Your West Midlands Wedding- Page number 42 - August/September 2021 (Issue 75)

We handmade our favours. We purchased boxes and filled them with Lindt and Ferrero Rocher chocolates and decorated them with personalised stickers. These were cost-effective, personal to us and easy to source, especially given the pandemic, as it was difficult to get things delivered on time. MKB Catering provided Halal food for all the guests. We also had a dessert table, which included a variety of treats and some Dutch delicacies to incorporate Ahkum’s heritage. We decorated the space with sequinned gold cloths, flowers and candles. The blooms were from Joanne’s Florist and were pink, purple and white to match our colour scheme. The marquee backdrop was decorated with lights, colourful cloths and three standing centrepieces. Ahkum and I chose a white chocolate fondant, vanilla and strawberry jam three-layered cake from SugarGlam. It was paid for by my sister and brother-in- law, as they had SugarGlam make their cake on their wedding day, and it was beautiful. Our wedding took place in a marquee in the back garden of my parent’s home. As my father is no longer with us getting married there felt like a great way to be close to him on such a special day. The decorative touchers were primarily personalised, however, Birmingham Marquees did the overall decoration. The theme was important to me. We opted for dusky pink, white, silver and gold as these were colours that I’d always wanted at my wedding. 42