Whilst here in NZ I am looking forward to Spring, Autumn is just around the corner for most of you – and I am quite envious! So far I have shared with you 5 of the prettiest palettes and 5 beautiful bouquets, and I am keeping with the Fall theme for this week’s Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons. Today it…

Hello lovelies! I hope you are enjoying better weather than we are here, in the usually sunny Hawkes Bay. What a wet and miserable week it has been, and it is showing no signs of improving! But hey at least it’s the weekend, and I know just how I will be spending mine! (when I…

How many of us grew up using dinner services or cutlery sets that our parents were given on their big day? Or even remember grandma making tea in beautifully ornate and delicate cups and saucers she had proudly been using since her wedding? I remember the most precious pieces being safely tucked away or displayed…

Wow, it’s Friday again and already another weekend is fast approaching! I hope the first week of March has been kind to you – showing some signs of Spring for all of you lovelies in the Northern hemisphere and  not feeling too chilly for those of us in the South. It has certainly started to…

It is all in the details, or so they say and it is often the details that make a wedding memorable. And that’s not to say that a wedding needs to be stuffed with expensive or elaborate details, but rather the little thoughtful and personal details are what will form your memories of your big…

The dessert tables that have, for some time now, been taking the wedding world by storm aren’t just scrummy traditional cake alternatives, they are a fab way to personalise your wedding and with a little DIY or help from your nearest and dearest can also save you a few pennies! Or they can elevate a sweet…

Following on from my recent Snippets, Whispers & Ribbons dedicated to the most dapper of Grooms and fabulous of Bridesmaids, this week I have decided to turn my attention to the detail that creates one of your guests final impressions of your big day – the wedding cake! 1. It was, as always, an impossible…

What I love about weddings today is how the personality of the bride & groom show through, and that doesn’t have to end with your dress, vows or decor. Wedding cakes no longer have to be… well cakes! If a traditional wedding cake isn’t really you then why not treat your guests to a taste…

Chic Vintage Brides may have been quiet on the post front for a few days but I promise I haven’t been idle – as well as being  engrossed in an exciting makeover for CVB, I have also been avidly reading and catching up with some of my favourite Wedding blogs and I am quite frankly…

I want to share a new infatuation of mine……. (Source Style Me Pretty) Bird wedding cake toppers! I don’t know what it is about them, they have won me over with their sweet, rustic charm. They’re a little bit kitsch, so cute and they make me smile!