20 Best UK Wedding Blogs
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Welcome to Shoreditch London’s guide to the best UK and London wedding blogs. Whatever stage you are at in planning your wedding, chances are you spend a lot of time searching the web for inspiration and help. There are thousands of wedding blogs online but not are useful and informative with many blogs focusing on advertorial content rather than helpful wedding planning advice. For quite a while I dreamed of coming up with a comprehensive guide to the best UK and London independent wedding blogs, I just never expected it to take three months to complete!
Here are my Top 20 UK and London wedding blog recommendations. Some of these wedding blogs I check daily and others I discovered along the way. Be warned, every time I visited any of these blogs, I was lost in wedding bliss for hours.
Before visiting the 20 Best UK Wedding Blogs on this list, read about the top four trends in UK and London wedding blogs:
DIVERSITY
For too long there has been a real lack of representation of LGBTQ, black, Asian or other ethnic groups in UK wedding blogs. Thankfully several blogs on this list have made a point of discussing diversity in their feature content and have made an effort to represent all couples in their real wedding posts. Love My Dress, Rock N Roll Bride and Rock My Wedding are among the best and newcomers LGBTQ Equality Weddings also have their finger on the pulse and plan to roll out a wedding blog of their own soon. Secret Wedding Blog is another must-read wedding blog with great coverage of multicultural and interfaith weddings.
As you can see from this list, ‘brides’ are still prominent in the names and marketing of most UK wedding blogs but this is changing and there’s likely to be newcomers on the circuit soon with an even greater focus on diversity and inclusiveness for all couples.
VEGANISM
This may come as no surprise to Londoners. Vegan and organic wedding menus are on trend in most London wedding blogs this year. Further reading via The Knot, Confetti and Wedding Wire. All of Shoreditch London’s preferred catering suppliers offer vegetarian, vegan or organic menus, vegan cakes and can also cater for guests with dietary restrictions or food allergies. According to The Economist and Forbes, veganism is booming, even in the States!
SUSTAINABILITY
Environmentally conscious couples are also trending on wedding blogs offering endless ideas to help make your wedding more sustainable. Biodegradable confetti is always an easy and responsible choice but now there are guides to ‘ethical’ wedding-wear, tips on choosing seasonal and local flowers, hiring plants instead of cut flowers, plastic-free wedding receptions, handmade wedding favours or charitable donations as wedding gifts, the list goes on. Further reading via Hitched, The Good Trade and Rock My Wedding’s guide to a low waste wedding. I also recommend reading 77 Diamonds Guide to Sustainable, Zero-Waste, Ethical Weddings.
HEALTH
Did you know that getting married can improve you and your partner's health? There is a vast amount of case studies, medical research papers and academic articles suggesting that happy marriages promote health and longevity for couples. Why is it then that wedding planning is so stressful for many couples? Financial concerns, wed-min and family feuds are common wedding planning stressors. Another important stress factor that is often left out of wedding advice articles is that couples often feel pressure for their wedding day to be perfect.
If you are planning your wedding right now, the best advice I can give you is to not to put unnecessary pressure on your yourself. Wedding planner Danielle Rothweiler offers some great advice on this. Yes, your wedding day is one of the most important moments in your life but you also need to enjoy it as the day will fly by. Getting married will take your relationship to another level and lead to many more incredible and important moments as a married couple. The more stress you put yourself under for your wedding day to be perfect, the more likely this positive day will have negative impacts on your health. Alopecia, insomnia, burnout or catching the flu are common health issues some couples have experienced as a result of wedding stress.
Hannah Holt from Equanimy Wellness Workshops offers this great advice. “Ultimately, your physical and mental health is more important than stressing over colour schemes or seating plans.” Read more on Vogue’s guide to staying healthy in the weeks before your wedding. Katrina Otter from Coco Wedding Venues also wrote a great article on 10 common wedding fears and how to overcome them.
We are happy to help couples with any questions or concerns you have about booking a dry hire wedding venue. We can also put you in touch with a wedding planner if you need extra help. Every couple has a different focus on what’s important for their wedding day. Think of what’s important for your wedding, which areas of planning are likely to cause stress and ask for help in those areas. Do you have some helpful health advice for couples getting married? Leave a comment at the end of the page.
20 Best UK Wedding Blogs
I hope the following 20 (alphabetical) wedding resources are helpful and inspire you and your partner with your wedding planning. I chose to only highlight UK or London based wedding blogs. Most of these wedding blogs offer loads of new wedding content, have stunning wedding photography curation or helpful wedding planning tools.
If your favourite UK or London wedding blog is not on this list, please leave a comment with your recommendations and I will add them to the next update.
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After a decade working in interior design, Louise Beukes founded B.Loved, a wedding, family and lifestyle blog focused on all things luxe and lovely. B.Loved blog is a well-curated and elegant blog for wedding styling with floristry and soft pastel colour palettes taking centre stage. Louise also coordinates B.Loved Hive, a wedding industry network and Facebook group for professionals working in the London wedding industry.
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Emily Pettiford and Jessica Turley’s Bespoke Bride is a colourful and fun one-stop-shop targeting brides and bridesmaids. As well as the usual wedding inspiration guides and real wedding galleries, BB’s also have a shop where you can purchase handmade wedding gifts, hens attire, photo booth props, hen party games and a range of champagne glass stickers featuring quotes from popular films and song lyrics.
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Wedding planner Alexandra Merri has a background in fashion styling, music PR and film marketing. If you are looking for Bijou wedding inspiration, or an experienced wedding stylist to help plan your wedding, you have come to the right place. Visit Bijou Bride’s stunning Pinterest boards for some beautiful wedding colour palette ideas.
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Kelly Hood’s Boho Weddings is one of UK’s most popular wedding blogs. There are hundreds of real wedding galleries for inspiration including an interesting series on Alex & Lisa (pictured). Read their 2 People 1 Life feature to follow the couple as they get married all over the world; 71 wedding ceremonies in 65 countries so far! For couples planning their wedding closer to home, Boho’s Pinterest page has over 200 beautifully curated Pinterest boards covering everything from luxe to rustic or modern to vintage wedding styles. Time to get pinning!
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Bridal Musings is a one-stop wedding and lifestyle website posting daily content including 100’s of real weddings, wedding films and wedding dress collections. Bridal Musings also have lists for just about everything wedding-related from wedding reception Spotify playlists (which are yet to make the cut in the Shoreditch London office), to more practical wedding planning lists like How To Get Incredible Service For Your Wedding Vendors or 10 Midnight Snack Ideas To Keep Your Wedding Guests Dancing. There’s a lot of sponsored content on the website but you can hardly blame them, they pull some serious traffic and have over 3.2 million followers on Pinterest. Bridal Musings are based in US not UK but I had to include it in this Top 20 as its too comprehensive to leave off any top wedding blogs list!
See Laura & Andrew’s Kachette wedding featured on Bridal Musings.
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Elle and Nikki’s Bride & Tonic wedding blog is a must-read for ethically minded couples. The blog covers everything from organic wedding menus and sustainable wedding dresses to tips on foraging for your wedding flowers! While the blog focuses largely on advice and features for small homespun weddings, we welcome couples planning sustainable and DIY weddings in our dry hire wedding venues too. A sustainable wedding is a team effort and a great goal for any couple looking to celebrate their love without the unnecessary waste normally associated with weddings.
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Confetti is an industry-leading UK wedding blog and wedding magazine that has been around since 1999. As well as the usual real weddings, supplier listings and wedding inspiration, Confetti also has a shop with thousands of personalised gifts for sale. There are also pages dedicated to menswear and grooms wear which is surprisingly hard to find on most wedding websites. I also recommend spending time on their comprehensive Q&A’s page which is searchable by tags. Confetti is owned by Ocean Media Group who also host London Bridal Fashion Week and The National Wedding Show.
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The English Wedding Blog’s founder Claire Guild is based in England’s picturesque Lake District. Established in 2009, EWB has maintained its position as one of the UK’s most popular wedding blogs focusing primarily on regional weddings. I like the blog’s simplistic design and relaxed ‘all couples welcome’ attitude which is reflected in their diverse range of featured weddings. For such a popular wedding blog with a strong social following, none of the blog posts or social feeds read like a sales pitch which is refreshing. It’s easy to see why couples keep coming back to The English Wedding Blog.
Gay Wedding Blog
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The Gay Wedding Blog are relative newcomers on the scene. After noticing a hole in the UK wedding blog market, wedding photographer Eva decided to create a space for LGBTQ+ wedding inspiration which breaks stereotypes and present gay weddings that are modern, elegant, original and fun. Eva’s blog has already started to build a strong social presence and will no doubt be on everyone’s radar soon.
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Love em or hate em, Hitched are the most popular wedding website in the UK and internationally. Since 2015, Hitched has been owned by Immediate Media Co who are responsible for 90% of the magazines on the shelf in the UK including all BBC publications, Radio Times and the popular You & Your Wedding and Perfect Wedding magazines and websites. Why are they so popular? Hitched cover most wedding planning basses with a range of wedding planning tools, a forum (with over 800,000 users) and wedding inspiration posts on various themes including colour and season. Hitched’s mood board tool is also super handy and can be shared with your wedding planner or venue. The possibilities are endless for design and decor in our blank canvas wedding venues so feel free to send us your Hitched or Pinterest mood-boards so we can see your vision and connect you with suppliers to recreate any lighting, decor, or furniture look.
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Annabel Beeforth’s Love My Dress is one of the UK's leading and most influential wedding blogs and is a goldmine for finding wedding dresses. Love My Dress post daily wedding dress style shoots so if you are yet to find your wedding dress, there is no shortage of inspiration on this website. The Real Weddings To Inspire posts are also a great place to start and include interviews with couples reflecting on their weddings. For further insight on this amazing wedding blog, read our Q&A with Love My Dress.
Take a look at these weddings featured on Love My Dress:
Love My Dress - Mary & Will
Love My Dress - Fay & Paul
Love My Dress - Liv & Adam
Love My Dress - Sophie & Steve (pictured)
Love My Dress - Emma & Scot
Love My Dress - Kate & Richard
Love My Dress - Emma & Seb
Watch this space. More Shoreditch Studios and Kachette weddings are soon to be featured on LMD !
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Marry Me Ink does what it says on the label, if you have tattoos and want to show them off on your wedding day then you will find some inspiration here. Marry Me Ink is a personal blog, reflecting the taste of its founder Rachel (pictured) who is obsessed with ‘bride with tats’ and ‘alternative couples.’ LQBTQ+ weddings and themed weddings also get covered on the blog too which is great. Marry Me Ink has slowed down content in recent months, choosing quality over quantity and only sharing one real wedding a month.
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Nu Bride founder Nova Reid is a diversity consultant and wedding planner who has been featured on BBC, SKY News, Huffington Post and various wedding blogs promoting the need for greater diversity and representation in the UK wedding industry. Nu Bride targets modern millennial and multicultural couples looking for wedding inspiration or wedding planning guidance. The blog also offers advice and featured content on parenting, relationships, health and wellbeing and more. I highly recommend this blog!
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Charlotte O’Shea’s hugely popular wedding blog Rock My Wedding is one of the best online resources for wedding inspiration with an endless supply of beautiful real wedding galleries. Each real wedding post includes a breakdown of all the suppliers and a personal interview with couples reflecting on their wedding. If you have not got time to look through all the galleries, highlights are available in Rock My Wedding’s podcasts which you can stream on Spotify or download via iTunes or Google.
Rock My Wedding have featured several weddings in our Shoreditch wedding venues too!
Rock My Wedding - Lauren & Mark
Rock My Wedding - Sophie & Mike
Rock My Wedding - Joanna & Pete
Rock My Wedding - Smriti & David
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Rock n Roll Bride founder Kat Williams describes her hugely popular wedding blog as the ultimate guide for alternative brides. As well as being an inspirational wedding blog full of alternative and diverse real wedding photo galleries, Rock n Roll Bride is also a bi-monthly magazine. Earlier this year, Kat released her first book Rock n Roll Bride: The Ultimate Guide for Alternative Brides. This is one of my top three London wedding blogs alongside Love My Dress and Rock My Wedding. Take a look at Alisa & Ben‘s Halloween themed wedding at Shoreditch Studios on Rock N Roll Bride. I look forward to featuring more Shoreditch wedding couples on the blog soon!
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Raj Dharar’s Secret Wedding Blog is dedicated to sharing multicultural, fusion and interfaith weddings from the UK and around the world. The blog is an inspiring resource for couples who are interested in combining two or more cultures, faiths or traditions in their wedding. Secret Wedding Blog does a great job discussing the struggles interfaith and fusion couples may face in their relationships, families and religious communities. There are some emotional stories of families and religious communities boycotting and cancelling weddings and heartwarming stories of acceptance and love. The blog also features a diverse range of featured weddings searchable by country and religion.
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Smashing The Glass describes itself as the world’s most popular Jewish wedding blog. Founded in 2013 by UK wedding planner Karen Cinnamon, the website is an essential resource for Jewish couples. There are thousands of featured weddings from the UK and abroad, regular wedding advice features, kosher catering suppliers, chuppah ideas and you can even buy a Smashing The Glass branded glass smashing pouch. Take a look at Lucy & Michael’s Shoreditch Studios wedding (pictured) on the blog.
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The Un Wedding blog is a colourful and modern wedding style and beauty blog focusing primarily on ‘cool bride style’. The Un Wedding Show is also one of London’s biggest indie wedding fairs, a chance for couples to meet a range of independent wedding suppliers including local bridal fashion designers, hair and makeup artists, florists, photographers, wedding planners and more. The Un Wedding Show takes place annually in February. If you love wedding fairs, also check the annual London wedding fair A Most Curious Wedding Fair.
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Sonia Collett was inspired to launch Want That Wedding after planning her own 1930’s inspired wedding. Featuring weddings from all over the world, the site is really user-friendly and well organised with tags for each season and a wide range of popular themes from vintage to modern, chic or boho. You can also search for wedding inspiration by colour! As well as the wedding blog, Sonia is also a Pinterest fanatic with over 50,000 wedding pins on her page.
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