Tag: wedding-diary

Craft July 2016

Post Haste: Reflecting on Tailored Wedding Tails

After eight fittings and many months of anticipation, Editor Tom Chamberlin’s marvelous bespoke morning suit finally gets its big day…
Code June 2016

Wedding Tails: Dress for a Wedding

Editor Tom Chamberlin invites Rake readers into his fitting room with favoured tailors Kent, Haste & Lachter.
Code February 2016

WEDDING TAILS: PARENTAL GUIDANCE

This is the more politically sensitive entry into this blog. Today we are talking about the in-laws and how to work with them successfully. I promise you one thing, it will be…
Code January 2016

WEDDING TAILS: THE DATING GAME

'Have you set a date yet?' this question, along with 'How did you do it?' and, 'Let me see the ring?' is the great triumvirate of post proposal questions. Prepare yourself for…
Code December 2015

WEDDING TAILS: Ushers to Ushers

Anyone who tries to convince you there is no realpolitik to choosing your groomsmen is not to be trusted. Having spent six weekends this year at weddings of close friends of mine,…
Code November 2015

Wedding Tails: The Proposal

Who says men can’t plan weddings? Well, most people, but that isn’t going to stop Tom Chamberlin. The Rake’s Deputy Editor is getting married, and in the first of a series of blogs…