allowed us plenty of quality time to spend with our loved ones.” Bryony and Zoe’s colour theme was blush pink mixed with white and green which was reflected throughout their décor, including in the floral centrepieces which consisted of three vases with one filled with water and a lit floating candle, another brimming with a pink, white and green floral arrangement and a third filled with sand from some of the couple’s favourite beaches with a flag saying ‘hand-picked by Bryony and Zoe’. “In the middle of the vases was a wooden name stand sprayed rose-gold displaying our table names that were after these beaches,” Bryony tells us. “Because my mum used to be a florist, we purchased some wholesale varieties from St Mellion Flowers Cornwall and she used these to create my bouquet and our three bridesmaids’ posies, 15 buttonholes, the table arrangements and aisle flowers. She also used some to decorate our four-tier semi-naked cake. We asked the talented team at St Mellion Flowers Cornwall to dress the arbour, decorate the hanging ladder in the ceremony room and make Zoe’s bouquet and the top table spray which all looked beautiful.” Zoe’s dad owns a window and door business so the couple used a refurbished white internal door with each table name written on the individual glass panes. “We painted these glass panels rose gold and decorated the door with faux foliage which looked great,” they tell us. “We made our hand-written place names using white card placed on cork and sourced an old mirror which we sprayed rose gold to be our order of the day. Zoe’s dad created a sweetie bar using old pallets which were painted grey and pink and we gave sweets, crayons and colouring books as favours to the children and scratch cards in ‘lucky in love’ holders to the adults.” The couple’s guests enjoyed a three-course sit-down meal of arancini balls, caesar salad or crab filo tart to start followed by mushroom wellington, pork or beef as the main course and lemon posset or a trio of brownies for dessert. “The mouth-watering evening food provided by the chefs at the venue included pasties, cheese, meat, bacon rolls and our delicious wedding cake which featured a salted caramel tier, carrot cake and lemon drizzle layers and a raspberry and white chocolate tier.” LOOKING THE PART Bryony chose the wedding dress called Eleanor by Essence of Australia purchased at Prudence Gowns in Plymouth, Devon. “I wore the complete opposite of what I imagined I would,” she tells us. “I thought I wanted something to cover my arms and a style that wasn’t too big but I ended up picking a gown featuring thin straps and a long train which I felt confident and beautiful in. I teamed it with a mid-length plain veil and a floral headpiece, a Swarovski bracelet which Zoe gave to me as a present on the day and a pair of white, flat sandals.” “I felt very happy during our ceremony and was relieved that we had everybody there.We both felt extremely lucky that we could have our wedding on our original planned date with no restrictions because, in the lead-up to our wedding, the pandemic was stressful for us all!” – Zoe REAL WEDDINGS 27
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