Category: Wedding Trends

Which Couple are you?

Whether you are the covid couple or the newly engaged couple – let’s look at 5 great reasons to have a midweek wedding in 2021.

The Covid Couple

Scenario number one – it’s 2020 and you are told you must postpone your wedding day to 2021 – every plan that you had, every detail that you spent months thinking about feels like it is gone out the window! You become the covid couple. This was not your wedding plan but you have no choice but to adjust.

The newly engaged 2020 couple

The second scenario makes you just as anxious. It’s 2020 and it’s your year to get engaged, your turn to be excited and start planning the wedding of your dreams. You plan to get married in 2021 but so does everybody else who was meant to get married in 2020. You feel rushed to make decisions because time and availability is in short supply.

1. Availability

The majority of couples choose a weekend wedding. Traditionally it makes sense. You take time off work that week, you finish your wedding preparations, your friends and family have the weekend off and you can all celebrate together. But the problem is there are only 52 weekends a year which means that in 2021, the wedding venue of your dreams may not be available on a Friday or Saturday night.

Why not choose a week-day? You have the choice to go against tradition. If you choose a midweek wedding you have a higher chance of securing your lusted after wedding venue and although you are asking your friends and family to take time off work, most people don’t mind that. You are asking them to take 1 or 2 days off work and if you choose a Thursday you can extend your wedding celebration through the weekend. When you consider that lots of people gladly attend destination weddings, which means at times a week off work, you know they will understand if your wedding takes place in the middle of the week.

2. Your Day Your Way

During your wedding day planning you’ve browsed instagram and pinterest – you’ve found the wedding suppliers of your dreams – but often they are not available during the weekend or just too expensive for your budget. Having a midweek wedding allows you to have your day your way, those suppliers that you love will more likely be available. Also consider those extra touches that you couldn’t afford, they find a place in your budget because everything costs less for a midweek wedding. All of a sudden your pinterest wedding starts to become a reality!

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3. Cost

Almost every single wedding supplier will cost less for a midweek wedding. The reason being they have more availability during the week. From your wedding venue to your wedding planner and even your wedding band – expect to pay less for most suppliers. The money that you save can be spent on a honeymoon, or maybe go towards your house deposit. You can still have your dream wedding but at a reduced cost and the only difference is that it’s a midweek wedding.

Also consider your guests, although you are asking them to take time off work – they too can expect your wedding to cost them less. It is likely that your wedding venue will offer your guests advantageous room rates because your wedding is on a weekday rather than the weekend.

4. The Small Wedding

Maybe after your wedding was postponed you decided to have a small wedding, instead of a large wedding event. If this is the case there are so many venues that are open to you midweek. You can have a more bespoke wedding in a boutique venue with your most treasured family and friends by your side. You can celebrate your love in an intimate setting with your closes loved ones there to share in your special day.

5. Generosity of Time

Having a midweek wedding means your suppliers have more time, to spend with you and on your wedding. They most likely don’t have other weddings to think about that day and have more time to spend chatting, relaxing and enjoying time with you, sharing in your day and make sure it is the day of your dreams. Think about makeup, hair, photographer and celebrant and how more time with them will make your day even better!

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So there you are, 5 great reasons to consider a midweek wedding in 2021. For more wedding inspiration follow me on instagram and happy wedding planning.

If you are getting married then you have been scrolling through stationery ideas on instagram, creating pinterest boards and dreaming of your wedding invitations. And yes you have seen them, those little circles of beauty – wax seals!

Wax stamps were traditionally used as a way to secure envelopes and scrolls before self adhesive envelopes were invented. Wax seals served as a tamper proof security whereas these days they are ornamental and used as beautiful decorations. Traditionally envelopes were sealed by melting a wax stick and using a metal wax seal stamp to create the seal and leave a beautiful embellished design. Wax seals continue to be made this way using sealing wax and a wax stamp but we offer the convenient option of a self adhesive wax seal which means you simply have to peel and stick.

Seal your Wedding Envelopes with a Wax Seal

Yes, you heard me – peel and stick! Life is busy when you are planning a wedding so I plan to make this part a lot easier for you. Check out these ideas for sealing your wedding envelopes with wax seals. I offer wax seals in an array of colours and styles or read on to discover custom wax seals!!

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Wax Seals on Wedding Invitations

So you decided you love wax seals and you don’t just want them on your wedding envelopes. Yes you are right, wax seals have other uses than just envelope wax seals. Follow the theme of wax seals through your wedding stationery. Wax seals look just as beautiful on wedding invitations as they do as a seal for an envelope. Have a look at our Alexandra collection to get some wedding invitation wax seal inspiration.

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Wax Seals on Wedding Menus

Another place to feature wax seals in your wedding stationery is on your wedding menus. These menus from the Alexandra range will look elegant and stylish on your wedding tables. Your guests will be drooling over their wedding menu before they even see what is on the menu to eat.

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Wax Seal embellished Wedding Place Names / Escort Cards

A wedding decoration theme is a thing of beauty and what better way to continue your wedding wax seal theme then to add them to your table place names or escort cards. Check out these examples from the Hanna and Emily Collections for inspiration.

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Vow Booklets with Wax Seals

I have no doubt you’ve thought about ways to express your love to your partner on your wedding day, the words you will say that will start your marriage together. I think vow booklets are an essential extra to your wedding stationery. You can capture those words and remember them forever. Of course I offer ranges that include wax stamps as they bring such beauty and luxury to your weddings stationery.

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Custom Wax Seals

So far I’ve shown you ideas for wax seals in a few styles and various colours. If you are thinking about custom wax stamps then look no further. Custom wax stamps are available in the same range of colours but I will work with you to design a custom wax seal stamp that is unique to your wedding stationery.

Custom wax seals offer you the ability to create a unique theme for your wedding stationery and carry it through each element. Custom stamps for wax seals can be made in a style that you love and are available as pre-made self adhesive stamps too.

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Self Adhesive Wax Seals

Our wax seal kits are available in a range of styles and colours. Each pack includes 20 self adhesive wax seal stamps and comes in a little linen pouch. Browse through the colours and ranges and choose the style that you like or chat to me about a custom design.

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For more wedding stationery inspiration follow me on instagram page for beautiful ideas.

How to choose your wedding first dance song

How do you choose your first dance song? That one song at your wedding that you will dance together to in front of all of your family and friends.

Your wedding first dance song is a personal choice, it’s unique to you as a couple and will hold meaning for both of you. You can rehearse in advance so that it is smooth and impressive. You don’t want to be tripping around the dance floor together.

Special Moment Together

The first dance together is a special moment, a moment during your wedding where you both stop, concentrate on each other and time is paused. You can create a romantic moment that you will cherish and remember forever.

Style of Music

First dance songs at weddings are usually romantic songs with meaning, beautiful words that speak to you as a couple and reflect you both as well as your relationship together. Styles of music to consider range from a slow classical song to something a little more upbeat. A good place to do some research is on spotify, spotify puts together playlists – check out their Top 50 First Dance Songs playlist. Consider both of your abilities to dance and choose something that matches your style.

Ability to dance to it

You don’t have to be an unbelievable dancer to pull off a beautiful first dance together at your wedding. With some practice and time you can perfect a beautiful routine together that looks natural without looking choreographed.

True Meaning for both of you

Think about your relationship, from the beginning right up to now. Think of special times together, concerts, birthdays, Sundays spent listening to music together outside. Run through the words of the song in your head before you choose it as you want something which reflects your relationship and has meaning. You don’t want to pick up a song about a breakup just because you love that song.

Wedding Vows

When you find a song that has real meaning for both of you, why not consider taking a line from the song and using it as part of your wedding vows. This idea creates a theme that runs through your wedding. You can capture your wedding vows in a booklet which you can cherish forever.

A Classic Wedding Song

There are some classics that are chosen over and over again. These songs are all about love, everybody knows them but are they right for you?

• Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
• At Last – Etta James
• Your Song – Elton John
• I don’t want to miss a thing – Aerosmith
• Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

First Dance Song Suggestions

Here are some suggestions from classics to a little more unique. Try not to pick something that is totally obscure or something that is right on trend now. You want the song to stay with you forever so it has to have longevity.

• Perfect – Ed Sheeran
• All Of Me – John Legend
• Something – The Beatles
• A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
• I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• Run – Leona Lewis
• You’re My Best Friend – Queen
• My Love Goes On – James Morrison and Joss Stone
• Love Story – Taylor Swift
• You Make It Real – James Morrison
• Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues
• You’re Still the One – Shania Twain
• Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
• Make You Feel My Love – Adele
• Falling In Love With You Again – Imelda May
• Songbird – Eva Cassidy
• Let There Be Love – Nat “King” Cole
• You Do Something to Me – Paul Weller
• Come What May – Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
• One Day Like This – Elbow
• You’re the First, the Last, My Everything – Barry White
• A Moment Like This – Kelly Clarkson
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight – Elton John
• Marry You – Bruno Mars
• Better Together – Jack Johnson
• Hero – Enrique Iglesias
• Endless Love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
• It Must Be Love – Madness
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
• Kiss From A Rose – Seal
• You’ve Got the Love – Florence + the Machine
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Andy Williams
• Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
• The Reason – Hoobastank
• If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
• Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
• Everything – Michael Bublé
• We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong
• Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
• You’re All I Need to Get By – Aretha Franklin
• Romeo and Juliet – The Killers
• How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) – Marvin Gaye
• Songbird – Oasis
• The One – Kodaline
• Us Against the World – Coldplay
• You’re Beautiful – James Blunt
• Little Things – One Direction
• One Great Mystery – Lady Antebellum
• Like Teenage Gravity – Counting Crows
• Thank You – Led Zeppelin
• Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
• Next to Me – Emile Sandé
• At My Most Beautiful – R.E.M.
• Better – Tom Baxter
• Greatest Day – Take That
• Drops Of Jupiter – Train
• The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
• Yours – Ella Henderson
• A Million Love Songs – Take That
• I Knew I Loved You – Savage Garden
• I Wanna Grow Old With You – Westlife
• Last Night On Earth – Green Day
• Accidentally In Love – Counting Crows
• I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz
• A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

I hope I have given you something to think about when it comes to your first dance song. Get some music on, listen to the words and find something that is the perfect choice for you both.