Category Archives: Wedding

Hot Groom Fashion From Bonobos

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Today, it’s all about the guys – I think they can feel left out when it comes to planning the wedding, no? We create all the Pinterest boards and colour schemes, and they (sometimes) have their suits already chosen for them by us. Well, why not let them choose to be comfortable in what they want to wear? It is their wedding day too after al. This is where the Bonobos Groom Service comes in handy..

“Style shouldn’t be complicated. Looking your best doesn’t need to be hard. It’s really about being yourself and finding what fits. We created Bonobos to help with both, offering well-crafted, great-fitting clothing and a top-notch shopping experience that’s simple and painless.”

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Just in time for the spring wedding season, Bonobos are launching a new collection of men’s Seersucker and Cotton suits a great-fitting and lightweight natural complement to warm-weather weddings!

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“The big day is on its way, and with it, a whole lot of planning. Why not make things easy – and stylish – by coming by the Guideshop? From tuxedos to chinos, “I do”s to honeymoons, your own personal Bonobos Guide will make sure you have everything you need to make your wedding extra-special and absolutely spectacular!”

“The foundation of any great wardrobe is fit. It doesn’t matter how great the clothes look if they don’t fit well.”

Bridal Chic In The City – Made In Manchester Wedding Fair

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“An urban glamour wedding fair for city brides”

Are you a city bride looking for some fabulous inspiration? Then make sure you’re free on Sunday 11th May! (Less than two weeks away). Bridal Chic In The City is bringing their Made In Manchester wedding fair to the super rad Deaf Institute in the centre of the city!

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Bridal Chic in the City is a Facebook Magazine based in Manchester, UK

Our main aims are to promote small businesses and to offer our brides and grooms real affordability and quality so they can create their wedding dreams.

This cool Manchester venue will welcome a variety of exhibitors including cake makers, photographers, dress designer, florists and venue dressers to name a few, all offering bespoke one off services.

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A Yorkshire Wedding Full Of Vintage Heirlooms – Claire & James

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Today on Marry Me Ink is this stunning wedding full of vintage trinkets and heirlooms and of course a gorgeous tattooed bride named Claire and her new husband James from Karen McGowran Photography.

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“James and I met in our local gym. I caught him eyeing up my bum and we both couldn’t help giggling!”

I went over to him and offered him the 1kg dumbbells, I don’t think he was expecting such cheek! We went on our first date a few days later where he thrashed me at pool, bowling and “bop-it” – no letting the lady win!! After that first date he kind of never left and officially moved in three months later! One of the first few times he met my mam, she was at my house with her friends having dinner. My mam (a sweet innocent lady), tripped over and face planted James’s crotch, much to the amusement of everyone! It has been a running joke since that she has a crush on him and James delighted in bringing this up in his speech.

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James and I love hosting our close friends and family so when we found our venue, we were thrilled to find out it had a 20 berth cottage at the back. We invited our friends and family to stay for the two nights before the wedding where we hosted a big party and a pamper day for the ladies. It was fantastic to be able to make a full weekend of it and have our nearest and dearest there in the lead up to our big day.

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James and I are very competitive so we wanted to incorporate that into our wedding day– hence the limbo competition. We also hired a boxing machine, where the pad comes down and you punch it as hard as you can to reveal your score. There were some very competitive guests and it was only at the last hour that someone beat James! Along the competitive line we also had a “guess how many sweets in the jar” competition and the winner won the massive jar of sweets.

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We love playing pranks on each other and on each table we hid a whoopee cushion on a seat. We also wanted to capture lots of silly photographs which our wonderful photographer Karen McGowran did perfectly.

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Why I Charge What I Do – A Guide To Wedding Photography Pricing From Darren Mack

Today I have Marry Me Ink’s latest sponsor, the wonderful Daz of Darren Mack Photography, explain why your photography is important for your wedding day and the reasons why it costs what it costs.

“Why I charge what I do”

It’s something I am going to try and explain in the best way I possibly can, but first I need you to come with me on a journey, through time and space, to the world of the Mighty Boosh.

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My current prices for a wedding are around £1000. This is a price which I think reflects quite well to exactly where I am in my business. I have great equipment, I am fully insured, and I have shot quite a few weddings.

Going back  3 years though, things were a lot different, I didn’t charge any where near that, in fact, I didn’t charge at all, it all went a lil’ something like this….

My first wedding…. I was paid for my travel and accommodation costs. £150. That was it, it was all I asked for. This was new to me, and the couple were taking a huge risk letting me be the photographer.

I got up at 6am, scraped the ice off my car, as it was December, and started my 3 and a half hour journey. (obviously stopping for a sausage roll at the service station, ITS NEVER TOO EARLY PEOPLE!)

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I arrived at around 10am to the venue, put my shirt and tie on, and started working straight away.

Fast forward twelve hours to 10 at night and I’m shattered. I’ve been running round all day photographing, backing up my images, setting up a projector and laptop for a slide show, all of this with only a 1 hour break in between (I know, a full hour right!? who the hell do I think I am resting for that long?).

You know what though? I loved it, it was there and then that I decided that this is what I wanted to do, I wanted to be a wedding photographer, I had spent 12 hours on my feet shooting sure, but it was with the friendliest, happiest people having the BEST time. What could you not love about that?

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