Your Devon and Cornwall Wedding - January/February 2021 (Issue 29)

29  REAL WEDDINGS Nicola at Ever After and Amanda, their chosen florist. "We wanted a bright, colourful theme and loved the result," Jess says. "The floral tablecloth that Nicola used for our wedding breakfast looked great and we couldn't have been happier with the bouquet and buttonhole!" LOOKING THE PART Because the couple had already purchased outfits for their original wedding plans, it was important to them that they wore them for their elopement wedding. “It felt great to get dressed up," Jess tells us, “and our wedding photos were how we’d envisaged! I chose the dress called Carla by Made With Love that I'd seen online when we first became engaged and I knew it was the wedding dress for me, I fell in love with the 3D floral detailing. Because I feel the cold, I teamed it with a Levis denim jacket that was hand-painted by Lylun Designs with a custom request from me to feature two of my favourite things - hippos, and flowers. The hippos are holding gin and tonics because the designer, Anna, had originally thought my request to subtly add our initials 'J&T' was a typo and they looked too good not to keep! I also added a bespoke circlet headpiece from Alabaster Dream. I'd tried on a white version in the shop where I bought my dress and loved the detail that it added to my short hairstyle but I wanted a colourful version of it." Ted was born in Scotland but his family aren't originally Scottish so he was keen to wear a kilt but didn't have his family tartan. "We both liked the colours of the Isle of Skye tartan and how it worked well with the green jacket so we opted for that," Jess says. “We had both meant to write our own vows but ended up being so busy in the lead up to our special day that we didn’t get round to thinking about! We sat down on the morning of the wedding with 15 minutes to spare and wrote them on a tiny notebook that my mum had given me previously from a Christmas cracker!” - Jess