Celebrity style at Pylewell Park!

Yes you can have a celebrity style wedding, it is within your reach and at our very own Pylewell Park in Hampshire!
This summer the extraordinarily beautiful couple Camilla Alves and actor Matthew Mcconaughy wed in a picture perfect intimate location. The nuptials lasted for a 3 day weekend and guests were invited to camp.






Pylewell park offers private use of the grounds and rooms in the beautiful house recently opened for couples to use such as the bridal suite. Your guests can arrive for arrival drinks in The Hall walking through the house to be greeted with manicured lawns. Many perfect locations for photographs, from the grand house or views across the Solent as a background! Use the grounds as you wish, lined marquee recommended, garden games, chill out tents and more. The grounds are your blank canvas to do with what you wish.






We will also be on hand on the day to ensure it runs smoothly and exactly as you wish. We can offer you this venue including rooms for just £3,500! This offer its limited so do contact us soon to arrange a viewing!


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Location:Pylewell Park

Wedding Industry Awards

"commit with all of your heart and you shall rewarded"

I wanted to use today's blog as an opportunity to thank all of my lovely couples with whom I've had the pleasure of working with over the years, especially those who took the time to vote for Isabella Weddings in The Wedding Industry Awards.

We have been delighted to have been shortlisted for the past two years (yay!) and 2013 shortlisted entrants are being judged this week.

Winners are then announced in a few weeks so we are biting every finger and toe nail in anticipation!!



These awards mean so much more to us than any others because real couples, who you have shared many an hour with have the say as to how far you get in the awards. After which you are then judged by experts in our industry. So to win means that you have something special to offer brides, you are truly committed to doing your best and as a business in the wedding world.

It's motivating and very rewarding, I work many many hours and I love my role in a couples plans.



This is me on our wedding day - my addiction to weddings started here :-)

So to them thank you from the bottom of my heart. (I know many of you still follow my updates as we're good friends - many a cookie is shared with some lovely ladies!)

We are really looking forward to awards event in January too - this was us celebrating last year with Hill Place -



Lastly do take a peek at this little video by The Wedding Industry Awards, to feel the excitement as we do this week!

http://vimeo.com/m/52681069

Have a wonderful week - on our next blog I shall be bringing you a fabulously elegant wedding from the stylish Old Alresford House ....

Love, Marie
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Isabella Weddings Workshop News!

Isabella Weddings are delighted to announce our Wonderful Wedding Workshop to be held on 23rd February 2013 in the New Forest.



We shall be raising funds for our favourite foundation - The Wedding Wishing Well, who help terminally ill people marry their loved one, sadly usually in a shortened timeframe.


The event will be completely different to regular wedding fairs, it will be relaxed, interactive, themed and throughout the day there will be seminars and tutorials on subjects such as :

Wedding Planning
Budget Control
Tips to save stress and cut corners
How to make cake decorations and toppers
How to create your own bridal bouquet
Designing and creating your own table plan

And many many more including a visit from the charity's founder Naomi, who will be on hand to tell her story and offer helpful and thoughtful advice to all women.




Also throughout the day there will be some of our favourite suppliers of hand to give free treatments, complimentary photo shoots, 'colour me beautiful' analysis, free refreshments and much more.

Plus each visitor will receive a fabulous Planning Gift Bag full of luxury items such as make up, cakes, beauty products, planning goodies and lots of surprises!

We shall be holding a raffle as well and all the proceeds will go directly to The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, prizes include £1000 worth of stationery and a luxury pamper experience so far ...



(Ena's Florists)

Tickets are on sale now, priced at just £8 each or £15 for two with just a limited number of tickets available.

This is not a wedding fair, you will have chance to really get to know the suppliers, take time to try out their treatments, services and goods for yourself and take some home for free. Plus you will learn a few fabulous tips and ideas at our workshop talks and seminars!


(Kim Taylor Photography)

Email Marie on marie@isabellaweddings.co.uk to order your ticket today.

More information to follow, join us on Facebook and Twitter via our website to hear the news about this exciting event as it breaks and please share this at any time.

We look forward to seeing you there!




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Location:New Forest Hampshire

These are a few of my favourite things ...

Having just finished a busy old week I wanted to share a few random items which over the last year I have loved...

Some were a product of research, some stumbled across, some taken from our couples days and some ... Well some just prove to you why I am totally in love with my job :)




Ok so this was technically 'last' year not 'this' year but I loved the Royal Wedding build up, I was asked by BBC Radio Solent to feature as a regular 'wedding contributor' during the final 3 months - which was lots of fun!



I always love innovative and budget friendly ideas, this is perfect for a fun place name! (think of all the bubbly consumed along the way though) lovely :)




I don't know where this image is from but it has to be the one that inspires me so much. Why? Because I love the 'comfort' wedding, in a world where we deny ourselves so much and have to be grown up all the time - cookies and milk (albeit a grown up version) is a little bit of comfort food after a big grown up party!

Plus it inspired the Cookie Bar range that we now offer for weddings and events!




I adore vintage and this card box was like catnip to me. I also now have a dream to bring life to my late grandfather's memoirs. Through the letters he wrote every day throughout the war, to my grandmother resulting in a suitcase of over 1000 love letters!




We should all remember this ....




This one is for the truly wonderful family of suppliers that I have been lucky enough to grow within, their support and knowledge is something I never take for granted.




A huge thank you again to my gorgeous couples, your words of support mean the world me genuinely.





It is an honour to be part of someone's wedding day, let alone be paid to be part of it. We should all be grateful for the happiness we can bring and I am always touched when a couple book me to help them after maybe just one phonecall or meeting.

I adore my job, it's a way of life and I'm very content with every part of my life. Yes I'm driven and ambitious and always striving to start new projects but it's all for a reason, not just to be the best wedding planner but also the best mum/wife/daughter/friend that I can be too.

Ok that's soppy - let's have a funny :)



Yes - lovely July rain!

Have a fab weekend, Marie xx


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