You & Your Wedding: regular columnist
During my engagement, I wrote a first-person column for You & Your Wedding (8 columns in total). It was a super-fun entry to the world of column writing: you can read them all below.
Regular features: You & Your Wedding/Cosmo Bride
I edited the back pages and advice pages at You & Your Wedding and Cosmo Bride when I was on staff there. Here are a selection of the pages I put together.
The Knowledge (feature): Cosmo Bride
Perfect Pictures (feature): You & Your Wedding
Fab 15 Fresh Ideas For Flowers: You & Your Wedding
Honeymoons supplements: You & Your Wedding/Cosmo Bride
Press trips to the Maldives, Vietnam, Sweden and Greece were part of the absolute joy of putting together the You & Your Wedding and Cosmo Bride honeymoon supplements each year. Here are some of the pages I wrote for the supp:
Venue supplement: You & Your Wedding
As part of You & Your Wedding’s annual venues supplement, I put together this compilation feature on countryside and waterside wedding venues.
Best spas for brides: You & Your Wedding
A four-page feature on luxury spas for Y&YW which was, as you can imagine, horrible to research…
Seal the deal: would you have a marriage contract? You & Your Wedding
This was an article I wrote for You & Your Wedding magazine discussing the idea of a marriage contract acting as a blueprint for married life.
Real Weddings features: Cosmopolitan Bride
I wrote several real weddings during my time on staff at Cosmopolitan Bride.
Here are just a few!
Hot 50 cover feature: You & Your Wedding
This was a cover feature for Y&YW which I put together as a staffer there.
Real Weddings features: You & Your Wedding
As a staffer at Y&YW, and afterwards as a freelancer, I wrote several of their real-life weddings features.
You can read a selection of them below, in PDF form.
Beauty under scrutiny: You & Your Wedding
A tried-and-tested beauty feature for You & Your Wedding. Spoiler: I wore the Julie Hewitt on my wedding day.
A land down under: You & Your Wedding
I wrote about my honeymoon to Australia as a travel feature for You & Your Wedding. The full PDF is here.
Whatever the weather: You & Your Wedding
I wrote this feature for You & Your Wedding about prepping properly for the elements on your wedding day.
You can read it here.