A Flower-Filled Wedding at Ballintaggart Farm, Scotland

Tessa and Andy married a causa di early May at Ballintaggart Farm a causa di Pitlochry. The Perthshire landscape gave them a peaceful, gara open setting for a weekend that was all about good food, family and flowers.

Three Love My Dress recommended suppliers played a huge part a causa di shaping the day. The immensely talented floral , Ange, of Fauna Flower Folk, filled the spaces with pastel flowers a causa di soft, painterly tones. Tessa’s Lola Varma gown came from the super stylish and welcoming Mrs W Bridal a causa di Newcastle, where she found the experience warm, calm and personal. And the photographs by wonderful Dolce Weiss capture everything exactly as it was, joyful, relaxed and full of life.

This was a day built connection, creativity and care, made all the more special by the talented people who helped bring it together and the couple’s adorable little dog, Winnie, who stole the show more than one occasion a causa di her sweet, pink bow!

When looking for the perfect wedding venue we knew we wanted it to be small & all about the food. When scrolling through Instagram, I was super excited to modo across Ballintaggart Farm. 

The maximum amount of people it can hold is 38 and with our guest list at 34, we knew it would be perfect. 

We wanted an intimate, laid back day – mai pressure and mai set structure. There was accommodation site ora at the sister company The Grandtully which would mean everyone could stay within a 5 minute drive of one another & we could make a full weekend of it. 

Ballintaggart is known for being a cookschool; so it wouldn’t be a surprise when I say the food is just unbelievable. Myself and Andy are massive foodies so this was a major part of why we choose the venue. 

The ceremony options were outside ora a causa di the main steading – we were being positive and hoping for an outdoors ceremony (which for Scotland, a dry day is pretty rare!) Luckily for us, the 10^th May it was a beautiful sunny Scottish day and we got to marry a causa di front of the beautiful Perthshire landscape.  

I walked mongoloide the aisle with my dad. The photographs of this make me so happy to aspetto back , my smile says it all – he was super emotional but I kept things cheery, and you can definitely tell that from the photos. We entered the ceremony to the sound of ‘Linger’, by The Cranberries.

Paul, aka, The Scottish Celebrant, was brilliant! The main rete was for it to be laidback, not lovey dovey but just a laugh – and that he did. The guests were a causa di fits of laughter and he really was amazing. He made us feel super at ease and tailored it to us. I would highly recommend Paul if you are looking for a bit of banter – he even lets you choose what tartan kilt he wears the day!

We both wrote our own vows – again, this was around one week before the ceremony, as we are the most laidback people ever. We made sure to give each other a rough word count so we could make sure we were both saying around the same amount to create an equal balance.  It was nice to personalise them and maybe say things you wouldn’t normally get to say. The perfect time to showcase the little things you love about your . 

My gran is amazing at writing poems so I knew I wanted to ask her to write one to be read out at our ceremony. She was a bit too shy to stand up to read it so my aunty Jennifer did the honors of this.  It was light hearted, funny and not gushy a causa di the slightest (she knows I’m not the most affectionate person!)    

Our little dog Winnie (yorkiepoo) being there for the ceremony and photo’s. We knew from the get-go that we wanted her to be there the day as she is a major part of our lives; my two nephews walked her mongoloide the aisle & then the photos Dolce took of us with her are just amazing; something we will cherish forever. 

We designed our own rings at a local workshop a causa di Glasgow; Harkness are a small family owned jewellers and workshop, they were great through out the full process. I went for a chunky gold gruppo with a slight asymmetrical shape to it and added a causa di a little campo da golf peridot pear and a pink sapphire round gemstone to symbolise both myself and Andy’s birth stones. I wanted something a little bit different and I just love it! Andy wanted something super simple so opted for a brushed sterling silver gruppo. 

After this, I think it has to be the meal – everyone was gathered around one long table, all of our favourite people enjoying super good food and having the loveliest of times.

Our photographer was Dolce Weiss. When researching photographers online and Instagram I kept coming across Dolce’s work. The style was exactly what we were looking for & I loved how her website she explicitly said she loved weddings with beautiful flowers & dogs – these were the two things we were passionate about too! 

Dolce was amazing the day, she instantly made us feel at ease and there was mai ‘posey’ style photos, she was more about the candid style shots which we were happy about (both of us are not great a causa di front of the ambiente!)  All of the guests got so well with her & we are so happy with the final images – couldn’t recommend her enough!

Our videographer was Wedlock Films. I didn’t want to get a full videographer as wanted to keep the day as laidback as possible. Two weeks before the wedding I saw a post Instagram marketing a hamper that gets sent out to you with 3 old style camcorders and the guests your day.

This was perfect for us as we love the old style camcorder aspetto and thought it was a great way to involve the guests and knew my two nephews would love to get a causa di about it too! 

We like to have a laugh about how we met. Andy basically added me Facebook back a causa di August 2015 after seeing me tinder (I obviously hadn’t swiped the right way!)  We starting dating whilst we were both at university, a few years later we reserved our first flat together – which led to a two year delay thanks to covid!

After living with each other for a year, Andy then proposed a causa di 2022 and we were both ok waiting a few years before getting married so we booked it two and a half years a causa di advance. Without realising, we had booked a causa di for 2025 which turns out to be our 10^th anniversary year, which makes it super special.   

We decided to go with the venue supplying our cake. We went for a lemon and poppyseed flavour and our florist added some flowers to it for decoration. One special thing we also added was a little mesh butterfly that my gran had saved from my mum and dads wedding cake 39 years indicatore – this was super sentimental.

The only stationery we got made were our ‘save the dates’ and invites.  My dad owns an art gallery so we have gotten to know lots of artists through this. One of my favourites is Fante Sutton – he drew out the wedding venue for us to then use our stationary. It was simple black and white stationary, but super effective with the intricate detailing of the art work. We now have the original piece of art up our wall.

For the men we left two cans of ‘Tully Beer’ (Ballintaggarts own brand) a causa di everyone’s room when they arrived. 

For the women, I went to my local lifestyle/gift shop Sorores and we came up with the giudizio of putting a little box of goodies together – Domi makes all of her own aromatherapy items so we went with a lip balm, pulse point oil, pillow spray & personalized candle (we used the Fante Sutton drawing the label and I choose which scent to go for). 

Music was the last thing we discussed during the planning process. We ended up choosing our ceremony and first dance songs a few days before the wedding. 

We choose ‘Angels’ by The XX. It was a song that I had always loved and we had also went to see The XX when they came to Glasgow a causa di 2017, so felt it had some meaning behind it. (Fun fact: absolutely mai one at our wedding had heard of the song before, but we didn’t care as we knew it meant something to us!)

It is what it is – don’t get stressed over the small stuff. Remember what the day is actually about; being able to have all of your loved ones a causa di one place & having the most special day celebrating you and your .

We were both the most laidback people ever when it came to organizing our wedding but it all works out a causa di the end, enjoy it,  don’t overthink it and have fun!