Your East Anglian Wedding - December 2020/Janaury 2021 (Issue 46)

My friend Antonia learnt to play James’s favourite song Fall on Me by Bocelli as I came down the aisle. It was so amazing! James and his ushers wore traditional morning suits with pink ties and rose buttonholes. I made the main floral arch myself using faux flowers I collected over the year and I was so happy with how it looked on the day. I knew I wanted a classic dress with a floral twist, that I could wear all day and evening, and that wouldn’t date for the photos. I decided to design it with the help of the talented Zara at Zara Makes. Her team made it from scratch, including the lace, and it turned out to be more beautiful than I had dreamed. The confetti walk coming out of the church was great fun and we got some lovely pictures. J ames met Charlotte on a night out at her favourite bar Forge in London. They hit it off and Charlotte gave him her number. “I made sure I entered it on his phone correctly because I could tell I liked him,” she recalls. After 89 calls from James later that evening, Charlotte knew he was keen too. “It only took a couple of dates after that for us both to realise it was the real thing!” They got engaged in May 2018. “It was the same day as Meghan and Harry’s royal wedding and James struggled to propose because I was so intent on watching it,” she adds. They set the date for 21 st December, 2019 and tied the knot at St Michael’s Church, Woolverstone followed by a reception at the historic Woolverstone Hall. Read on for Charlotte’s account of their big day... I always knew I wanted everything to be in one place and Woolverstone Hall is so beautiful and has a gorgeous church on the estate too. My sister was maid-of-honour and had a dress similar to mine while the other bridesmaids wore silk slip gowns by Ghost. 48