Spring is just round the corner, or so i’ve been told! With spring comes the flurry of spring weddings! all bright eyed and bushy tailed! so here are a few internet/magazine finds that i’d like to share. The Mr and Mrs balloons were spotted in Perfect Wedding Magazine and there by Beau-coup.com
I’m not a huge balllon fan but paired with the paste;lribbons they’d work really well for the card and book signing area. The invites perfectly bright and very spring like – by Nina Thomas Studio found on notonthehighstreet, Other pinterests find are the flower lolliepops ideal for favours – The Little Lollipop Shop, The Ribbons wands, if your venue doesn’t allow confetti then i think these add that perfect alternative – by Ginger Ray UK

The “naked” cake is still on tread, to be honest i think it’ll hang around for a little while yet. Adding some delicate spring flowers and just a dusting of icing is really affective, simple but still ever so pretty. And the bouquet, pink roses with some lavender,a beautiful and fresh sent and of course the colours are just lovely!

Hope you like, I really can’t wait to see what the island photographers capture this spring!
Sharon x

So its the new year, fresh start and of course new trends. Heres are a few things that i’ve seen filtering into the wedding world, I know its only the first week of January but its already happening!

Fruit: Pineapples to be precise, I featured a cool tropical inspired hen do last year and since then I’ve spotted them a lot!

Colours: Pantone have announced their colours for spring and out of the ten, I really like “Rose Quarts” and “Serenity” Last year the must have colour was Marsala which was lovely, and i think these will be popular also. To see all of the spring colours, check out their site – Colours of the spring.

Shapes: I’ve seen alot geometric shapes being used, and i quite like it. I had to go for bold once i spotted that cake!

Botanical: Again something else i was drawn to putting together last year for a inspiration board, manily based on my own venue being a botanical garden, i love that its having its moment.
Bridal: Separates,this was everywhere at the “Spring 2016” bridal shows, and they will start filtering into your local bridal shops, on the island Karen Robb of Dornellie has created her own collection, so please go and have a look. So there we go, just a few trends to browse, I’m a fan or pretty much love all of them. Hope you do to!

Till next time
Sharon
xXx

Venues.

I would most definitely put picking a venue on the top three important “to do” list. 1. Date, 2. Venue and 3. Photographer, If like me you had a date in mind go and get it! then the venue and finish off with your photographer – thats just as hard picking a venue as theres such talent here, but enough and onto Venues!!

This island may be small, but it doesn’t lack for options when it comes to venues, you want a famous historical venue? We’ve got it, you want a manor house? We’ve got those, you want modern? You guessed it we have those too! The list of registered venues is great. So I’ve put a few together just to give you an idea of what’s out there.

Hotels
A popular choice for weddings, having everything done under one roof can take alot of the stress out of planning, I’ve choosen 6, but there are far more, heres just a taster. Priory Bay hotel, Albert Cottage, Ryde Castle, The Hambourgh, The Royal and Lakeside Park Hotel

Gardens, lodges, arts centers and everything inbetween.
I can’t express enough how much choice the island holds when it comes to picking a venue, if you’re into sailing than any number of the islands sailing clubs would be perfect for you, if you’re into history then the roman villa could be for you! and the gardens here on the island are truly stunning, so heres another 6 different venue options for you.
Bowcombe Lodge, Quay Arts centre, Bembridge sailing club, Brading Roman Villa, Ventnor Botanical gardens, Calbourne Mill. Manors houses:
We really don’t lack for impressive manor houses on this beautfiul Isle, so heres another 6 venues for you to look at. Northcourt, Arreton Manor, Appuldurcombe, Landguard manor, Barton manor, East Dene. 

So there you have it, thats just 18 out of so many more wedding venues. for a full list please head on over to the Isle Of Wight Council and check out their list of licensed venues!

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Afternoon Brides!!!

This weekend a familiar face was back to trashing her dress!!! you may remember  me sharing the fab sea trashing blog post with bride Danielle Ginno, Well she’s only gone and done another! I have to say I’ve become quite familiar with this dress, as featured her wedding back in 2011 to Grant. So one trash wasn’t enough, what route did she opt for this time?  A 5k run in Portsmouth in aid of “Help for Heroes” now not happy with just running no she opted for the “Run or Dye” run, a 5k route with everyone throwing dye!!
What Danielle said about the run “As you run around the course you come up to various dye stations along the way with organisers throwing handfuls of dye at the runners, then at the end its the dye festival where the guy on stage blasts out music while covering you with the dye and he throws packets and packets into the crowd ready for the dye throw – This is where he counts down and everyone throws their dye in the air together to create a sea of colour. That was amazing!!!”

I asked why she opted to do another trash:
Danielle: Because my dress cost me a lot of money and it seemed crazy to leave it in the loft with the ideal that my daughter may wear in one day (I’d hate for her to feel she had to wear it just because I’d kept it for her). So I made use of it! The colour of my dress now is amazing and I hope it encourages other brides to make use of their dresses one last time. A brides dress is one of the biggest parts of her day – putting it on and feeling like a princess again brings back so many happy memories. The pictures that were taken have captured those memories again and that’s pretty cool too!

IOWbrides:Is this the last trash? or shall we watch this space?

Danielle:Haha! My dress is trashed but it may appear at next years run… Hopefully leading plenty of beautiful brides in white dresses into a world of colour!