Saturday Cinema: Antje and James’ Monkey Island Wedding by Kissing Gate Video
Posted by: boho on: January 28, 2012
Welcome to todays Saturday Cinema. Starting from today I will be going back to one post a day on a Saturday, so no AM and PM showing, just one wedding film for you. I’m still trying my hardest to free up some of my time so decided that one post on a Saturday and one post on Sunday was maybe going to help that, Sundays Best Bits actually takes hours to put together so I need to dedicate a bit more time to that for the moment.
So onto todays film, it’s been brought to you by Ben Marlow from Kissing Gate Video It’s the wedding of Antje & James who were married on 10th December at Monkey Island Hotel, Bray, Berkshire.
Antje & James’ Wedding Highlights from Ben Marlow on Vimeo.
Ben says that the venue was amazing ‘Peacocks on an Island, I suppose I am easily pleased’ . I have to say even though this is quite a traditional wedding the couple look so happy Antje is such a smily bride, which is always a joy to see. Ben has done a great job with the edit of the film as well, some great angles and great production.
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What did I do with my wedding dress after the wedding?………I donated it to Oxfam, my reasons why!
Posted by: boho on: January 27, 2012
Back in November I wrote a discussion post about what to do with your wedding dress once you are married. I had spent a lot of time deliberating about what to do with my own wedding dress as it had been hanging up in the spare room unwashed for at least 2 years gathering dust after my wedding. The post proved to be very popular and you were all very helpful with your suggestions.
The main ideas that seem to come up were 1) get it altered and died and wear it again, 2) sell it 3) get it framed and mounted on the wall.
Well there is no way I will ever be able to get in the dress again, considering I have put on at least a stone since the wedding………….so I went off and got it washed to at least consider selling it!
When it came back from the cleaners I can not describe how unattached I felt to it, all the sentimentality had gone, it seems that the dirty marks that were on the dress all told a story, a story of the wedding day, the wedding night dancing by the swimming pool, wringing the train under the tap that night to get the black marks out of it, the marks gained from the trash the dress shoot, (Full shoot HERE) mud stains from the farm all gone………..and now it was just a dress, and a dress that didn’t fit at that! so I thought I may as well sell it.
Then one day I found myself reading Love my dress and a post about oxfam and a project that Annabel had put together and I got to thinking about Oxfam and all the amazing work they do. Lots of Charity shops take wedding dresses but Oxfam have a whole host fo specialist shops across the country that specialise just in wedding dresses…………and here my thoughts went to donating my dress to Oxfam instead of actually selling it.
A few years ago Oxfam played a big part in my life, I used to volunteer in a shop every saturday when I lived in Nottingham, as well as that I was part of the Oxfam campagne group and went on marches for them, arranged charity stalls at local fairs and then put on large-scale charity events for Oxfam and it was here that my interest in event management started!…….so it seemed the obvious choice to donate my dress to such a worthy cause.
My charity work has taken a massive back seat since I moved to Sheffield and especially since I started working for my self, so I feel that donating my dress and letting the proceeds from it go to such a worthy cause has kind of made up for my charity slackness!
A warm, touching and intimate vow renewal
Posted by: boho on: January 27, 2012
I have such a cute and heartwarming wedding for you today to end the working week with. It’s actually a vow renewal or a re wedding as Montana the bride prefers to call it! It was sent into me by Vic Pellicier who is based in New England and I just love it! The wedding is so simple but that just emphasis the love between this amazing couple, the use of light is just beautiful and the soft warm tones are just magical!
Vic tells me:
Montana called this a Re-Wedding, not a vow renewal. Their first wedding was very traditional, and apparently littered with drama and was something they didn’t want to remember. So they had a do over, with 6 people including me. She actually sent me this note afterwards:
‘Champagne pink and rolled-up sleeves. Peacocks on the wall held watch over our last-minute preparations. She took off her shoes and walked barefoot in the grass behind the inn, hands in his hands, and then it was time to head over: a sunny day for a do-over.
The pond at the Yiddish Book Center, where we’d come to hear the peepers the year we met; Norwottuck in the distance, behind Atkins Farm, and Prescott 89, where we stayed up only to discover that we shared more than just a wall. We came back to do it again, for ourselves, a rewedding.
A hum, and all we could hear were the vows we wrote for each other. A ring of daisies and a stone to give our secret promises weight. The wind blew the gold paper of our Ketubah as we signed our names in permanent ink, and then we walked to the woods, kicking pebbles along a musical floor. And when it was all over, we drove away, Husband and Wife.’
Montana and Steve Grinnell were married on June 16th (my wedding anniversary) at The National Yiddish Book Center at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. The had no guests! ‘We had our amazing photographer, Vic Pellicier, a co-worker who is also a wedding planner, and our justice of the peace, Dennis Helmus. We really wanted it to be about our reaffirmation to each other and our relationship.’
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Boho Loves: Cakes By Beth NEW 2012 Cake Collection
Posted by: boho on: January 26, 2012
Today’s Boho Loves is all about cake….yep one of my favorite subjects! Beth Mottershead the lady behind Cakes by Beth is today celebrating the launch of her new 2012 cake collection.
Beth launched her cake business in the spring of 2011 and I was lucky enough to go over to Manchester to meet her and taste some of her amazing cakes. As Beth lives in Manchester she mainly covers Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire but is happy to travel further afield.
Cake Describes her and her cakes; ‘Scientist turned cake designer, obsessed with all things cakes and weddings, and especially wedding cakes! I really like clean, simple lines, balanced designs and adding a bit of a twist. I’m calling it “Scientific chic”
Beth tells me more about what made her start the business
I have always loved drawing and creating things and I always loved making cakes and pastries with my mum. I used to relish the opportunity to create birthday cakes for friends and family, and during my PhD, cake decorating became a real passion as a form of release from all the science. I started making more and more cakes for people and then several friends asked me to create their wedding cakes for them. It all just grew from there.
A two day Indian/Chinese/Catholic wedding with four wedding dresses and an elephant
Posted by: boho on: January 26, 2012
I have been using the word Epic a lot lately to describe a lot of the weddings I have been posting, I really have been spoilt with the submissions I am getting in. Today I am going to be using that word again, and I mean it in its truest form. This is a 2 day wedding, that crosses a mixture of cultures, Chinese, Indian and Catholic!…….and every bit of it is utterly beautiful! It was sent into me by New York City Photographer Max Flatow and I’m completely honoured to have his work on my blog.
It’s the wedding of Mingzhang Zeng and Nicholas Doray who were married on the 9th and 10th of December 9 and 10 at St Peter’s Church and the Zuri resort, both on Lake Vembanadu in Kumarakom, Kerala, India. With 75 guests. Mingzhang and Nicholas describe their day as ‘It was a 2-day Indian, Chinese and Catholic affair.’
I have to say truly I am in love with everything about this wedding, and I’m sure you can understand why, the colours, the outfits, the decoration, the scenery……………oh my what an array of beauty! Max has done a fabulous job of pulling together the full on 2 day celebration starting with the traditional Indian ceremony, with the Chinese tea ceremony the next day, followed by the church wedding and then the evening reception, with some rather awesome fireworks!
I hope you love it as much as I do!
Boho Competition: Win VIP Tickets to the National Wedding Shows, London and Birmingham.
Posted by: boho on: January 25, 2012
Yes it’s that time of year again……….The Wedding Shows are back in full force and ready for all you lovely brides and grooms! There are many shows across the country some big some small, some designer, some vintage, some budget, so it can be hard to decide which one to go to, BUT todays competition may just help!
The National Wedding Show one of the biggest if not THE biggest shows across the UK has been kind enough to offer YOU the Boho reader:
For London – 2 pairs VIP tickets and 3 pairs of regular
For Birmingham – 2 pairs of VIP tickets and 3 pairs of regular.
The dates of the shows are:
London Kensington Olympia: 24th – 26th February 2012
Birmingham NEC: 16th – 18th March 2012
All you have to do is leave me a message in the comment box telling me 1) what day you would like to go and 2) to which show London or Birmingham. (Please make sure that you also leave me your email address so I can get back in contact with you.) I will then draw the names out of a hat (of which my husband has many) and will get back to you if you ar a winner next Wednesday 1st February.
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