Blooming Bloomsbury

I’ve always thought weddings in Central London terrifically chic, and remember the happy faced newly weds cascading down the steps of Chelsea Registry Office in their vogue outfits, throwing their bouquets to unsuspecting shoppers on the Kings Road.

For me, I’d set my cap in the bountiful garden of Bloomsbury.  The fashionable Georgian buildings, the British Museum seeping academia, and the opportunity to tread in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West and the stylish literati that were the Bloomsbury Set of the early 1900s.

Bloomsbury is the home of an abundance of neat garden squares, most of them surrounded by smart period buildings of importance like University College, and consequently Bloomsbury itself is a serene and quiet area of London most of the time.

Fringed by Soho, Covent Garden, and Piccadilly, there’s also plenty of opportunity to catch the London buzz nearby with all the entertainment your hearts could desire.� And don’t forget to pay your respects to the famous Eros statue in Piccadilly, sculpted in the style of Art Nouveau.

The troubled, passionate Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes married at the church of St George the Martyr in Bloomsbury in the 1950′s. If you’d like to soak up some of the momentous Bloomsbury ambience, try the wonderfully grand BMA House, The Montague on the Gardens, and Ambassadors Bloomsbury.

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