Need Some Lighting For Your Wedding? Then Check This Out.....

Every wedding needs some magical lighting!! It sets a positive mood, creates a romantic and relaxed atmosphere and if planned right will encourage the party to last all night.....

Lighting can come in many and various ways including candles, t-lights and electrical lighting. It's what you use and how you use it that will create the desired effect. Our advice is use plenty of secondary lighting like candles, festoon lighting, fairy lights and lamps and use as little as possible of the main lighting like ceiling lights and strong electrical lights. 

The next thing to think about is planning your lighting, making sure you have thought of all areas, have enough lighting to make it safe and comfortable to move around and have plenty of replacements to relight for the night time turnaround after dinner. It may take a little time and effort to source and buy all you need but it is so worth it!! It really is magical..... 

Here are some of our props we use for lighting and some of the weddings we have included them in! Please feel free to drop us an email or phone us if you would like some free advice on how to add lighting to your special day or if you are interested in hiring some of our lighting props!! If you would like to see the full collection of props click here

Wedding Props? Wedding Styling? Here's Some Inspiration...

If you, like a lot of couples at the moment, are in the middle of organinsing your wedding you may have found yourself a bit stuck when it comes to how to decorate your venue and where to get the props in which to do so.     

Some people like to buy props but the cheapest and easiest option is always to hire. When you hire props you have a lot more options available to you and you can hire things that you could never afford or never be able to buy. Basically, the sky is the limit when it comes to hiring props for your wedding. Our advice - have fun and just go for it!!

At The Wedding Festival we have a large and varied collection of props to hire that includes the necessary, the interesting and the ‘Oh I just have to have that!’ kind of props.

Our collection includes wedding essentials, party products, eclectic props, décor hire, handcrafted items and much more. We also offer a bespoke prop hire service where we can make or source a specific prop for you for your wedding. 

Our prop selection promises to inspire and excite and provide those finishing touches that bring an event to life. To have a look at our full collection just press this magical button!!

Here are some of our favourite props to help inspire you...

Prop Photos Taken by Nuria Canestro, Momento Photogrpahic Studio

Main Cover Photo Taken by Elaine Barker Photography

A Fun + Quick Exercise That Will Help You Save Money On Your Wedding!!

The words 'you wedding day' evokes feelings of romance, love, fun times and happily ever after - true? I think most people would definitely say yes to this question but then at the back of all this lies the dreaded expense, the bills and the money you will need to pay for it all...

We work closely with all our couples on how they can get the wedding they want within a budget they can afford. Many couples plan the wedding they want, even if it is only in conversation or in their head, before they look at the costs and what they can afford. And this is fine and perfectly normal as weddings after all are made of dreams, wants and desires....

But yes back to the bills! Here is a quick and easy tool we give to all our couples before we get in to budgets, wedding details and wedding plans. We ask each of them to fill this out separately and then share their results and look at them together and draw an overall list of priority that they are both happy with!!

By ranking their priority from 1-10 they can then decide on the areas most important to you. This will then help you identify areas where you can save money by cutting costs on the things that are least important to you and then having the budget to spend on the things most important to you!

So give it a go and see where you can cut costs and see what's most important to you both individually and then to you both as a couple!! 

Please Rank In Order Of Priority From 1-10  (1 being the most important, 10 being the least important) 

__  Ceremony Type or Ceremony Location 

__  Time Of The Year / Day Of The Week 

__  Guest List 

__  Food + Drink 

__  Ambiance 

__  Reception Setting 

__  Wedding Dress / Attire 

__  Music 

__  Mementos (Photos + Video) 

__  Other …................. 

**We hope you enjoyed doing this exercise! We'd love to get your feedback on what you thought of it and if you found it useful....

Thanks,

Melanie + Isobel