.. a day out at the seaside..
image credit: East Coast Piers
....Saltburn is the current home sweet home to
The Wedding Institute's April Fair...
we would love for you to come
and spend the whole day in this beautiful
picturesque seaside town....
take a stroll along the beach,
a view from the pier
while watching the surfers
and then take the Victorian water lift up to Saltburn Town,
have lunch somewhere fabulous and then visit us for tea and cake, music,
and 'relax' with The Wedding Institute for the afternoon....
image credit: Cleveland Image Archive
image credit: Saltburn Folk Festival
image credit: Saltburn Digital Village
image credit: Saltburn Arts
image credit: Remember When
post by Wedding Institute member Vicky Trainor
Tea With Ruby Ponderings - To Theme or not to Theme
Are you passionate about one particular
colour or item in your possession that sparks an idea of solely using that
palette as an overall theme for your big day?
Take for instance blue and white and the
current falling back into fashion of willow pattern. You either love it or hate it but personally
I am in the rather do quite like camp.
It conjures up many a happy memory of having tea at my grandparents when
I was a girl. Sentimentality aside an
overall blue and white palette would create an uncomplicated crisp and fresh
feel to a wedding.
Maybe a splash of red or mustard yellow
tones by adding an odd flower or ribbon bringing a touch of patriotism
especially with the up and coming Jubilee celebrations taking place in June
this year. What a perfect time to
introduce such colours.
image credit here on Pinterest
image credit here on Pinterest
image credit here on Pinterest
Dotting blue flowers in your bouquet, azure
50's inspired bridesmaid dresses, crisp white table linen, lace table runners,
each setting with blue and white china, blue bottles filled with blooms even
down to wearing blue shoes with your ivory frock.
image credit over on Pinterest
image credit over on Pinterest
image credit over on Pinterest
image credit over on Pinterest
image credit over on Pinterest
image credit over on Pinterest
The world is your oyster or so they say, be
bold, be blue.
Post by Wedding Institute Jane from Tea With Ruby
...and they made their family home....
...couples from the North East
"making their family home"...
Wilf & Florence
Joe & Gertrude
Tom & Dorothea
Tom & Katey
Alice & Frank
Vic & Gertrude
William & Emily
Norman & Winnie
Jack & Sarah Jayne
Michael & Alice
Frank & Olive
William & Mary
Edward & Olwyn
George & Audrey
Betty & Julien
Mary & Herbert
Image and Article credit to Communigate and Northumbria University
posted by Wedding Institute Member - Vicky Trainor
posted by Wedding Institute Member - Vicky Trainor
in preparation for the first dance....
image credit: Fifties Wedding
...and how will you be practising
your wedding moves?...
your wedding moves?...
image credit: WipWapWeb
and a bit of Northern Soul...couldn't resist posting this fabulous fella
watch and learn...watch and learn...
Tea With Ruby's Ponderings....
Welcome to Tea with Ruby's first
contribution to the wonderful The Wedding Institute blog. I shall be popping in with my ponderings and
inspirations, letting you into a world that isn't purely full of vintage china
even though that is where my passion lies.
It's all about the detail, the finer
points, the odd snippet of wow that make it all fall into place. Styling is most definitely key, take crockery
for instance, china can be used in so many different ways without even
realising, a teapot is not only for making your tea in, a teacup not only a
vessel to drink it from.
Over the coming weeks I will be sharing
images from the simplest table decoration to the darn right amazing. For now I shall start with something you may
have already thought of, the humble teapot.
Used as a simple table centre
overflowing
with floral wonder.
image credit: Bridal Shower
image credit: pinterest
image credit: pinterest
image credit: pinterest
Small elements can make a big impact.
Today's post by Wedding Institute member
Jane Day from Tea with Ruby
Today's post by Wedding Institute member
Jane Day from Tea with Ruby
The Family Album
image credit: Life
When planning your wedding, your ideas, collating your thoughts, where is that initial seed sewn?
Where do you start on your journey of sewing all those inspirations together, scrapbooks and snippets that you have flying around in your mind from left to right and pirhouetting in the middle?
There is so much inspiration to be taken from past wedding photographs. As a designer I love to scan them for detailing, not just for the style of dress and wonderful fabrics but to see the details of flowers and buttonholes, cakes, simply dressed tressle tables, hair and jewellery, wonderful layers of inspiration.
A place to start is to look at old family albums,
a great aunts bouquet,
your Mum's 'barely there' mini dress,
your grandma's fitted tweed suit,
....so ask to see your families photo albums, the really old albums that are tooked away in the loft, hidden in a sideboard or at the back of the cupboard under the stairs and blow off the dust...
image credit: Tales from a Vintage Wardrobe
image credit: my vintage wedding
image credit: Everything is Borrowed
image credit: I Thee Wed
image credit: fashion-era
image credit: Flick River
image credit: b-loved weddings
image credit: The Photographers Gallery
Post by Wedding Institute member: Vicky Trainor
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