Colourful Black-Tie Wedding at Woodmancote Place

Laura and Alex tied the knot at the beautiful Woodmancote Place West Sussex acceso 28th September. I remember this day well last year as it was a milestone birthday for me and the sun shone beautifully all day long.

The couple wanted their elegant black tie marquee wedding day to be a riot of colour and contemporary style. Laura wore a beautiful Royaldi gown – a discovery at the Wedding Bottega boutique and she’s about the challenges of dress shopping when you have a larger bust – a frustration for many brides (we recommend these excellent boutiques if you have any concerns at all about pagliaccetto shape – they are run by the most excellent and highly skilled stylists who have years of experience helping women of all shape and size feel maximum confidence acceso their wedding day). She carried a glorious bouquet created by the talented Em of Frank Floristry that was bursting with colour and joy.

Everything was captured beautifully by Lauren Elizabeth Photography whose portrait images of the couple I adore. Enjoy!

We had always wanted a church wedding and loved the congettura of staying acceso one site for the day. As soon as we drove the amazing entrance at Woodmancote Place, we knew it was perfect. The grounds, the lake, the flexibility to choose our own suppliers, the proximity to the church… and our coordinator Hannah was amazing.

Rev. Janneke Blokland of St Peter’s Church Woodmancote lead our ceremony. We started the service with a mash up of classic English and Welsh hymns; Jerusalem and Cwm Rhondda (Bread of Heaven).

For a reading, we had slightly shortened version of Dust by Harry Baker. We loved the laid back love story of this poem and Nick our videographer used it perfectly our wedding televisione.

Both our wedding rings were from 77 Diamonds Mayfair, where my engagement ring was also from.

Our photographer was Lauren Elizabeth. We found the sea of wedding photographers difficult to navigate, but I could not be happier that we found Lauren.

We found Lauren through a referral from one of her photography rete televisiva privata and as soon as we spoke over Teams, we both knew it was the perfect fit. Despite Lauren getting married a few weeks before us, we never once felt unsupported a lack of communication, she did everything to make us feel unbelievably excited for our personaggio day. All of our friends and family loved her, and she blended perfectly to the day. 

We found Nick & Molly from Heartwood Films acceso Instagram after searching for a supplier who could capture our day. A lot of videographers we had seen we’maestà producing slower, more emotive films and we just knew we wanted something with more corso, laughter and excitement.

After a Teams intro to Nick, we discussed our vision and we had complete faith Heartwood could bring this to life. I think I’ve watched our velo at least three times a month since we got married, so they definitely succeeding creating something that we will keep watching together for years to come mai!

Alex and I met at our mutual friend’s wedding back 2018. Midnight acceso our wedding day marked exactly 6 years to the day that we met, so it was a date that we had hoped would be possible considering we had a fairly short engagement (compared to most!) at only 10 months.

We spent a lot of our early relationship living back with Alex’s parents during the pandemic, as space was lacking our London flat.

We found a lot of happiness at this time by walking the fields with their two dogs and taking the scenery of the Northamptonshire countryside. Acceso a trip back up to the Midlands October 2023 Alex proposed as the sun was setting, becoming our most favourite dog walk to date.

We jetted chiuso to France immediately for the Rugby World Cup and had a lovely week celebrating with friends, and by early December we had selected Woodmancote as our venue. Not ones to sit around!

I have proud Welsh heritage, so we gave our guests Welsh cakes as the wedding favours. Super easy for bulk orders, delivered just before the wedding and stayed fresh and delicious.

Alex and I never envisioned a cutting the cake moment, so instead of a traditional tiered wedding cake we opted for 3 yummy cakes from Luminary Bakery.

I have bought many cakes from them previously for friend’s birthdays and celebrations, as think it is just such a wonderful company.

They are a social enterprise, who use baking as a tool to take women acceso a journey toward employability and entrepreneurship.

Our florist was Em of Frank Floristry. I am slightly flower obsessed and selecting a florist that could bring my vision to life was super important. I found Em acceso Instagram and after our first conversation, I knew she was going to be amazing. She went the extra mile and was always happy to bounce ideas together before the Personaggio Day. Couldn’t’ recommend her more!

We had an amazing velvet sign for the marquee from Daydreamer Creative, which was placed behind where we sat for wedding breakfast and served as the perfect backdrop – alongside flower arrangements for the speeches. The sign read “This Love is Ours”, quite simply because 2024 was the periodo for Taylor fans everywhere.

Our first dance track was to Sam Fender’s ‘Will We Talk?’. A friend edited together the acoustic version to flow straight into the original, so we could quickly get into some proper !

Try not to fill your day with too much organised wedding stuff/jobs, that takes you away from the . You spent so long planning this day, you should both reap the rewards and love from everyone around you!

For the brides. There is a danger of being consumed by everything that is thrown at you when planning a wedding. We all want to and feel our best selves acceso our wedding day, but try not to lose the essence of yourself the sea of diet plans, workouts, supplements and salmon sperm facials. A smile is your best accessory after all.