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What this is

Heart, Love & Weddings is about the making of a wedding rather than the planning of one: the trades, the skills, and what a fixed date does to the work.

A wedding is a production with an immovable date and no rehearsal, assembled by a dozen people who have usually never met. A dressmaker fits a garment across months of a changing body. A florist buys in the dark, days early, for flowers that must peak on one afternoon. A baker builds a structure that has to survive a warm room. A stationer sets type. A photographer works a schedule handed over that morning.

Twenty-eight entries are grouped into eight trades. Each entry takes one problem — the load path under a tier, the angle of a cut stem, the grain direction of a folded card — and describes how the trade solves it. There is no advice here for anyone organising a wedding and no directory of suppliers: this is written about the work, not for the customer.

Start with The four o'clock market, or browse all twenty-eight entries.