National Wedding Show at ExCel | Competition Winner
Hello and a big thank you to everyone we met at the National Wedding Show at ExCel this weekend. And an extra thank you if you entered our competition to win £100 towards your wedding registry/honeymoon fund. We loved chatting to you al...
How to plan a waste free, plastic free party
Patchwork is all about being creative, collective and resourceful. We’re also all about excellent parties. With this in mind, we thought it was about time we put together a guide to organising a party that: keeps costs down, is waste fre...
How to celebrate 30 in style: Holly Clarke Cake Design
Part of our mission to revolutionise how people give is to encourage the celebration of every little bit of life that’s worth celebrating. As such, we’re a BIG fan of celebrating birthdays, whether they’re the bigguns or the littluns, an...
Patchwork’s Favourite Venues: fforest farm
“Wrapped in woods, wildlife and wonder” fforest farm is an absolute DREAM wedding venue. For a relaxed, informal, weekend-long celebration in 200 acres of unspoilt natural beauty it can’t be beaten. Weddings are residential, which means ...
Totes Amazing Patchwork Giveaway
To celebrate September and all things learning Patchwork are giving away a lovely selection of prizes to one lucky winner packed in to a brilliant Patchwork tote bag. Things to be won include: A National Art Pass – which gives the holder...
Sustainable Wedding Gift Ideas: Meet the Makers – House of Love
“Capturing moments of time in inky lines of love” is the way Megan Metcalf describes what she does. Producing beautiful illustrations for couples who want to capture memories of their day; Megan creates unique, sustainable wedding gifts ...
Patchwork Couple: Three Honeymoons, Two Cats and a Festival Wedding
Sunniest Patchwork couple ever, Jo and Will, tell us about their love of cats, cheese, camper vans and all things yellow… (and an unusual engagement tale involving pulling a balloon string out of a cat. Not the tail end, fortunately). Bo...
Patchwork’s Favourite Venues: The Fire Pit Camp
Patchwork LOVES The Fire Pit Camp set in seven acres of beautiful Norfolk! Rachel, along with her extended family, runs this little gem of a venue and here she tells us why it’s the perfect place for a gorgeous laid back festival wedding...
Patchwork’s Favourite Venues: Guardswell Farm
We’re a big fan of wedding venues that can feel like home for the weekend, and Guardswell Farm have that spirit in buckets. They’re also the complete full package – as well as being a gorgeous wedding venue, their stunning scenery and co...
Their Honeymoon: Jason Williams Photography
If you asked people what their travel dream was, we bet Route 66 would be quite high on that list. Well, we’re in the business of making dreams become reality, so we chatted to Portsmouth-based alternative wedding photographer Jason Will...
Patchwork Couple: Woodland Wedding and Honeymoon in Puglia
Bridgette and Andy met through friends twelve years ago. Although they lived 2 hours apart (Bridgette in North Wales and Andy in Worcestershire) they carried on talking via the early days of internet chat rooms and texts and of course th...
Patchwork Couple: An Arran Wedding and Honeymoon in Cinque Terre.
Outdoor loving couple Mhairi and Steven tell us about their wedding in Arran, and their Patchwork honeymoon to Cinque Terre in Italy, funded by family and friends. Tell us about you both as a couple, how did you first meet? We have known...
6 of our favourite wedding invites
Sending out your wedding invites is a very exciting moment in the planning calendar – it’s the moment when all of the planning that’s been whirring round your head is actually brought to fruition in real life. It’s the moment when you re...
Patchwork Couple: French Château Wedding and Romantic Italian Honeymoon
Katy and Alex tell us about their dreamy wedding in a French château and their romantic Italian Patchwork honeymoon. The story begins back in 2012 one evening in Bondi. Their mutual friends (and love of Mexican food!) brought them toget...
Patchwork’s Favourite Venues: The Giraffe Shed
When a venue describe themselves as a ‘heptagonal palace of joy, confetti and dancing’, what’s the point in us even trying to write an introduction? The Giraffe Shed are a badass new Welsh wedding venue that are totally redefining what b...
Patchwork holiday giveaway
To celebrate the honeymoon/holiday season we’ve partnered up with some of our favourite brands to bring you a Patchwork beach bag full of summer essentials. To win a gorgeous Patchwork tote bag, swimsuit from Lilliput & Felix, beach dres...
Sustainable Wedding Gift Ideas: Meet the Makers.
Husband and wife team Kate and Abi run Nafisi Studios in West Sussex, where together they create beautiful, sustainable one-off commissions for the home, garden, or work place. Their mission is to combine their knowledge of heritage wood...
Patchwork’s Favourite Venues: Abbeydale Picture House
We’re taking our favourite wedding venue series outside of London, turning our heads from smoke to steel with one of our favourite Sheffield wedding venues, Abbeydale Picture House. We chatted to Elinor, one of the event co-ordinators, a...
Patchwork and Link Age Southwark – Supporting Local Charities
Link Age Southwark used Patchwork to help raise funds so that they could move into a much needed new space. And their patchwork was a huge success! To celebrate they had a party to thank all of their many supporters. So our Rosie went al...
Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts: A Modern Take
Wedding anniversaries – do you celebrate them? According to a survey from 2016, 46% of UK couples don’t do anything to mark their wedding date, and a fifth don’t even know when their wedding anniversary is. Here in the Patchwork st...
