This garden wedding inspiration shoot is filled with pale blue hues and pinks of every kind, exquisite cakes and sweet treats displayed on cut crystal, tea for two in pretty, mis-matched china and a pony in a tiara! Yes, really.
Real couple Grace and Marc (who just celebrated their one year anniversary) got to indulge in all things pretty, pink and romantic for the day thanks to the talented team of Orlando wedding creatives behind this shoot.
Join me in obsessing over the floral pocket square (such a creative alternative to a boutonniere!), Grace’s fresh faced make up and bridal bun and these beautiful photos by Bumby Photography.
If you’ve signed up for the awesome publication that is the Rock My Wedding newsletter* then you’ll already have seen a sneaky peek of the epicness of this morning’s wedding. We couldn’t hold back any longer, after all we’re practically half way through this month (I know! Already!) so this morning we decided to share this fairytale of a wedding with you.
Trust me ladies, if you’re of the bohemian, ethereal, hippy fairytale persuasion then this one is for you. There’s also a splash of Moroccan adventure and festival fever in the mix as well. Anyone that reads the blog regularly will know that I’m a sucker for exquisite florals and this beauty of a wedding is no exception; I adore Sarah’s bouquet and the table centrepieces slot perfectly into the overall vibe of the laid-back decor.
But it’s Sarah’s sartorial choices that have blown my mind. Her dress, veil and headpiece are quite possibly my favourite to ever appear on the blog and given the plethora of pretty that appears on these pages daily that really is a bold statement to make.
Honestly go see for yourselves…
Standlow Farm
Sarah The Bride:From the very beginning of our planning we knew we wanted a venue we could hire for a long weekend that could accommodate all our immediate family and close friends so the fun could last as long as possible. We also wanted it to be in the Peak District, even though we both live in Manchester we spend a lot of time in the peaks and it’s somewhere that’s close to our hearts. This resulted in what felt like the longest venue hunt in the history of wedding planning.
Just as we felt like giving up we found
Standlow Farm near Ashbourne. It couldn’t have been more perfect, 5 beautiful cottages, a farm house, a games room and a huge paddock to put up venue hunt number two – the amazing Tepees!! It also meant we could invite all our guests back the next day for a BBQ.
The Tepees were supplied by the even more amazing
Papakata. As soon as we saw them on one of their open days we knew that nothing else could even come close. The
Papakata team have got to be the best company I have ever had the pleasure to work with. They are so passionate about what they do and just want to share the love, they made everything really easy and there was always an excited and enthusiastic helper at the end of the phone whenever we needed it.
Au Natural
I did my hair myself on the day, I have quite long hair and I knew that wanted to wear it down as it really suited the feel of the wedding so I really didn’t need anything doing to it. I had my make-up applied by Kevin’s sister Grainne; she is a qualified make-up artist which was very handy.
It was really important to me on the day that I looked like me; I don’t wear lots of makeup normally and I had a few trials that didn’t go well but Grainne understood exactly what I wanted (without a trial) and I felt amazing. I had my nails done at Selfridges a few days before, French manicure isn’t very me so I just went for very pale pink gel nails to avoid the chipping that normally happens within minutes of nail varnish coming anywhere near me!
Grainne also did all the bridesmaids’ hair, I wanted them to have something quite unstructured and she came up with idea of using plaits which looked brilliant and really suited the look I was trying to create. This was probably the easiest part of the planning, I trusted in her skills and just let her do what she thought would look good and the results were stunning.
Simple Silk Chiffon
I work as a personal shopper and love fashion so the dress was always going to be a really important part of the whole experience for me. However once I started the big dress hunt I realised that I don’t really like wedding dresses. I know to a lot of brides this sounds completely crazy but every dress I put on I felt silly in, I felt like I was playing dress up and nothing seemed to work.
Then I found a beautiful vintage dress purely by chance which I snapped up but it needed a lot of work to make it fit and look the way I wanted it to, sadly in the end it wasn’t meant to be. This as all you brides can imagine was pretty heart breaking, 5 months before the wedding I had to start my dress hunt all over again eeeek!!
I remembered being recommended
Silk Brides in Lichfield by someone early on in the dress hunt process and went on their website, I couldn’t believe it but they had a sample sale on the next day and as fate would have it they had one slot left. My sister came with me; I went through all the rails and pulled only one dress out. A simple silk chiffon gown by
David Fielden, I came out of the fitting room and my sister burst in to tears and said that I had to have it, I took one look in the mirror and I knew she was right.......
