The Wedding Industry Awards

The Wedding Industry Awards took place on Wednesday 18th of January and both Zoe and I attended as representatives for the UK Academy of Wedding and Event Planning (UKAWEP) and what a night it was. The venue, Cafe de Paris, was fantastic and was opulent and visually appealing with a chandelier hanging from the ceiling [...]

Interview with Academy Student and Wedding Blogger

Sonia Collet is a student with the UK Academy of Wedding and Event Planning and the owner of wedding blog Want That Wedding. Sonia is studying the Diploma in Wedding Planning, Styling and Design and has already launched her blog whilst studying, and has recently been featured on Rock n Roll Bride which was cited [...]

The Wedding Industry Awards – Regional Shortlist Announced

More than 2000 wedding suppliers entered the Awards. More than 22,500 recently married couples voted for their suppliers. The voter data has been ‘crunched’ in line with the Judging Process and the shortlists have been produced. We would like to congratulate everyone that has taken part as we know how much goes into entering these [...]

Wedding Professionals International Conference

Weddings are a trend-based business and Wedding Professionals need to constantly educate themselves to stay on top of the industry. The Wedding Professionals Conference was started 7 years ago with the belief that there is not a single person who knows everything about weddings. If you are not constantly learning and improving, you are doing [...]

Judges Announced for Wedding Industry Awards 2012

An extremely strong and credible panel have been put together for the Wedding Industry Awards to reflect the high-standards that the Awards aim to recognise and reward. Once entries and voting close on October 31st the judges will get to work, first in the regional and then the national judging process during November and December. [...]

Ceremony and Reception Study 2011 from The Wedding Report

The Wedding Report, Inc. is a research company that tracks and forecasts number of weddings, spending, and consumer trends for the wedding industry. It is a fabulous tool and allows wedding planners, designers etc to stay up to date with what is happening in the industry without spending hours doing the research. Although The Wedding [...]

Great Space Planning App for Wedding Designers

In some recent research I stumbled across a great space planning App that although is predominantly for interior designers can easily be used by wedding designers and stylists creating designs on the go for clients. The App is called Mark On Call and is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It is only available [...]

Top 100 Wedding Blogs from Bride Tide

Bride Tide have just released their Top 100 Wedding Blogs and it was great to see 3 of the good UK wedding blogs make the list. Love My Dress is a fabulous wedding blog and style diary offering daily bridal inspiration and is really beautifully presented. OMG I’m Getting Married is a little quirky but [...]

Pantone Colour Report for Spring 2012

I know we have only just hit Autumn and with some of the gorgeous weather we have had over the weekend, at least in some parts of the country, it is hard to think that we aren’t far off from winter let alone starting to think about next Spring. However, Pantone have already released their top [...]

Advertising your Wedding Business

In an era where Twitter, Facebook and Blogs in general are huge parts of both our business and personal lives I have recently been asked by many of our students about whether or not I would recommend advertising in a Wedding Magazine. Hmm…this is not an easy one to answer as it really does depend on the [...]

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