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A new year brings new trends for wedding land

Style
Rustic and vintage (still) are both in. These styles are perfect for the current economic climate  – you can have a pretty wedding on the cheap. The other great thing about these styles is that they are not cookie cutter styles. Every bride that goes for the rustic or vintage look can be almost certain that her day will be unique.

Start digging out your mum and grandma’s old things and browse charity shops and you’ll soon have the ingredients for something beautiful. Match that with the outdoors, (given our British weather you might want to consider ways of bringing the outdoors in!),  nature, recycled props, and pretty DIY for the personal touch, and your wedding will be one that everyone’s talking about.

Colours
For 2011, there are two camps: keeping it neutral, and rocking it loud.

The neutralists are liking grey, taupe, flesh tone, khaki type colours as a background. Add splashes of colour, such as the Pantone colour of the year – Honeysuckle, and you’ll end up with an ultra stylish wedding.

The loud lot are liking exotic colours such as orange, lime green, fuchsia pink, yellow and doing crazy mixes. Whichever camp you belong to, it doesn’t matter as long as it is done your way, your style. Which leads us nicely on to the next trend…

Fashion
It’s all about individualism this year, no more matchy-matchy. No longer do you need to worry if ALL your bridesmaids will suit/like a particular style or colour of outfit, it’s OK for them to each wear their own style. That will save you huge headaches – smiles all round!

For fabrics, this year continues with lace, lace and more lace.

Reception
The 2010 trends of dessert tables and candy bars still continue, (let’s face it, not everyone likes fruit cake) but done with the styling mentioned above in mind – think lace draped tables, laden with recycled jam jars, filled with old school sweets, and paper bags for guests to pack their goodies in…

Fun photo booths for guests, stocked with fun props (vintage hats, open picture frames, shawls etc) are a great way of entertaining guests and getting people to mingle. Photo booths have travelled across the pond from our American cousins and will be common place in wedding receptions this year. No doubt as the evening  wears on, the photo compositions and poses will become more and more interesting!

Planning
The advent of smart phones has revolutionised the way we live our lives and indeed plan our weddings. With a choice of wedding planning apps out there, bringing the wedding that’s in your head to reality is a breeze.

So wrapping up, 2011 is a year moving away from the usual, revisiting the past, individualism, recycling, doing-it -yourself, pretty looking, without breaking the bank and planned in the palm of your hand.

by Modupe Yalley, PoppyJo Sales Agent
www.hephzibahbride.com

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Wedding events for the UK in 2011

The are many wedding events around the UK throughout the year, many are locally orgainised wedding fayres at prestigious venues, great for future Bride’s and Groom’s to visit and chat to local suppliers in one location. Some events are major national shows incorporating fashion events, wedding experts and large collections of wedding specialists companies from far and wide.

Wedding events can be the ultimate experience for couples looking to get the best out of their special day and find perfection, whether its a dream dress, designer stationery or just good advice.

One of the biggest UK events this year will be the National Wedding Show, organised by Ocean Media, it is a glamorous day out and best wedding event of the year. Save the Date now for the 2010…the shows are 30 September – 2 October at Olympia, London and 7-9 October at the NEC, Birmingham.

More events to visit in 2011 >

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Wedding Stationery Competition Winner!

The lucky receiver is: Emma Markham from Hudersfield who is planning her wedding for Autumn 2010. Emma is currently creating her stationery design with our designers. Best wishes to Emma and her Fiancé for their wedding day…read more>

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Thanks Poppy Jo!

by Nick and Naomi

My fiancee and I are getting married next summer. We’ve used PoppyJo for our wedding stationery and can’t praise them enough. The very personal service combined with the flexibility and quality of the final result was just fantastic, we’ve ended up making it a real feature for our wedding.  Thanks guys
Nick and Naomi

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A preview of Poppy Jo’s Wedding Stationery!

by Poppy Jo

We’ve been working hard behind-the-scenes, developing our new wedding stationery service. The forthcoming design collections, exclusive to Poppy Jo, include innovative contemporary designs, classic designs and traditional themes that will inspire any wedding day. A sneek preview of some of our first designs are now available online! View samples >

Lots of exciting features are coming soon too – being able to choose your colours, shades, formats, sizes, paper finishes, ribbons, plus adding your own wedding details and trying designs in each combination before personalising with your guest’s names. Not only that but you can also order just one complete sample set of stationery before you buy. To find out more visit our Wedding Stationery site >

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Poppy Jo is born!

by Matt and Nikki, January 2009

Poppy Jo is our three year old daughter, she is always having fun, enjoying life and makes us both intensely proud, so much so that we have put her name to our venture with which we both share a great passion.

After our own wedding we begun the project ‘Poppy Jo’, to create and make professionally designed wedding stationery available to all. We discovered during our wedding planning that good designs, choice and co-ordinated stationery wasn’t easy to find and some printers weren’t particularly helpful in giving us what we wanted, and sometimes quoted us extortionate prices.

Poppy Jo is going to be an online wedding stationery service that we hope will be the best available anywhere in the world! We believe our team of hand-picked, in-house designers and production artists have put together a superb collection, with new additions to each range being added weekly!

With over two decades of our experience in business to call upon and with a very successful online company already thriving, we truly believe in our people and the service we are offering. Even in the current economic climate we have every intention of becoming a huge success!

Poppy Jo has become so much more already, with a large and growing list of global wedding contributors and international media interest. Poppy Jo may yet prove to be the greatest source of ‘all things wedding’ for anyone who is planning their own wedding or helping with the celebrations – whether it is next year or even next week – from the dress, the flowers, the cake, the invitations, through to the poetry, couples stories and wedding inspiration.

Poppy Jo wants you to be involved, leave your comments below or contact us if you would like to be part of the success!

We very much look forward to seeing and speaking to you soon
Matt & Nikki Clover