So over the moon to be featuring this incredible wedding from this absolute hero Abimbola Wingate-Saul. Abimbola is a London Criminal Defence Barrister and is top of her game, the brightest of sparks who also dedicates herself to highlighting underrepresentation of Black people in the legal profession, as well as being a force of active anti racism in the courtroom for her clients. She is just all round amazing. And this is her equally amazing wedding to her love Jack. It’s the first of an long term on going series we have coming up on what the traditional fabrics, dress and ceremonies mean to the British West African Brides who find so much joy and love and fun in them! This also ties in with a special offer that Most Curious Talent members Simple Asoebi (who help couples source the traditional fabric for all to wear) currently have running, ending on Saturday 31st October! We’ve put some info from them at the end of this piece.

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Last month The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a digital exhibition of 100 images capturing life under lockdown. They were selected from more than 31,000 submissions to the Hold Still community photography project, created and submitted during April and May 2020. During seven days the public were asked to submit photographs that they felt best represented their experiences of lockdown in England,. A Spring we will never forget, huh? And this one really caught my eye. It is couple, photographer Donna Duke-Llande and Jesse, who dressed up for the day that would have been their wedding, and celebrated with their two children at their home in Bishop's Stortford. I reached out to Donna to find out more.

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We talk to Lexie Noir, head of Queer Weddings UK Planning company, operations manager at UK Black Pride and Bride to Be on her advice for 2020 engaged couples and her own experiences and journey as part of one so far! We are also stopped in our tracks by this wonderful recent engagement shoot by their wedding photographer -to-be Luisa Starling and feel so lucky to show it off along side this piece. The strength and power of their love and the joy and home it brings to both of them is shining off the screen! Read on for Lexie’s invaluable, solid advice to stay resilient and positive, facing hit after hit to how their wedding day is going to play out.

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Super thrilled to be featuring this dream of a styled shoot by awesome make up artist, stylist and content creator Shumidee, who is also going to be modelling at the Norwich show and styling a couple of modern Asian bridal looks too! Last Autumn she created this completely beautiful shoot, which also features accessories from our Norwich exhibitor White Reflections - who stock Halo & Co who supplied the Woodlands Tiara and our one and only AM Faulkner, including the unforgettable Margarita Daisy veil, styled so beautifully and inspirationally with Shumidee’s hijab. As well as Norwich exhibitors Buns of Fun cakes (never over that name) and former exhibitor Elegance of Henna - feeling that white Henna SO MUCH. So many reasons this shoot needs attention!

The day was beautifully captured by Georgia Racheal Photography. Thank you so much Shumidee - over to you!

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Natasha and Daniel attended Most Curious and just about managed to squeeze in their beautiful beautiful South London wedding in February 2020, yes THIS YEAR - seems unbelievable doesn’t it. But so glad they did, what a dream! Natasha told us that '“Most Curious basically planned our wedding! Genuinely loved it so much and wish we could come to the show and do it all over again!”

So we are thrilled to feature them today. The pictures are by our MC family member Lisa Jane Photo and the venue is The Asylum, both of whom they met at the show and the reception was at Balham Bowls. Read on to find out more about this babelicious couple and the treats they found at MC London to create this masterpiece of a day!

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Another wincy wedding for your inspiration today, this time from Norwich exhibitor ART & STORY PHOTOGRAPHY. It was actually from before Covid times (is that the new BC now?) - see this beautiful pair Heather and Justin actually chose to go micro, with this gorgeous elopement to Brighton. And just goes to show all you need is your main squeezes to make a magical day.

Heather and Justin’s story supplied by Anna at ART & STORY - come and meet her at The Fire Pit Camp for the Norwich Most Curious show on 11th October.

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From their planned 250 person wedding weekend extravaganza, including a full blow Hindu ceremony and Bollywood-themed reception, Lakshmi and Jack, actually had a completely different celebration to what they had in mind for their wedding in August. With the love and support of their super talented immediate friends & family along with the help of suppliers, they were able to pull off a humanist wedding in 4 weeks and a reception in 1 week following govt guidelines.

Lakshmi and Jack had an initial small registry wedding with 4 guests and a photographer at Larkbeare House, Exeter, and a 30 person humanist wedding at Little Comfort Farm in North Devon on 21st August 2020. They did some major pivoting and cleverly used some of their friends and family guest to fulfil some of the supplier tasks. Read on to see how this chic and meaningful day was not what they first envisaged but still turned out to be everything they needed it to be.

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Continuing our series on what the current restrictions mean for all British couples, we are THRILLED to have a wonderful piece written by Chioma Alade of @studiochiweddings luxury and style-focused planning and styling service, on what the stripped back micro wedding guidelines means for British couples wishing to have their traditional African ceremony and wedding. She also plans and caters for couples from many backgrounds, so it also includes a little advice for those with a culture of African discent but also beyond. We are also delighted to have some words and images from Nkechi Abani of NK Abani Photography, a photographer of Nigerian heritage who has shot many a traditional West African Wedding (it just so happens this article has taking a Nigerian angle!) - who gives a little more info on some the hundreds of rituals that may take place at a West African Weddings, as well as her advice for couples at these trying times.

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So...... what a few months it's been since we last spoke about the Norwich show, we hope you are safe and well and we know this has been such a stressful time for couples planning a wedding. We see you.
But we have good news! We’re happy to confirm since Friday's government announcement that trade events have been given the green light from the 1st October and also that weddings can now include a reception of 30, we are going ahead with the MOST CURIOUS Norwich Show on the 11th October 2020 as planned!

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE LIST OF FULL MEASURES WE WILL BE PUTTING IN PLACE TO MAKE THE EVENT IS A COVID SECURE EVENT.

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Tayjal of Manis Creative highlights some of the many issues faced by British Asian couples right now, in particular her own experience as a Hindu Bride, as well as offering some advice for Asian couples, while providing some pretty breath taking inspiration for gorgeous smaller scaled down weddings she has spotted recently. She used her own wonderful wedding, from 2014, as an example of the beautiful family ceremonies that lead up to the wedding which would likely be out of the question with the current restrictions. Thank you Tayjal, over to you!

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So we now have the news that as of the 1st August weddings can involve a party/reception as well as a ceremony, again with up to 30 guests. It’s not the news we all want, it’s still so hard for couples and the industry of course, BUT we want to be here giving hope that smaller weddings can still be … well DA BOMB.

As this perfect South London wedding displays.

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Here’s part 2 of our bridalNEXT Award announcements - the Manchester winners!

Again chosen from an amazing line up of fresh new talent and innovative young brands, by Love My Dress from our curated showcase of the ones to watch in weddings, bridalNEXT. It is a platform for designers and artisans who have launched their bridal brand no earlier than 2 years prior and has a discounted price to keep it accessible to start ups and fledging artisans or people who have taken a new bridal direction in their work.

New for 2020, bridalNEXT! is run in conjunction with the UK’s biggest bridal blog Love My Dress, another big player in the industry who is striving to champion emerging, British talent in the bridal world. Again some cute pics of them being told of their award and receiving their little rosette taken by Becky Most Curious at the show! We will also be publishing individual spot lights and vids on the brands over the next few months, as part of their prize. And because we wanna!

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Studio Oudizo has that uber satisfying typography calligraphy style that makes your finger trace over the lettering, you can almost hear the scratch of the nib. Set up in a new motherhood haze by Ofe Oyasor (as so many of our businesses are here), who Is not only a master of penmanship, is a self confessed paper-phile, a purposeful and unwavering anti racism campaigner, calligraphy workshop teacher, curator of discerning writing products and kits, but has nailed the juggling act that is having two little ones in lockdown and smashing a luxury wedding stationery and brand design company. As we delve deeper into Studio Oudizo, we don’t even know which one of those we love the most, plus plenty of relatable lols along the way.

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Ok so it feels like an actual different lifetime but back in February we did actually do our Spring shows (Norwich had to be postponed as is coming in October!). So…. a lot has happened since then (over used phrased of 2020) but all the same we had some BANGING winners and runners up chosen at the shows, by Love My Dress from our curated showcase of the ones to watch in weddings, bridalNEXT. We wanted to announce the London stars here and we’ll announce the Manchester winners and runners during the week.

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We know how much so many people are hurting right now with the tough Covid19 restrictions on weddings. We know. It’s a cruel twist of fate that a year you were excited about, a year that was about celebrating you and your love with your nearest and dearest has now become a source of pain, sadness and stress. There is so much to be discussed around the topic and we will be putting a few more articles out there based around this moment of postponements and uncertainty in the world of weddings. BUT today, to kick that off, we wanted to share this beautiful wedding with you today, shot by the wonderful Laura Babb, to show you can down scale and still have the joy, have the style, cute details, the twinkles and the love in your own back yard.

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A think piece by Bekah Hesse on Intersectionality, what it means to be part of both the LGBTQIA+ community and a black person.

Published here, because along with having conversations about racial diversity in the wedding industry, we wanted to move forward with conversations about the intersectionality with this and the LGBTQIA+ community. So, looking further into and asking how being from this community intersects with being black and, on a much fluffier but also important level, for Most Curious how both those parts intersect with the planning a wedding and telling people’s love stories. Please read Bekah’s hard truths.

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From the origins of her love of black and white photography to who’s wedding from history would have been her dream job? We spent some more time getting to know the class act that is Corrina Tough. Plus her special offers for couples and wedding businesses.

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You know us, here at Most Curious we love a bit of architecture/design/fashion/wedding world intersect. This is a very special one. Osman Marfo-Gyasi of Wolf & Co Photography is an architect by day and a photographer, well, the whole rest fo the time! You can FEEL that eye in his wedding work. We find out more, including a 25% off deal running till the 16th May on his wedding package. And we also delve deep, on his experience as a black man in the UK wedding industry and a compelling and powerful call to action for change.

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She’s a class act and full of community spirit. Editorial photographer Corrina Tough is offering a crazy cool deal for independent wedding businesses wanting branding and PR images, for those using this time to refresh and reboot websites, brand packs and about pages.

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Corrina Tough is the dream for so many reasons. Here is three. Firstly, her photography is informed deeply by those pioneers of the first forms of street style photography. You know those 20th century black and white stills of slices of life that are at once so real and gritty but so magical and poignant all at the same time. Her work feels like a modern version of those images, that just so happen to be taken at a wedding.

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