a great competition! I had lots of fun making my wedding outfits, brilliant 🙂
Would absolutely love to win the Next vouchers. Oh my my my how excited I would be. It’s been far too long since my last shopping spree 😉 Hey that rhymes!
http://www.lishconcepts.com/2012/08/its-a-love-story-baby-just-say-yes/
Ps: This is my first visit to your blog but it won’t be my last! I looooove your pink hair and have always secretly wanted pink hair too 🙂
I’ve had great fun creating moodboards for a 1960’s style Romeo & Juliet elopement:
http://blog.weddingnotebook.co.uk/2012/wedding-style-ideas/60s-mods-rockers-500-high-street-wedding/
I’m loving seeing everyone’s ideas on here too.
What a lovely idea! I went for a Midsummer Night’s Dream-themed wedding! http://zummer.blogspot.co.uk/#!/2012/08/a-midsummer-nights-wedding.html
Love your blog!
x
Hi Kat, I thought I’d give this a go too – I went for a laid back bohemian beach wedding.
I loved looking through the entire Next website for ideas (and even more ideas of what I’d spend the vouchers on should I be lucky enough to win!)
thanks for running the competition.
http://www.pointypix.com/2012/08/the-art-of-styling-wedding.html
Morning Kat
I decided to style the wedding venue! Using something that looks old, something that would require the Bride to borrow some photographs, lots of somethings new and something blue. Well the wrapping on the trees are purple but if you squint, it looks blueish!
Excuse the sketch – clearly not an artist!
http://capturebylucy.com/my-next-wedding-story/
I’m taking on the most important people… the bride and groom with this winter’s biggest trend OTT Opulence, here goes http://thebijoubride.com/next-wedding-challenge/
Hopefully it rocks your world
Ooo the blush sequin dress is so pretty! Thanks for running such a fab competition, here’s my entry, had lots of fun… but now I must go to bed!! x
http://neverboredofbubbles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/wedding-styling.html
Hi Kat,
I’ve gone for the Odd Couple.
http://ladylaurenloves.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-odd-couple-wedding-style.html
Have loved putting it together!
Lx
Hi Kat,
I’ve had such a wonderful time putting together my NEXT wedding inspiration Styled Post – Next have such great shoes and accessories I had so much fun playing around with my different storyboards!
My outfits are all under £500 and although they aren’t overly quirky, the message I wanted to transcend personally was that anyone of any age, shape and budget can feel confident and stylish getting dressed up for such a joyous occasion and that Next have so many options to suit everyone’s personality too.
Here is the link to my blog post – I hope you like it! I thoroughly enjoyed entering this competition and hope you have more styling collaborations in the future 🙂
http://www.tstyledme.com/2012/08/30/rock-a-tsm-outfit-for-the-next-wedding-you-attend/
Tien xo
Sorry, me again, realised the link I posted wasn’t working and automatically re-directed back to my site rather than the specific page! (thank god I checked :D)
http://zummer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-midsummer-nights-wedding.html
That’s better.
Sorry and thanks again! x
My last minute entry. http://chezmaximka.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/pretend-play-how-to-be-wedding-stylist.html
Dear Kat,
Thank you for giving us all the opportunity to play dress up 😉 Here’s my entry, a tribute to the amazingly beautiful Pan’s People: http://bananatapes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-tribute-to-pans-people-ceremony-style.html
Thanks,
Alana Banana xxx
Here’s my entry, fingers crossed!
http://dejaviewed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/next-and-rocknrollbridecom-send.html
I’m not sure if something in my previous post needed moderating (!), so here is a less wordy version of my previous comment: http://bananatapes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-tribute-to-pans-people-ceremony-style.html
Thanks!
Hi, I was looking for the winner announcement, but cannot find it. I emailed Next as suggested but they never bother to reply. Would be interesting to see the winning entry. Thank you!
Galina – sure, the winner was Niki – Wedding Notebook
Thank you for letting me know! My favourite was Shakespeare-themed wedding. It was a well written and presented piece. I guess it is a matter of personal taste.