October 17, 2008
Posted in ceremony & reception, photography by Tiffany
Tiffany Grant-Riley is a wedding planner based in the South East of England, creating beautiful, bespoke weddings with a vintage feel from the 1920s to 1960s. She also plans weddings for brides and grooms who have their own theme in mind, but vintage is her real love. With a career which began in theatre as a stage manager, she moved onto events management, producing VIP parties and launches in London before getting engaged and launching her own company. Her brand new blog which started out in April is perfect for the vintage bride, providing tips, advice and wedding news. Having married a month ago, Tiffany is thoroughly enjoying newlywed life and can't wait to share her planning journey with you..
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It’s been a real joy to be able to tell you about my experiences of planning our wedding. As a wedding planner the pressure was on from day one to produce a spectacular day (!) but I think we did an amazing job and couldn’t have done it without our friends and family behind us.
I thought I would leave you with a juicy selection of my favourite shots from our day. It’s been almost two months since we got married and it still feels so fresh. I feel really emotional pouring over these photos-hope you enjoy them…
This was taken just before the bridesmaids left the hotel for Pembroke Lodge. Nervous wasn’t the word!
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October 16, 2008
Posted in photography by Tiffany
Tiffany Grant-Riley is a wedding planner based in the South East of England, creating beautiful, bespoke weddings with a vintage feel from the 1920s to 1960s. She also plans weddings for brides and grooms who have their own theme in mind, but vintage is her real love. With a career which began in theatre as a stage manager, she moved onto events management, producing VIP parties and launches in London before getting engaged and launching her own company. Her brand new blog which started out in April is perfect for the vintage bride, providing tips, advice and wedding news. Having married a month ago, Tiffany is thoroughly enjoying newlywed life and can't wait to share her planning journey with you..
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October 16, 2008
Posted in the planning process by Tiffany
Tiffany Grant-Riley is a wedding planner based in the South East of England, creating beautiful, bespoke weddings with a vintage feel from the 1920s to 1960s. She also plans weddings for brides and grooms who have their own theme in mind, but vintage is her real love. With a career which began in theatre as a stage manager, she moved onto events management, producing VIP parties and launches in London before getting engaged and launching her own company. Her brand new blog which started out in April is perfect for the vintage bride, providing tips, advice and wedding news. Having married a month ago, Tiffany is thoroughly enjoying newlywed life and can't wait to share her planning journey with you..
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“What??” I hear you cry “you mean planning your wedding caused you problems?? How can that be?!”
I’m going to be totally honest. Planning our wedding wasn’t the most wonderful process. It was stressful, we argued constantly, fell out with family-you name it, it happened. Unless you’re in a situation where you have a massive budget and a wedding planner to take care of everything, it just won’t always be a bed of roses. You’re going to disagree on a lot of things and suddenly the issue of money becomes a really touchy subject.
From the moment we tried to set a date, I’d managed to upset my mother. Initially we wanted a June wedding so that our honeymoon wouldn’t cost a fortune at peak time in summer. However, as mum is a teacher, she has six weeks off from the end of July through August and she felt this would be a better time. To an extent it would be, but for us we would be fronting more money just to marry during summer (it gets very expensive in the UK). She wouldn’t talk to me for a week and refused to listen to my reasoning…and so we ended up booking for August.
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October 15, 2008
Posted in DIY, favors, stationery by Tiffany
Tiffany Grant-Riley is a wedding planner based in the South East of England, creating beautiful, bespoke weddings with a vintage feel from the 1920s to 1960s. She also plans weddings for brides and grooms who have their own theme in mind, but vintage is her real love. With a career which began in theatre as a stage manager, she moved onto events management, producing VIP parties and launches in London before getting engaged and launching her own company. Her brand new blog which started out in April is perfect for the vintage bride, providing tips, advice and wedding news. Having married a month ago, Tiffany is thoroughly enjoying newlywed life and can't wait to share her planning journey with you..
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As promised, here’s how to make my beautiful wallpaper place cards! Each card has the menu typed onto a mounted piece of cream card on the back so each guest knows exactly what they’re eating-thus avoiding any pre-order confusion. Our guests loved these so much that they took them home as a keepsake.
You Will Need:
1. Some beautiful swatches of vintage paper-you can use modern or original and I bought mine from Sweet Kate at Etsy and asked her to put together packs which only had floral designs in (see below).
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October 14, 2008
Posted in cakes & catering, ceremony & reception, the planning process by Tiffany
Tiffany Grant-Riley is a wedding planner based in the South East of England, creating beautiful, bespoke weddings with a vintage feel from the 1920s to 1960s. She also plans weddings for brides and grooms who have their own theme in mind, but vintage is her real love. With a career which began in theatre as a stage manager, she moved onto events management, producing VIP parties and launches in London before getting engaged and launching her own company. Her brand new blog which started out in April is perfect for the vintage bride, providing tips, advice and wedding news. Having married a month ago, Tiffany is thoroughly enjoying newlywed life and can't wait to share her planning journey with you..
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When you first get engaged, logistically you assume that the wedding is all about you. However in reality, once you’re a little further into your planning, you discover it’s 60/40 all about your guests and the further we got into our planning, the more we realised! Suddenly you’re worried about them being hungry, bored, overwhelmed-you name it.
In hindsight, there really weren’t any major problems for us and our guests had the most wonderful day (we’re still hearing about it now) but at the time it seemed all we did was worry about everyone being happy.
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