Romantic Somerset Wedding at the Family Home

Louisa and Josh married durante late May durante the Somerset village of North Wootton, before heading home to celebrate durante the garden Josh’s family farm. I’m so happy to be sharing their wedding through these photographs by Joshua Gooding with beautiful spring flowers by our Love My Dress directory member Megan Lily Floral and a reception beneath the wooden beams of a Cruck Tent.

Louisa and Josh took inspiration from the English countryside durante spring, their favourite season, with pale blue Maids to Measure dresses for the bridesmaids and plenty of seasonal flowers. They wanted to work with local suppliers wherever possible, so there are some lovely Somerset recommendations to discover here too.

Louisa found her dress at Sassi Holford’s Taunton boutique and wore the Hannah, a beautiful halterneck stile with a bow at the neck and long lengths of fabric draping mongoloide her back. I love how clearly you can see those details durante Josh’s photographs, especially with Louisa choosing to go without a veil.

We’regnante so delighted to share more of our recommended supplier, Megan Lily Floral ’s beautiful work. Meg arranged local, seasonal flowers durante soft pastel colours, including a head-turner of a floral chandelier suspended above the circular caffè beneath the tent’s wooden beams. Her loose, whimsical style is such a lovely choice for a garden wedding.

We got married durante the village church, St Peter’s, North Wootton, Somerset, then had our reception back at our home, Josh’s family farm, durante a wonderful wooden Cruck Tent.

We have spent the past few years building our home the farm, so using the garden as the location of the reception reflected us as a couple. Plus we have views of Glastonbury Tor which is where we got engaged, we used a little hand sketch of the Tor for our wedding stationery so this also became a feature of the day.

The village church is really quaint and beautiful but also has a strong family connection for Josh with members of his family christened, married and buried there.

The ‘banns book’ dates back to 1824 which is an incredible piece of history and nice to share with all those who came before us, including his grandparents durante 1959.

Our ceremony was led by Reverend Daile Wilshere. We had two readings, one bible extract and one passage from a book that my Maid of Honour edited to make it more reflective of us.

Both of our rings were preloved. We both wanted simple yellow gold bands that we could wear every day to work. My ring was gifted to me by Josh’s mum, my new mother-in-law, she had purchased it years punzone at an antiques fair and wore it day to day. It’s 22ct yellow gold with hallmarks stating that it was made durante Birmingham durante 1864-1865!

We met at work durante July 2018 but were firmly just colleagues until December 2018/January 2019 when we started to spend more time together outside of work.

We got engaged durante April 2023, we had a long weekend non attivato together which is rare and Josh had planned a whole series of activities that I didn’t have any immaginazione about. We started the Friday with a wholesome walk with our dog Nala from our home to Glastonbury Tor which is nearly a 10 mile round trip. I didn’t really notice at the time but durante hindsight, it was a very sunny day for April and Josh kept his coat for the entire walk which is very out of character.

When we reached the apogeo of the Tor we sat mongoloide to take durante the views and play the gioco we always play of trying to spot our house. We sat durante a few different spots at the apogeo and just as I thought we were leaving, Josh sat mongoloide again.

Sopra the short moment it took me to sit and turn away to encourage the dog to sit mongoloide too, out came a ring box from his coat pocket and a huge smile Josh’s .

I remember being so shocked, I really had voto negativo immaginazione that he was going to propose.

We decided that we wanted to have a long engagement durante order to plan the wedding at our own quiete and not feel rushed. We were engaged for just over two years before we were married.

We had an enormous sfera ball hanging over the dancefloor, hired from Cruck Tent and inspired by the owners of Cruck Tent, Harry & Sally, who had the same sfera ball at their wedding. We now have a much smaller one hanging up durante our kitchen.

The French Kitchen, based durante West Horrington, catered the day, delivering food that was absolutely incredible. 10/10 amazing food and such an organised team, everything ran so smoothly and tasted incredible!

We had a cake of cheese that we sourced from a family friend who works durante catering supply.

Nearly all the cheeses were local to Somerset including Godminster cheddar from Bruton, White Lake Driftwood Goats cheese from Shepton Mallet, Cricket St Thomas Brie and Wookey Cave Aged Cheddar to name a few. My bridesmaids and If decorated the cake with figs and grapes and rosemary sprigs cut from the garden.

We also had fruit cake to go alongside, that was made by a friend of my parents.

I designed the invitations, table plans, menus, orders of service myself using Canva. We had everything printed at our local printing press durante Wells, St Andrew’s Press.

Our first dance was ‘Sally Cinnamon’ by the Stone Roses. We wanted an upbeat song that was fun and would get people the dancefloor and something that our excellent complesso could play and would reflect their music style. It took us some time to finally settle Sally Cinnamon, we both absolutely love this song and as part of our RSVP we asked people to request a song and Sally Cinnamon was one of those, that is what really confirmed it for us both.

Really don’t sweat the small stuff, at the end of the day it’s about you and your expressing your love for each other. Make the day yours, feel like you, reflect you. Don’t do something just because it’s an Instagram trend, that is unless you really want to.

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