From Fiona, the lovely bride…

On each table there was a pink wine glass with a small paper butterfly perched on the glass as the name card to again tie in with the garden party style of the day. I had bought lots of pink painted tea glasses from a recent trip to Marrakech (they were so cheap, I think I got them for about 20 pence each (about 40 cents) I think and they looked like they cost so much more!) and these were used to decorate the table. We had candelabras as the centre pieces and these were filled with roses, hydrangeas and ivory. At the entrance to the marquee we also scattered rose petals and lavender so the smell when everyone walked in was amazing!

At the end of the evening just as we left each guest was given a pack of matches with our names and the wedding date on and a huge sparkler, I wanted fireworks but the budget didn’t stretch to that so I thought that this worked just as well. It was so much fun, particularly as people got carried away and quite a few were set off in the marquee!

{and finally, some shameless bragging on SMP…I couldn’t resist}

In terms of my inspiration – honestly, it came from Style Me Pretty. I absolutely love the website and really it is so much better than anything you get in the UK (that was one of my biggest frustrations with the wedding, everything I liked was from the States!). All of the weddings on the site are so so beautiful and detailed, the colour palettes and ideas were just incredible and I wish that I could get married 10 times over so I could use all of the ideas I collected! The weddings featured really inspired me and I love the fact that no matter what the budget the weddings are beautiful.

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From the bride, Fiona…

The pink theme ran through the day – bridesmaids dresses, flowers, ushers ties, wine glasses, pink lemonade, pink champagne, pink ribbon to tie the order of service together, rose petals etc. The favours were small packs of mints that had ‘mint to be’ written on them in pink along with our names. I actually got them from the For Your Party website in the States.

I didn’t want a formal meal (in The UK everyone seems to go for meat and vegetables!) so for the wedding breakfast we served sausages and mash and we served the chocolate wedding cake as part of the desert. We then had a tiered cheese cake which we served later on in the evening.

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The Double-Decker, the fresh from the garden style flowers, the pretty pink bridesmaids…oh my. You’ll see throughout the day just how sweet this wedding was, filled with intimate little details, feminine charm and a sense of family that you just can’t deny.

From the gorgeous bride, Fiona…

I got married in Yorkshire on 13th September. I had always wanted to have my wedding reception at home so Tom and I got married in our local church, just up the hill from my parents house and then everyone was brought back down to the house in a vintage bus for a drinks reception on my parents lawn followed by the reception in a marquee we had put up in the farmers field behind our house!!

It had been the most awful summer here and had rained constantly. The marquee even had to go down a week early to try and dry out the field as it was so water logged. I was convinced that our wedding was going to be a very wet day and had even bought stacks of pink golf umbrellas because I was certain we would have rain along with pink wellington boots for me and the bridesmaids incase we had to walk through puddles, but amazingly the sun came out and we had a dry day!

More to come!!

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Before I show you all of the beautiful details, I thought these pictures of the bride getting ready were absolutely gorgeous…

All of the absolutely, tear-inducing gorgeous photographs were captured by Mark Wallis. There are no words for how beautiful some of the pictures are that we are going to feature today, I only wish that I could show you ALL of them.

From the bride, Fiona…

I wore a strapless beaded wedding dress and once I had the dress the style of the day really came together. I love sparkle so I wanted it to be twinkly day!

I had shoes custom made by a fantastic place called Emmy shoes in London to match the dress and bought extra dress lace so that it could be put onto the front of the shoes to match. I also had custom made Swarovski covered converse trainers for the dancing (more sparkle!)! I had Bride written on one shoe in crystals and Mrs Crompton on the other, they were a real talking point during the dancing!

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