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Hannah Rose Blog

Planning a wedding can be daunting, but also ridiculously exciting! The Hannah Rose wedding blog is here to help you! With tips on what and how to plan your wedding, to advice on things to think about for the day, wedding venues you must see and inspiration for everything from flowers to dresses, we are here to give you all the guidance you need!

There is so much advice out there which can really overwhelm you….you are in the right place to plan a wedding to perfection without feeling like your brain is frying! Thinking you also need a wedding planner to assist with some part of your planning or to help with managing the wedding day? Find out more about our services here. Enjoy the blog!

We love to hear your feedback, send any questions you have or what you would love to see us write about next to hannah@hannahroseweddings.co.uk

blog about wedding venues in Cambridgeshire

5 Outdoor Wedding Venues in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is the perfect place to choose for your outdoor wedding day! Boasting a beautiful blend of rural scenery and rich history, with picturesque countryside and a busy, vibrant city centre, there is a wide variety of venues to choose from. The distinguished University of Cambridge is...

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What wedding stationery do I need?

Wedding stationery is one of those on the list that get couples wondering what they really need and why they need it. Questions around stationery is one of the most frequent questions I get asked, and is also an area where couples can go wrong. Whether you decide to DIY with your wedding...

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cost of wedding planner uk blog

How Much Does It Cost To Hire A Wedding Planner In The UK?

Hiring a wedding planner, along with the cost to hire, may be something you’ve thought about as soon as you’ve got engaged and started planning your UK wedding. It may also be something you didn’t think you would need on your to do list but have just started searching for venues and suppliers...

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Historical London Wedding Venues, Kew Gardens

Historical Wedding Venues in London

London is home to some exceptionally beautiful wedding venues. So let’s step in and take a look at a world where history meets romance. In the heartbeat of London, couples can exchange their wedding vows surrounded by grandeur from the past, with venues promising to surround you with breath...

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10 Wedding Venue Viewing Crucial Questions

Planning the perfect wedding is an exciting journey, and viewing wedding venues to find the right spot is a big piece of the puzzle. The location sets the tone for your special day, so it's essential to ask the right questions during your venue viewings. Here are ten questions that align with...

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2024 Wedding Trends To Help You With Your Planning!

2024 Bride and Grooms to be, what are the wedding trends we are seeing?! It’s here….the wedding trends that we are seeing whilst planning your beautiful wedding days, and whilst speaking with our fellow wedding suppliers. So what seems to be popular and what can you incorporate into your...

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How To Wedding Plan When First Engaged

How to wedding plan? Probably what you are thinking right now! So, you’ve just got in engaged…what an exciting time for you both! And so the fun begins! You could have been dreaming for years about pulling out your wedding planner, signing into Pinterest and searching thousands of suppliers on...

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Wedding Ceremony Options In The UK

Your wedding day and your wedding ceremony is one of the most exciting days of your life, you will have been planning this day for ages in your mind! So when it comes to the ceremony how do you know which option is the right option for you? The day is filled with joy, love, and endless...

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Summer Wedding Planning: 7 Things To Think About

Planning a summer wedding? Summer is the most popular time in England to get married, and although the weather is pretty unpredictable and we frequently remind you to plan for bad weather, you do still need to prepare for sunshine too! Sun is great and it means you can have the outdoor wedding...

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8 Tips To Relax The Night Before Your Wedding

Being able to the relax the night before your wedding is super important! It’s the day before your wedding, and naturally you will feel nervous and excited for various reasons. You’ve planned your day to perfection but haven’t actually thought about the night prior, how you will relax, how you...

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CELEBRITY WEDDING: Jamie Laing & Sophie Habboo

Is it the wedding of the year - Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo? So who are they? You've probably seen them filling up your Instagram feeds this week. Jamie Laing is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry – most of you will know him from the hit reality TV show – Made in Chelsea and...

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Wedding Venues in Kensington and Chelsea

When it comes to planning a wedding in London, Kensington and Chelsea are among the top locations to consider. Not only are they picturesque boroughs with plenty of stunning architecture, but they're also home to some of the most luxurious and elegant wedding venues in the city. In this blog,...

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Hiring a wedding planner FAQs

Hiring a wedding planner may come straight in your thoughts as soon as you get engaged, or it may be after you start those long-winded Google searches for a venue or supplier, whilst trying to work and all the other things life keeps us busy with! I know, as a wedding planner, there will be...

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2023 wedding trends

2023 Wedding Trends

Recently engaged and starting to look for ideas and wedding trends for your upcoming 2023 wedding day? I am a UK wedding planner of 15 years (wow!) and have the inside info of what is going to be popular for 2023 in the wedding world! Not only am I seeing similarities in what my own couples are...

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Bridesmaids: What is their purpose & other FAQs

Bridesmaids - One of the first things which will spring to your mind as soon as you get that ring on your finger is right, who are my bridesmaids going to be? You may have even spoken to certain friends to say ‘when I’m getting married, you will be my bridesmaid’. But should making someone be a...

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London Wedding Shopping at Department Stores

When it comes to London wedding shopping it is vital to know that a lot of high-end London department stores offer a lot more than just shoes for a groomsman and an outfit for the mother of the bride. In fact, some stores have so much to offer that you could quite easily get everything you need...

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Wedding Regrets And How To Avoid Them

Wedding regrets…..for the best day of your life?! Yup, it happens! I’ve got a list of regrets listed below, taken directly from couples who are now married, whether they are couples we have worked with on their wedding planning, or from me asking the questions on Instagram (yes, I’ve done my...

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6 BEST CENTRAL LONDON HOTEL WEDDING VENUES BLOG

6 Central London Hotel Wedding Venues

London Hotel Wedding Venues Are you looking for London Hotel Wedding venues? The city has plenty to offer when it comes to looking for somewhere to host your big day! As I’m sure you’re aware by now if you’ve been searching that there is so much choice out there! Don’t let this overwhelm or...

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Wedding Day Jewellery

Every bride wants to look their best on their big day, but with so many different elements to consider, it’s hard to know where to begin. From the shoes, to the dress, to the hair – all these different aspects require lots of planning and attention. But where do you start when it comes to your...

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fusion wedding planning advice

Fusion Wedding Planning Advice

Fusion weddings – one of my favourite weddings to plan, and actually, highly popular now. So what is a fusion wedding? A fusion wedding is bringing two different people together who have two different backgrounds, cultures and/or religions. Planning a wedding with a fusion couple is amazing to...

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where can I buy wedding rings in London blog

Where Can I Buy Wedding Rings in London?

Are you looking to buy wedding rings in London? One of the most important parts of your big day is the ring itself! It symbolises everything and represents your love and commitment to each other. As magical as it can be, it can also be a daunting and overwhelming part of the process. Especially...

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What Do You Need or Your Wedding Wables?

When it comes to your wedding décor, the tables can really make it. And it’s a great opportunity to be creative. I have put together a helpful list of all the elements that make up a wedding table, including the tables themselves! Most of what you will need will be available for hire either...

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6 Reasons A Wedding Manager or Co-Ordinator Is Needed

You’ve spent weeks planning months worrying so much of the time has gone into choosing the right colour palettes the perfect place settings and colour matching the bridesmaid’s dresses to the napkins your day is about to roll around but it’s your wedding dates of course you’re going to want to...

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7 Of The Best Luxury Hampshire Wedding Venues

Wedding Venues Hampshire – 7 You Must See!

The quintessentially English county of Hampshire, set in the South of England, on the coast of England, overlooking the Isle of Wight, and home to some absolutely stunning, grand  wedding venues Hampshire, and I have 7 of them to show you! Finding your perfect wedding venue can be tricky, and...

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8 Ways to Help Your Wedding Guests Feel Covid Secure

This couldn't have come at a better time for me to write this as as I am currently at home, isolating, with Covid! So I completely understand the fears of getting it, for many reasons, mine being that I have work to do and I don't want to be stuck indoors! I think we are all finding that even...

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UK Wedding Venue – Most Popular Type?

Just engaged? Well the first thing you will most likely be looking for (after your planner of course!) is your wedding venue in the UK! So what style is it you are looking for? Make sure to decide on a style before you start your search otherwise the Google trawl will be even longer than it...

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What Wedding Flowers Can You Use In Winter?

As a wedding planner, I see the seasons change in popularity over the years, but regardless of trends, it is always generally busier for wedding dates to be held in May-September, although there is still a call for winter wedding planning for dates in November – February, and why not?! It’s a...

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Wedding Gift List Tips – Denby Pottery

Buying wedding presents is always tricky, but there's a lot to consider when asking for gifts too. I recently spoke to the wonderful Denby Pottery who had some great tips to share with you, so have written us a blog to share with you all. In this guide, Hayley Baddiley from Denby shares her...

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Your Wedding Table Plan FAQs Answered

The wedding table plan…..where to start hey?! Many couples say it is one of their most stressful tasks when completing their admin! I am a wedding planner available in London and across the UK, with over 12 years experience, planning and managing weddings and have seen it all when it comes to...

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Autumn Wedding? 7 Perfect Colour Palettes

It's October, the perfect month for an Autumn wedding. There's beautiful red, orange and yellow crispy leaves covering the floor, a chill in the air, dark mornings and evenings and even (annoyingly!) ice on the car first thing in the morning...! Autumn is such a beautiful time of year to get...

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10 London Rooftop Wedding Venues You Will Love!

London Rooftop Wedding venues are the perfect way to know and feel that you are in the heart of London! Sometimes spaces within wedding venues make you forget where you are, with minimal light and no London vibe, and why get married in London without the sites, hey? Been trawling through...

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A London Wedding Venue You Will Love!

It can be hard to find the perfect wedding venue in the UK, especially in London with different event spaces popping up all over the place. Even more difficult if you have a forever growing must have list for your London wedding venue. Well, as hard as it can be, I am here to help and to offer...

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Summer Wedding Inspiration You Must See!

Summer is here! I'm writing this in June, when it's literally spent the last month hammering it down with rain! BUT the sun is finally shining and the weather apps are looking positive, so I am hoping for a glorious summer wedding season! The most popular season for many things, weddings being...

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UK Wedding Venues: 3 Bijou Beauties!

Looking for your perfect UK wedding venue? I recently met with the fabulous Caitlin from the Bijou Weddings team, to discuss their three fantastic venues, all with a completely different vibe and suited to different tastes, which I love! Our meeting was a virtual one, which you can find out...

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8 Ways To Celebrate Your Would Have Been Wedding Day

I’ve spoken regularly over the last year about how to celebrate your would have been wedding day, with the Covid 19 pandemic causing problems for couples around the world. With the rules caused by coronavirus regularly changing, I thought I would give you an update for all those spring and...

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6 Warwickshire Wedding Venues You Must View

We all know that finding Wedding venues in Warwickshire can be the most frustrating part of planning, trawling Google to see which come up first, and I can tell you now, the best ones don't always show on Google maps! We are here to help, giving you the top 6 Wedding venues in Warwickshire, the...

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Wedding contracts: 10 things to look out for

Wedding contracts are not the most fun or appealing part of Wedding planning hey?! Wedding contracts have been such a huge topic over the last 12 months since the beginning of the pandemic, when actually, they became vitally important! Couples realised they should have actually read them, and...

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Central London Wedding Photo Hot Spots!

Central London, one of the great locations of the UK, and extremely popular each year for you to tie the knot! The beauty of Central London for your Wedding day location is that regardless of the venue, you can still get out and about to some fantastic locations for the perfect couple shots!...

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10 Tips When Attending A Virtual Wedding Viewing

In the current 2021 climate, with venues closed and unessential travel not being allowed, virtual Wedding tours are becoming the new thing to do on a Saturday afternoon! But for us, they are actually a thing of the norm! Many of our couples live in a different location to their Wedding, whether...

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Find A Wedding Venue With These 6 Tips

It’s the new year, not only is 2020 gone, we are looking positively into 2021 with news of the vaccine, as well as seeing many newly engaged couples! Are you newly engaged? Looking to find your perfect wedding venue? We would love to hear your proposal story, purely because we just love...

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Cambridgeshire Wedding Venue: 6 To View

Wedding Venues in Cambridgeshire Just engaged and looking for your perfect Cambridgeshire wedding venue? Finding 'The' wedding venue.....one of the biggest decisions you will make during your planning, and one of the most important! Today we are looking at Cambridgeshire, a beautiful county in...

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8 Popular 2021 Wedding Trends For You!

2021 - the year we were all hoping and wishing for, to put 2020 behind us, and bam, another lockdown! The positives are, we can use this time to plan ahead, because you know what, Weddings WILL happen again, so we can focus on 2021 wedding trends to add to your day. We emailed our subscribers...

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How To Start Wedding Planning Now I’m Engaged?

How to start wedding planning - I've seen this question asked a lot lately regarding wedding planning as it is engagement season! Congratulations if you are newly engaged, we can imagine how excited you are and how you probably just want to get cracking with your wedding planning. Well we are...

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Wedding Planning Overwhelm! 7 Ways To Avoid It!

Newly engaged but feeling the wedding planning overwhelm?! Congratulations! It really is an amazing time to get engaged, with the Christmas lights, festive feels and emotions running high! The end of 2020 was a particularly great time to get engaged as it just added joy and positivity to the...

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8 important tips you must read first before proposing!

It is the season to be jolly! Also, one of the most popular seasons for engagements! With love in the air, it is the perfect time, and after such a crazy year, with so many couples cooped up together, realising they wouldn't want to be without each other, we are expecting this year to be no...

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Perfect Wedding planner? 4 key points you must read now

Hello and Welcome! Thank you for joining us! What are we writing about today? We have recently rebranded our business and really just wanted the opportunity to chat about who we are, what we do, and how we can turn your planning into an easy and enjoyable experience, as that is what it should...

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What to add on your Wedding gift list and how to actually ask!

The Wedding giftlist....another task on the Wedding to do list that you may be putting off! Traditionally, couples would be wed prior to starting a home together so guests would gift useful items to help set up, such as toasters, kettles, irons etc etc. Nowadays, a large percentage of couples...

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Wedding Planning Stress? How A Planner Will Help

Wedding planning stress? Wedding planning can feel like an absolute minefield, so many things to think about, decisions to make, and where does time go?! One minute you feel like you have plenty of time to plan, and the next, the wedding is upon you, leading to sleepless nights, stress and...

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