All About Wedding Candles

A wedding without any candle is so not a wedding. It is hard to imagine a very significant day - a religious ceremony - without the soft glow of candles that create solemnity and romance into a wedding ceremony. Wedding candles serve different purposes and meanings. Read this article and you will know all about wedding candles.

All of our quality designer candles for weddings can be personalised with the names of the bride and groom and the wedding date. Create a wonderful personalised wedding gift keepsake today and give the loving couple the endearing memory that is a personalised wedding candle to remember their special day. Ideal for wedding table decorations, wedding centrepieces or personal wedding gifts for Mother of the Bride and Groom and bridesmaids as cherished mementos for all to remember that special day.
We also have an extensive range of candle favors which can be matched to the main pillar candle or given as favours to your guests, friends and family. Alternatively they can be used as part of table decorations in conjunction with floral displays. 

The unity candles are usually used to symbolically unite the bride and groom, as well as their family during the wedding ceremony. Representing the couple, the two tapered candles are often placed on the side of a larger pillar candle, on a small table on the altar. They will have to be located where the couple can easily reach them. Anyone from the family or wedding attendants can pre-lit the side, taper candles during the ceremony. The ceremony officiate should give comments about the significance of the unity candle during the lighting ceremony. After which, it is the turn of the bride and groom to light the unity candle, which the flame symbolizes their new life together as husband and wife. The taper candles on both side may be left burning or extinguished.

Memorial Candles

Memorial candles symbolizes loved ones who already passed away, but significant in the lives of the couple. These candles may also be placed on the same table as with the unity candle, or on a separate table intended for memorial candles only. The memorial candles doesn’t need to be uniform, just like each person had his/her individual personality. Usually, each memorial candle will be noted with a name and relationship to the bride and/or groom.

Candles as Wedding Decorations

Romantic in nature, candles as wedding decorations can create an intimate effect in a wedding. Considering them as your wedding decors, you can find different types of candles with different designs, colors and scent that can make a perfect accent both in the ceremony as well as reception. You can find large candelabra, which are just an exquisite décor, available in many shapes, styles and finishes. Another thing why candles are a favorite choice when it comes to decorating a wedding is that, they are actually cheap! You can row votive candles along ledges, or make the centerpieces on your reception tables - cheap yet dramatic!wedding candles

Sheds Direct - Quality garden sheds

From the very first garden workshop we built in 2000 till now – every garden shed built by Sheds Direct has shares the same DNA. Built to last. That’s our unique approach for every quality Sheds Direct shed we build.garden sheds

Thicker frames, sturdier doors, thicker felt, thicker tongue and groove (T&G) walls and floors using only pressure treated sustainable tanalised wood…

And because we build them ourselves – we are able to build to your custom garden shed requirements. Want a 30’x12’ garden workshop? No problem! Door locations, number and location of windows, height of roof, overall size of your shed… If you have something specific in mind – just call us.sheds direct

We ask every customer to give us feedback. Every single one. Our score? 100%. Every single customer for whom we have built, supplied and erected a quality garden shed, has been delighted.

Check out our reviews on our Facebook site, lower down this page or dotted across our website.

Garden shed price guarantee

Our quality and durability far surpasses most of the sheds you’ll find elsewhere. Just look at our photos. Yet we work hard to keep our costs down. In fact we guarantee you will not find similar quality for a lower price.

Common garden sheds we make

We make every type of shed you can imagine, common examples include; dutch barn garden sheds, apex garden sheds, pent garden sheds, garden workshops, garden summer houses, potting sheds, dog kennels and many other garden storage solutions.

Do we deliver?

Our lads have delivered, prepared bases and erected garden sheds, dutch barns and garden workshops across the UK. From the south to the north, east to the west.

When you order a garden shed from us we make sure you get the shed you want, and agree the right date to deliver/erect. We work hard to make your shed buying process as good, happy and stress free as possible!.

How long do our garden sheds last?

We’ve been building quality garden sheds across the UK for over 14 years. We’d tell you we get lots of repeat custom - but the truth is our sheds last so long we only get repeat business when customers leave their garden sheds behind in a move!garden sheds

Personalised Mugs: Manchester Style

Mug. It’s a verb, meaning to attack. And it’s a noun three times over, as an alternative to ‘face’, ‘fool’ and ‘cup’. It’s the latter that we’re most interested in here, specifically personalised mugs. They’re a great personalised gift, based on the fact they’re both fun and affordable. So here, we take a look at all things Manchester, with both Coronation Street mugs and Manchester United mugs under the microscope.Personalised Mug

Personalised Corrie mugs come in two different designs. Both are dishwasher and microwave safe and printed in full colour on a high quality, white, 10oz ceramic mug, with the first focussing on Weatherfield’s red bricks. This red-brick pattern features the Coronation Street sign on one side and the drinker’s choice of beverage on the other. Here, you can specify various tea, coffee and hot chocolate, the degree of ‘milkyness’ and the amount of sugar or sweetener.Keep Calm Mugs

The second of the personalised Coronation Street mugs follows exactly the same principle. The only difference being that instead of the red bricks, you’ve got a photo of the Rovers Return. Both mugs are completely official and fully endorsed by ITV, making them cooler than a cut-and-dry at Audrey’s hair salon.

And what about the Manchester United mugs? Just like Corrie, you’ve got a couple of styles to choose from. The first features a photo of United shirts hanging up in the dressing room. Alongside Giggs, Ferdinand, Rooney and Berbatov, is a shirt with your chosen name on it. Underneath the picture are the words, ‘Manchester United 2010/11 Premier League Winners’.Keep Calm Mugs

The second design actually has 12 different prints to pick from. Basically, they are all back-page reprints of famous Manchester United reports from the Daily Mirror. The selection available covers a range of eras, including that of Sir Matt Bubsy, the club’s 1983 FA Cup win over Brighton and plenty of more recent moments under Sir Alex Ferguson.

As you’d expect, there is also a massive selection of other personalised mugs to choose from. On the one hand you’ll find things like ‘moody’ and ‘emotion’ mugs, while on the other there’s officially licensed Loose Women, Dancing On Ice, I’m a Celebrity and Beano mugs. The name-in-image mugs, meanwhile, cleverly integrate the name into any one of 30 photos. Some of the more popular options include the Loveheart mug, various footy designs and numerous Sci-Fi versions. And, of course, DJ Dog also goes down a storm! Personalised Mug

Garden Sheds Movie Stars

sit silently and quietly performing their admirable jobs within some great films. We at  want to ask you this question; would the film have been the same if the sheds weren’t in them?garden sheds

Although chickens are usually stored in coops in the film ‘Chicken Run’ the chickens actually live in little sheds (Sheds Direct prefer building fabulous quality large sheds). The fear of being turned into chicken pies drives the incredibly intelligent chickens to create a giant flying bird to make a getaway. I wonder if any humans have tried making a flying bird inside their shed. Imagine if they’d had a large dutch barn to build their flying bird in! Not only would they have had more room, but it would have been so much more pleasant to look at too.

Within the prisoner of war camps, sheds were their homes. As you can imagine, living in your garden shed can’t be easy or comfortable, especially having to share it with 40 or so other men. So it’s inevitable that they will want to escape! With cunning they used their shed as a camouflage to dig a deep tunnel from their sleeping quarters all the way out of camp and into nearby woods. Have you ever wanted to escape from your home into your garden shed – and if so would it make a good film? If so, let Sheds Direct know your thoughts!

This is one of the only films using a garden shed in the way it should be. To fix your car! There are not many of us who can design and build a flying car which can also float (as per ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’) but it’s probably a little realistic than making a giant flying bird. Remember though that in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, Caracatacus Potts’s father was captured in his shed as he got abducted by Vulgarian spies. This film is one of only a few where garden sheds have been used in musical cinema.

In the film ‘The Thing’, arctic scientists lock their fellow doctor (Blair) in the tool shed fearing he has been infected. Not happy to sit around Blair begins constructing a spaceship in a recess below the garden shed. However Mac Ready, the helicopter pilot, guaranteed it would never take off. How? He did this by blowing it to pieces with a stick of dynamite. What ingenious or daft inventions have you used your garden shed for? Let us know here at sheds direct as we love good garden shed stories, as well as those regarding dutch Barns garden sheds

PERSONALISED WEDDING CANDLES:

All of our quality designer candles for weddings can be personalised with the names of the bride and groom and the wedding date. Create a wonderful personalised wedding gift keepsake today and give the loving couple the endearing memory that is a personalised wedding candle to remember their special day. Ideal for wedding table decorations, wedding centrepieces or personal wedding gifts for Mother of the Bride and Groom and bridesmaids as cherished mementos for all to remember that special day.wedding candles

We also have an extensive range of candle favour which can be matched to the main pillar candle or given as favours to your guests, friends and family. Alternatively they can be used as part of table decorations in conjunction with floral displays.wedding candles