Your Bristol & Somerset Wedding - December 2020/Janaury 2021 (Issue 80)

I love the 1950s style, so we wanted nods to this without straying into kitsch. We used a palette of pinks, blues and purples throughout the styling, including the yards of bunting that Harry’s mum made to add to the colour and vintage vibe of the day. For the flowers, we went for a very natural, relaxed feel accenting our colour scheme with plenty of greenery. We wanted a vintage country-garden vibe – and we certainly got it with sweet peas, peonies, herbs, roses, and gypsophila. The room smelled gorgeous! We wanted to keep the tables quite open to encourage conversation, so we didn’t have a big centrepiece. Instead, we dotted several vases of flowers along each table interspersed with multi-coloured tea lights for the evening. I purchased floral images from LollyLanesShoppe on Etsy and used them to design our own stationery. We also bought table numbers from Ginger Ray, which looked like vintage film. For favours, we treated our guests to a packet of British wildflower seeds, a bubble wand, a drinks ticket and a pin badge for Macmillan Cancer Care. This was in memory of my grandad who we sadly lost not long before the wedding. We had a three-tier naked cake in three delicious flavours – lemon, salted caramel and carrot cake – all decorated in pretty blooms. Many thanks to our caterer for making sure both of us got a slice! I grew up in Norway, so we also had a traditional Norwegian kransekake – or crown cake – which was covered in Norwegian flags for that ‘subtle’ look! We fell for The Longhouse straight away; it’s got lots of space but it never feels like you’re away from the action. We loved that we could gauge the weather on the day and decide on an indoor or outdoor ceremony. It was also important to us to have affordable accommodation on site, as we had a lot of guests travelling in, and being able to have breakfast together the morning after was a wonderful way to round off the whole event. 40