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Helen Carter Weddings provides bespoke wedding planning throughout London and the South East. We have a wide range of services available, from full wedding co-ordination to venue or supplier sourcing and wedding day management. We’re passionate about creating distinctive and stylish events, and are dedicated to ensuring our clients enjoy a unique, personal and stress-free wedding day.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Posted in Planning Advice, Wedding Press
It’s always lovely to be asked to put together an article for a magazine, and when You & Your Wedding come knocking, we’d have been foolish to turn down the chance to be part of their £5000 reception challenge feature. However, it must be said that this was one bit of research which really gave the HCW brains (not to mention search engines and telephones) a work out.
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Posted in Wedding Press
We’ve all now returned to the drudge of normality after a (hopefully) sparkling Christmas and New Year period, and thoughts turn to plans for the year ahead. Future weddings and trends were bought sharply into focus here at HCW towers when we were asked by Chelsea at the Pastel Pirate wedding blog to pen an overview of what we’d seen in 2011 and what we thought might be big in 2012.
Pop over to Chelsea’s blog to see what we expect and desire to be “the thing” in 2012, and take a look at what other wedding professionals think will be on trend for the next twelve months.
Thanks to Chelsea for the opportunity to refocus our minds for the year ahead!
Photo Credit: Hundred Layer Cake
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Posted in HCW News, Planning Advice, Uncategorized, Wedding Press
We were delighted to be invited by Nikki of Knots and Kisses to write a blog post for her new look website. In the post we provided brides (and grooms) -to-be with some basic wedding planning tips to help them conquer the months of planning ahead of them. By kicking off their planning process by allocating a realistic budget for each area of the celebrations and by setting easily achievable targets we show how planning your wedding can be an enjoyable experience rather than a nightmare.
Thanks again to Nikki for giving us the opportunity to share her new site, and we look forward to catching up with the other guest blogs she has lined up for future weeks.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Posted in Wedding Press
As well as having been involved in some fantastic weddings this summer, we’ve also had some lovely press features in recent weeks. You may have seen our peach photo shoot featured in You & Your Wedding magazine and on Rock My Wedding, but we’ve also contributed our top wedding planning tips to Brides Etc magazine (read the article here), and at the end of August I made my radio debut on BBC Essex talking about weddings in the county. You can listen to the interview here.
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Posted in Photo Shoots & Events, Wedding Press, Wedding Styling
I was absolutely over the moon to have recently had my vintage peach photo shoot featured on Rock My Wedding. Some of you may recall that this shoot was also published in the September/October issue of You & Your Wedding magazine, but Charlotte has now shown even more images from this amazing experience, including two previously unseen looks created with our second model Megan.
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Posted in Wedding Press, Wedding Styling
Earlier this year I met with the lovely Chanelle from Segerius-Bruce to discuss an idea I had for a photo shoot. This was my first styled shoot, and I was being fairly ambitious with what I wanted to achieve – it had to be heavily detail-oriented, incorporate two different styles within the main vintage theme, include an outdoors element and provide brides with inspiration that was realistically achievable for their own wedding design. No pressure there then!
It was clear from my meeting with Chanelle that she was on board with my ideas from the word go, and in back in May, after several weeks of careful planning, I headed off to the George in Rye with a fabulous team of suppliers to bring my design to life. And here are the results, spread over 8 pages in the latest issue of You & Your Wedding magazine!
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Posted in Wedding Press
I’m absolutely over the moon to see one of my weddings from last year featured in the January/February issue of Your London Wedding magazine. Katherine and Nic’s wedding in May was the first of the 2010 season, and after a rather dreary start to the year we were lucky enough to enjoy a beautiful warm and sunny spring day. You can read the article in full here; also check out the portfolio gallery for more images and to see what Katherine and Nic had to say about their special day.
I’m also delighted to see my tips on budgeting for your wedding have been featured in the latest issue of Perfect Wedding magazine – check out the article here.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Posted in Wedding Press
The January/February 2011 issue of You and Your Wedding recently landed on my doormat, and I was delighted to see my tips on negotiating with suppliers included in a 5-page wedding planning feature. You can read my advice on how to go about getting the most for your money here.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Posted in Best Blogs, Wedding Press
I was recently interviewed by the lovely Claire from English Wedding. This is one of my favourite blogs, and Claire features some highly talented suppliers and some of the most beautiful weddings from around the UK. If you haven’t been there yet make sure you pay a visit for lots of inspiration – you can check out my interview here.
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Posted in Wedding Press
It’s been a busy few weeks here at HCW headquarters – lots of catching up on paperwork after a full summer of planning some fabulous and gorgeous weddings (photos of which I will be posting soon, I promise!). So today I want to catch up on sharing some of the lovely wedding press I’ve had recently.
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Posted in Wedding Press
I was recently asked to contribute to an article on wedding entertainment options for Your Herts and Beds Wedding magazine – you can read the full piece here. If you’re planning a wedding in Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire, make sure you check out the magazine for plenty of venue and supplier ideas.
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Posted in Wedding Press
The latest issue of Brides magazine dropped through our letterbox the other day, and we were delighted to see some of our comments featured in two articles. You can read our tips for styling a white wedding here, and our take on why brides and grooms are opting for smaller wedding celebrations here.
