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Sustainable Wedding Rings
Within my wedding planning business I try to be as sustainable as I can be. I also like to work with suppliers who share my respect and love for the natural environment. Businesses who aim to be as sustainable / green / eco-friendly as they can be. Weddings are known to have particularly high carbon footprints and I am always looking for ways that my couples can cut their footprint down. Wedding jewellery can be a contentious issue these days. However, there are ways to avoid these issues. In Nethy Bridge, in the Highlands of Scotland, I am privileged to share the village...
Vow Renewals…. Could This Be For Us?
Have you been married a while but would like to re-live the romance of your wedding day? Are you approaching a ‘milestone’ anniversary and looking for a memorable way to mark the day? Was your wedding day a disappointment? You didn't get the day you both really wanted, because your parents had paid for it? Perhaps you've been through an extremely tough time in your lives and are in need of something incredibly special to cheer you and your family up? Or are you just simply a pair of romantics? If any of these scenarios sound like you, maybe you should consider Vow Renewals....
Wedding Planner – To Hire or Not To Hire
Are you sitting on the fence about whether to hire a Wedding Planner to help you plan one of the most important days of your life? Are you worried that you just can’t find the time necessary to create the wedding you have dreamed of since you were young? Do you want to elope, just the two of you, and get married somewhere that you have never visited before? But you have no idea how to even start the process? Well, today I am looking at the ‘pros’ of hiring a Wedding Planner. A right-hand man or woman to be your support, solve all your problems and make your dreams happen. Someone...
Wedding Venue Spotlight – Balfreish Barns
As a wedding planner in the Highlands of Scotland, it is important to keep visiting venues to increase the options that I can suggest to my clients. This week I discovered an exciting new Scottish wedding venue. Balfreish Barns. Although I usually work within the Cairngorms National Park, I decided to venture out a little further towards Inverness when I heard that there was a rustic barn available to hire for weddings. Credit: Abrightside Photography Credit: Katie Grainger Well, what can I say, I loved it. Balfreish Barns is located near Nairn in the Highlands of Scotland. It is owned by...
Top 5 Tips for Planning an Unforgettable Wedding Weekend
These days it is quite common for couples to live a distance away from their close friends and family, seeing them only at important occasions. Weddings are one such event in a couple’s life where favourite people should be present. Because these loved ones may have to travel a long distance for the wedding, there is a trend emerging to hold a “weekend wedding” instead of a “wedding day” which ends once the clock strikes 12. Weekend wedding celebrations become more of a mini holiday allowing you to spend more quality time with the people you care about the most. If you are...
Why an elopement might be right for you
Over the last few years, thanks to the pandemic, the perception of elopements, or eloping, has changed. The past stigma of running away to Gretna Green to get married has thankfully faded. Now elopements are celebrated as a beautifully intimate choice for couples to make and start their marriage. Saying that, an elopement isn’t for everyone. Many couples still want the big wedding. But an elopement can be a stunning adventure and a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. If you are currently engaged and on the fence about eloping, read on, to find out whether it’s the right decision...
Is the Intimate Wedding Still the Way Forward?
As restrictions are lifted again and we shake ourselves down and get ready to live life again, newly engaged couples may start thinking ‘BIG’ for their wedding. The wedding world during Covid had brought about a necessity for an intimate wedding rather than a choice. However, as we now emerge blinking into the sunlight once again, there is no longer a limit to the number of guests permitted at a wedding. The choice is back in the hands of each couple to decide. Pre-Covid, the trend was to have a big celebration. Guests would come from far and wide to celebrate in large expensive venues....
Planning a Dream Destination Wedding
Does your heart yearn to tie the knot somewhere that isn’t your home? Maybe it is a country where you met each other, or a place you have spent time or travelled together, a place you dream of visiting, or quite simply a crazy vision that you concocted together one romantic night during lockdown. Have you got engaged this Christmas? Whilst you have let your imaginations run riot over a glass of bubbly and a mince pie or two, your rational minds may have gone through the problems that you envisage..... Could it really be possible? Could we really travel there? Would our friends and...
A Mystical, Magical, Styled Highland Wedding Shoot in the Cairngorms Part 2
‘Team Wide Sky Weddings’ in Action! Jewels We arrived at the first location for my styled Highland wedding shoot, a stunning loch in the Cairngorms National Park. Here we met Catriona Parmenter, the photographer, and Amy Ferguson who provided the most beautiful jewellery. Amy from The Third Aye uses only Fairtrade and recycled silver and gold and ethically sourced gemstones which made her the perfect jeweller for my shoot. Sylwia’s ring was both an engagement ring and wedding band lined up together to depict the contour lines of the Cairngorm Mountain range. James’s wedding band featured...
A Mystical, Magical, Styled Highland Wedding Shoot in the Cairngorms – Part 1
One autumnal day in September a team of talented wedding suppliers led by a Cairngorms wedding planner – me - appeared in a few magical locations in the heart of the Cairngorms. This was to become a styled Highland wedding shoot with three aims: Firstly, to provide fresh images for the gallery on my website; Secondly, I wished to highlight the beauty of the Cairngorms in the autumn. So many couples automatically decide on a summer Highland wedding. However, each season in the Cairngorms can be spectacular with the different colours and looks. Autumn is also my favourite season. Colours...
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