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Unique Wedding Ceremony Ideas

22 April 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Ideas for a Unique Wedding Ceremony to make your day UNFORGETTABLE!

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Everybody loves a wedding; celebrating love and happiness, what could be better? But if you’re worried that your guests will be suffering from wedding fatigue by the time yours comes around, or simply that you’ve been to quite a few weddings already and are feeling the pull towards doing something a bit different to keep things interesting, then look no further! It’s certainly not a case of, ‘seen one wedding, seen them all’, people love, love! However naturally there does come a point where everyone knows what to expect. Well, not anymore…!

We get it, wedding ceremonies in England follow certain formats, as at the end of the day it’s a legal event where two people are entering a contract, so certain conditions have to be met…but that doesn’t mean you can’t sprinkle in a bit of magic here and there. You don’t even have to make big changes (though go for it if you want! You could even do the ‘legal bit’ at another time if you want full flexibility within your ceremony), we’re simply floating the idea of adding in an idea or two outside of the norm. If the idea of that has you thinking, “yes please!”, then you’re in the right place. Maybe it will be something that really shows off your personalities, is meaningful to the two of you, or is an adjustment to make it more in-keeping with what is important to the both of you.

It does take a little time to think about as we’re all so used to that same one structure that it’s hard to mentally break out of that, but that’s why today’s video is here! We’ve got a handful of really unique ideas for your ceremony that we think you’ll love, or at the very least, we think it will get your imagination going!

How are you mixing things up at your wedding ceremony? Let us know in the comments, we’d love to hear all about it! And don’t forget to tag us in your photos over on Instagram so we can have a nosey at what you choose!

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How to Work Out Your Wedding Priorities

11 April 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

When you’re just starting out on your wedding planning journey, it can be overwhelming and difficult to know where to begin prioritising, or even thinking about which parts of a wedding are important to you. The services/suppliers that regardless of cost you want to include, or the elements that can be completely left out without any regret.

Even if you’re in a situation where budget is no object, it’s likely that you will still value some parts of the wedding over others and this is where working out your wedding priorities is an important first step to planning your wedding.
But remember, there are two of you in this marriage, so, regardless of if you’ve been dreaming about what your perfect wedding would look like since you were small, it’s important to work together as a team to make sure it’s the wedding that works for the both of you.

If that still feels like a daunting task, don’t worry, we’re here to help! We’re sharing our tips and advice on how to work out your wedding priorities, which will hopefully make the rest of your wedding planning a breeze!

If you have any other tips for how to work out your wedding priorities, please leave them in the comments below and help other couples who are starting the process of planning their weddings.

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Wedding Cake Display Ideas

4 April 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Backdrop inspiration to show off your wedding cake to the max!

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Let’s give cake it’s moment at your wedding! After all, the wedding cake is a BIG deal, and the cake cutting is such a classic photo moment within your wedding reception, that it definitely deserves more than being plopped on a table, shoved in the corner of the room!

There’s so many ways to do it! Some grand, some smaller but still packing that visual punch. We’re all used to seeing flowers incorporated into the design of the cake itself, but maybe you like the idea of a fairly understated cake design, and letting the backdrop do the work. Or maybe you want to go all out with the cake and the backdrop becomes it’s extension! Whether you’re picking an idea simply because you love it, because it specifically fits your wedding theme or to coordinate with your colour scheme, there’s an idea for every couple, taste and budget!

Love the idea but need to be budget conscious? You could go for a display that’s movable around your venue so you can double up on it’s uses. For example, if you want a photo backdrop for guests as they enter your reception, you could then repurpose that to behind your cake once all your guests have arrived, all well before that cake-cutting photo opp.

We’re all familiar with the concept of a cake stand, and even a cake topper, which is definitely a great starting point, but come with us into this week’s video and let’s give your wedding cake it’s shining moment!

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6 Reasons to Choose a Spring Wedding

28 March 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Despite the title of this blog and video, we do truly believe that you can’t go wrong with anytime of year for your wedding, and whatever season you choose for your Big Day will be wonderful. However, if you’re umming and ahring about the time of year to tie the knot, and debating whether a spring wedding’s for you, we’ve got 6 great reasons why you should choose a spring wedding.

Why not embrace the season being synonymous with new beginnings and create your new beginning stepping into married life in spring.
Lambs, chicks and bunnies are completely optional, although if you did decide to include them as part of your spring wedding then it’s essential to share your photos with us!

Now you’ve decided on the season, if you’d like more spring wedding inspiration, check out Our Favourite Spring and Easter Wedding Ideas video.

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— Rebecca and Laura, Bride Society

Wedding Suit Shopping

21 March 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Wedding Suit Shopping Made Simple For Your Big Day!

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Wedding suits – chances are you’ve owned and worn a suit at some point in your life, whether it was for a family wedding as a kid, for school or a job interview. But when it comes to your wedding day suit, we know you want it to be the suit of all suits, the suit that will never be out-suited, basically, the ultimate suit!

Whether you’re a semi-regular suit wearer or it’s been a minute (hello WFH era!), there’s just quite simply a different array of considerations when it comes to the suit for your big day. You might be dealing with a different climate, working to a theme &/ colour palette, needing to coordinate with other members of the bridal party…and then of course there’s the decision of renting versus buying! It goes on!

So, apologies if you’d been feeling chill, thinking, “oh it’s just a suit, I’ll rock up to the mall a week before the wedding, job’s a good’un” and now we’ve freaked you out with all the things you actually need to consider… Or if you were feeling bewildered about where to even begin and now your mind is spinning, again, we’re sorry! We won’t just leave you there, don’t worry…

You’ve got this! We’re virtually holding your hand through the whole suit buying process in this week’s video. 10 simple tips to help you narrow down your options and figure out what suit is right for you and your wedding, whilst making sure you are comfortable and feel like ‘you’ on your big day (just the most elevated version!). Talking you all the way through to on-the-day, ensuring you’re feeling prepared and confident, with no last minute panics.

P.S. Bonus tip – if you’re not getting ready at home the morning of the wedding, pack an emergency sewing kit, safety pins and a spare button or two (or know where they are if you are at home!).

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— Rebecca and Laura, Bride Society

Choosing Your Wedding Cake – Where to Start

14 March 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

You’ve booked your venue, the date’s confirmed, you’ve secured your wedding photographer, so now you’re starting to plan everything else. And, with a lot of things when it comes to wedding planning, you may not have booked/ordered a cake before. Especially not one that could serve the amount of guests you’re planning to attend your wedding. Throw in different priorities when it comes to how you spend your budget for your wedding day and differing opinions over style and flavours, it can be difficult to know where to start!

But choosing your wedding cake can be one of the most fun parts of planning the wedding, as, before you confirm any bookings, you should really sample the cake you’ll be enjoying on your Big Day. Either at a wedding fair, wedding cake consultation or by ordering cake tasting boxes. With the latter you can even make a whole date night out of it while you discuss your favourites and choose your flavours with your other half.

We’re breaking down how to plan for your perfect wedding cake. From budget to design, to cake table styling to possibly your perfect cake not even being a cake at all…

If you’re interested in more wedding cake content, you can also check out our Wedding Cake Trends for 2025 video.

We’d love to hear what you’re choosing for your wedding cake. Is it even going to be cake? Let us know in the comments below!

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Tips for a Sustainable Wedding

7 March 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

5 Key Areas to Improve your Wedding’s Environmental Impact

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We’re not here to preach or be perfect, these tips aren’t going to achieve a zero waste, zero impact wedding. However, if you’re planning a wedding and wondering if there are simple, and ideally cost-effective, ways to help minimise your impact along the way, then this week’s video is for you!

We’ve tackled these 5 key areas within your wedding:

Wedding venue & Décor
Wedding stationery
Outfits & attire
Flowers
Favours

We’ve got numerous tips and ideas for reducing your environmental footprint in all of these categories, so we’re confident you’ll find something to adopt into your wedding. We already know you’ll have an amazing wedding day, and now you can feel extra good about it too!

Take on all the tips or just a few, it all helps. Let us know what you’ll be doing in the comments! Got any other simple ideas to share with other couples? Drop them in the comments.

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Wedding Fair vs. Wedding Open Day

28 February 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

The differences between wedding fairs and wedding open days

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After working in the wedding industry for over a decade, we’ve been around wedding related words and phrases a lot, so it can be easy to forget that just because a phrase or terminology may be obvious to you, not everyone will have heard it before. Especially if you’re newly engaged and haven’t been involved in any kind of wedding planning process before! Enter this week’s video… created following this thought process and hopefully will help make wedding planning easier (to understand at least!).

While wedding season may not have started in full force yet, the ‘shoulder’ seasons, spring and autumn are peak wedding fair and wedding open day season. Wedding fairs and wedding open days, the same thing right? Well not exactly. That’s why we’re sharing the differences between the two so you can decide which type of event works best for you; whether you’re more interested in exploring a venue and seeing how it might look on your Big Day, or want to meet a range of wedding suppliers who are going to help turn your ideas into a reality.

Any questions, or any other wedding related topics you’re unsure about? Let us know in the comments below and we’ll do our best to help.

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Wedding Photo Backdrop Ideas

21 February 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Backdrop Inspiration to make your Wedding Photos Magical!

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Your wedding day is one of the most magical days of your life, so of course you want your photos to be just as spectacular…but how? One of the most effective ways to elevate your wedding pics is by choosing the perfect backdrop. There are new and interesting ideas out there for every style of wedding, for your formal and in-formal shots, be it indoors or using an outside space. A good backdrop will not only look great in your venue and help set the vibe, but it’ll also have your guests wanting to take photos.

Whether you’re dreaming of statement pieces such as romantic moongates, modern magazine photo booths, or something smaller but still interesting, like a customised selfie mirror or polaroid frame, we’ve got a whole bunch of fabulous ideas to make your photos extra sparkly (and of course, Instagram worthy).

In our latest YouTube video, “Wedding Photo Backdrop Ideas,” we’re sharing some seriously gorgeous and creative ideas to make your wedding photos feel like they’re straight out of a fairytale (or a Pinterest board!). Let’s take a sneak peek at some of our favourite backdrops!

And speaking of Pinterest boards, you can pin all our finds and more directly from our dedicated pin board:

Let us know in the comments which backdrops have got you swooning!

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Easy Valentine’s Cupcake Decoration Ideas

14 February 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Simple Cupcake Decoration Inspiration for Beginner Friendly Cupcake Decorating

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Happy Valentines Day!
What could be sweeter on a day celebrating love than decorating some heart themed cupcakes?! These beginner friendly design ideas still look super impressive, whether you’re gifting them to your other half, or just enjoying them yourself!

These simple cupcake designs use only one type of piping nozzle and one colour of buttercream. Obviously you can decide to mix this up and use whatever equipment you have and whatever colours you fancy. We’ve also used some heart moulds in two different sizes to really stick with the theme!

Happy decorating! And if you liked these ideas, check out our previous video with even more inspiration.

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DIY Valentine’s Gift Ideas

7 February 2025Bride Society 1 Comment

January seemed to last 742 days and now, all of a sudden we’re a quarter of the way through February and Valentine’s Day is only a week away. So if you’re scrabbling to think of the perfect present, left it a bit too late to order what you’d planned, or simply want to add something a bit more personal to your gift, our DIY Valentine’s Gift Ideas video may just come to the rescue!

So crack out your crafting skills, or just get a little sentimental (and dare I say, soppy) to create something meaningful for your Valentine. While some things may have some cost, other ideas are super budget friendly, you just need to invest a little time…

We’d love to hear if you decide to create one of these DIY Valentine’s gift ideas for your other half, or if you have any other ideas, please leave them in the comments below.

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Secrets Playa Blanca in Costa Mujeres, Mexico – Review

31 January 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

Visit Secrets Playa Blanca in Costa Mujeres, Mexico with us! | Honeymoon Destination Review

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When it comes to planning your ultimate holiday to date, aka your honeymoon, there’s that sense of wanting to get it exactly right. To find yourselves a slice of paradise to savour your newly wedded bliss – just the two of you, to recover from the hecticness of the run up to your wedding day and soak in the whole experience. Maybe you are looking for some sunshine, or adventure, a little culture or just something new. But whatever it is, you want to know it’s going to be worthy of your honeymoon!

So for this week’s YT video, we’re taking the risk and the leg work out of it for you by taking you along to an all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Mexico (let’s face it, you’ve got enough to think about with the wedding itself already, so let’s make this easy!). We spent 5 glorious days in Secrets Playa Blanca in Costa Mujeres, Mexico in January 2025 (don’t hate me!), reviewing the honeymoon-worthiness of this resort. It’s one of the Secrets chain’s newest resorts, which opened its doors last February (2024) – which obviously means there’s less information out there to get a good sense of whether it’s right for you, so hopefully this will provide the insight you’re looking for!

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On a side note, they also do weddings here if you want to go all out and go for a destination wedding-exotic honeymoon combo! I’ll be giving you a peek into the resort, a room tour, food options, beach quality, on-site activities and more, all to help you decide if this could be the place your honeymoon dreams were made of! Spoiler: it’s definitely beautiful!

Over the years, we’ve explored a few of the other resorts in Mexico (and elsewhere!) and created video reviews of those too, so if you’ve picked your location but still weighing up your options, you can find those here:

You can also catch our full Honeymoon / Destination Wedding playlist on YouTube here!

This video was not sponsored nor endorsed by Hyatt / Secrets, all opinions are our own. We are Expedia affiliates, and the hotel link provided is an affiliate link, meaning we get a small percentage of the profits made through our referrals at no extra cost to you when purchased through our link.

Enjoy a few moments of British winter escapism with us and dip your toe into the ocean…

Thinking of visiting and have questions? Drop them in the comments and we’ll do our best to answer. And if you choose to go, we hope you have as amazing a time as we did.

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DIY Wedding Countdown Plaque

24 January 2025Bride Society 4 Comments

Inspiration to make your very own wedding countdown sign

The countdown is on! We eagerly anticipate the excitement of Christmas with an advent calendar, so why wouldn’t you want to keep track and countdown to a slightly more important date in the diary?!

And while we’re not providing you with a small chocolate everyday in the run up to your wedding, we’ve created an easy DIY to allow you, and whoever can see it, to keep track of the number of days you have left before you say I Do. And while it’s intended to build excitement and anticipation, it can also be used as a reminder of how much time you have left to finalise all your wedding plans (and maybe finish off those wedding DIYs!)

You will need:

A rectangle of wood (e.g. 6mm MDF). Ours measures approx. 20cm x 10cm
A wooden heart
Paint (& Paintbrush)
Chalkboard Paint (& Paintbrush)
Drill & drill bit to drill holes
Greaseproof paper & pencil
Marker pen (Could use paint or a vinyl)
Ribbon
Chalk

A lot of what we’ve done for our DIY is optional or can be customised, so you can make the plaque perfect for you. We’d love to see your finished countdown plaques if you do give this DIY a go. Tag us in your photos over on Instagram.

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2025 Wedding Cake Trends

17 January 2025Bride Society Leave a comment

What’s Trending in Wedding Cakes for 2025

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Let’s talk cake! Believe me, nothing makes us happier – Laura even has her own wedding cake business, so you know the love is real! Whether you’re here because you’re a fellow cake lover and want to know what’s ‘in’ ready for your 2025 wedding (accidentally typed “2035 wedding” for a moment there…let’s not think about that just yet even though it’ll be here before I know it!), or cake isn’t really your thing so you’re in some desperate need of guidance as to what’s going on in the world of wedding cakes right now – either way, we’re all going to leave here happy!

Here in the UK, when we think ‘wedding cake’, I would hazard a guess that the default image that jumps into most of our minds, is a round, three-tiered, white/off-white cake (even if that’s not our personal jam). It’s just that culturally engrained. It’s tradition and will remain a classic for all of time. Now, that’s still totally cool, however, you CAN do something else, if something else would be more ‘you’! I sometimes think some wedding components are just that traditional, that it simply doesn’t occur to us that we could particularly stray from that mental template. But of course, you can, there are no rules (except, in our minds at least the one that says, there must be cake – we’re not on board with cheese platter replacements, sorry), and we can see those deviations, to varying degrees, in the trends that are coming through for this year. So, without further delay, let’s take a look and be inspired (Warning: you will want to eat cake)!

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What was your favourite style? Have you fallen in love with any for your big day? Let us know in the comments – we’re nosey!

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Winter Wedding Favour Ideas

10 January 2025Bride Society 2 Comments

Inspiration for wedding favours at your winter wedding

If you’re choosing to give your guests wedding favours, not only do you want something that won’t be left at the end of the night, you also (probably) want something in keeping with the style and vibe of your wedding.

Now, if you’re planning for a winter wedding, you might be wondering how to tailor your wedding favours to the season. (And we’re not talking Christmas here). Think cosy, seasonal, warming… while still sticking to our suggested guidelines of ‘something to eat, something to use or something to enjoy/is meaningful‘. Regardless of the time of year, you don’t want to waste money on something your guests don’t want to take!

For our video this week, we’ve come up with a selection of winter wedding favour ideas that will go down a storm at any wedding.