Your North East Wedding - Mar/Apr 2019 (Issue 31)

My florist created a beautiful relaxed bouquet that was delicate as well as rustic, using a mix of Juliet garden rose, viburnum, cream lisianthus, Jana spray rose, peach hypericum and ivory astilbe. The guests enjoyed listening to an acoustic guitarist and singer at the ceremony and during the drinks reception. He was so well liked by the guests that two have looked into booking him for their wedding! As the venue is situated in Northumberland, we wanted the theme to reflect this. Each table was named after our favourite places in Northumberland, written on small blocks of oak to complement the rustic theme. We also hired a band to play at the evening reception. We had so many compliments from our guests on how much they enjoyed the music and how they have rarely been to a wedding where people were dancing from start to finish. I didn’t want to look dramatically different on my wedding day – I just wanted to look the best version of myself. My hair and make-up were so flawless that I looked the same at midnight as when I got married nearly 12 hours previous! Our friends wanted us to double-barrel our surnames, which would have made us the Snowball-Shrubbs! However, we see this as borderline child cruelty if we ever start a family, so we instead gifted each guest with a bottle of Snowball and a pack of shrub seeds to plant as wedding favours. REAL WEDDINGS 31 