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…