It's Wonderful Wedding Wednesday time - doesn't a wedding just put you in a wonderful mood?! If you missed the first feature, catch up on Mr and Mrs Webb here and last week's Italian spectacular of Mr and Mrs Daley here.

Every week I will bring you a beautiful couple, on the most magical day of their lives. How lucky to have old and new friends, who have had such lovely weddings!

All that I ask, is if you enjoyed the post, please take a minute to donate just £1 to The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation. 

This incredible charity, based in Taunton, makes dreams come true. They organise and fund wonderful weddings for terminally ill brides and grooms, working with heartbreaking stories and often under critical time constraints.

I have stayed very close to home this week with the beautiful wedding of friends of ours, who live just 10 minutes away.

Special thanks to Lee Hatherall and David Charleston Matthews for letting me share their fabulous photography. Introducing Sam and Marc...

Sam and Marc met on a night out organised through a friend. When asked by her friend if Sam was keen on Marc, Sam exclaimed "Like?! I'm going to marry him!"

That was in 2005, and after 4 years together Marc proposed in 2009 with his late mother's engagement ring, which absolutely meant the world to Sam. Their special day was on 31st May 2010 with a traditional ceremony at Corpus Christi Church in Weston super Mare, complete with a vintage bus which kept everyone together and took the happy couple and all 60 guests to the reception at Cadbury House Hotel. 

The boys from Marc's cycling club took their wheels to the Church doors and displayed a bicycle guard of honour, as they walked hand in hand out the church.

The resourceful bride and her friends made as much as they could for the wedding, spent hours drying rose petals for confetti and making metres of bunting. It was important to Sam and Marc that all their families were involved, with her Sister as the only bridesmaid, her Brother an usher, Marc's brother as best man, Marc's dad reading in Church, her Sister in law as the hair artist, her Mum and Nan arranging all the flowers and her Dad making the incredible tiered sponge cake.

The wedding reflected a vintage country style, with flowers in old jugs and teapots, cider as the welcome drink and a hog roast in the evening and place names held in apples. 100 guests joined them in the evening and danced the night away.

Sam recalls her shoes being one of the highlights of the day!

They travelled around Europe on an extended honeymoon and gorgeous baby Alfie was born in December 2012.

Make another couple as happy as this one, by pledging just £1.

Like all wonderful weddings, the special days The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation organises and funds, run into the thousands, so every penny or pound counts. Don't come back to this later, just click and donate your £1, it can be your good deed of the day! 

Click HERE to donate.

There are lots of ways to be involved, please take a minute to check out the fundraising page on The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation website. You can also like them on Facebook and follow on Twitter too for the latest news. 

Next week I will be bringing you something different. Make sure you check back in...

If you have never heard of Pinterest then this is the post for you.​

​If you have heard of Pinterest, but don't have the foggiest idea of what it's all about, then this is the post for you.

And if, like me, you are completely and utterly addicted to ​the wonder that is this online collective community of pinners and virtual pin boards, then I hope this may be a useful post for you too.

You can find my boards here if you fancy a nose! ​

You will see I am in full party planning mode! ​

My favourite is my Vintage Party Inspiration ​board. If ever my husband decides to throw me a surprise party, he only has to peek at this and we are golden! It features loveliness like this:

Pinterest is the fastest growing social network, the main source of traffic from the US to individual UK blogs and the first website I use to research anything. Anything at all. You name it I use Pinterest to find it. It's actually a challenge I set myself to come up with an idea that is not on Pinterest!​ 

If you are totally confused you can read about my introduction to Pinterest here.​

But as part of the Pin it Forward UK campaign to spread the word about the dedicated UK registration, I want to share some Spring Cleaning tips for your Pinterest account as I imagine that the majority of my readers either already use the site already or have heard me shouting about it numerous times before!

How to Spring Clean your Pinterest Boards

(and gain followers)

• LAYOUT. Do your boards compliment each other? It's highly likely that if someone finds one of your boards and has a shared interest they will like another and another. Take time to choose your cover images as that is the first thing a potential follower may see when they view all your boards together.
• THINK SEASONAL. If you still have an Easter or Christmas board near the top of your collection shame on you! Only teasing but those should be whizzed to the bottom of the pile. ​Split your boards into separate holiday categories so people can find them more easily. No one is researching Easter at Halloween so you don't want a multitude of pins that aren't relevant in the same board.
• ​HELPFUL DESCRIPTIONS. I am so guilty of repinning a description with the text "would love this", especially to my Wish List board, but how can someone else find that?! Be helpful and make your descriptions informative so that a search enquiry will find them. Same goes for Board descriptions. Have you added a description and category to your boards? Don't forget to add the American spelling in the description too or our friends across the pond might not find your perfect pins.
• CHANNEL YOUR INNER CRAFTY SPIRIT. Pinterest users are creative individuals. That's one of the reasons you would use Pinterest as a creative research hub. I pin Kid's Craft ideas and my own Fantasy Craft Room ideas separately as ​lots of my followers don't have children and wouldn't be so interested if I had ideas for both age groups mixed together.
• KNOW YOUR SOURCE. I try to check the sources of my pins as there is nothing more frustrating than finding the exact inspiration you were looking for only to discover a dead link when you try and click through to the original tutorial or product source.​ Pin from an actual blog post and not from the home page as you will be annoyed when you come back to it in a years time and can't find it!
• BLOG BOARD COMES FIRST. If you are a blogger make sure your blog board is the first thing you see and pin your content from individual posts to your blog board first.
• DON'T BE A FLOOD BE A RIPPLE. But be careful not to spam your followers and flood their news feed with masses of images of the same topic! ​Pin little and often. I pin 3 ideas on a theme at most at any one time.
• GET LINKING. Link your Pinterest account to your Facebook page, show your recent pins in your sidebar to encourage more interest.
• THE ONLY WAY IS UP, BABY! Keep your photos portrait style as they are much more likely to be repinned, as the majority of users read their news feeds on a mobile, where portrait style images display more user friendly on screen.​
• PIN IT BUTTONS. Something I ​am guilty of not having on my blog is Pin it buttons on images, it makes it so much easier for lovely readers to share your content. Job for today! 
• BE A PRIMARY PINNER. Pin as much original content as possible, repin, but Pinterest will be a better resource the more everyone adds to it.

As part of the campaign I am thrilled to introduce Helen at KiddyCharts. Check out her boards for parenting inspiration and helpful pins on children's behaviour and craft projects.

Now come and join the fun by clicking HERE! ​It's free and you will adore it.

If you live near Bristol, then you must whiz along to The Nest this week.​

For 2 weeks only, this pop up shop has opened it's doors selling handmade and upcycled loveliness in abundance. ​

The Nest is open 12pm - 7pm and supports over 13 local handmade and vintage sellers. There is something for all budgets, vintage clothes for grown ups, vintage clothes made into clothes for little ones, bric a brac, handmade jewellery, beauty products and more. ​

I popped along the night before the official opening and it was wonderful to see how lots of effort and hardly any sleep pays off. There was a real buzz from those exhibiting their work and I picked up a few little treats. How sweet are these button hair slides? And I adore the magpie brooch. All in a vintage Circus gift bag. Perfect.​

Follow Magpies and I on Facebook and Twitter for lots more info!​