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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Yes that’s me up there, holding up a Wedding Blog Award, montaged over Halle Berry winning an Oscar. I was going to montage myself over Gwynnie with  her Oscar  and make a joke about teary speeches, but her flat chest and pale skin were  never going to  match my features, so Halle will do nicely. I’ve always wanted a Bond girl’s body so that’s one wish already come true!

But I digress… the wish I’m really after  is to win the Best Newcomer category in Wedding magazine’s highly regarded Wedding Blog Awards.  I’ve been working hard on Smashing The Glass for exactly a year now and I started it just after my wedding  when I realised  that there wasn’t any one place that brought together creative ideas for out-of-the-ordinary Jewish (and Jew-ish!) W-days. It  became — and still is — the UK’s only Jewish wedding blog, and the only blog worldwide focussing on original and unusual Jewish ‘I-Do’s’.

I’m super  proud of the blog, and the reaction and overwhelming support I’ve received in this  first year, and I’m so addicted to working on it that I wasn’t even able to keep away in the early days after I’d  given birth to my baby daughter, Sacha  late last year. Everyone would tell me “rest when the baby rests” but as I snuck into the bedroom, the laptop would come out from under the bed… I just couldn’t keep away from my other baby —  my e-baby!

Now my darling daughter is 7 months old and I am able to spend much more time on the blog. So much so, that  in a couple of weeks time I am relaunching the site with a rebrand and  lots of new features including  a greatly enhanced Smashing Suppliers section. I can’t wait!

But the  heart and soul of SmashingTheGlass.com are the Real Jewish Weddings. It’s hard to pick a favourite but I have a very soft spot for this  outrageously cool London Jewish wedding, this gorgeously-designed music themed wedding, this Wedstock-themed wedding featuring a bride who made her entire dress out of paper; this breathtaking ‘HinJew’ wedding at the Mandarin Oriental where the bride and groom intertwined their Indian and Jewish heritages incredibly beautifully; the New Years Eve fancy dress wedding held in an Arthouse cinema; the ’surprise’ brunch wedding for just 20 guests with the ceremony held on a street corner… I could go on and on! The common thread throughout these, and all STG  weddings, is that they are as unique as the couples that planned them.

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, and of course lots more. I love helping my readers plan their weddings whether it be through the real weddings,  inspiration and ideas that I publish or the advice that I write, and if you enjoy reading STG I would be so honoured and thrilled to have your nomination. VOTE HERE  or click on  the logo button below. (The ‘Best Wedding Blog Newcomer’ category is second from the bottom.)

Thank you. I’d be so very delighted to genuinely  hold that  award up high after Thursday 26th June when nominations close!