Hola Mallorca! You are a feast for the eyes indeed, especially when your beauty is captured by the purveyor of fine photography, Leo Patrone. And this bash is so beyond your everyday destination wedding. We could seriously stare at the chandelier clad trees and cheeky signage all live long day. Join us and take a pretty trip to Spain via the gallery.
see more of this Spanish beauty here!
Right from the start we knew that we wanted a relaxed wedding with a garden party feel. In the UK we don’t always have the best weather (!) so we knew we should make the most of the Mediterranean climate! We wanted to create a midsummer nights dream atmosphere, so knew that we would need fairy lights and soft lighting around the garden. Initially we had hoped for the wedding breakfast tables to be scattered around the garden, amongst the trees. However, in the days leading up to the wedding it seemed that the British climate had followed us and rain was predicted for our big day…not to be beaten, we hastily arranged for a marquee to be set up in the garden so that our guests could enjoy the wedding breakfast under cover. Thanks to the ingenuity of our caterers, they were able to build the marquee around a 200 year old olive tree in the garden, which was then decorated with love hearts and fairy lights. It really was an amazing feature. As it happens, the sun shone throughout our big day and there wasn’t a rain cloud in sight! It did however help having the marquee as a focal point for the festivities.
We always knew that we didn’t want to be tied to a colour scheme – we didn’t want to detract from all of the beautiful colours and plants in the garden. Instead we opted for muted, antique style colours – for example, my sister Rebecca wore a mink Dessy bridesmaid dress with gold shoes and a dusky pink flower in her hair, and my Kurt Geiger shoes were lilac with a pink trim. The flowers matched this relaxed theme, with lots of pale greens, soft pinks and whites. Our florist Andrew from the Black Rose did an amazing job of creating a ‘just picked from the meadow’ effect for the centre pieces. In the months leading up to the wedding we’d spent weekends gathering antique glass bottles which were then used as vases in the centre of all of the tables. Each table had 5 or 6 bottles of all different heights.
My lovely Dad passed away 3 years ago but it was important to me that he was still part of the day so I set up a table with photographs of members of our family on their wedding days and used different photo frames obtained via antique shops and ebay to display them. It meant so much to be able to look over and see a picture of my Mum and Dad on their own special day, over 30 years earlier.
When our guests were sipping champagne cocktails and eating Mallorcan canapes on the roof terrace immediately after the ceremony they were treated to the sounds of two amazing spanish guitar players who our brother-in-law Kike found performing in the streets of Palma, Mallorca. They really set the tone with their funky take on a classic spanish sound. We decided against having a band or DJ in the evening and instead hired a sound system and hooked up our laptop so that we could play from a pre-prepared play list. Putting the playlist together was actually the hardest part of the wedding preparations! Thankfully the preparation paid off as little did we know we would need enough music to keep our guests dancing until 6am!! After much indecision we eventually chose ‘At Last’ by Etta James as our first dance together as husband and wife.
Photography: Leo Patrone Photography / Dress: Amanda Wakeley from Quello in Kenilworth, Warwickshire / Bride’s shoes: Kurt Geiger / Groom and Best Man suits: Ted Baker / Groom’s shoes: Paul Smith / Bridesmaid dress: Dessy / Bridesmaid shoes: Office / Catering: Tot a Punt Catering in Manacor, Mallorca / Flowers: The Black Rose, Mallorca / Guitar players: amazing street artists from Palma in Mallorca! / Hair: Pula Suites
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I absolutely adore this wedding. The location, the decor, the attire, everything is so beautiful! The photographer, florist, and baker did such a beautiful job. I absolutely adore every single photograph. So happy to see that the bride wrote the post so that I can know even more about the day. Love the use of family photographs. And how did I forget? The chandelier is beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing!
-Abby
What a lovely wedding! I especially like the chalkboard sign and the square cupcakes. Those cupcake tags are hilarious!
Beautiful as always! :)
The David Bowie mask! Where, oh where, did you get that! I LOVE it! It simply has to make an appearance at the photobooth at our wedding...
Gorgeous!
i adore this - so pretty & fun! what a beautiful wedding!
Oh this is beautiful! I especially love the "Let them eat cake" signs, so fun!
A fabulous modern wedding with perfect timeless touches! The kind of wedding anyone would want to be a part of! Choosing to have your own playlist was the icing on the cake to personalize every last detail. Amazing job!
Fine looking warm colors. Sunshine everywhere!
This is a stunning wedding, absolutely gorgeous, love all the styling choices. Mallorca is one of my fave places too,
Would you be able to tell me where the venue was?
Rachie xo
Wow, such beautiful images! Leo Patrone is such a master too, great seeing his photographs.
Wow, I cannot get over that chandelier! Everything was so beautiful though. What a stunning day!
well, color me inspired! Love this wedding! Plus the bride is really pretty!
This is wdding is so lovely. Can I ask where did you get those gorgeous cupcake tags?
Beautiful wedding! And those streets... I want to be walking down them.
Wow... I love this wedding! Soft colors and the lighting is perfect! Well done Leo!!
Omygosh, absolutely LOVE this wedding!! It's super vibrant, and I love it!! Makes me want to go to Spain. Gorgeous Bride and details..
♥
What a gorgeous wedding! I love how subtle the bride's makeup is... soo European of her! The hanging chandelier makes such a beautiful accent. And wow to how your playlist worked... I'm considering doing that for my wedding to save costs on the DJ! glad it worked for you
Looks like it was a fantastic day... what a beautiful place! :)
Hello from Mallorca, I work as a wedding planner on the island and the church is one of the most beautiful and certainly the most original, a very nice wedding.
WOW! What an incredible wedding - I can't believe how beautiful the surroundings were! Love the little dessert signs, adorable!
Wow, never worked in Spain - need to change that - beautiful
Love this!!! We are getting married in Mallorca too!! October 1, 2011. Hope mine is as beautiful as yours!!
love the details in this wedding and the gorgeous couple! what paper company did you work with for all the tags and signs?
Amazing http://www.destinfloraldesigns.com/ " rel="nofollow">wedding!!! You inspired a lot of us.. Make me think of getting married. = )
Love, love, love, love, LOVE this wedding. I knew the couple were British and I am always so proud when our UK couples fly photographers out for their weddings-it proves we do have awesome taste.
Congratulations Debbie & Gavin & Leo Patrone too. You know you're amazing!
Beautiful wedding! Can the beautiful bride please tell me where she found her vintage suitcases? I am in search for some and have yet to find any I like. Please help!
what a stunning celebration!!! loving the little details
This looked like a fun and romantic wedding! Gorgeous location and I loved all the fun little details. Those chandeliers were gorgeous!
Hello, Debbie the bride here! Wow, thank you so so much for all your lovely comments - they have really made our day! We're sat here grinning from ear to ear :)
Just to answer a few of the questions...the David Bowie mask was one of a selection of masks bought from the Cox & Cox website - the dress up box was lots of fun, highly recommended! I forgot all about it until I saw the oversize sunglasses and wigs make their way to the dance floor as the wine started to flow...
We made the signs ourselves using free fonts downloaded from the internet - always on the look out for a bargain!!
We were very lucky with the vintage trunks as these already belonged to my husband's mum - I think you should be able to find something similar on ebay though? Or perhaps second hand shops?
The cupcake flags and luggage tags numbering our tables (hung around the necks of the bottles) were all bought from craftypagan on Etsy - I don't think we had any cupcake flags left by the end of night - our guests seemed to like them a lot too!
Our wedding ceremony took place in the Esglesia Nova in Son Servera, Mallorca. The town basically started building it but ran out of resources, leaving the Church in 'ruins' and without a roof - it is such a lovely and unusual venue, I still can't quite believe that we got married there when I see the photographs. We had the reception and evening party at my husband's parents' house in Costa de los Pinos - would definitely recommend having a wedding at home if you can - it was so chilled out and relaxed but the downside is that even the Bride has to roll up her sleeves to tidy up the day after!
I also have to mention Shannon Cutri at April Ink (another Etsy find!) - she did our invitations, ceremony programs and menu cards - she was AMAZING and came up with an incredible design for the ceremony programs - I still can't believe that I forgot to get photographs of them!
Finally - Leo Patrone was FANTASTIC! What a talented guy, and so lovely too. He was an absolute pleasure to share our day with and we're both so grateful to him for all of his hard work - he really doesn't stop all day! His work is incredible - so thank you Leo for making me and Gav look good! ;)
Rebecca Mas - so pleased to hear of another Mallorca Bride! I had lots of doubts about getting married abroad but I can honestly say it was the best thing we ever did - I'm sure you will have an amazing day. Let me know if you need any information on anything wedding related at all - we've got some fantastic contacts and I know how difficult it can be to organise things from the UK so I'll be happy to help!
x
Hi Rebecca, I'm wedding planner in Mallorca if you need help contact me!Thanks!
Congrats on your amazing day and absolute perfection of a wedding!!
I will be getting married in Mallorca too. My desire is to have my wedding turn out as beautiful as yours!
Did you use a wedding planner? How did you get started? You must have had a lot of knowledge of the island and who to contact, is this true?
Thank you for sharing your information and your breathtaking day.
Cheers,
Jennifer
Dear Jennifer!
YES what lovely photos - and what a nice wedding indeed!
Les us sugegst a good wedding planner in Mallorca. Please contact us! The team at Mallorca-weddingplanners.com and Magicmed.com would love to make your dreams come true! We are a very professional and helpful wedding and event planning agency based in Palma de Mallorca.
We have been on the island for nine years and know most of the islands nooks and crannies and have more than 300 venues that we work with on a continuous basis.
Let us know what your budget is, what your favourite venue might be like and how many people you are thinking of inviting and we can suggest some great options for you.
Please feel free to browse our Photo Gallery under the About Us and The Venues section at:
http;//www.mallorca-weddingplanners.com - and for corporate events and incentives, weddings you can look at our main page www.magicmed.com too.
Our mobile main number is +34687934707 - Please feel free to call us too!
Kindest regards Charlottem Paul and Linda
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
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