England-The North
Wetwheels Solent, Accessible Sailing Experiences
As the title may suggest, Wetwheels Solent are an amazing non-profit company who make boating experiences possible for those with disabilities or health conditions. I’d heard of their partner organisation in Yorkshire previously since Richard and I often visit the coast there and particularly enjoy Whitby Goth Festival (despite the hilly, cobbled terrain for my […]
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Quirky Wedding Fayre, Sheffield – The Furnace
Richard and I have been happily married for over a year now but when Quirky Weddings asked us to feature their accessible wedding fayres, we were so excited! Throughout our wedding planning process, we came up against so many access barriers for myself and my guests. These began right at the start of the planning
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Why Being a Disabled Bridal Model Matters to Me
My wonderful husband, Richard, and I model on what are called “styled shoots”; these are where professionals in the wedding industry get together and stage a mini faux wedding. This means that everyone can showcase their wonderful talent and get professional, high-quality images of their products/ services to put on their website or social media.
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Decorating my Mobility Aids for a Wedding
Weddings are highly stressful events at times, no matter how calm the future bride, groom or spouse actually is! There are so many tiny details from how you’d like your hair arranged to what transportation is arranged to get you to and from each particular part of the wedding. One thing that was really important
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Winning a Power 100 Award!
This is a blog post that I am absolutely thrilled about; I have won an award through the Shaw Trust’s Power 100! This is a list of the UK’s top 100 most influential disabled people, through every single industry and walk of life; from education, politics and law through to sport and publishing/ media. They
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Inclusive Personalised Gifts – Ft. Love is Designed
Things have been kind of quiet on my own blog frontier; I have to apologise for that. That is predominantly down to the fact that I have recently had my PEGJ feeding tube changed and I’ve had quite a few hiccups pre- and post-op. Currently, I am a little more stable and can take medications,
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Ways I Think the Wedding Industry Needs to Adapt Surrounding Disability
Hi everyone! I have been slightly quieter on this blog that I would have liked recently. This has been for a variety of reasons really; firstly, I have recently had a significant operation to have a PEGJ feeding tube inserted so have been in and out of surgery due to a few complications there and,
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Every Ability and Disability Can Dance & Boogie at a Wedding – f.t. Freewheelin Inclusive Dance
Those of you that have followed me for a while may have seen my previous post about the inter-abled formal dance that the wonderful instructor, Helen, at Freewheelin Inclusive Dance has helped my future husband and I to learn. Let’s not lie, we are not the most graceful of pairings and dance floors, spotlights and
Wedding Planning Inclusivity Failures (so far…)
Wedding planning is an absolute nightmare at the moment for any bride or groom since we are in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic and at the end of the lockdown period. Things have therefore been slow on the wedding planning front for me if I’m honest as it’s very hard to choose a caterer
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Inter-abled Formal Dancing for Our First Wedding Dance
I’m just going to come out and say it – I had two left feet before my health deteriorated to the point where I needed the wheelchair and I certainly have two left wheels now if that’s even a thing! Honestly though, if you’ve been following along in our wedding first dance journey on Instagram
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