Your West Midlands Wedding - Feb/Mar 2019 (Issue 60)

Photographer | Kayleigh Pope | kayleighpope.co.uk Venue | Swallows Nest Barn | swallowsnestbarn.co.uk Bride’s dress | Tilly Trotter’s Brides | tillytrottersbrides.co.uk Groom’s suit | Suit Lounge | suitlounge.com Bridesmaids’ dresses | Monsoon | uk.monsoon.co.uk Wed2B | wed2b.co.uk Wedding cake | Lou’s With Love | louswithlovecakes.co.uk Flowers | Penny Johnson Flowers | pennyjohnsonflowers.com Transport | C.G. Wedding Cars | cgweddingservices.co.uk Entertainment | The Distractions | thedistractionsband.co.uk Catering | Chopping Block | choppingblock.co.uk Ayesha and Reece’s little white book The Distractions performed at our reception, we love live music so booking them was one of the first things we checked off our to-do list. The band played a range of different music including hip-hop and old-school R‘n’B and even performed a cover of Take That’s Rule The World for our first dance. We chose to have the wooden place names as we wanted something natural that our guests could keep – they not only looked great on our tables next to the scattered olive leaves but smelt natural and fresh too! We added lots of finishing touches to make a lasting impression on our guests this included crates of blankets to keep warm in the September evening, flip flops for those dancing feet and packets of sweets for a midnight snack. “Because we kept the colour scheme simple it was important to us to have lots of different textures, so our florist teamed lots of grasses, ferns and eucalyptus with soft white petals,” – Ayesha 38