Spring wedding - inspiration board

I love this time of year - the lovely daffodils, tulips, the vibrant sping colours.  So here is an inspiration board with lots of lovely spring yellow. ♥

Image © clockwise from top left:

IN Photography

Carmen Salazar Photography

Megan Reeves Photography 

Simply Jessie Photography

I have built this inspiration board using the Style Me Pretty 'Build a Board' tool. I do not own any of the images used here. If I have featured one of your images and you would like me to remove it, please just drop me a note to info@alwenarose.com and I will remove it right away.

Pretty outdoor wedding - inspiration board

With hints of spring in the air, it has got me thinking that when the sun shines here at home, we have the most perfect place for an outdoor wedding. So here is some lovely inspiration of all things pretty and gorgeous about an outdoor wedding. Enjoy! ♥

Image © clockwise from top left:

The Floral Lab

Sweet and Saucy Shop

Brook Boling Photography 

Something Pretty Photography

Nancy Neil Photography

Lavender and Twine

Bryan N Millier Photography

Borrowed Blue Old New

Erin Hearts Court

Tanja Lippert Photography

 

I have built this inspiration board using the Style Me Pretty 'Build a Board' tool. I do not own any of the images used here. If I have featured one of your images and you would like me to remove it, please just drop me a note to info@alwenarose.com and I will remove it right away.

The Vintage Wedding Fair

We will be at the Vintage Wedding Fair in Chester Guildhall on Sunday 11th March.

There will be a fab range of suppliers offering everything for your vintage inspired wedding.

Entry is £5.00 payable on the door.

For more information on the wedding fair, visit The Vintage Wedding Fair website.

See you there.

Lisa x

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

WOW, 2011 has been an amazingly big year for me. I not only started the year off as a newly-wed, but also as a new busines owner. It has been extremely exciting, tiring, emotional and life changing year. The best year ever.

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I would not have been able to do any of it without John - he has been an absolute rock to me this last year. A true husband in every form. And despite the busy year, we are the happiest we have ever been.

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I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported me in 2011. I wish love, happiness and good health to you and yours this year. Here is to a fantastic 2012!

Lots of love,
Lisa x

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Our new workshop furniture

Work on my new office / workshop is nearly complete. This Friday we will be taking delivery of our gorgeous shabby chic desk and chair from Beau Shabby. Check out some sneak peak pics here:

Excited is an understatement!

Lisa xx

Winter Wedding at Carden Park on 4th December, 2011

Alwena Rose had the pleasure of styling a lovely winter wedding at Carden Park on 4th December. Red berries and lots of candles was the theme for this intimate wedding reception.

Wedding at Ruthin Castle, October 2011

Sorry for the lack of posts recently - we've been super busy here at Alwena Rose.

Here are a few pics from a gorgeous vintage wedding we styled at Ruthin Castle in October:

Wedding at a stunning marquee in Shropshire countryside on 3rd September, 2011

Today we styled a wedding in a marquee on the lawns of their beautiful home in Shropshire. Our candelabras decorated with ivy looked fab with the red and green colour scheme.

Here are a couple of pics:

Why I love doing what I do: Happy Brides & Gooms!

It makes me realise how much I love doing what I do when I receive feedback like I did recently from a very happy bride, the new Mrs Swain:

I would recommend Alwena Rose aka Lisa! Lisa was fab! Everything was superb, service, advice & price!!! Nothing was too much either! Thank you so much for everything! I will forward photos to you when I get them.

Chantal Swain

Wedding at The Wild Pheasant Hotel, Llangollen on 18th August 2011

I have just got back from styling the reception room for a wedding tomorrow at The Wild Pheasant Hotel, Llangollen.

Here are a few pics of our chair covers and centrepieces:

Chantal and Mark's wedding at The West Arms on 23rd July 2011

Alwena Rose had the pleasure of styling Chantal and Mark's beautiful wedding at The West Arms, Llanarmon DC on 23rd July 2011.

The marquee looked fantastic with the ivory and dusky pink colours.

Here are our hurricane vases decorated with a floral ring and our bay trees decorated with a matching floral garland. Beautiful...

Wedding at The Days Hotel, Chester on 16th July

Alwena Rose had the pleasure of styling Donna's ivory and mocha themed wedding at The Days Hotel, Chester on 16th July.

Here are our fish bowl and mirror plate centrepieces:

Paula and Nick's wedding at Carden Park on 9th July

Paula and Nick had an oriental themed wedding with lots of orchids. Their main colour scheme was jade green. Alwena Rose were lucky enough to style the chair covers, bay trees, candles, mirror plates and table scatter.

Here are a few photos of our hire items:

Bridal Photo Shoot

Wow - some more exciting news!

We have been asked to style a bridal photo shoot in August to showcase wedding trend styles and top local wedding suppliers.

Best get the thinking cap on - lots of pretty decorations to choose from....

Lisa xx

Why I love doing what I do: Happy Brides & Grooms

Hi Lisa,

I hope you are well. I wanted to say thank you for the loan of your lovely candelabras for our wedding on June 4th at Rowton Hall, they looked beautiful...thank you for your contribution to our wonderful day.

Kindest regards,
Gemma

Alwena Rose | Love My Dress Blog

Some very very exciting news for Alwena Rose!!

A vintage wedding we recently styled for a lovely couple is to feature on Love My Dress Blog - a fab wedding blog specialising in glamorous and vintage inspired bridal inspiration.

Wow - I am super excited! Watch this space...

Lisa xx

New website!

Our fab new website has launched today - check it out:

www.alwenarose.com

Gemma and Lee's wedding at Rowton Hall on 4th June 2011

Gemma and Lee had a quirky 1930's themed wedding at the beautiful Rowton Hall on a stunningly sunny Saturday at the beginning of June. Here is a sneak peak of our candelabras before the room was transformed. More pics to follow...

Why I love doing what I do: Happy Brides & Grooms

It makes me realise how much I love doing what I do when I receive an email like I did this morning from a very happy couple:

Hi Lisa
Hope you are well. Emailing you to say a very big thank you for the fantastic decorations you did for us on our wedding day they truly transformed the room and made it very special, all our friends paid compliments to how it looked, but to be honest that was totally down to you and your talent and eye for detail.
Also many thanks for the florist you recommended to us, the button holes and bouquet were beautiful.
We wish you every success with Alwena Rose.
Kind regards,
Yvonne and Gary Latham

Rachel and David's wedding at Llyndir Hall on 28th May 2011

Rachel and David had one of our yummy candy bars for their gorgeous vintage wedding at Llyndir Hall.  See below for a pic that is just good enough to eat!