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Wedding Day Style

Markella and Jonathan wanted a fun and colourful celebration with lots of handmade touches, a real rustic wedding 06/08/2018
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Wedding Day Style – Wedding Cake Designer

Wedding Cake Designer – Meet the Professional We’ve written before about the important steps to take when choosing a wedding cake. There are lots of elements you need to take into consideration. Kayleigh from Kay’s Cakes & Sweet Treats, gives us her top tips when it comes to choosing a wedding cake. Kayleigh designed the cake for one of our real couples Markella and Jonathan’s wedding. They wanted a fun and colourful celebration with lots of handmade touches, a real rustic wedding. With a riot of colour and lots of... Read More

MAE Tea Length Lace Vintage Wedding Dress With Sleeves by Timeless Chic 05/08/2018
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Wedding Dress Fabric Explained

Wedding Dress Material There are so many choices of wedding dress fabric that lend themselves to different styles of dress. Being bombarded with lots of new wedding dress fabric names when you start shopping can be confusing. You may recognise a few materials such as Satin or Tulle but we thought we’d give you a run down of the top traditional wedding fabrics and what’s best for your short wedding dress. Most wedding dress fabrics can also have a variation to them too and can come in lots of different... Read More

Emma and Ashleys Wedding - dress Cutting Edge Brides 03/08/2018
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Wedding Bouquets – Flower Meanings

Choosing the Flowers for your Wedding Bouquets You may already know what flowers to have in your wedding bouquets. Some brides have special flowers or a favourite flower that they must include but for the rest of us it can be a tricky decision. They say every flower tells a story and if you have no strong feelings about certain flowers you may want to go by symbolism instead. Victorians used to pay a lot of attention to the meanings of flowers; it became a way of expressing pent up... Read More

Vintage style wedding dress 01/08/2018
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Something Blue with a Vintage Style Wedding Dress

Something Blue on Your Wedding Day “Something borrowed, something blue” is a traditional rhyme that dates back to the 19th centaury. To this day, most brides adhere to this tradition and can do so in some very inventive ways. The blue bit symbolises purity of heart and mind and blue was a popular wedding dress colour up until the 19th centaury. Blue is making a come back from a splash of colour throughout the wedding to the pastel hue’s or a hint of blue dress. Here are our pick of... Read More

Stunning Coloured Retro Wedding Dresses 30/07/2018
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Full Sleeve Short Wedding Dresses

If you are having an autumn or winter wedding you may want a little more coverage. We have lots of amazing vintage style wedding dresses with sleeves of all lengths. Some brides feel self conscious of their arms or need a more conservative look for their venue. Whatever the reason we’ve put together five of our favourite long sleeved wedding dresses. Full Sleeve Short Wedding Dresses We are starting with one of our range of Timeless Chic vintage style wedding dresses which are exclusive to Cutting Edge Brides. They are... Read More

Cutting Edge Brides - wedding guests photographs 29/07/2018
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5 Top Tips for Wedding Guest Photography

Top Tips for Wedding Guest Photography So you are getting married and you’ve found your wedding photographer and venue. Have you thought about your guests taking photos too. With phones and social media being at the touch of a button for most people, you could find yourself with 100’s of shots released without your consent. Did you know that a professional wedding photographers biggest angst is when guests think they are a pro too. They get in the way of great shots, at the drop of a hat the congregation... Read More

Rustic Wedding - Cutting Edge Brides Short Wedding Dress 27/07/2018
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Real Brides – Wedding Bouquets for Short Wedding Dresses

Our Real Brides – Wedding bouquets Wedding flowers set the theme for the whole day and what you choose will depend on many factors. You will need to think how they work in the venue you’ve chosen and what you want for your overall theme. We thought we’d share with you some of our real brides bouquets for some gorgeous wedding inspiration. As well as having a bespoke wedding dress each of our brides has a unique take on what flowers feature. There is something for every bride and we... Read More

A retro wedding vibe - Emma and Stuart 23/07/2018
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Top Tips for Choosing a Wedding Cake

Wedding Cake Top Tips Choosing a wedding cake is one of the aspects a couple look forward to when planning a wedding. Putting together real wedding blogs, we’ve seen lots of amazing cakes that brides and grooms have shared with us. It’s a part of your wedding day that can be as elaborate as you like as a couple. We have some top tips for choosing a wedding cake to share with you. Make it Personal As soon as you’ve found your venue, start thinking about what you want for... Read More

Emma and Ashleys Good Friday Wedding. Dress by Cutting Edge Brides 22/07/2018
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Real Brides – A Spring Wedding

A Good Friday Wedding Getting married on Good Friday, our beautiful bride Emma went for a pastel coloured spring theme for her wedding. Emma and Ashley married in St Michaels Manor Hotel in St Albans. It is a wonderful country style manor hotel set in five acres of gardens. This was the perfect backdrop for the couples spring wedding.  The stunning images of their day were captured by Precious Red Photography “The idea of my dress before finding Cutting Edge was something sleek, clean, with a classic style” Emma wore... Read More

Honeymoon Ideas from Cutting Edge Brides 18/07/2018
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Wedding Dress Specialists of the Year 2018

Wedding Dress Specialists of the Year 2018 Cutting Edge Brides are delighted to have been crowned winners in the Global Wedding Awards, hosted by Lux Lifestyle Magazine. Lux is a luxury lifestyle magazine that celebrates the luxury products and services. Cutting Edge Brides has been awarded: Wedding Dress Specialists of the Year 2018. Wedding awards showcase the brightest and best from across the wedding industry. It’s such an honour as we are the UK’s leading short wedding dress specialists. There is no other store in the UK that stock such a... Read More