13th DECEMBER UPDATE

Please note that Chloe & Eddie have requested that their personal pictures remain private and as such have been removed, the ceremony post has now been deleted.

Recently I showed you the ceremony images from the wedding of Chloe and Eddie , I am now delighted to show you some of the highlights from their reception. Chloe and Eddie decided to hold the reception at Eddie’s former home in Brentwood, the current location of the family business. The gardens are vast and hold  some amazing views across London to  canary wharf. I worked very closely with Chloe throughout the 7 months planning the wedding. Chloe explained that they wanted a very modern and contemporary wedding with little fuss, they wanted their guests to be looked after all day with food, drink and entertainment. We hired Mahood Marquees after seeing one of their weddings, we chose a white lining for the interior, white carpet, white dance floor and white linen. This ensured the modern feel to the wedding with no-one confusing it with a country fete design! Entertainment was a big part of the day with no less then 10 entertainment elements throughout the whole day (solo singer, organist, jazz band, pianist, evening band, mixologists, video diary, twist & pulse, DJ Spoony, fireworks). I think guests were left wondering what surprises were next. One of the highlights was surprising Eddie with Twist & Pulse half way through the first dance, his reaction was fantastic, I also loved that Eddie got up to sing with the band followed by his Father, Barry .

Entertainment: Jazz band, pianist, evening band, mixologists, video diary, twist & pulse, DJ Spoony, fireworks

Other Suppliers: Flowers, Caterers, Marquee, Lighting & AV, video, Photographer, stationery

This morning when opening my post I was delighted to find a CD from Alan Walter who photographed the wedding of one of my September clients, Chloe & Eddie . The shots are beautiful and I cannot wait to upload them and share with you but until then I thought you might like a teaser …..

13th DECEMBER UPDATE

Please note that Chloe & Eddie have requested that their personal pictures remain private and as such have been removed.

The marquee was very contemporary and pure white, not a smidgen of ivory in sight!

Photo credit: Alan Walter Photography

You may remember some of the beautiful shots from Sarah & Tom wedding in July and their twilight style engagement shoot.  The photographer used was the gorgeous, talented Kerry Morgan, someone I have worked with for 5 years and whose work just keeps getting better and better. Sarah & Tom wanted to create some romantic shots again so Kerry was happy to take them off on their own, the videographer also created some wonderful footage which I cant wait to show you at some point. Ok onto the pictures, I’m not going to comment, more let you enjoy the scene set by Kerry.

I’m so excited to bring you the gorgeous, wonderful, romantic images from Sarah & Tom wedding. You may remember them from their twilight style engagement shoot with Kerry Morgan. and their testimonial. There were so many to choose from that next week I will show you how Kerry created some stunning shoots when the sun was going down, again styled in the twilight style.  I had such fun working on Sarah & Toms wedding, they were a lovely couple and I miss them already.

The boys looked handsome outside Queens College, perhaps it was the perfect buttonholes Lisa helped them with?

In the meantime I helped Sarah with her coset, this is the first time I have had this responsibility but thankfully it was all ok on the day!

As you will remember from her engagement shoot Sarah is a bit of a rock chick so wearing fancy shoes was never going to be her style, therefore I think the heeled converse shoes were fabulous for her. So perfect and looked funky as well.

I love this shot outside the chapel, if only I could show you how beautiful the interior was.

We hired Manor House to play during the drink reception and dinner, we commissioned them to play some rock pieces which on the day went down a storm as guests tried to ‘guess that tune’, for more appropriate then playing classical throughout the whole day.

Inside the hall we used red & white flowers to decorate the tables, black & white stationery and black napkins, just these simple touches bought the theme to life.

The cake was again designed bespoke for Sarah & Tom even down to the lace ribbon to match the stationery.

Look out for more photos next week…..

Credits

Kerry Morgan Photography- the queen of wedding photography!

Joanne Carter Flowers

Katie Druett Stationery

Scattercake

Ok so we have covered the ceremony and the drink reception, it is now to show you how beautiful the grand hall looked. Again thanks to Mydas Photography.  We hired in linen, chairs, stage and dancefloor to totally change the feel of the room – this made a huge difference and worked well with the ivory & gold theme. Again all flowers were provided By Appointment Only Design and the stationery was from Sposini Wedding Stationery.

The cake was from the very talented Linda Fripp.

The music was provided by the fabulous The Soul Patrol and the dance floor was packed all night.

Credits: Mydas Photography

Last week I showed the ceremony for Tess & Gary married on the 10th July, today we are showing you the reception with the photography again supplied by Mydas Photography. It has been so hard choosing which images to show as there were so many beautiful detail shots so I plan to show you some more end of this week. The reception was held at the gorgeous Stapleford Park which is not only stunning, the staff are incredibly polite and efficient.

The drink reception was held in the gardens and the stunning orangery, By Appointment Only Design hung orchids from the top of the orangery and provided the gold day bed in the middle.

In the garden we had a very tall fountain again fromBy Appointment Only Design and used the base as a structure for the seating cards.

Credits

Mydas Photography

On the 10th July I organised the wonderful wedding of Tess & Gary whom I had been working with for 18 months. As always there were so many gorgeous photos sent to me by Mydas Photography so I have decided to split the highlights into 2.I love this shot up high showing the congregation and the bespoke aisle runner from Wedding Runner.

We hired the talented singers from tenors unlimited, this was a surprise act from Tess to Gary, they were wonderful.

The flowers on the day were stunning and so refreshing to have a colour other then pink, the talented duo fromBy Appointment Only Design created amazing displays, more evidence will be apparent when I upload part 2 of the wedding .

Next week I will highlight the unique touches put into play at the reception so dont forget to log on or subscribe so you dont miss the report.Credits: Mydas Touch Photography

At the end of August 2009 I planned the wedding of Josephine and Gordon in Newmarket. We had been planning the wedding for 2 years so it was wonderful seeing all our ideas come together on the day. I will miss our afternoon tea meetings with Josephine! Whilst Lisa was at the church I was at the marquee supervising the final design touches and welcoming the many entertainers we had booked. Next week I will highlight some of the suppliers used in this beautiful wedding.

We thought you would like to see their thank you as well:

I would highly recommend Dream Occasions, our wedding was a huge success, attention to detail was excellent and working with Bernadette was great fun.

Josephine & Gordon

Photo Credit: Kate Anderson

One of our couples is featured in the current issue of An Essex Wedding magazine. You can also see more image via here and here

In the final part of our report we show you how gorgeous the reception was.

It was amazing how difficult it was to choose photos for this post, there were so many wonderful detail shots to show you that cutting them down was hard. I hope however the below gives you a taster.

Aniela and Daniel

Tipis in the distance

Guests found their names via individual tags on a willow tree.

Name Tree

On the tables we used royal blue cloths which worked so well with the design and canvas of the tipis.

Tipi interior

Table close up

We rolled the napkins then tied with raffeta, the names were on luggage tags which Aniela stamped with little lovebirds.

Napkin

The first dance was Shine by Take That performed on the night by The Serious Hat Band

First Dance

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Photo Credit: Kerry Morgan