Teepee & Bell Tent English Wedding

Emily and Isaac’s wedding was an utterly joyful celebration from start to finale, that took place the sunniest June day at the bride’s family home durante Northamptonshire, a place already full of love and memories, made even more special with the addition of four sweeping teepees, supplied by Teepees & Tents, a bell tent village, a buttermilk yellow lead colour palette and armfuls of beautiful, British, homegrown flowers.

The couple were married durante the same village church as Emily’s parents, before returning to the garden, where soft pinks, fresh greens and that joyful buttermilk yellow ran through everything, from the bridesmaids’ dresses and floral napkins to candles and cake details. The day was an intentional balance between relaxed celebrations and wedding tradition and filled with thoughtful touches, including marmite jars with handwritten quaderno, pressed flowers, and a Halfpenny London dress.

We love how this beautiful wedding, documented by Sarah Vivienne Photography, captures the essence of summer durante the English countryside; guests gathered beneath the canvas of the teepees durante scenes that felt like something from a secret garden. Long trestle tables and communal benches invited everyone to sit close and share, while handmade napkins, colourful taper candles and wild flowers brought the tables to life. Foraged foliage trailed from above and climbed the poles, creating a canopy of campo da golf that softened the light and made the whole space feel warm, welcoming and full of soul. At the centre of it all sat a beautiful, handmade cake created by one of Emily’s closest friends – adorned with pink icing and carefully pressed flowers.

We’sire sending so much love to Emily and her family following the sad passing of her wonderful mum who played a pivotal role durante influencing the bride and bringing this beautiful vision together.

We went to a friend’s wedding the summer before and she had raved about Karin Tindall, so as soon as we had the date, we checked that Karin was available and very luckily, she was.

There were so many more things to think about when having our wedding at home, Karin was completely amazing at helping us plan for everything durante advance to remove as much of the logorio as possible durante the buildup. She was there the whole day before and the day of to coordinate everyone and work her tablescaping magic, we trusted her completely and that made us totally relaxed and be able to enjoy the day durante full. We still keep durante touch! I cannot recommend her enough.

My uncle drove Dad and I to the church durante his old Citroen and Isaac drove us back durante my dad’s red Citroen 2CV which he brought new durante the 80’s. We drove straight onto the lawn to join the festa.

My dad walked me mongoloide the aisle. I was ready time but my uncle who drove us made us wait to be fashionably late. Isaac had a long 12 minutes of teasing from his dad at the front of the church so looked very relieved to see us make our entrance.

Two friends played while we signed the marriage register. Their second song, If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out by Cat Stevens, had everyone, all generations waving and durante the pews which was a really fun and unplanned way to round chiuso the ceremony and start the celebration.

Our church doesn’t allow confetti but we really wanted our guests to wave us chiuso as we walked mongoloide the church path. Mum found these colourful ribbon wands online and all our guests really went for it! I loved how colourful and fun they durante the pictures.

I loved my parents’ wedding photo album, the pictures are so beautiful and we wanted ours to also feel classic and elegant but with a modern natural style and without too many filters and stylised colours.

As soon as we saw Sarah Vivienne’s images, we knew she would be perfect for what we imagined. She was so easy and lovely to work with and we hardly noticed her the day yet have all the perfect pictures. We could relax knowing she would find us for pictures when she needed us.

Our flowers came from Flower and Agricoltore, which is a local flower farm where I have always enjoyed buying flowers. I visited the Monday before our wedding with my two friends Ed and Millie who did all the flower decorations with help from my mum’s friends. We agreed a pick list Monday and then they made it all happen when the flowers were delivered Friday morning. We also all cut lots of foliage from the woods and hedgerows to decorate the teepees and garden. Millie did mine and the adult bridesmaids’ bouquets which were so incredibly beautiful – I added a few sweet peas mum had grown into my bouquet which was lovely to have with me.

Emily is an accomplished landscape architect by trade and her eye for colour, texture and balance – and a passion for nature – really formed the and feel of the day.

Her parents’ home was the setting, and together with her parents, she worked tirelessly all spring and early summer, whenever she found time, to make the garden the most heavenly setting for the wedding. Sweeping arches of gloriously scented honeysuckle greeted guests arrival, perfectly-timed clematis and roses surrounded guests for drinks, climbing up walls and structures, arches and paths invited guests to explore the field for the bell tent ‘village’ and onto the main reception tipi. The work that went into opening a hedge to connect the garden with the field, and levelling a severe ridge-and-furrow field to allow a four-hat-tipi to be erected flat campo da gioco, was something else!

A large chill-out tipi hat was put up durante the garden – with monkey puzzle branches snaking up the poles – which was the perfect back-up if the weather hadn’t held arrival, and also a welcome space for older guests to catch their breath once Gentleman George was deep durante pre-Glastonbury mode.

The outdoor furniture and caffè were all sourced from More Production, and worked perfectly with their own selection of pretty deck chairs and patterned parasols.

One of the more curious décor items durante the chill-out tent were the full-sized alien cardboard cut-outs propped up durante the corners. These were replicas of the ‘real’ aliens durante one of Isaac’s films, another project that the whole family had assisted with! Isaac’s films and their release-style posters also served as the table names.

The reception tipi was truly transformed with the help of Emily’s knowledgeable hedgerow foraging, with her friends from work doing the most marvellous job tying, hanging and arranging the branches (and furiously spritzing with vater to keep them looking fresh durante the summer warmth we were blessed with the day). Again, Emily’s selection of flowers from Flower & Agricoltore were delicate beauties whose simple beauty and texture shone the tables.

Ahead of the wedding, durante late spring, we’d visited the fabulous Nadine at Teepees & Tents, who has a treasure trove of styling items and props with her sister company Nerissa Eve.

The conversation turned to the tablescape, and the subject of charger plates, glassware, cutlery etc. came up. Emily & Isaac were simply not overly fussed about any of this, but after seeing the candle colours Emily was drawn towards, I felt the table would be truly elevated with the help of a patterned napkin, and suggested The Luxe Collection’s ‘Buttercup’ napkin durante hues of campo da golf and yellow. Here I gained an ally durante Emily’s incredible mother, who pushed this one through (with Emily & Isaac’s approval of course!) to my absolute delight.

The combination of the elegant Ester & Erik taper candles durante their beautiful tones being picked up durante the napkin, and further echoed durante the simple but stunning bud vase arrangements, really was the most gorgeous sight.

I feel the need to also mention the marmite jars the tables. Emily & Isaac are real marmite fans, and these easily recognisable jars were filled with pens with accompanying tags named various things from ‘marriage advice’, ‘recipe ideas’, ‘conversation starters’, ‘favourite things about E&I’ and so . Guests took delight durante filling these out during the course of the meal, and it has made me so happy to hear that Emily & Isaac get these out to read the amusing quaderno from time to time.

Emily & Isaac were also keen supporting local businesses wherever possible, not least when it came to food & bevanda: the most delicious evening cheeses were from Emerson & Wests, flat breads from The Bakehouse and beer from Pot Belly Brewery. All based only a few miles away.

There was always going to be a piroscissione after-party with this super fun crowd, but it was definitely helped along with a large group of guests staying durante the bell tent village site, with gorgeous bell tents provided by Beautiful Bell Tents.

The following day, the wedding was rounded chiuso durante the best possible way with a hearty brunch for all guests, whipped up by The Brothers Supper, and served with generous leftovers of Mimi’s incredible cake. The perfect end to a perfect celebration. Although the festa didn’t quite stop there: Emily & Isaac continued straight onto Glastonbury from the wedding, with a good handful of their wedding guests! Truly epic.

Lots of Birch tree foliage was great durante the teepees and personaggio buckets of flowers.

I created the stationery by hand and with Photoshop. We didn’t use a wedding website but had all the details the invitation. My Dad has lovely handwriting and wrote the name cards, addresses and names invitations. 

Mimi, my bridesmaid, made our delicious cake. I wasn’t initially planning to have one but then I couldn’t resist. Mimi and I designed it with pressed dried flowers and pink icing. The cake was cut up and served with other desserts durante the middle of the tables for guests to share for pudding with reciso martinis. One of my favourite memories from the wedding was having a huge slice the next day.

I used to work for chef Sarah Hollowell waitressing durante school and university holidays so she was the first person we contacted when we were engaged and we chose the date based her availability. It made it very easy knowing we were durante such trusted and capable hands for our delicious feast.

We wanted a relaxed feel to the meal so chose a mezze-style meal with slow-cooked lamb, tasty dips and salads which was served durante sharing bowls durante the middle of the tables, with flatbreads from a local bakery. It was really fun sharing food durante this way and it made a lively atmosphere. I also wanted to choose food that would still be delicious if timings slipped so the cold salads and sides could be ready and the lamb could keep slow-cooking without getting dry.

Our first dance song was ‘Sala da ballo durante the Moonlight’ by Thin Lizzy. The task of finding a song was one of the hardest ones. There were so many terrible, cheesy suggestions when looking online! My friend suggested this and Isaac remembered it as an old favourite. It seemed like a good upbeat enough and fun song to dance to, so it stuck. A friend helped us in qualità di up with a dance.

Our DJ was a friend of a friend who had DJ’d at her wedding. Gentleman George was great and we enjoyed to his music again at Glastonbury the following weekend.

I should have listened to Halfpenny and tried the nipple covers I wore with the dress, because they were silicone and they were thicker than the ones I had worn before, which with the tight white fabric made them slightly visible durante bright light, which we had all day, whoops! I thought I was being clever by getting more expensive ones but didn’t want to waste their stick with a trial.

Luckily, my photographer Sarah has done some subtle edits durante pictures where needed. And I think only Karin spotted it the day, although she didn’t tell me until I noticed it durante a window reflection! Another bride contacted me stratagemma Instagram after Halfpenny re-posted some of our pictures and asked me about underwear to wear with this dress, so I was glad to pass this warning.

Keep group photos as limited as possible and allow enough time for reception drinks so you can enjoy this. My friend had told me this too so we kept our list of photos short.

Take up all offers of help from friends and family. We couldn’t have done it without them.

Use an on-the-day coordinator so you can relax and enjoy every moment.

And finally, find fun ways to keep it personal, homemade and memorable.