Things of beauty...

We are off to a wedding this weekend...I love a good wedding! Especially in June. Especially when the sun is shining like it is this week. Especially when it promises to be the perfect English country wedding - the ceremony in the village church, a stroll to the Manor house for the reception. How lovely to be able to stroll from the church! There is not enough strolling at weddings I feel... (can you tell my guilt is being replaced by excitement?!)

So indulge me some wedding loveliness in this post, but weddings are like beauty in a bottle...

I found this image of a doily wedding dress which I think is wonderful...and those shoes...

Bride and groom...in a hurry to start their married life...

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Beautiful, dramatic glassware...

by Mikkel Vang

The gorgeousness that is Christy Turlington...

by Steven Meisel

Dreamy, floor-skimming chiffon...

Sea shell prettiness...

Ridiculously stunning Russian...

I so missed a trick with my wedding shoes - mine were plain cream satin, low heeled as I am taller than my husband! Oh to have some beauties like this...

Andre Derain’s 'Arbres a Collioure' sold for a record £16.3 million at Sotheby's this week...

I think this fascinator looks wonderful...I was going to wear one this weekend but then in the end thought...err, maybe not...

it's mary ruffle

Vintage chandelier table dressing...round dinner tables are so much more friendly...

I just think this outfit is the bee's knees. Giovanna Battaglia, a simple dress, beautiful heels, adorable little gold clutch...makes me want to shop.

Strong-faced, down-to-earth Kate Winslet...up close...

Symmetry and wood on wood...

Counting down to my annual summer 'read-a-thon'. For some reason I find reading books really hard all year round, then it gets to summer and I manage to read one after the other. It's like I save it all up. Love to read...

Quirky vintage pendant over antique lace...

Happy weekend...!

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