Fancy win­ning a bespoke typo­graphic print in time for Valentine’s Day?

Coulson Macleod has teamed up with Rock My Wed­ding — the UK’s most pop­u­lar wed­ding blog — and we’re giv­ing away not one, but two, bespoke prints.

The first to choose from is our bespoke ‘What’ print on solid lime­stone with a hand­made reclaimed tim­ber frame (worth £169).

The second choice is our bespoke hand­made ‘What’ print with a solid oak frame (worth 239).

Both prints can be per­son­al­ised by adding your own names and a date at the bot­tom. Unless of course you hap­pen to be called Mark & Han­nah and you’re get­ting mar­ried on June 15^th 2012. You can also change the col­our of the text if you so wish.

The words were writ­ten by Coulson for Macleod (yes, that’s us) when we met & fell in love.

And, as Coulson & Macleod are get­ting mar­ried this year, we thought we’d share the love.

Related art­icles:

• Valentine’s Day Top Ten
• Free Love Card With Coulson Macleod

Our very good friends over at Rock My Wed­ding were asked along to The National Wed­ding Show (in Lon­don Earl’s Court & Birmingham’s NEC). They were given a stand in the blog­gers area along with our other wed­ding blog friends I Am Staggered.

And Rock My Wed­ding asked us if we’d provide some typo­graphic art­work.

We have massive respect for Rock My Wed­ding. Prac­tic­ally every­one get­ting mar­ried reads it. We’re get­ting mar­ried next June. And we read it daily. The founder, Char­lotte, is also a Coulson Macleod cus­tomer. So how could we refuse?

We sent them our ‘Wed­ded Bliss’ & ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ typo­graphic lime­stone prints.

Their pho­tos from their blog are so lovely we’ve put them here for you to see too.

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Rock My Wed­ding fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod lime­stone art

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod Wed­ding: Save The Date
• Coulson Macleod Get Engaged

Add a little bit of Coulson. And a little bit of Macleod. Blend together. And what do you get?

Coulson Macleod of course!

Here are our Save The Date cards…

Recycled card­board. Hand-stamped typo­graphy. Popped inside a kraft envelope.

A little bit of typo­graphic art. Very Coulson Macleod.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod Wed­ding: Venue
• Coulson Macleod Get Engaged

It’s no secret that Coulson and Macleod are get­ting mar­ried. Which means we’re pay­ing far more atten­tion to wedding-related blogs and websites.

Before being engaged, I looked through the wed­ding blogs for more aes­thetic reas­ons. They are gen­er­ally beau­ti­fully styled. And yes, you get to spy on other people’s wed­dings, which is strictly a girl-thing.

One of our favour­ites is Rock My Wed­ding and we have a great rela­tion­ship with them. Not least because one of the founders, Char­lotte, owns one of our ‘Love Makes The Ride Worth­while’ prints.

Char­lotte even fea­tured the print on a post called Wherever I lay my (fancy) hat… that’s my home.

And we get many Rock My Wed­ding read­ers becom­ing Coulson Macleod customers.

But now that I’m a bride-to-be, I can’t get enough of their site. The design is great. The con­tent is fresh. And they main­tain a high stand­ard of the wed­dings that they fea­ture. All unique and lovely.

So the fact they were extremely keen to col­lab­or­ate with us made us very happy.

So, if you fancy win­ning one of our new ‘Love Unlim­ited’ prints in time for Valentine’s Day, go on over and check out Rock My Wed­ding to find out how.

Want to intro­duce you to the amaz­ing work of Christina Looker and Alissa Ross (a lovely Face­book friend) who run Made u Look, wedding/engagement pho­to­graph­ers based in Cali­for­nia. I’m so in love with their style.

Please let me live in their world…

And do check out their blog too… gorgeous.

“What is love?

To solve that riddle with just one answer is bey­ond me, for love is many dif­fer­ent and con­tra­dict­ory things.

In the early stages love is excite­ment and breath­less­ness, it is the ache of sep­ar­a­tion and the com­fort of togeth­er­ness, and it builds inex­or­ably to that moment when ‘I’ becomes ‘we’.

Later, if blessed, love becomes a stronger, less trans­it­ory thing, a found­a­tion for two lives lived as one.

It is all around us, there for the tak­ing, yet to seek it out is futile.

It can­not be bought or stolen or given.  It can­not be avoided or denied.

Love is the beau­ti­ful, won­der­ful, mys­ter­i­ous mor­tar that binds two souls together and I first heard its voice on the day I met you.

It has been with me every moment since.

This is what love is.”

Love Birds card cour­tesy of Ruby Wren

Writ­ten by Coulson Macleod.

Now I usu­ally only write about things that get me going, hence why it’s called Macleod’s Mus­ings. I like a little bit of vin­tage, a little bit of con­tem­por­ary design, and quite often just ran­dom bits of girly loveliness.

But I’ve been politely nudged (actu­ally more like heckled) to write about this online magazine because basic­ally they’re shame­less pro­moters. And I’ve suc­cumbed because they’ve been very good to Coulson Macleod. Our per­son­al­ized art was fea­tured on their Gift Idea page and they also got us onto the US wed­ding site Wed­ding Gawker.

So I intro­duce you to Staggered, whose edit­or­ial mis­sion is: Wed­dings. Blokes. Sorted.

Yes, Staggered is THE place for men get­ting mar­ried. Or dream­ing of get­ting mar­ried (I’d like to believe that some men do dream of this).

Staggered says, “So, if you’re look­ing for the sort of wed­ding advice that wins you Brownie Points from the lady in your life, guid­ance on wed­ding suits or speeches, or how to make the hon­ey­moon go with a bang. Or you simply want to read some­thing that makes you laugh: that’s what Staggered is all about.”

Staggered claims they can help to make mar­ried life go more smoothly. And as I like their illus­tra­tions and their witty banter, I’m all for believ­ing them.

See Coulson Macleod in the Winter 2010 issue of the US glossy magazine Wed­dings Unveiled — Inspir­ing Style for South­ern Weddings.

Wed­dings Unveiled fea­tured The Stone Roses, a lim­ited edi­tion canvas-mounted giclee print, avail­able to buy in three sizes.

Wed­dings Unveiled also have a really lovely look­ing blog, full of inspir­a­tional wed­ding ideas and amaz­ing real weddings.

No not my wed­ding, but the name of a very cool UK wed­ding blog Rock My Wedding

Char­lotte, who also hap­pens to be the pret­ti­est bride I’ve ever seen, has writ­ten lovely things about Coulson Macleod’s Love collection,

“Well, well, well.  They are really rather gor­geous I must say.  A mag­ni­fi­cent idea for a wed­ding gift or just as a spe­cial Christ­mas gift to your­self.  And just how very cool would one of these look as décor at your Big Day — ima­gine the photo oppor­tun­it­ies. Beau­ti­ful right? I was think­ing of schedul­ing this post for next week at some point but then real­ised they are in fact lim­ited edi­tion, only 250 avail­able in each design and then they are ALL gone. And believe me they are already selling like hot cakes. Get thee on to the Coulson Macleod web­site pronto.  There are lots of con­tem­por­ary pieces of pretty to inspire and admire.”

Couldn’t have said that any better!

I know that a couple of our pieces from the Love col­lec­tion have been bought as wed­ding gifts.

Which made me real­ise that I hadn’t sent any info to any of the wed­ding blogs or magazines — I have effect­ively missed an entire mar­ket.  Crumbs!

Which in turn got me think­ing that they’d be very pop­u­lar as a Valentine’s Day gift too.  Not even Christ­mas and I’m think­ing of next spring.

So much to do, so little time!