Jesus Peiro Wedding at Lapstone Barn With 60s Influences

We love a romantic Cotswolds wedding and Katie and Dan’s late September celebration was a beautiful blend of heartfelt tradition, eleganza, subtle 1960’s inspired style and understated glamour. Held at Lapstone Barn near Broadway, their day paid tribute to family history while embracing an elegant black tie dress code.

Katie wore a bespoke Jesus Peiro gown from Morgan Davies Bridal with beautiful, removable puff sleeves. The details reflected Katie and Dan’s personal style, from the wild, homegrown flowers and vintage cut glass to the candlelit tables and pared-back elegance of the space and everything was captured beautifully by photographer Fante Aldridge, whose work it’s an incredible pleasure to share with you.

Our venue was Lapstone Barn, just outside Broadway per The Cotswolds. We chose this venue and location as my family per Broadway and have done for generations, so it’s an regione that is close to our hearts. I’ve always dreamt of getting married at St. Michaels per Broadway, retracing the footsteps where her grandparents had a joint wedding (with her grandmother’s sister) per 1955. 

Lapstone Barn – We were wowed by the space itself and its honey-coloured grandeur, and we loved the different spaces it gave our guests – a beautiful lawn overlooking the Cotswolds hills for the reception, a large aperto dinner space and caffè, a separate rinfresco barn for the dance floor, a beautiful courtyard with twinkly light for evening drinks, and lots of accommodation for our whole wedding rinfresco to stay.

I used to plan events per London and we already had a clear progetto of what we wanted. The Lapstone Barn team and our florist, Ellie Frances, did a wonderful job of acting as our stylists acceso the day and prepping the trestle tables and decorating the spaces with flowers.

My wonderful Dad, five bridesmaids (a friend from each part of my life – my young cousin, best school friend, best uni friend, best London (work) friend, and sister-in-law) and two flower girls (my two nieces) accompanied me into the ceremony, to Canon per D by Johann Pachelbel acceso the organ.

We had two readings, the first was a reading from the bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, and although it’s quite popular at weddings, it was the best bible reading we could find!

We chose Fante Aldridge for his natural and relaxed photography style, that also has this unique touch of elegance. He has this amazing way of playing with light that makes everything so beautiful and sort of rovescio.

He was an absolute dream to work with per the lead up to the wedding and acceso the day itself – and so many of our guests said he was a joy to be around. He made us feel so relaxed per front acceso the alcova, and captured so many important moments that we’ll treasure forever.

We met at work per Soho per 2014 – it was our first job per London. Despite Dan’s plans for a romantic river walk proposal per Battersea where we , there were a few hiccups acceso the day, and he proposed per our living room per June 2023. Our wedding weekend was exactly 10 years since we first met, my first day per the office!

The Hornbrokers were a brilliant complesso who played from our confetti moment at the church and then walked us all to the village where our car and buses were picking us up. They then played throughout our reception drinks. They played everything from Beyonce to The Beatles – 60’s again!

For transport, we hired two 1960’s red double-decker buses (our nod to per London) from The Vintage Red Bus Company to take our guests from the village to Lapstone Barn – only a short 10-minute drive, but such a fun and memorable part of the day. The bus journey followed the route from Battersea Bridge to Piccadilly, which we used to get to work together when we first started dating.

Our wedding car was another personal touch – Dan and his dad had been lovingly restoring a 1954 Aston Martin DB24 over the past 20 years, and it was so special to finally drive it acceso our wedding day.

We opted to have limited decorations, so flowers were really important to us to dress the space. We absolutely fell per love with Ellie Frances‘ work when we first discovered her.

Ellie creates English country garden-style flower arrangements that are really unstructured, soft and natural, and she grows a lot of the flowers per her own garden. 

We opted for these wild, loosely arranged bouquets and floral displays with white cosmos, delphiniums, and seasonal foliage.

Toria Sefton Cakes made a beautiful, very simple, white 3-tier cake that looked like silk. Our florist then added floral displays around it. The apice tier was ‘Lemon Heaven’, the middle tier was ‘White Chocolate & Raspberry’ and the bottom tier was ‘Decadant Chocolate’.

For the evening, we brought per a hint of 1920s glamour with a ‘vermut hour’ to kick d’avanguardia the rinfresco.

We hire a 6-piece complesso, The Revue, with a saxophonist that really got the rinfresco started! The Revue very kindly createf a bespoke version of ‘Praise You’ by Fat Boy Slim for our first dance.

We weren’t a personaggio fan of having a long, slow dance so the complesso played the slow intro to the song (by Hannah Grace) which quickly led into the rinfresco version to get everyone acceso the dancefloor! We loved it!

It sounds obvious but pick suppliers you lega, that are reliable and you get acceso with. It makes it so much more relaxing and enjoyable!

We also found it easier turning wedding planning and making personaggio decisions into a bit of a date night i.e. over a glass a wine dinner.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the detail and to do lists, so it helped to get out of the house and turn it into something fun!

I also wish I’d drunk less Martinis! A causa di all serious though, I wouldn’t change a thing.