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Smashing The Glass features in this week’s Jewish Chronicle

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I’m in the diary section of the Jewish Chronicle today – such a sweet piece! Thank you to the lovely folk at The JC for writing about me.

If you’ve found Smashing The Glass via this article well hello there! You can read all about why I started the blog here, and see my own Jewish wedding (at London’s Wallace Collection)  here. In fact, the  heart and soul of SmashingTheGlass.com are the real Jewish weddings  so I think that’s a great place to start.

Click here and you’ll find  all the UK Jewish weddings that I’ve blogged about  with everything from this  outrageously cool London Jewish wedding, to this breathtaking ‘HinJew’ wedding at the Mandarin Oriental where the bride and groom intertwined their Indian and Jewish heritages incredibly beautifully, to this New Years Eve fancy dress wedding held in an Arthouse cinema, to this South London Jewish wedding that was held in a chapel(!),and this Wedstock-themed wedding featuring a bride who made her entire dress out of paper. You can bet your bottom dollar that I’ve blogged about every Jewish wedding  in between too.

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Chelm & Jake’s super cool London Jewish wedding by Blake Ezra Photography

I also regularly post wedding planning articles  and have  blogged  about everything from what are the best chuppah entrance songs, to tips for getting great wedding photography to how to incorporate ‘Jewish’ into a non-Jewish or interfaith wedding, inspiration for chuppah ideas, and lots more.

And if you’re still on the hunt for that perfect photographer, DJ, chazan, or venue, my  Smashing Suppliers section is a great place to start.  It’s my handpicked selection of the most stylish brands and services the wedding industry has to offer, and you’ll not only be able to click through to the suppliers own websites to see what they say about themselves, you’ll be able to see a lot of their work first hand in the real Jewish weddings section and read the opinion of couples that have actually used them.

I love helping my readers plan their weddings but the best part is when couples email me their own photographs after their wedding and tell me that Smashing The Glass helped them have the wedding they truly wanted!

By the way if you’re reading this and you’re already  married, be sure to send me a submission. It’s my readers who ultimately make my blog a must-read and I can’t wait to hear from you!

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Hannah & Raf | Laidback, colourful ‘English Garden’ Jewish wedding at The Priory Barn, Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire, UK

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Hannah  and Raf’s  big day  is  bursting at the seams with colour, fun and some very original ideas, and if I had to describe their wedding  in one (ok two) words, it  would be utterly joyous. From Raf’s beaming smile to Hannah’s multi-coloured nails, through to the wild summer flowers dotted about everywhere,  and the most original  first dance I’ve heard about in a long while (I’ll let Hannah surprise you with that one).

I want to be a guest at this wedding. I want to receive a homemade invitation designed by the bride. I want to stand amongst the moorhens  and weeping willows. I want to hear a klezmer version of The Final Countdown. I want to have a slice of hundreds and thousands cake. And I want to have every moment captured by Marianne Chua  whose images are appearing for the first time on STG which I’m so very  thrilled about!

Get ready because you gorgeous lot are going to be pinning until your fingers are raw.

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A MIDWEEK WEDDING AT A WONDERFUL GARDEN VENUE
Hannah, the Bride: We chose to get married at The Priory Barn  in  Little Wymondley. We researched various venues, but had difficulties in that a lot of the London venues wouldn’t allow religious ceremonies and we didn’t want a hotel. We also wanted outside space and The Priory has an amazing garden complete with a stream, weeping willows and baby moorhens! We had budget concerns and The Priory had a great midweek deal. Our wedding was on a Thursday but this really didn’t seem to affect turnout.

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Can I have the Wedding Blog Award cake and eat it?

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Can I? Well  with the competition I’m up against (read Love My Dress,  Rock n Roll Bride, Bridal Musings and Juno & Joy to name but a few ) it’s certainly not going to be a piece of cake.  But if I were to win, it would be the icing on the cake.  Ok, ok,  I hear ya.. enough of the cake gags. I’ll stop now! It’s just this gorgeous creation, so kindly made  by the Cinnamon Cake Company (no relation by the way) is begging to be blogged for such purposes, and I for one, cannot resist.

Just  in case you have  absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, let me tell you that Smashing The Glass  has been nominated  for not one but TWO  esteemed  2014 Wedding Blog Awards! Yes STG has  been shortlisted  in both the  Best Bridal Newcomer Blog  category and the  Best Real Life Weddings  Blog  categories and I could not be more thrilled. I want to give great big bear hugs  to everyone who took the time to nominate me as  it’s all by virtue of your wonderful support that I’ve made it this far (WARNING: X Factor-style clichà© phrases are almost over).

It’s a total honour to be named alongside so many of my favourite blogging peers (including some of the biggest blogs in the world!)  but the challenge isn’t over yet. In order to be in with a chance of winning I need you  to unleash  your voting powers  once more. It’s a 50/50 reader vote/judges’ decision situation, so your vote  really will make the difference! If you have a spare moment (it will literally take you 10 seconds) I can’t tell you how much I’d appreciate your support.

Some of my favourite bloggers are also up for awards, so if you’re not in a hurry,  I know it would mean a lot to them if you chose  your favourites in the other categories too.

So if you’re ready, head over to the Wedding Blog Awards shortlist  page  to cast your vote – you’ll find me in the  Best Real Life Weddings  Blog  category  (in the top right hand corner) and the  Best Bridal Newcomer Blog  category  (in the bottom left hand corner).  Voting closes in under a fortnight  on 31st  August, but why not do it now? It can be your good deed for  the day!

The glamorous Awards ceremony is being held at the exquisite  Savoy in central London  and I can’t wait to  attend, and tell you all the news from the night.  Thank you  so much  for getting me this far, but now let’s win this thing (and eat cake!)

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STG Recommends: Chris Giles Photography

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I am thrilled to welcome Chris Giles Photography  to our  Smashing Suppliers, Smashing The Glass’s handpicked selection of the best brands and services the wedding industry has to offer.

Smashing The Glass hand selects and verifies each Smashing Supplier, and can personally vouch for the fact that every one of them has the ability to turn your wedding day into something truly special.

You can find Chris Giles Photography  in the Photography  category of  Smashing Suppliers.

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To wedding planner or not to wedding planner, that is the question…

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Image: David Bastianoni

Today I’m delighted to be introducing  a very awesome  guest poster,  the divine Anna MacDougall from Bride & Glory. Lovely Anna  has written a very enlightening piece  on the  hows, whys and wherefores of wedding planners. Should you, shouldn’t you, what should you be looking for if you do want one, and what exactly will you be getting for your wonga? Anna has all the answers…

Hello my Darling STG readers — I couldn’t be whooping with joy any louder for having the pleasure of writing to (and for) you today. I have a habit of yacking, so I shan’t ‘preamble’ too much and will dive right in. If, however, you do want to know more about why I may know a thing or two about this topic, just have a look here.

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Soooo — to hire a wedding planner or not, that is one of the questions you may or may not have been contemplating on your wedding planning journey. Please don’t think “oh here we go, a hidden sales piece”. This truly isn’t — it’s just to give you a little insight and perhaps food for thought.

And if you only take one nugget of information away from this then please please let it be that no, wedding planners are not like the movies (I’m really nothing like J-Lo) and we’re also not clipboard-wielding tyrants who will take over your day. At least most of us aren’t.

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Jennifer Lopez in the 2001 romantic comedy, ‘The Wedding Planner’

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