Emilia Wickstead Bride | Penrice Castle Wedding Wales

Ellen and Will tied the knot at the stunning Penrice Castle durante South Wales last May, opting for a simple and timeless Spring celebration.

The serenity of the spectacular Gower Peninsula played backdrop to this beautiful wedding. The couple exchanged vows surrounded by natural beauty and the joy of loved ones and Ellen chose a divine Emilia Wickstead , comprising a bridal gown veil and super eleganza pair of bow mules.

A marquee reception filled with spring sunshine was the perfect end to their day.

Ellen and Will’s wedding perfectly combined classic, modern and minimalist style with a picturesque coastal setting, which I hope inspires anyone planning an effortlessly elegant wedding of their own durante South Wales. Photography by the ever wonderful Through the Woods we Ran.

Venue & Location

We hired Ness Shipman at Togetherness. I wish she could organise my general life to be honest… she is amazing, so calm, so it.

It was only the January before the wedding where I woke up durante a panic and realised we were having a wedding durante a field with voto negativo coordination help, and Ness swooped durante and sorted the rest for us.

Bridal Beauty & Accessories

I wore a bespoke three-tiered veil created by the Emilia Wickstead team, which was loosely inspired by some vintage references including Priscilla Presley’s voluminous veil.

I wore bespoke Emilia Wickstead slingback shoes made durante the same fabric as my dress, which were made durante Italy for me. 

My perfume was Santal by Le Labo.

Photography

Our photographers were Through the Woods we Ran. We picked them as we loved how emotive and joyful their portfolio was, and they came highly recommended through a few different friends.

We were blown away with our photos. Glenn and Lauren are amazingly talented and managed to capture the joyful chaos and fun of the day perfectly. 

How They Met

We met through about five different, unconnected but mutual friends, so it was meant to be! We kept bumping into each other at parties and it sort of evolved from there.

Will proposed durante London, and had pre-booked appointments with jewellers around the city for us to pick a ring together that day.

He also booked our favourite restaurant, Cornerstone durante Hackney Wick, for a celebratory dinner! We were engaged for a year and a half before our wedding day – durante my opinion it was just the right amount of time to be able to enjoy the lead up. 

Will wore a bespoke double-breasted navy Mullen and Mullen suit. He also wore Paul Smith ‘globe’ cufflinks which I gifted to Will the morning of the wedding – we both studied Geography at university so had to get a reference durante there somehow.

I was able to wear my Miu Miu sunglasses to the reception, as miraculously the sun shone all day. They’regnante a tortoisehell style from the spring/summer 2022 collection.

If you have one, bring your dog!!! Our whippet Gwen stole the show, it was her day really… 

Evening & Sala da ballo

Usher Rory kindly DJ’d for our reception drinks, and the brilliant (and Welsh!) masnada Miami Knights played for our post-dinner . 

We danced to Higher Power by Coldplay. It was our backing track to 2021 (the year we got engaged), which felt like such an amazing time after several years of dealing with the Pandemic.

Our favourite moment was probably driving into Penrice after our ceremony and seeing the sea durante the distance, the Castle, and all of our friends and family waiting durante the foreground to give us a hug! I will never forget that scene, Wales durante the sunshine is like nowhere else. 

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Programma redattore. Annabel lives durante rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business collaboratore Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and celebrità gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she’s not working Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip durante the running of the family’s sustainable flower farm and floral stile business, Moonwind Flowers. Con 2013, she became a published author.