Your Herts & Beds Wedding - Feb/Mar 2019 (Issue 72)

I travelled in a car of my mums, which I loved as a child. Our photographer was in the back and my dad drove – it was an amusing journey as it’s not meant for three large adults. We also had a minibus for our guests. For our centrepieces we filled a selection of jars with floral arrangements and placed tea lights in glass cups. In the middle was a chalkboard showing the table name. Our cake was decorated with fresh flowers. We also had an extra cutting cake which meant we could have three-tiers but four different flavours as we couldn’t decide. My mum and I made blackberry vodka from berries in her garden and gave it to guests as favours. We added nametags so they doubled up as place settings. We had a homemade photobooth with wedding hashtags on blocks of wood for people to hold – it was very popular with our guests. We love our holidays, so the table plan was a giant map of the world with pins in showing our favourite places. We used luggage tags to display the guest names. The garden games of croquet, horseshoe sling and tin can alley went down a storm. We had an ice cream van at the church to keep guests busy whilst we were having our photos taken. We invited the choir and church helpers to have one too as a thank you. Charlotte’s top tip: Get a wedding website! This enables guests to see anything you can’t fit on the invite and RSVP all in one place. It was really useful for us. REAL WEDDINGS 59 