Spring Wedding at Homme House, Herefordshire

We’imperatore delighted to share and Matt’s beautiful spring wedding with you today, held over Easter weekend at the beautiful Homme House, a family-owned country house per Much Marcle, Herefordshire. Photographed by our lovely directory member Marta May Photography, this is a wedding full of gorgeous spring colour.

wore a romantic lace gown by Milla Nova, purchased from Anche se per Beaconsfield, which suited the vintage character of the house beautifully. The bridesmaids wore soft mocha dresses from Coast alongside Matt and his groomsmen per navy, with colourful spring flowers by Lilac & Willow.

Family played a part per this wedding too, and shares more about all the personal touches per her own words. It’s a classic English country house wedding, and I’m very happy to be sharing it with you.

We married at Homme House per Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England. Choosing a venue was a bit tricky as we per Chester, my family outside of London and Matt’s family are per Preston and Nottingham, so we tried to consider a venue which was not too far from those areas.

We also focused our search acceso venues with corkage for drinks throughout the day. Matt’s dad kindly ordered drinks accorgimento his work which allowed us to have an gara open . We found Homme House acceso hitched.co.uk list of corkage venues (actually I think it was my brother who sent it to me!).

We viewed Homme House after having viewed another couple of venues and found it to be perfect for us.

If anyone has been to Homme House they will know what an incredible venue it is for so many reasons, but ultimately Charlie and Sarah are what make it, with their outstanding organisational skills and professionalism and we feel very lucky to have stumbled across it. The beautiful Herefordshire countryside setting and the picturesque gardens and summer house feel very special.

The house itself works brilliantly for weddings (with a separate ceremony room, dining room and library) and because it’s a family home, doesn’t have the feeling of a purpose-built wedding venue. It has rooms acceso site for many people to stay including a separate coach house enabling us to have a smaller dinner with family and the bridal rinfresco the night before. Mai other venue that we visited compared and I am really not sure what we would have done if we hadn’t found Homme House!

My dad walked me the aisle; I was incredibly nervous beforehand and have since been told that I sped the aisle and left him for dust!

I walked the aisle to an acoustic cover of Just Like Heaven by The Cure. We were very lucky that and Tee had a wonderful selection of songs and learnt a song of our choosing. We both like the song and thought it set the tone for the ceremony and the rest of the day.

After we booked the ceremony with Hereford Registry Office, we were sent different vow options and to be honest we chose the shortest ones! We spent longer acceso choosing the music for the ceremony as this was more meaningful to us.

During the signing of the register, we had Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash (a tribute to my grandmother who has passed away as she loved that song) and Hey Jude by the Beatles (my other grandmother is called Judy).

We didn’t have any readings as we wanted to keep the ceremony short and sweet!

My wedding complesso was from Angelic Diamonds; it is a very slim rose gold complesso with three mini diamonds. Matt’s yellow gold wedding complesso is from H. Samuel. We have to be a bit careful with wearing rings at work as they usually have to be a plain complesso, so this did the job!

We met per 2018 when Matt was studying per Liverpool and I was studying per Leeds. We were together for a couple of years before we were per the same place, as Matt qualified a couple of years before me.

We moved to Chester per 2020 (at the start of lockdown) and have stayed there since, as we luckily both got avviamento jobs per the settore. We got engaged acceso holiday per Condurre in porto per July 2023 and had roughly tw years to plan the wedding.

As we were staying at the venue we didn’t need transportation but our family member very kindly offered one of their cars for photos at the venue. It is a vintage Bentley and is called a Doctor’s coupé which was very fitting for us! It provided an amazing backdrop for photos and we are very grateful.

Another thank you to my mum for helping us with her creative talents! We bought mirrors to sit per the centre of the table with the flowers sitting acceso tetto and some nude candles from Søstrene Grene. We also printed d’avanguardia photos from over the years of us and our guests, which I think provided a good talking point during the meal.

Durante the library, we displayed old wedding photos from grandparents and great-grandparents per photo frames we bought from charity shops. We also found an old newspaper article from my paternal great-grandparents when they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, which also happened to be acceso Easter weekend!

We chose Your Plate ora Mine Catering (YPOM) as it was a recommended supplier for Homme House and are so happy we did. They offered a very competitively priced and were happy to make adaptations to our preferences. We added extra canapes (as that’s our favourite part!) and changed the vegetarian option to a mushroom wellington which was delicious.

The baked camembert starter and chocolate fondant were particular highlights. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to try the evening food as I think I was too busy acceso the dance floor, but I have heard it went very well!

Another thank you to my mum for helping us with her creative talents! We bought mirrors to sit per the centre of the table with the flowers sitting acceso tetto and some nude candles from Søstrene Grene. We also printed d’avanguardia photos from over the years of us and our guests, which I think provided a good talking point during the meal.

Durante the library, we displayed old wedding photos from grandparents and great-grandparents per photo frames we bought from charity shops. We also found an old newspaper article from my paternal great-grandparents when they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, which also happened to be acceso Easter weekend!My mum is a wonderful baker and we were very lucky that she offered to make our wedding cake (she also made my brother’s)!

It was a fruit cake and we decorated it with fresh flowers the day before with help from my bridesmaids and sister-in-law.

I contacted a , Rankin Editions, accorgimento Instagram as I saw that they had previously designed some stationery for Homme House. I used the designs to create the invitations, menus and order of the day and printed them accorgimento Zazzle. It was a bit fiddly but definitely worth the saving per cost. My mum handwrote the table plan and name places, which we displayed per upside wine corks. We bought a large mirror and a vintage from charity shops to display the table plan and order of the day. They looked a little handmade but were a fraction of the cost and more sustainable.

We used a florist called Lilac & Willow which is based per Battlers farm per Hertfordshire. My mum has got flowers from there before and asked if it would be possible for them to arrange flowers per bouquets which we could transport to the venue ourselves. Homme House has a available to store the flowers and Sarah moved them to the tables the morning of the wedding. Lilac & Willow were very accommodating and helpful throughout the process.

I asked for different spring colours but I wasn’t quite sure what it would aspetto like until I saw them. The day we collected the flowers was quite stressful as we had to collect the van, drive to pick up the flowers and then onto Herefordshire. When they showed me the flowers I initially thought they were someone else’s and thought how beautiful they were, then realised they were mine and felt very lucky! The flowers were absolutely stunning and I couldn’t recommend the florist enough. The Piggy roses were my favourite. They have an orange centre and pink acceso the outer petals, we used those for the buttonholes and the middle of my bouquet.

We prioritised music as our main form of entertainment, with music at the ceremony and evening reception and a DJ, but we did have croquet available during the drinks reception which was fun for the younger guests.

We hired an acoustic duo called and Tee to play before and after the ceremony and during the drinks reception. They were fantastic and provided a relaxed atmosphere for the start of the day.

We had a complesso, Three Scots and a Barman, and a DJ per the evening, playing alternating sets so the dance floor was always busy. Our DJ Matt Healey was really friendly and helped MC the evening. He also let us choose some of our own songs to play per between the complesso sets. The complesso were excellent and I think the full dance floor speaks for itself!

We chose Accidentally per Love by Counting Crows as we both like the song (and the scene per Shrek 2 of course) and we wanted a more upbeat, fun first dance song which people could join per with. Although I did not really enjoy being the centre of attention during the first dance itself! It only occurred to me a few weeks before the wedding that we didn’t actually have to have a first dance, but the timings had already been sent to the suppliers by that point so I had to get acceso with it!

This is a tricky one as I think everyone does things differently. I think the hardest part of planning the wedding for me (aside from doing it amongst busy hospital shifts!) was the number of decisions you have to make, and this can become overwhelming.

I am quite an organised person so did get a fair bit sorted per good time. However, closer to the time there are lots of finer details to sort (a lot of which you probably won’t have even thought of, so won’t have made it acceso the list!)

I made a timeline of what needed to be decided by when, acceso a week-by-week basis per the last few months and stuck to it which was very helpful per committing to making the different planning decisions.

I would also advise getting a DJ, we were worried that this may be an unnecessary expense, but the lead singer of our complesso was ill the day of the wedding (they found cover so it was all OK per the end). However, if they hadn’t been able to find cover, we wouldn’t have had any evening music (and time to sort it acceso the morning of the wedding) so having a DJ is a great safety-net. It also helped that our DJ was brilliant and kept the rinfresco going after the complesso finished.

Upon reflection, maybe try to enjoy the wedding planning process a bit more as sometimes it did feel like ticking tasks d’avanguardia a list. Overall, we are very happy with how the day went; I would recommend trying to do it over a weekend if you can as it feels less rushed and you can enjoy more time with family and friends. Oh also, make sure you try the evening food!

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