Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
That’s it ladies, the first week of work in 2014 done and dusted! So pour yourself a large cab sav, grab a pew, put your feet up and prepare to see some serious lovely wedding inspiration. My favourite blogs knock it out the park each and every week (never failing to inspire, motivate and make…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Well hello 2014! I hope everyone had a smashing New Year! My NYE was spent quietly celebrating with Mr E and the new addition to our little family – and he has been keeping us on our toes ever since! How about you, how did you see in 2014? We awoke on New Years day to…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Just 12 days until Christmas! How are your yuletide preparations going? Seasonal festivities take a different guise in the southern hemisphere, where Christmas falls in the balmy summer – rather than steaming hot beverages, turkey and Christmas puddings aflame with brandy, it is more iced ginger beers, BBQs and pavs! Different, but no less enjoyable, although…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Wow, what a month October is proving to be – birthday celebrations, bridal fashion market and now…..well, some exciting news, which if you follow CVB on Facebook you might already know, but I am going to tell you again anyway! (I really want to shout it from the rooftop….but for my itsy bitsy fear of…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Today’s Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons is dedicated to the newly engaged, to you deliriously happy brides-to-be who are excitedly taking your first wedding planning steps. To all of you who’s heads are spinning from the thrill of having a ring on your finger and the thought of all that is to be done….take a deep breath and take a squiz…
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Weddings
A 1920s Inspired Cabaret Club Wedding from Grace Photography
Chic Vintage Brides is going global today with a 1920s wedding at the most fabulous cabaret club in Ireland, submitted by the beautiful bride herself – it is always such a compliment to receive a submission from a bride! As a Jenny Packham bride myself I confess to feeling something of an affinity to all fellow lovers and…
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Bridal Accessories
A Trio of Bridal Fashion Shoots from Bailey Is Brown Photography
What a super sunny day it is here in the bay! And I am beyond excited to be able to share an incredible trio of inspiration shoots from Kate at Bailey Is Brown Photography, which brings together some beautiful wedding dresses from Hilde Heim, headresses from The little pack of 5 and flowers from Lillipollen (just wait until you…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #39
What a week! 🙂 I definitely think a celebratory glass of bubbly (or two) is in order – Mr E has certainly earned one for all his hard work on CVB’s swanky makeover! I am still a little in shock that Chic Vintage Brides turned 1 this week – a year, a whole 12 months, 365 (or is…
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Beauty & Hair
Braids – Beautiful Bridal Updos
** If you’d like to see more braids, take a peek here at an all new list of 20 beautiful and bride-worthy braids. ** It has been impossible not to notice, and fall in ♥ with the Braid revival that has been occurring of late….. Long Loose Braid The perfect alternative to the formal bridal updo…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #34
What an exciting week, for once I am a little sad to see it end!! Chic Vintage Brides hit 1,000,000 followers on Pinterest – I am overwhelmed and indeed a little in shock 🙂 I ♥ each and every CVB follower – be they on the blog, Pinterest or Facebook, for sharing my passion for all things wedding…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #23
Another week gone, in a flash… good grief, today it is only 3 weeks until I go home to England and I have yet to finish a single post for whilst I am away! So, it seems this weekend I will mostly be spent on my laptop! How about everyone else? Anyone with a wedding this weekend? Many…
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Wedding Wisdom
Everything Wedding on Etsy
After weeks of planning, it was my sister’s baby shower last weekend and it was something of a triumph, even if I do say so myself 🙂 Of course I can take very little credit for it, really all I did was pull the pieces together, the rest was achieved through the online marketplace marvel that is Etsy!…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #20
This weekend is my sister-in-laws baby shower. After weeks of meticulous planning, DIYing and secret keeping it all comes down to 3 hours tomorrow afternoon……..I can’t wait, it is going to be SUCH fun (if everything goes to plan)! Wish me luck everyone and enjoy my pick of this week’s wedding posts…. 1. New Antipodean…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #5
After a lovely long weekend (and with Mr E’s birthday to plan for) this week has just flown by! And what a week for beautiful weddings, inspiration boards and shoots – so good in fact I struggled to find my favourite five…. but here they are, my pick of this week’s posts (apologies for the…
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Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons
Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons #4
After having such fun breaking my Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons rules last week, I decided to go all out this week and feature 5 Inspiration Boards….. rules be damned 🙂 1. I can’t believe it’s February already and Postcards & Pretties reminded me, with Valentine Confetti, that Valentines Day is just around the corner and we…
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