From the creator of the internationally popular Vintage Boudoir^TM comes the new photo shoot experience, Antoinette Boudoir. Drawing on the exquisite style of the French Queen, Marie Antoinette, the experience promises to be sexy, stylish, and, most importantly, fun. “When you think of Marie Antoinette, the first things that come to mind are decadence, great clothes, and big hair. This shoot has all of these,” say Julia Boggio, photographer and creative director at Julia Boggio Studios.

All the clothing and accessories have been designed and sourced by the studio’s team of stylists and seamstresses, including the exquisite “Vive la Revolution” dress created in the colours of the French flag. Julia shares, “For that dress, I envisioned something grungy, but sexy. Our seamstress did an amazing job nailing the brief.” For the wigs, Julia commissioned a professional wigmaker to create the signature Marie Antoinette updo, so that women with long or short hair could book the experience. They’ve even created laser-cut paper eyelashes that say “Let Them Eat Cake.”

Julia’s biggest passion is that her boudoir isn’t just for skinny women. “When I create a new boudoir style, the most important thing to me is that it suits a range of women of all shapes and sizes. Like Vintage Boudoir, Antoinette works whether you’re a size 6 or 16. We have looks and costumes that will make you look amazing.”
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If you are anything like me then most of your treasured photos are either in a box at the back of a cupboard or on a memory card in a drawer. Well a new contemporary design company has come up with a thoughtful means of cherishing special events in your life so that rather than being tucked away in a dusty album or shoe box the special photographs of your wedding can be proudly displayed on the wall of your home.

All you need to do is send them a collection of your favourite photos and their skilled design team will create a beautifully personalised montage that tells the story of your special day. You can choose from a range of montage designs in contemporary and stunning shabby chic frames or on canvas, with anything up to 200 photos.

Wonderwalls come in all sizes and fall under three categories: The Little Wonderwall charts a child’s early years, The Love Wonderwall is an artistic montage of relationships and weddings and The Life Wonderwall presents a special opportunity to record a life history.

Following an initial consultation where individual preferences on style, event, possible wording and colour are discussed, Your Wonderwall produces a design and layout to suit your home in just three weeks. Each bespoke creation is individually designed to suit your home, your style and your occasion, with prices ranging from £140 – £400.

For more information contact Your Wonerwalls on 07973 943232 or visit www.yourwonderwall.com

Weddings By Ryan as of today has launched a brand new ‘budget buster’ wedding photography package aimed at couples who are getting married on a restricted budget.

With the news emerging last week that George of Asda has launched a new bridal collection that will kit out your entire wedding party for under 200GBP and Vera Wang to sell gowns at under £1000 it seems that despite the financial doom and gloom couples are still falling in love and vow to have their wedding of their dreams….just on a tighter budget!
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Whilst searching for a suitable wedding website product to communicate her own wedding day to friends and family, Lyndsay Samuel realised that although many of those currently available fulfilled some of her needs, such as information on herself and her partner, wedding & reception locations, travel arrangements etc. the things that all of these products lacked was the quality of their designs and their ability to involve her guests.

So the idea for Worldwide Wedding www.worldwidewedding.com was born, to include all of the features of what was currently available from other wedding websites, but with one other unique feature. once guests have been invited to the wedding website they can upload their own Photo Albums and Video Clips to be viewed by everyone else!

This allows both the wedding couple and all of their guests to view and comment on the images taken by each other at the wedding ceremony, reception, even the stag and hen parties! Keeping all of the media in one easily
accessible, central hub, with the option of guest access controlled through password protection, means you get to share your wedding experience online, only with those you wish to.

With people sharing so much of their lives with others through social media websites, such as facebook and twitter, Lyndsay believes that there has never been a better time for a customised wedding website product like Worldwide Wedding to be used as an integral part of a wedding couples plans.

Their wedding websites come in two forms  12 months and 18 months duration. Both packages benefit from all of the standard features of a wedding website and can both be upgraded with additional storage space and the duration extended at any point. Prices start from £29.95

You can find out more about Worldwide Wedding sor get started on your own wedding website at www.worldwidewedding.com

We all love pouring over the details of real life wedding stories in magazines and on the web, but wouldn’t it be great to read your very own wedding story in a stunning, commemorative book?

Well now you can, Your Wedding Story Book is a brilliant new service providing personal wedding stories, written by professional journalists and produced in luxury, coffee-table books. By creating a beautifully written account of your celebrations, to accompany your wedding photographs, Your Wedding Story Book will help you relive all the excitement, atmosphere and joy of your very special day and provide a memorable keepsake to hand on for future generations to enjoy and feel part of the bigger picture.

Each narrative will be crafted by a professional writer, to ensure that it is lively and engaging and reflects the nuances and emotions of your big day. Creating a story book couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is simply send a high-resolution disk of your wedding photographs to Your Wedding Story Book and an experienced writer will then interview you and write up your story.

We’ll ask questions about the whole experience from the smallest finishing touches, to the unforgettable, heart-stopping moments you experienced on the day, and all those interesting behind-the-scene incidents that made your wedding unique. Your story will add context and a voice to all the emotions you felt and effort you put into your celebrations, and will be published in three, bookstore quality, luxury, coffee-table books.

Your Wedding Story Book is the inspiration of Gillian Rowe who has a wealth of experience working on glossy magazines and national newspaper supplements. Gillian knows just how to bring to life all the details of a couple’s story, from how they met, to the proposal and choosing the dress – even the best man’s speech! Your Wedding Story Book offers far more than a traditional wedding album ever could. If you are looking for something truly unique and special to capture the essence of your day, Your Wedding Story Book will help make your dreams come true.

You can find out more at www.yourweddingstorybook.com

You can view examples of the wedding story books here www.yourweddingstorybook.com/story-books

How many couples wouldn’t jump at the chance to put on their wedding day outfits again, have fun, feel fabulous and have a set of amazing images to remember the experience by?

I’m sure most of you have heard about the craze ‘Trash the dress’ that came from across the pond, where post wedding brides did a photo where the photographer shoots a series of photos of them trashing their dress! Well I was never a fan of this concept, I think it’s tragic to trash something that was a memory of the happiest day of your life! So I was really pleased when I heard about photographer Henry Aarvold who offers the UK’s first ‘Respect the dress’ photo experience.

Like me Henry hated the concept of trashing your dress and was much more comfortable with ‘respecting the dress’. Henry also understands that wearing such a beautiful creation just one time is simply not enough! That’s why he offers a unique new photography service for blushing brides, giving them the chance to don their favourite gown again. After all, it’s one of the most important items of clothing a girl might ever wear!
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I just heard about this awesome company called PictureBlast which sounds really fun!

PictureBlast hire out their funky glitter photo booths for your wedding where you and your guests can take unlimited colour or black & white pictures to keep!

For the personal touch each booth comes complete with a designed poster to theme the exterior, and photographs can be branded with a footer label such as the bride and grooms name and wedding date.

To get creative the booths also come complete with a range of props ranging from feather boas and hats to weird and wonderful masks. Guests can walk away with the momentum from the event and also view other images on the online gallery set up to enjoy the photographs for up to six months.  You will also receive a CD of all the images, a guest message book completed at the end of the evening, and your very own PictureBlast expert to ensure everything runs smoothly.

Picture Blast photo booths are available from just £495 for three hours. For further information or to book a photo booth for your event, call 0800 7879825 or visit www.pictureblast.co.uk